MOSEY ON DOWN THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY -
...Traveling up an interstate highway
Round down about in a midwestern cove
Speedometer cruise control sets low
Going down interstate by the way
Full tank of E-15 gas, eating on a corn cob
Every...
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Categories:
partials, adventure, assonance, car, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Where the Crawdads Sing
...Just past far as you can go,
yonder, where the crawdads sing,
out beyond time’s ebb and flow,
festival is full in swing.
Bullfrog’s on the tympany,
joined by pileated drums.
Katydids join com...
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Categories:
partials, fantasy, music, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Vivid Dreams
...Have you ever felt as though you were part of a dream
You were playing a role of the weirdest schemes
Dreams you were falling and wake up on the floor
Playing a sport and trying to score
I dreame...
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Categories:
partials, africa, desire, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Answers and Questions
...The answers are announced
but its cloaked in mysterious confusion
and its never clear
The answer is given in partials or parts
like a lock on a doorway
its wrap in concealment
The keys to t...
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Categories:
partials, blessing, education, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Look Out
...Everything is changing fast
In the space of clicks and likes
Mind control in overdrive
Your hits and views and strikes
Beware of what you put about
Giving far too much for free
They’re cyber ...
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Categories:
partials, betrayal, change, symbolism,
Form: Couplet
Embers and Snowflakes
...My heart is on fire, my name Embers
And my love for you is a desire
I love you like God and Mother Nature
My love for you is blazen
I'm the yellow spark, that ignites your heart
It's not easy, b...
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Categories:
partials, appreciation, blessing, fire, passion,
Form: Free verse
Forces
...Forces
Repressive chains come in, on progressive waves,
shackling emotional gold, – energy projecting,
life’s forces – reaching out to holistic arms’
bringing back together, that which has particel...
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Categories:
partials, death, universe,
Form: Free verse
What Have You Done
...Unraveling threads of a desperately mending heart, I cry out “What have you done!” weighed down with shame, with untamed grief the anchors attached around my quivering feet.
Scornfully you mock my p...
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Categories:
partials, faith, fear, forgiveness, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: Ballad