Passageways Poems - Poems about Passageways

The Helderbergs

...The trails runs the edge for several miles,
a clifftop walk, it is no great trial,
atop a long precipice of limestone,
where big, black vultures soar, and make their home,
a rugged wall, by ancie...

Evil

...He has an evil eye.
The scorpion is unlikely to stop being a villain. 
Who sits quietly. 
And enjoys sunlight sometimes. 
And shadows at other times. 
The scorpion would like a cup of tea.
He f...

How one twenty first century married mortal male me - Matthew Scott Harris

...How one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)...
found himself bewitched about Circe,
particularly after reading book title by the same name.

An enchantress and a ...

The Devil's Dance

...It's the devil's dance, he is a chancer,
As he tries to take this life to cancer.
The news to fill your heart with dread,
As you, process words inside your head.

This news it brings a bitter st...

Blue Hour

...she looked me dead in the eye and said,

“your soul is a town that has never seen a blue sky”

i laid awake think on that,

and i spoke in the dark of my bedroom, 

“i have only ever seen blu...

Starman

...*
Streaming dust specks of his aura left as evidence
A celestial being formed of stardust *
To adorn him any less of his scintillating charm,
his signature star walk, or shimmering trails,    *
...

COMPROMISED

...This house is crumbling 
Its pillars of learning weakened
The future now a fading shadow
And the fruits of our teaching
fragile and hollow.

Where once young minds were molded for life
Public ...

Rhymed Senryu Moonlight Truth

...


                         

        Tell the truth always
               Even in moonlit hallways
                       Souls are passageways


                 
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Wanting What You Cannot Have

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You are the dusk that masquerades as first light.
In the stillness of descending twilight,
your spellbinder's expectorant 
opens the passageways of the feeble, 
weevles like a ...

Hazardous Hooves

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Written: December 30, 2023
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Embrace the oxymoron, if you will.
Shall I fool you with monsoon wrath?
Despite tears of rain, life wi...

Paranoia

...What's that, that noise I heard through my music?
It sounded loud, is something wrong?
Was it something bad, or did I just assume it?
Maybe nothing at all and it's just the song?

What's that sc...

josephines place

...It was the summer of 2014, I was just about to turn 13, spending June of summer vacation with my Grandmère, in Paris. Tonight, we’re at a fundraising benefit for African relief (it’s always *somethin...

The Work

...I've lived in it all my life -
the self's grand fiction -
refuge for the child, youths
rebel fortress and a walled  
cloister to house
the holy relics gathered
on the pilgrimages 
of my mind. ...

The Moon

...Late evening.
I have put aside a book 
and prefer to wander
the freedom of a darkened room, 
drift through a window
into a framed sky
where a bright moon writes
itself across the pages 
of pa...

Recluse By Dint of Circumstance

...Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (ma...

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