Pennants Poems

Ode to a Journalist

...You made up your mind to view the world
With different eyes —eyes recessed, eyes inundated with lustre,
Straining to catch every flight of the dancing seasons that hurled
            Man and beast...

New Moorings

...Daddy, there are new moorings, come see!
There are shiny pontoon chains and cables,
braided ropes and colorful pennants.
The anchors and piles and buoys all new!

He arose groggily and without a...

Soul Scavengers

...They scavenge the detritus of the soul
Devouring the pieces less than whole
For evil has a way of taking hold
Before it declares itself as friend or foe

As these hollow creatures feed within
T...

Cadets Dress Ship

...The tweet on the pipe called the muster fall-in
The cadets all fell in with nary a din
For now they’d be grouped for “Hands to Cleanship”
To dress up the ship afore the Old Man's pip-pip

Well-t...

The Breeze Lifts My Spirits

...Roses look redder
     Sunflowers sunnier
   Chrysanthemums brighter
     Queen Anne's lace whiter

   Leaves waving like pennants
     Puffy clouds sail along
   Grass green and refreshed
  ...

Wounder

...Rest of a dry wound on the skin, it stretches if it gets wet later, it wrinkles if no one dries it afterwards: stains that we carry with us. Yesterday I saw torn yellow pennants hanging in the hall o...

It's Back My Chronic Companion Returns

...Not sure how fond I am of this write very different style to my usual genre. #experimenting 

Well look whos back again
My old compardra 
My closest companion chronic pain 
What a lovely way to ...

Leaves

...Leaves, green with sap of lush Spring trees
Flutter as branch bound butterflies,
Whistling tunes in Summer breeze
Backing cicada mating songs.

Well-seasoned leaves blistered with rust
Fly as p...

Tear Crocodile Bush

...If pray

A burning bush

Twas to appear

I fear

Crocodile tears

May not be enough

To quell 

It's flammable design

In time for next pennants

And confessions...

Opening Day With a Little Delay

...Opening Day with a Little Delay

Take me out to the ball game
 Of balls and strikes - bloopers and perfect games; 
 Basket catches, ERA’S, country hardball;
 Foul balls, the pick off, intentiona...

Sunday Night Serenade

...


It was a very humid day.
However,the leaves are waving at the sun.
Like pennants at a football game.
The branches of the trees doing a belly dance 
at close of this day.
The kitchen sme...

Real Love Not Based On Cotton Balls

...Real love takes up residence deeply in the heart.
Two lucky ones, 
are focused in, not out,
at the start.
From the inside can't see the outside,
so it makes no difference.
Especially to men, wh...

Nothing's the Same Now

...Pennants' edges curling up, peeling away from fading walls--
Lions listless, languid, lost ~ Tigers timid, tame, tepid--
Floorboards waxed like glass, nothing strewn, no disarray, no chunks
  of p...

Windbreak Trees

...WINDBREAK    TREES


Unchecked prairie wind cold   
Engulfs  our  archipelago 
Of  barns and farms,
  
Small snuggled refuges 
Swathed  in  birch, oak and ash,
Warm  yellows  oranges.
 
St...

Still Swinging

...After chewing shoe leather they called steak, 
in the Pencey cafeteria, 
Mal, Ackley, and I enjoyed a winter afternoon on campus, 
on the bus, and in a restaurant.
We walked across a puffy white ...

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