Peripatetic Poems - Poems about Peripatetic

inner and outer

...We all have inner and outer lives.
They’re messy, hopelessly intertwined, and more
than mere mannequins to hang our word-art upon.

I’m supported, in my unwritten life, by a structure
of moods, ...

Unknown Poet

...I'm a poet
And I don't know it
My rhyme destroys 
My pen is poised

To trickle out
Some tale about 
A butterfly
Or sunset sky

As sweet as jam
With rhythm slam
Dunk in your tea 
My solil...

My Eternal Knight

...The sun rises on silky dunes that look like breasts. 
You are lost in the desert,
The air is dry and sandy residue explores your crevices.
Peripatetic genetrix,
Protector of sublime gifts passed ...

On Translating Turbulent Tulips

...
    ‘Turbulent Tulips’ 
     cannot be translated to Vietnamese
 
     Neither can
       ~ ‘Peripatetic Peonies’
...

The Disappeared

...He had pals once, he had mates,
he once, twice and many times after
had women.
He had a hat but he lost that.
Lost the girls, lost pals, lost mates.

He had to admit
that all he once knew were...

Poetry the Open Form

...a
taxonomical
neo-geo
connoisseur
moves on again
to
a totemic
astonishment
 of many

yet
stifling
in every sense
&
in it all
prosaic
 inspiration
 poetically described
 as
 dystopi...

Finding Godo

...Fifteen years in the same apartment,
before that twenty-five years in a bungalow.
Earlier still; digs, dumps and bedsits.
Peripatetic ambulation's
traveling in circles.
Left that world, travelle...

If These Guys Didn'T Use the Word, Why Should I

...Shakespeare found nothing esthetic about peripatetic
   Kazantzakis and Joyce found it maudlin, bathetic

Dickens and Dickinson thought it alarmingly phrenetic
   I’d use the word in my poems,   ...

Predatory Penguins

...Particularly peripatetic
penguins pursue pharmacological
possibilities perusing polar
predator proboscis predilections,
predominantly picking putrified,
phenobarbital-packed perch-piece puree
p...

Leaping Limericks

...Four lines -- seven, eight, nine:*
 kaleidoscopic kangaroo
 leaping 'cross lagoons of blue
    splashed peripatetic porcupine
    who shot a quill at her behind



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Garage Enigma

...It’s impossible to stay
any length of time in the garage
without feeling lonely – which I am not,
only crowds bring me loneliness.

At one time, I had planned to drink a bottle of bourbon,
and ...

Revenant

...Revenant


                                      Swept in a vortex of woes

                                      a lone silhouette concede wailing

                                      Voice...

Awaiting Snowflakes

...AWAITING SNOWFLAKES


            ALONE TAMPING BEATEN TRAIL IRREPRESSIBLY HEARTBROKEN

            MENACING SKY TORMENT A PERIPATETIC DISENCHANTED SOUL

            TEARY EYED SHE PONDERS FOR...

A Perspicacious Chickadee

...My peripatetic parrot went to sea
  where he met a perspicacious chickadee

He courted her a bit too parsimoniously
  For this peccadillo, she ensured he couldn't pee...

September 12th 2019 1200 Pm

...September 12th, 2019...12:00 p.m.
inspection/ emission finally possible
but...hopes dashed to smithereens

August thirty first
two thousand nineteen shortly past,
no matter 2009 Hyundai Sonata ...

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