Prate Poems

Eke, Ergo

...Eke out, O my living?
On what grounds do ye speak?
Based on our thanksgiving?
O turkey, through creek creak!

Wind atop the atoll low?
Steady, then first blow.
Ogre, ochre. Fast or slow?
Gold...

Lost Interment

...Prate is to
poetry
as death is to
life

Dilletante 
graveyards
lie marking
the site

Where words
never weighted
whose wings
couldn’t fly

Unmarked
without headstones
 condemned here
...

The Hound of Sleep

...I see thee yet, mine eyes on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Thus to mine eyes, o'er th'one half world 'pon the sacred curtained sleep,
Seek thou sure and firm, set stepp'd earth nigh summon ...

GIRT BY YOUR GRACE

...
Find me, Lord inside Your grace*
Bind my soul upon Your brace
Bird am I against frenzy craze
Gird me toward blessings’ crate
Girl am I, warned not to prate
Girt for faith's strength...

A Streetcar Named G Major

...Clang, clang, clang, toots a trolley: X-s-teams,
though it's not the same San Fran by the Bay,
remembrance connects, perspective redeems,
sound stirs, 'Mathis', "It's Not For Me To Say...

Booby Trapped Within Apartment Unit B44

...Booby trapped within apartment unit b44

Circa August 18th, 2021
three bajillion years ago to date,
nevertheless I count blessings, 
so please do not hashtag me 
as worse than an ingrate 
or o...

Tiresome Errands Chanso Form

...Tiresome errands (Chanso or Chanson)

For many of us, errands are so boring;
Many crucial things to do to show status
rather than wasting time doing routine jobs;
Like, taking Sel...

Smith

...I am Irish,
I do not patter a brogue, not lilt, or prate the Celtic.
I’m annexed English, cockney, a dead queens piglish,
chameleon tongued.

Something took me, shook me like a spade
until an u...

The Human Will

...The human will, that force unseen,
The offspring of a deathless soul
Can hew a way to any goal, 
Though walls of granite intervene.”

“You will be what you will be, 
Let failure find its fa...

Stranger In a Strange Land

...I sat in my yard, revering to the sublime splendor. 
A Setting sun lighted wheat fields with a gold fender. 
The universe is a celestial art by a creator in the sky,
Waves of fuchsia p...

Climate Change

...All hearts are young and gay in Spring
When youth's charade is in full swing.
Toward love's sweet well you shyly slink,
Once there you do not hesitate to drink
Or stop to think what will tomorrow...

When the Child Goes

...He is my mirror, 
Just what I wanted him to be!
His smile spreads permeating delight.
His storge love is my strength. 
My achievement, my smile, my pride!
My upright and infallible child!
His p...

Booby Trapped Within Apartment Unit B44

...Lemme titillate thee
regarding myself daily soldiering thru breastworks
read out loud to experience where dangerfield lurks
twenty five years a husband unknown marital perks
bachelorhood to die f...

When You

...

My dear boy, never waste food
said the Dad; no way it's good;
Do you know there are thousands
of people in surroundings
who can't afford to have lunch
or some crispy food to munch...

Wistful Accursed Penniless Fate God Dime Mitt

...Wistful Accursed Penniless Fate...God Dime Mitt!
(neither defamation, nor blasphemy meant, sans Title)

Despite ingestion of
     anti anxiety medications
     ferocious hellish onslaught
     ...

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