Metaphor Prose Poems

BLACK DEFORESTATION

Like innocent trees rooted and growing
In a black social forest, we’re being chopped
down by roving lumberjack officers of the law,
as if we were arboreal-like...

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I am verb! Created by the divine breath,
coming from primitive events...
Essence of ethereal circumstances,
Plasma of thickening,...

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Space is positioned
above all between what we feel,
and what we see...
The universe flourishes,
between the void and the invisible...
And it forms independently
in the same way it...

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JERICHO AWAKENING

Deception has always been
A strategy and ally of injustice;
Veiling its ruthless deeds,
And shifting attention
From aged-old atrocities,
While living and percolating
Behind invisible Jericho walls:-

Let not the...

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In the spirit of hope, we contemplatively search
Beyond the horizon for the mystic exorcism
Of the pandemic deaths proliferating from
The disparity reigning from viral social
And political...

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IN THE SEA OF LIFE AND THE SANDS OF TIME

As the sun continues to rise,
As the moon continues to wane and wax,
Here I am, continuing...

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PREGNANT MEMORIES

The love we shortly shared,
Was as the sunlight of life,
Fueling and energizing souls
With unimaginable pleasure:- 

We met, touched, and loved,
In that moment, we were...

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SUMMER RAIN

God cried today
His tears fertilizing 
The womb of 
Mother Earth:

The wet smell
Of nature’s essence
Saturated the air
As moist breeze blew
Breath of new life
Into dried hopes
Wilted...

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IN AN AWARENESS CASE OF WAR

Murder is a crime,
Unless it’s in war;
Then it’s all legal:
The death penalty
For the innocent:-

Our reality,
Is not of heaven:-
Wars have no...

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There is music in the silence, in the rest of unheard notes. That is where I hold my breath. Where the universe spins out its...

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THE WAKE WITHOUT VIGIL
           

Time longer than rope
Chokes hearts dangling
In the reality of struggle:-

Grieving mothers...

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IN THE IRONY OF FORGIVENESS

The irony of forgiveness,
Is that human nature, doesn't
Demand that its cause
Be given forgetfulness;
Thus, giving anger opportunity
To revive its paining spirit
Of negative...

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Do you have a poetic licence
to park your pitiful purple prose
(alliteratively he wrote)
it even puts my poor feet to sleep
and gives me painful coma toes
(literally...

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There are loves that happen one day, 
And they are good ... 
others who live a year 
And they are better ... 
There are others...

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TO BEING ON BOARD     *

I can remember when
It was blackboards,
Which have been replaced
By their whiteboards;
Loaded with selective
Brainwashing videos:
Primarily coded to entertain
Rather...

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