Purple Prose Poems

It will be a fine, fabulous, fun, day at Kalamazoo. 
Susan will be riding on the back of her golden elephants,
Elise, flying in on her...

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I found you sleeping to melancholy music;
I stared at your essence and watched you
harvest dreams with the softness like cool
Summer snow. 

I fold you up...

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Summer is here with its extended day light
Mountains are giving up on their accumulated stock of snow piles
The river is gushing with vigor carrying fresh...

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After taking a week-long break, went for a walk this morning
Saw decorations of Mother Nature for summer’s welcoming
Sun was shining with its multi million glimmers
Soft...

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Red poppies raise their sails in 
a sea of purple irises and
sleepy chamomile waves.

Poppy-heads stretch to see the 
carpet of shaker-blue hills;
vying for the attention...

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volcanoes rise
out of the sea.

purple gardens.
i climb up

a mountain
of blue-green grass.

a young woman’s voice
whispers,

“how calmly you indulge
my dreams.”

dark sky rolls in
like the hiss

of firecrackers.
the woman...

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PRIMAL EMOTION

Tell a blind man of purple
A born deaf of Mozart & Beethoven
Catch a feeling and bind it verbal
Tell a heart and mind of primal...

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A painting like a poem talks to us.  They speak of life and ask us questions of this world. A painting mimics God's creations...

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There lies before me a portrait most captivating and divine.               ...

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For those of us who muse of purple prose
That ornate style which differs from the rest  
Perhaps as flash or false as a blue...

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Time To Shower...When Pervasive Odor Of Ureic Acid

Doth strongly waft, sting,
and nauseate about me
olfactory nose flying zone
bombarding cilia of
nasal passageway analogous
to displeasure wrought by

crashing, deafening,...

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Asian Epicurean Quest

At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street.
  
Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors...

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My dad died in the mountains when I was six.
First words out of his mouth, a new boy, unknown to me.
How old are you now?...

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It is okay
what's important
you're aware of your veins
anchored to the continent
of your soul
with a very deep hug
even darkness is not visible
but it's not blind
to your...

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A SHOUT OUT FOR PEACE

*******************

A - All play
B - Ball, make that
C - Call, a shout out for world peace!
S...

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untangle,
leave the shadow of Death behind,
at Death's dark door.
Filled w/ Light
the Heart grows wings,
flaps up into the sky free.
Below, She moves,
a dance, through soft, dappled...

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Safe, at long last,
behind closed, locked doors and windows,
behind heavy, hanging, purple drapery:
plush, pellucid, subterranean refuge.

Far from the proverbial maddening crowd,
out of sight: a dimly...

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There Is A Purple Sea Horse   #187

There is a purple sea horse
In my living room
It is swum here in the middle of the...

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Genisis 1
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the...

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Was never sure whether or not to laugh, smile or cry when
auntie came to tea, a matriarch she, wearing white gloves
plus purple cardigan - seven buttons...

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