Rapier Poems - Poems about Rapier

Love, Devotion and Other Memories

...I

Between Juliet and me
Devotion thrived . . .
We stayed all day and all night
In dark, hidden places, picking watercress for the moon
Together we lived, Juliet and I,
Among worm woods
Frien...

A Good Sense of Humor Blunts the Sharp Blades of Reality

...
Harsh is life’s reality.
Each trial we endure is a sword of steel
that pierces the jagged edges
of our imperfect souls.

We cannot escape
the occasional slashes from life’s rapier
that fall ...

Daring Dead

...Dour-faced servants, thunderbolts, towering bad days.
Will or reason? Time, truth, dolts! Dynamite dismays!
Suffering, you heard the man! Damn you, let us in!
Hell and Heaven, what's the plan? Spa...

Sing broken beyond mankind ii

... When the river failed I was asleep and the birds breaking to air made no sound



because I speak


                IN   

           
        T       oppressors tongue
         ...

No Clawing it Back Either

...
   Were he stripped of his rapier-like wit ~
                                      John Lawless would be paw-less...

Pulse of the Poet's Abyss

...In my chambers where phantasmagoria undulate
    not as vigilant watchers but as mnemonic parasites
    I ruminate—
        no longer a singular entity but a disjointed duality
            my qui...

I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome

...I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...

Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough e...

the collective hubris of our indifference to ants

...
We walk the earth as lords of all
only judeo-christian types of course
We crush the weak and heed no call
history is written by the winners
We think ourselves the smartest rac...

Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor

...Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?

Ah... methinks legal tender 
could be a boon to help me bolster 
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire...

Lady Bug

...She eyed open like a broken mirror.
Her mother claimed
that her legs were bowed
so that she could catch the moon
between her black knees on moonless nights.

Tiny mandibles chewed her leather t...

Unknown

..."While the sufferings of the poor majority remain unknown to the world, the achievements of the rich minority are trumpeted to all"    ~By Poet 

The heavens grew darker with rain cloud...

Be a Candle-POTD

...nascent 
     dawn appears
kaleidoscope 
 of 
color
  midnight 
    sighs 
       leftovers 
                     of 
       last night
    plateful of 
  unsaid
words, 
a 
 tablecl...

Ronald Rump Reasonably Roasted

...Ronald Rump reasonably roasted 

Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety 
rambling reverence regarding “r.”

Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled - 
rickettsia re:itch ruler.

Rap...

Who

...Who... 

Am I. 
Am I who I am?
or, who I want to be?
The difference is in me. 
Night and day, 
not the color of my skin, 
or the way I intend, 
but the way that I am, 
and will be. 
I repr...

Featureless Blur

...featureless blur

sharp rapier claws
fend a black featureless blur...
death is no lap cat

(haiku)


04/07/2022

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