Phil Ostein Conferred With
...Phil Ostein Conferred With...
Oracle of delphi
for meager tithe
as per usual end
of year shibboleth,
and thus this hoop
fully ville explain,
the substance and pith
viz, where new
years ...
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Categories:
redeye, brother, culture, encouraging, god,
Form: Free verse
After the Vietnams and the Me Leis
...After the Vietnams and the Me Leis
Steel skull
Stone eye
Blooming jungle rot
Itching on the crotch
Jack scratches the trigger of his M14
Kisses the golden egg
And throws like the Babe.
Jack i...
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Categories:
redeye, america, angst, anxiety, death,
Form: Epic
A June Night In Rotgut Saloon
...A June Night in Rotgut Saloon
In walked Lefty Red behind him lay many dead
into this old dusty town his tired horse had tread
Well known his draw was quick as lightning
his stare deadly cold and s...
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Categories:
redeye, dance, death, hate, red,
Form: Rhyme
If Jesus Asks
...IF JESUS ASKS
Dew on the grass
Wants to disappear
As a day wakes up
Frightened by the red eyes of sun.
Again all those men
Will remain tireless
For some more hours.
Sharp arrows from their mind
De...
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Categories:
redeye, art, dark, jesus, ocean,
Form: Verse
Redeye Gravy
...Now sits the redeye gravy in the pan
It certainly is not at all like jam
Mom made it years ago for her man
Fry some country ham, pour coffee bam
Never knew why it was called redeye
Then my g...
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Categories:
redeye, animals, father, food, funny,
Form: Quatrain
Blankness Reflected (Part 1)
...shivering teeth the ceiling’s descent,
the drunken spongy borders of
dim imagined soggy pulsing
images in foggy spots,
exhalation and the sound of exhalation,
sense as the center of dampening pa...
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Categories:
redeye, life
Form: Free verse
My Alter Ego
...In my eyes as a child my dreams forever grow,
I can catch the talons of an eagle and slay the meanest foe,
Drop to the peak of the mountain top and set my Princess free,
Dive the depths of the oce...
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Categories:
redeye, childhood, friendship, funny, mother,
Form: I do not know?