Retracting Poems - Poems about Retracting

Haversack Hope

...Haversack hopes bring bitter crack
Next to nothing is brought back

Recalled promises all are lacking 
Adding nothing but subtracting 

Public messages are attacking 
Better dreams start retra...

Incessant Insect

...OHH!!! You Incessant Insect..

You make it hard to direct my energy,

Positively, Peacefully.

Why do you keep pestering me?

Investigating every inch,

Of what you can see.

I'm feeling ...

Field of Forgiveness

...The enormity of my kindness has swallowed this callous thing alive
No longer will it’s stains of red be left behind 
For so long, I have proved as docile as the smallest mutt
Sealing my nervous gr...

Suddenly frisson cold with fright

...Suddenly frisson cold with fright...

I describe, suddenly feeling scared
and tried to summon sense and sensibility 
after scrambling to stand upright
with all my might.

Otherwise titled 
re...

Palinode and passage of a poet

...A poet’s journey as goes on
An ever-winding road
That has many ups and downs known,
And as roads take new mode
He sees dusk together with dawn
To pen a palinode.  

Comes old age carrying chil...

Conation

...Conation

Have you tilted the axis
on a new tomorrow
Have you changed with intention
— the direction of time

(The New Room: February, 2024)



Round Peg — Square Holes

The poetry of ma...

Zen mode

...retracting from crassness
in order to protect our soul
although aversion manifests
we accept detractor’s  ordained role

the ones who betray love
we notice they inwardly die
caused by delusion...

A Mackerel Sky

...
"A Mackerel Sky" 

shadows like sun 
dance across 
an ocean of tears

salt for the stinging
walking on clouds
with the Fisher King, 

as if in school 
in the swim of ...

Dirt - Y Poems Or Pray Dirty

...We all have grovelled before men
No matter how proud, how often we won:
Few have not begged God for anything, ever!
I have grovelled & prayed dirty to EL ELYON: Most High
And humanity (we have a ...

The Victor

...The corpus millennia has crawled down the vale,                                    
Retracting the sleek ,unwieldy remnant of glory, 
Into the memorial vault of the deceased perfection;
Romance wi...

Fire In My Heart

...Tongues of flame have fallen on me.
Deep down in my heart I can feel it. 
In the epicenter it's concentrated.
It's not the pentecost day but I can feel it.

From the day I met her, I have known ...

Hammer Strikes Nail

...hammer
               handy, headed
     clutching, sounding, striking
bludgeon, mallet, pinpoint, ...

Hierophant

...I grip the shifting sands, the drifting dirt.
I pull the earth and let fall through these rough fingers.

I pull the power of raw nature. 
I feel the matter of all things, the push and pull as gr...

Addiction To Suffering Love

...So, she said,
much to everyone's BusinessAsUsual
StraightWhiteMale
surprise,

Sew,
I run into your aversion
to unpatriarchal Principles of Reversion
whenever I deeply listen
to your dark pas...

Wonderland VII: The Preacher's Tale

...
- Readers, I hope you forgive me.
I’m retracting some words I once said:
I'd planned to write just five of these tales
But I've added a sixth tale instead..


Night

The pre...

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