Rudder Poems

Fate's Niagara

...Traveling
alone
indentured
down the river
of time

The current
building
and pushing
me 
beyond myself

My oars
are traded
for one last
look
around the bend

The anchor
buried
in t...

Courage, and a Shudder

...
     A ship requires a captain, and a rudder
          uncharted seas - courage, and a shudder

     Picking up speed, egos unchecked
          tempt fate, shipwreck


...

The Sinking Ship of Negativity

...
It's disappearing like buffalo across the vast plains...
familiarity has become distorted, both sour and rank.
There's an abandoning of the ship of negativity, 
bringing grief far worse than nin...

Night Light

...I often sail where glitter,
stars a dear focus of mine -- 
a twinkle voyage, fore and aft,
Christ my sure steer rudder --...

Love's Black Hole

...Am I talking to you my friend
or the younger me, in the end?
You feel that you need her, 
and you know you must have her.
While I am of a different mind,
you'd say I'm insensitive and blind.
I'...

Tricycle Sojouorn

...I tied a string to my tricycle handle.
In the basket, I placed a shining candle.  
From the other end, I tied a balloon. 
By hook and crook, I knew that one day soon, 
I'd be in the court of the ...

Summer Solstice 2025

...Summer Solstice 2025

Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. 

This demarcates
most daylight hours of the...

The Etiquette of Prehensile Tails

...If medicine gives us a tail,
The proper should not let it flail.
It should be coiled tight,
Though tea-holding's right,
Or holding the rudder to sail....

Invocation

...I’m awaiting in the port of my life for a sign 
From the world of those who have departed
For I trust, my beloved, in angels
And in that dead who has rise.

I'm superstitious, that's why I belie...

Abandon not the Soul

...

                                        Abandon not the Soul

		                  Ill fated is a man who abandons
                               The silken shines of his silvery soul,
       ...

Rubicon Crossing

...

                                           Rubicon Crossing

                           Behold a young man in his late twenties
                           Standing silently near the swampy sho...

Paper Boat

...A stranger,
   disguised as a breeze,
        kissed me on the cheek
             and slipped away.

I floated,
   quiet as a whisper,
        down a stream of thought
             in a paper...

Reflections of the Past Visions of the Future

...No of lines: 48; No of words: 397

                       Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future

                         My mind brims with a string of reflections
                    ...

Hallelujah

...Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelu-yahweh

I am not alone, I walk with Him
I am at His throne, abide in Him
The Holy Spirit moves my place
Fill me up with perfect grace
Hallelujah
Hal...

Potpourri of silly poems

...In most of my verse, my simple aim
is just sorta to enter tame.
Then, once inside ~
go completely hog wild ~
showing no reserve,
showing absolutely no shame.

"What do you think of m...

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