His Sunset Years
in his sunset years he daily
traversed a mile to smile
waiting
w a t c h i n g
A L E R T
the lilt of phantomic voice to
O P E N his
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, allusion, change, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
serpentine, appreciation, moon, sky, star,
Form: Rhyme
serpentine slither
what appeared to be poisonous was merely phosphorus
deeply tattooed into the warrior’s skin from an ambush
in the land of never-ending wars against imagined foes
with a myriad of causes cascading from power and greed
what does a Welshmen have to do in bloody Afghanistan
he used to have a lilt but now the speed impediment
was carved deep into
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Serpentine Stardust
Word Bank Use Seven Words - 6-2-25
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Serpentine Stars
A “cascade” of crystal moonbeams
Touches summer tides of “serpentine” seas
Where “phosphorus” waits
To splash
On the still shoulders of shorelines
In a “myriad” of luminescent sequins
Bathing the sand in sparkle
Like new stars
Tumbling
From the amber-mauve wombs of “nebula”
To the “lilt” of the “lunar” nightingale’
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, sea, stars, summer,
Form: Free verse
Flesh That Refuses Form
no sound
in a cascade of nerves
submerged
amid a myriad of silences
a serpentine fold
slices through the viscera
and a breath
of phosphor
burns
in the chest’s hollow
a crawling rhythm
of an aborted name
shapeless
a lunar longing
locks into the bones
among the remnants
of a collapsed nebula
I do not heal
I do not return
I am
flesh that refuses form
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, adventure, anger, bereavement, birth,
Form: Free verse
Nebula of Lies
You had me
for a year, I believed it all was true.
Every moment, every action,
how could it not be?
Like a serpentine snake,
you slithered inside my mind, my body,
squeezing out all my trust,
all I believed in you.
You made me lower my guards.
I believed.
I wished I didn’t.
You showered me with love,
a cascade, a toxic waterfall,
drowning me in a
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, anger, black love, cry,
Form: Free verse
Star Studded Night
Star Studded Night
Myriad stars like tiny jewels greet me
as I set up my telescope
a new moon was the current
Lunar cycle, no light to interfere
Ophiuchus the Serpentine constellation
Slithers across the sky trailing
Phosphorous dust in its wake
I train my scope on the pinwheel shaped
Andromeda constellation its spiral arms
reaching far out to space
the Helix Nebula comes into view
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, star,
Form: Free verse
Serpentine Narcissus
My mind hibernates in the void of cavernous complexity,
wakes up in the sensual seasons of mystique living.
The wild psyche forms a sleek and sly unique entity,
as with whisper of intent hiss, dances the reptilian feeling.
Within the deep cold layers many ancient secrets hide,
the sinuous slither of the silent senses can’t find.
Coiled in still shadows
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, analogy, character, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Serpentine
"Serpentine"
Give a woman enough rope
and She’ll show you
what hanging’s worth
the life coiled around
a body of work
could be misconstrued
serpentine
She draws from the rock
like it's Her cornerstone
creation
sexuality
fertility
the life force
of our
ever spinning planet
serpentine
like it’s Her cornerstone
the conscience, conscious
In The Dreaming
It speaks
Its tongues
She listens
Candide Diderot. ‘24
Serpentine.
"I am not
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, muse, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Sharp As a Marble
With a mind sharp as a marble
Words roll off my tongue as garble.
My clean shaved head is like a globe
Serpentine tattooed, lobe to lobe
With yellow, brown and strings of blue
Of understated pastel hues
Waxed smoother than a scratched eight-ball
Like a brain coral, all in all.
What is outside is not within
Sharp as a marble crown to chin.
Sponsor:
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, color, humor, me, nature,
Form: Rhyme
St Valentine Celebration
Paint never would smile at Turpentine
And I tell you The Serpentine
Wouldn’t at The Truest Valentine
“Hither I Come!” from Far- Off Turpentine
In Paint’s eardrums, A Monstrous Frankenstein
And-trust me- to The Serpentine
The love avowals of The Dove-Like Valentine.
Anyhow, mind-blowing gifts now part of it
From even the guy overflowing wit,
Endorsing Michael Jackson’s levying of men
In his Wanna
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, appreciation, care, celebration, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Stichtite and Serpentine
Crystals of Violet green,
Emerged from a celestial stream;
No one had ever seen,
Such vivid colors of violet green.
One day
The ppl decided to collect,
The beautiful crystals
Painted violet green.
They named violet stichtite
And her lover Serpentine.
The two were inseparable,
Though few have ever seen.
The beauty of stichtite & serpentine
Can be seen;
Appearing after a summer rain,
Gleaming in a
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, beauty, color, fantasy, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Accumulating Anger: My Love Was Serpentine
My love was serpentine to the touch
I can't quite explain it...the love of mine
Had gone away from my sight and such
I can quiz my mind to say otherwise, my bittersweet sugar wine…
Why am I extremely drunk off of utter fear?
I should have been intoxicated with cheer
You bruised me with your torn-up tribulations of threats
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, angst, longing, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
The Road of My Life Is Serpentine
The road of my life is serpentine,
Wavy and with High-Five traffic jams.
Bewildering to me, but not to God,
Someday He will pull it straight,
Like that Christmas ribbon that curls.
All I can do now is talk to Him,
And wait until the ribbon unfurls.
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, allegory, faith,
Form: Verse
Serpentine Locks
pink tulips with stems -
the beauty of Medusa
before bad hair day
1/9/2019
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
serpentine, mythology,
Form: Senryu
Related Poems