Shear Poems

Betrayed by you

...
Trapped in my head, I'm stuck in my past
Of you and me, fighting with our memories .
I want to reach out, but I can't pick up the phone
Your betrayal still hurts me, my love turned to stone

I...

A child cries in a mirror

...A child's joy was taken at gunpoint
in a long, dark tunnel on a winter night~
as clouds drifted, whispering subconscious fears,
stirred by music played by demons,
loosed like wildfire in a room o...

Montreal - Apr 29

...O’ Mother!, take me back at last, receive
—(unclasped arms as vast as mine)—my embrace;
this longing, laughing love, the proof and grace
of my abiding for your shores.—I grieve 

the lasting los...

The Belly's Reign

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For Oliver’s: The Bard’s Birthday Contest
03/30/25

Julius Caesar – Act 1 Scene 2 Verse 190-195

Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cass...

The Dragon Riders Saga III

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The Dragon Riders Saga III


You nor he may yet know his birthright or even his name
Long have I watched you both and why to him it was now I came

You'll need the Armor, shield, sword, and t...

naming game

...They all died
The lying died
Inside of her mind
I travel
Peeled rays of sunlight
A distant eclipse
The whale had
Executed it’s reasons
Casketing denial
Of flight
Thundering clap
Of freedom...

major storm on the horizon reported from the forecastle

...major storm on the horizon reported from the "Fo'c'sle"

Though forever being a landlubber
a vision analogous to the nether world
deep within the bowels of the Earth
immensely distant from the s...

Outfoxed

...it takes a fox to catch a fox 
so tell herod that hillter is dead
Geof Guthner a proud futher more a seduction of the haraalot
purple is the platform as they fuel up nomitated me to s[peak up
as ...

Vines

...The leaves, long gone, each golden child carried
on autumn draft to reach a season's death,
portends bitter squalls will blow the harried
vines with long, cruel winter's icy breath.

Now slumber...

HUMAN OCEAN

...If I was an Ocean
Tour my calm waves and feel the balmy breezes
Become at ease
Far and wide would be my waters
Water of reflections and see through bottoms
Breathless Visions would be what my oc...

The Subject of Rosebuds

...Rosebuds draft in scarlet, crimson, or maroon,
dreams to capture the viewer's point of view,
as its blossom's sheath their basis to its prune,
magnificent achievers rise in rows queue,...

SONIC HENDERSON

...JOE HENDERSON’S PROLIFIC OUTPUT AS EITHER A SIDEMAN OR LEADER/

IS SHEAR SONIC VELOCITY OF MUSIC COMING FROM HIS TENOR THINKIN' MIND/

NO HALF-STEPPIN HERE BRO/JOE’S INSIDE-OUTSIDE APPROACH GOT Y...

Ole Wives Tales

...In the great need to please people
he saw it smart to undermined
his family
for the sake of others.
Often he would refuse to understand
his families investment strategies.
Citing it as "some ol...

Blown away by sheer delight

...Rapturous joy, sets my spirit alight,
Gliding in free-flight, with shear delight,
The frolicking, rollicking laughter, fills the air,
With dancing and happiness beyond compare,
My heart is aflame...

Though no political pundit, nevertheless

...Though no political pundit, nevertheless...

I trumpet the withdrawal
of democratic contender from out the presidential race.

Breaking headline news story
courtesy rumor monger premieres
show...

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