A Victorian Christmas Carol
...Did Robert Browning say it best when he
wrote, “winter takes the old ones”? Possibly.
Bronchitis, pthisis, whooping cough, T.B. –
they ran amock in 1863.
I trust it’s not too jarring if I jump
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, history,
Form: Rhyme
Ad - Annual Destruction
...When in December I make resolutions
I fixate upon vows unkept
Single-handed I topple the Theory of Evolution
For every year I come up inept...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, crush, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Solitude
...Solitude is my preferred state
Nothing pleases me
Like my own company
I’m so happy being on my own
I’m never lonely
Just because I’m alone.
I got here single-handed
And that’s how I plan t...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Jurassic
...2/6/21
Since the Jurassic
Time continually passes
Animals and people smoking or eating different grasses
Staying active
Instead of remaining passive
The population now massive
I roll around ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, dark, deep, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Incidental Catch
...Incidental Catch
‘The catch of non-fish species’
At the town’s cusp, terraced homes blaze out.
The mill and the green jetty wane to abandoned garages.
Kept, like trophies, by the type of men w...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, identity, imagery, love,
Form: Lyric
She
...They say she is irresistible
And she is too quick sometimes
Or she is too chaotic sometimes.
She says I am what I am
She is the one who stands against all odds
And proves herself unique and c...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, appreciation, celebration, wisdom, woman,
Form: Prose
Sonnet
...Sonnet
Don't grieve for me when I am dead
For I’m still here I’m by your side.
I am so close that every tear you shed
Touches and torments me though you think me gone.
Give word that I am t...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, anxiety, beautiful, black african
Form: Sonnet
Take the Blame
...Take the blame and give them smiles,
Get into deep by breaking each worldly tiles;
Get down into your knees,
To let your closer ones standing with cheeees;
Repeat your own mistakes,
So they can ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, family, first love,
Form: Rhyme
Proud of My Wee Friend
...Had this super duper dream last night
Took on ten men single handed, oh what a fight
Came away almost unscathed
'Cept my manhood got defaced
Was proud of my wee friend, what a horrible si...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, crazy,
Form: Limerick
What Would You Give-2
...What would you give to save the man thou'st loves the most,
Prayers knees bent low, begging before the almighty God
Himself, beseeching him to take thee, in his stead, by all
That’s holy. would I so ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, courage, dedication, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Cowboy: Pocomoto
...Pocomoto was a cowboy who inspired dreams galore
With adventures and heroics that lit up my days of yore.
He survived the cruel killing of a ravaged wagon train
Was adopted by ‘old-timers’; lived in ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed,
Form: Rhyme
Lozen the Woman Warrior
...With nimble-fingers braids the midnighter mare killing a long horn steer single-handed with bladed care ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, culture, freedom, history, native
Form: Couplet
Simple Command
...lost love is simply that only because both parties are no longer on the same page... yet if one is fighting the fires of confusion single handed... its like their union ...she or he has commanded... ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, faith, love, love,
Form: Free verse
Rotation of the Earth
...I read somewhere
That the world turns
Right on a dime
And the seas move
Upwards and downwards
Through the moon's power
With its great gravity
And single handed might
Slumber of the night
Pro...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, life
Form: Free verse
Fairy Nature
...THIS POETRY IS WRITTEN IN 3 HAIKU/2 TANKA FORM, AND NOTES REFER TO SENSES.
I'm fairy nature,
come to collect fall's leaf wares
to help make a coat.
A coat of sunsets,
a last breath of summ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
single handed, adventure, art, autumn, children,
Form: Haiku
Related Poems