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Sketching the Ballerina

...*** Sketching the Ballerina ***

It is well, quite well after midnight. 
My pup lies fagged on the blanket
    as close to me as possible.
The young ballerina sits slightly slumped
On a bench a...

Categories: sketchpad, angst, anxiety, beauty, dance,
Form: Prose Poetry

Should the Levee Ever Break

...Premiered at Rugged Old Crossroads Community Mission, 
New Orleans, LA – 10/16/2013

ACT 1

SEEKING LABYRINTHIA
BLUE JACKET BON VOYAGE
SAILING THE SEVEN SEAS
SHIP IN A BOTTLE
ISLAND OF DON D...

Categories: sketchpad, adventure, allegory,
Form: List

Blind Willie's Sketchpad - Ash Wednesday, First Person Singular

...The air smell cloudy, 
With a hint of rain. 
Come all this way by trustin’ 
In a thin white cane. 
If a wink is as good as a nod, 
What’s a brotha ta do?
Should Jesus come again in glory, 
Wou...

Categories: sketchpad, allegory,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

I Am So Bored

...The phone rang. I looked at the name.
Not that one. Not today. Knew she would be whining.
Complaining. Poor me. Bored out of my gourd.
No time for that. I was building an airplane, and a spaceship...

Categories: sketchpad, perspective,
Form: Narrative

Curious Cow

...Curious Cow was amazing in girth and color
She had not a gallop, more of a happy skip
Charging toward me in a semi-prancing way

I had been sitting in the pasture grass, sketching.
I saw her mov...

Categories: sketchpad, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse

Violet and Her Swamp Man

...Party for one
Violet sits
Waiting for her life to begin
Black balloons share her thoughts

Ebony lipstick
Shining through her tears
Waking the forest animals
Who guard the swamp

Party for ...

Categories: sketchpad, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Winter's Lantern

...The snow on the ground is aglow at midnight

A sheet of moonlight

Like a sketchpad with shadows
Stretched from tree limbs furiously penciled in,
A speakeasy dance floor from the 1920s
Mobbed ...

Categories: sketchpad, moon, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse

November 10th, 2016 10:33pm

...I know a lady who is
really and I mean really,
(because she meant 'really')
really (because she said 'really')
"attempting not to give in to hatred"

and so I remind, that the hatred is not
an...

Categories: sketchpad, hurt, political,
Form: Free verse

Counting Nina's

...The Historical Museum*
Has a wonderful collection
Of the drawings done by Hirschfeld,**
Waiting there for your inspection.

As you view his work you’ll realize
He’s the Caricature King;
From h...

Categories: sketchpad, art,
Form: Rhyme

Death's Bouquet

...Death’s Bouquet
            by Odin Roark

Graves give much,
Willing wafted memories ride
The raven’s wind.

Into other air
Where spirits claim dorsal view
Floating beside trumpets jazzed,
While bare...

Categories: sketchpad, death,
Form: Free verse

City Trip

...Our drive started out like any typical summer trip into Philadelphia. Both buses rolling down the highway loaded with screaming teens, eager to reach their destination in a hurry. Rush-hour traffic w...

Categories: sketchpad, adventure, life, people, family,
Form: Haibun