Skirting Poems

Skirting The Downside

...Everybody
wants to go
to Heaven
(but)
Nobody
wants
to die

Everybody
want to change
the truth
(but)
Nobody
wants
to lie

Everybody
wants to bend
 the law
(but)
Nobody
wants
to g...

70 Degrees in August

...The white vinyl plastic skirting waves at me 
There is a discarded orange peel
Halfway down the driveway 
From a mailbox walk.
I stepped over it yesterday and smiled 
thinking of Ryan.
He loves...

Ruby Tuesday

..."It's RUBY TUESDAY night" declared Charlie.
Why do yer call it that when it's ruby murray for curry?" retorts Steve.
"It's coz we 'ave it on Tuesdays that's why mate" replies Charlie.
Steve...

Smog

...I gaze upon a moon so full and bright beneath my feet
The stillness of unbroken waters where reflections meet
The creaking and the straining as the old bridge wants me rid
Shall not give me cause ...

Ghost Mountains

...It's winds remembers names of those who vanished ages ago
ancient hills locals claim are mountains
Time itself has reduce them to piles of boulders
slowing seceding survival
thin trees stick up a...

Skating

...I’m skating on thin ice;
I’m just skating by and I’m gonna fall,
and that’s alright;

I’m skating in a figure eight,
I’m just skating by on a decrepit lake,
and that’s alright;
It’s better tha...

If Trump wins rest in peace Mother of Freedom

...If Trump wins...rest in peace - Mother of Freedom

Post mortem courtesy 
Doctor Demento yielded 
Lady Liberty lies slain...
videre licet knocked senseless 
from brutal blows upon her crown
sim...

aching sky

...
* A bit of sci-fi what-if?, about a lone man on Ganymede, witnessing the destruction of Io by the natural forces of Jupiter *

       ~

I knelt amidst the mountain's rise
        beneath the ...

Ambition

...You walked into my life and turn it upside down, you were certain that I could wear the golden crown, you have been following me from I was a child and you made several stories, books and movie but u...

Skirting The Line

...Touching
without feeling
Looking
without seeing
Talking
without saying
Lost
— in the dark 

(Villanova University: February, 2024)
...

Temporal incarnation of Aphrodite

...Temporal incarnation of Aphrodite...

induces idyllic reverie
delight evoking similar surge,
when skirting, and eluding 
fidelity defining the marital law
on par with courting in flagrante deli...

I wish I had

...

Just nodded yes, when my ego had said no
Lost all consuming forces, simply let go
Met you halfway, instead of skirting the square 
Perhaps sat down, when you brought over a chair

Found quan...

The Cursed Lake

...He defied tragedy as he rowed
His sturdy boat towards the middle
Of the cursed lake where once
His wife fell into the icy water
And drowned.  He could not swim.

Time passed and he learned to b...

The Bargaining Wench

...

                      Bustling Tavern, din of thieves, 
         prattles sounds, like mini battles
 of Sorcery, at mosaic of vomit tapestry.

               Endowing all sorts in your bosom
...

Treasure Hunting

...In realms of cyberspace, I fly
searching out treasures in disguise
skirting advertised merchandise
the ordinary, the overemphasized
to anatomize the marginalized
values overlooked otherwise
on ...

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