Snuffs Poems - Poems about Snuffs

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...

Freethinker

...

       In the still of the night, 
spectro-gramming the hot utter of air,
filtered by laser strainer-
it has become a scale for judgment scaled by tier
a black hole of sin in my pocket, 
a p...

The Bells of San Xavier

...Emerging from a doorway shadow 
   Through thick air - sweet with incense - 
Comes a dark figure dressed in a robe 
   To be near the altar in silence. 

The trappings pierce the dark with gold;...

Sitkan Spice Merchant

...Fish flesh ceiling marinades evening in mandarin
  Paprika streaks Alaskan sky, an exploded pumpkin
  Garish stretch marks bruise tumid buttocks
  Jack-o'-lantern flicker silhouettes summits 
  
...

I'M Old Fashioned

...I'm an old fashioned fellow
In a new-fangled world,
A square peg in a very round hole.
Gone's the world I grew up in,
This one's in a tailspin
And spiraling out of control.
Sometimes it's hard ...

Upon Reading a Psalm

...“Lord, mine enemies multiply,
bootlicks grow brazen.
Put thy boot upon their necks.
curse all no-nodding nay-sayers.

Silence.

David:
“The Lord scoffs at them, rebukes them in His anger.”

...

An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope

...An image of the netherworld envisioned by a misanthrope

Mein kampf fraught re: 
emotionally/psychologically challenged 
impossible mission to cope
compared to classmates, I felt like a dope
an...

Handcuffs For Chief Craig Who Snuffs

...Handcuffs for Chief Craig who snuffs!
No longer seems one who bluffs,
Empty his third boxed up Snuff;
I could not help “An Enough!”
The act capturing as duff, 
Performer to nostrils rough…

Pi...

Who Killed Mr Body

...I strolled into the room, real casual you see
I took a look around, one of them was guilty
*Bang* an authoritative door slam sounds in my wake
Dramatic sunglasses removal, in their boots, they wil...

An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope

...Deep within the bowels of the Earth
(dark visceral centre)
immensely distant from the sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with here and there a projected
craggy, derelict chasm...

Tiny Stars

...Tiny Stars pulled and broken
Never a chance to live
Never a chance to say,
“Mommy, I love you.”
Never a legal appeal

Never a chance to make mistakes
Or make a daddy beam with pride
Never to ...

Cuts Like a Knife

...Failure is a razor sharp edge. 
Pierces the heart like an arrow. 
Cuts deep into the cartilage,
And does separate the marrow. 

Fault is prison without escape. 
Lacking that someone else to bla...

Mother's Day Parade

...You can feel them move through streets
Emblazoned with sirens' primary colors,
A swatch of fjord's colonial flagship hues
Left to slap in the wind of reorderd forms
Until sheared into confetti st...

Psalm 91:5-6

...5   You will not fear the terror of night,
    nor the arrow that flies by day,
6   nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness...


~
There is a room in my mind where panic raids
A...

Pain of Death

...
Pain Of Death

"Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave 
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; " 
Edna St. Vincent Millay


Pain
of death
is boundless-
smol...

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