Starkly Poems

The Woman lost to Marius

...Foundation.

An elegy and meditative reflection on the disturbing emotions created by loss. 

Some suffer with in silence.

Rather than romanticizing the line — time will heal, it reflects the ...

When my Life Changed

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                                         When my Life Changed

                                     In midst of my journey of life
                                   Starkly I was shattered by f...

SILENCE

...To live bound by “integrity”, where rectitude derides you? It’s starkly accustomed. I enrooted, enclosed by academics--the desolate nature of my sentience consuming my interior. Nether perfection def...

Death Walks On Divine Path

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In the maze of forsaken wasteland the tired traveler,
breathless, can’t respond to the summon of unseen caller,
stepping out silently at the fringe of the hazy horizon unclear.

In th...

Three sides to every story

...both mother and father nurture
their child in his formative years
but though all three live in one home 
starkly different are their fears

the breeze, the tree and Mother Earth
take a selfie t...

Oct 31

...Bell re-rung
lit bag of dung;
no treat, so
a smelly trick

stomping makes
a foot quite slick

serves him right
the cranky old prick --

Horrid Ghosts
shrieking goblins
bloody sacks
cree...

Photographs Fixed Fade

...Photographs fixed in fixative curse memories to fade,
As they are too true and static, starkly black and white.
Recalling a snap-shot, not how you want your memories made.
Each scene fixed in time...

Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet - Mr Black

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Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet, Author, Actor, and Model: American Historian.

Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet (Born: 8th July 1954)

Mirror

Time Does Not Wait For Anyone, R...

In the deepest chasms of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light

...In the deepest chasms of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light,
A magical and melancholic poem unfolds, with equal verses, tightly woven.
Inspired by the nature of the poet, that soli...

Done With the Muse

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Poetry is a messy business. It reveals itself in phases,
Flowing, growing, dancing upon the starkly untouched pages.
Happily, the stream of thought won’t stop for days upon days
Then, BAM!  It b...

Starkly Somber Skies

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		starkly somber skies
	omnipotent owl overlords
	parliament prevails...

I am That

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Sixty plus, and counting,
Still running from my life:
Child, athlete, writer, warrior,
Master Teacher, mother, wife.
Still pondering the age-old question,
"Who am I?"

Am I what I do?  What ...

deferred

...
I …

loved you all
in my way … obviously
starkly different
as pertaining to our particular bonds
(covalent, in most respects)
each, a glyph to form words in
the phrase of Us …
only one lef...

Lovely enchantress of cyberspace

...Lovely enchantress of cyberspace

Betwixt and between us
lies an immense untraversable realm
of never knowable forbidding possibilities
quixotic, rhapsodic, sympathetic, telepathic...,
where ta...

Last Drop Of Their Blood

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In a realm where feuds festered, fierce and free,
Two clans clashed, Kovacs and Petrovics, starkly set.
Amidst the mountains, a tale of sorrow spun,
Where bloodied bonds bespoke a bitter deb...

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