Stragglers Poems - Poems about Stragglers

The Rites of Business

...When one hits pay-dirt
How far can this go

The thrill in success is habit forming
Success becoming currency of the day’s blo'

Materialism playing a heavy hand as judgment
With minions waitin...

When The Space Between Stars is Not Empty

...
Five light years is the average distance
that separates any two stars -
five light years of hydrogen, helium and dust.
It is a      l    o    n    g      space 
of seeming emptiness.

You...

Halloween Brew

...
 She said some words and blackbirds cawed
 As she stirred her cauldron to a goblin's applaud
 Her nose was crooked, her skin was green
 As her cackles echoed on Halloween

 The Halloween night...

What's the Buzz

...Is there anybody out there
 I can only see my face in the forefront preflection
 Of the passed, away on vacation until all comes cross
 Is she really on the page or on the screen an AI model
 Sto...

Poetry In Time of Pandemic

...FIRST - ACT I

                 stragglers,
                 mad of
                 pandemic...
                 introverts,
                 suffocated and
                 masked...
      ...

A Street Called Dont Forget

...Shall I forget "Don't Forget Things Street",
Where stealing increases body heat
And items get lost from 7.00pm:
Wealth outside owners forget to claim?

"Don't forget" might stop recording theft,...

January 24th, 2023 Hair Washing Heralds Huge Happening

...January 24th, 2023 Hair washing heralds huge happening

Hark….the herald angels sing, and twitter 
for mass communication 
mediums stop the presses 
when I, a regular schlemiel 
take shampoo to...

Hair Washing Heralded Huge Happening

...Earlier today April 4th, 2022,
which supersedes bald faced headlines 
pointing finger and 
Putin blame for Bucha killings
squarely on head & shoulders
of Russian autocrat, née
yours truly lathe...

Warm Embrace

...

stragglers in the group
assist as reflex response
lest dreams turn to dust

10-February-2022...

In the Company of My Muse

...On a walk companioned by my Muse along the sylvan meadows
We wandered away to delightful realms in unclouded ambience
Don’t know how long I rambled warming my fancies in sunset fires
M...

Far Into the Night

...Darkness coiled in the depths of the night.
Where shadows try to hide from your view.
The moon is a mirror reaching for the light.
Rattling on the doors grappling with the dew.

Cigarette rims o...

Memories In the Sand

...ankets, making slow, exquisite love, then lay exhausted like
spoons in a drawer, pretending we were an old married couple
looking back on a lifetime together, even naming our "pretend"
children, and recalling our imagined travels and holidays ...

If any "stragglers" DID happen to come around the point before
the sun set, we pretended to be appalled, and commented on
how we'd most certainly have to 'build our fences higher',
and hire more security ...

The Stragglers Gate

...The distant sound of hoopbeats stirs the air
those clouds sweet dusty dreams of yesteryear
float lazily across his fluttering eyes
crease wrinkled face to smile and eyes to tear.

They rode, thi...

Fading Dreams

...The day is dying
The half-moon is faltering
In its nocturnal crawl
Across the gloomy sky

As the sleepy village goes to bed
Under the inky dark African sky
Stragglers are home-bound with trepi...

Occasional Puffs of Wind

...Green patches
of lawn
surrounded by
flurries of leaves
demarcation lines
peace zones
Occasional puffs of wind
light, easy, unhurried
scatter a few stragglers --
swept along
a couple or thre...

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