Summoned Poems

When I often think of my existence,
My subconscious can only imagine the unbearable pain endured by thee.
The Creator must have gone into tearful silence,
As you endeavored to give life to me.

O what unshakable firmness you summoned to have my embrace,
And...Read More

Early morning April 8th, 2020 
meteorologic destiny manifested...
rumbling atmospheric thuds,
promised natural exultant
sound and light show
subsequently within minutes
dully rightly appraised as dud,

yours truly forced himself awake
way before dawn's early light
all for naught, yet...
thus hours later summoned,
perhaps lame poetic material
(think) potential Earth...Read More

Although I know failure is success postponed.
That her refusal; my failure 
Implies that this is another way NOT to do this.
But I can't take this any more.

The other day I saw her doing her pedicure.
A light-skinned girl
Her face magnificent to...Read More

Leaves of uncertainty have covered the earth
                    fallen from trees of anxiety and dread
a path, once as clear as crystal blue...Read More

Perhaps you have a friend that came into your life for just a season.                          ...Read More

ink dark darked
sumptuous syllables' spell
dripping dainty deal
nocturnal nature seeped
in fostered felon
wanky wind summoned

hoisted feelings flamed
eerie ember traced
vying lead laced

porous pen bled
gaunt gores' crest
sassy society's defect

pulpy poetry bore
his taunted tour.
      '20:03:02:14:29

 Note: Dedicated to William Shakespeare....Read More

My life, reduced to a theory,
written by those I once served.
Furnished with tales of honour 
and shame, they summoned me, 
tried me unfairly,
and shot me at Hango Hill.
For hours, I bore in agony and anguish,
until the burning pain turned
to death’s...Read More

Papa's condemnation of prejudice...

and subsequent grim statistic one
(among millions, or more)
tragedy with feted kiss
Yarraka Bayles darling son
hoop fully experiences bliss,
yet more vehement rage
against machinations (think 

with little effort cruel humans)
trumpets, tools, thrives...
wreaking psychological havoc -
case in point yours truly
wrenched, screwed,...Read More

Sumptuous suggestions straddle stagnancy
Summoned by engaging pages
Susceptible skulls imbibe vibrancy
Surmounting latitude notion ravages

Authors serve smorgasbord swathes of research 
Reading's pizza fuses flavours opposing
Issues investigated, valid views aptly asserted
Essays stretch perception, anomaly concepts provoking

Unfurling knowledge tunes recognition's accord
Rhizomes capacitate vertical fronds...Read More

Experts summoned
  War whoops drum on

Speculation ramps up
  Excitement amps up

Convoys move out
  Generals air doubts

Battle lines drawn
  The conflict dawns

It does not go well at all
  In the end heavy losses fall

The ground reeks...Read More

IMP-EACH-MENT-AIR-DITTY III !

Holy Smoke ! Odour of incense on Beach !
Trainers marched with saddles to straddle Leech !
« SILENCE ! » Dull as Thunder !
« Under pain of locker ! »
Grave mist hung low on Life-Savers each !

CJOTUS kept clock...Read More

Smoke blew from the chimneys
in the place where I was born
streets were laid with cobbles
workers summoned by a horn.

Shops sold all and sundry
and the keepers name was Ted
I often bought my sweets there
with pennies gleaned from lead.

Our neighbor wore an...Read More

Drowning in a sea of dark hoodies and unbrushed hair,
My mind turns dark, a cloud forms and haunts me,
Two sides of my brain desperate to escape my embodiment of sadness,
The bird in the cage known as my mind just wants...Read More

ethereal coupling 
waiting finally over
coming together as one soul
surrounded by ancestral bliss
unsurmountable moon magic

summoned by the gods
of love and lust 
acute wanting finally satisfied
no longer longing for moments like this
this memory lasting forever 
in both of their souls




Written 1-23-2019
Contest: Picture...Read More

i've been
through
the mail

almost
tearing
it up as

if it were
junk mail
but summoned

to report for
jurie duty
and i had

to laugh be
cause my
wife was

also asked
to be before
the court but

she isn't
a citizen
but she

drives
allowing
her to decide

yes my
husband
is a drunk

give
him
a 

dui...Read More

On beginning to compose a new poem...

Assaying thoughts gambol,
scuffling as in an affray
née crushing, jockeying, stampeding...
demanding equal airplay
gushing as metaphorical think
spigot turned on full force airway
thru totally tubular cerebral

microcosmic aisleway
vesicular conduit fifty
plus shades of gray
exhaling sigh of relief, cuz
transcending writer's...Read More

Moses walked into the palace and commanded Rameses to let God’s people go.
But Rameses stood their shaking his head telling Moses no.
For every minute and every hour the Hebrew children were forced to build pyramids and towers.
For Rameses was a...Read More

We Don’t Always Get Up

Born my son 
of youth, 
My pride 
shadowed you, 

Our long talks
 sitting under the stars,
Your wisdom 
learning astounding.

You followed me,
To the sky, 
Your letters, 
 soothed ego,
 in uniform you came,
healthy and strong.

Randomness comes, without...Read More

It's party time, you drank beer then wine
You’re over the limit but think you’ll drive fine
Can’t steer in a straight line, hit a Ferrari
The policemen arrive, they’re far from happy

Should have used a taxi or jumped on a bus
But you’re...Read More

Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back together again...
Each of us witnessed her fall,
yet we failed to gather those colourful leaves.
I believe...Read More

Chapter..........1..........Part..........2..........1b.

To the right,
where God's light had shone bright,
Warrior Queen,
know your beast is come, 
all may not be lost,
he comes from his land of endless night,
indeed, he has heard your plea.
The thunder and lightning,
they now play your symphony, 
this is terror's...Read More

spooky sleep staggering
with wills wielding
hoisted hands hankering
lurching, fiddling lids
sumptuous state stuttering
eerie end enveloping

Zeus zipping zeals
pricking pulsing peels
moaning mists munching

summoned sundry saps
gaunt gods grasped
pruning punctured pats 

"Leave for Earth,
damp desirous death."
      19:12:06:07:49...Read More

To the windows the students all go.
To get a closer look at the snow.
The teachers began shouting although
Santa fell down from the sky down below…

The school was in a frenzy from head to toe.
Santa was yelling his “ho, ho, ho,...Read More

Sky as gray as fresh concrete.  Cold like her too.  Jet plane noise permeates 
atmosphere, but we cannot see it yet.  Plants are brown except for red sumac.
A flaming reddish blue, high class red.  Winter is...Read More

Brittle autumn leaves
crumble to dust
in the freezing wind.
—Takao, translation by Michael R. Burch

This frigid season
nothing but the shadow
of my corpse survives.
—Tadatomo, translation by Michael R. Burch

With the departing year
I have hidden my graying hair
from my parents.
Ochi Etsujin, translation by Michael...Read More