Surged Poems

In a room that once commanded great respect,
stage lights began to hiss with heated anticipation.
There were sounds of alcohol infused rumblings
and laughter rolling through the rows of seats
from the tongues of young fancies whose foibles
await the reverence paid to tales...Read More

          FISH IN BOWL

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The night began like any other, 
I grabbed my gear, laced up my boots,
And threw spit shine on the leather.
Rifle slung and bag in hand with the usual friendly banter
I had yet to reach my ride
As the mic began to...Read More

At the fringe of dark clouds of despair
Beguiling dreams gleamed like the silver lining
Created fluttering wings of birds of desire
Driven by the squally winds through the rainbow arc
Entered the realm of sunburst new horizon.
Flock of these birds flew in en...Read More

A harpist sent a note
That felt rather sharp.
It left me feeling flat
As a worn-out tune.

Out of rhythm and sync;
Too lento to make the play,
I lacked the harmony
To counterpoint her melody.

Cadenza like, my heart once surged;
Now it drums out a dirge.
The...Read More

Seated on a whiff of breeze
Hanging in the air
I gazed at the moon
Huddled in the arms of the sky.
 
The moon waved at me
With winking eyes
Inviting me to partake
In the festivities of colored hues
Blossoming slowly to the songs
Of birds returning...Read More

On the splendorous crown of my heart
shimmering in the cerulean night
you gleamed with the sequins of moon.
I tried to feel your sapphire touch,
but you glided away out of my sight,
across my sky I had carved for you.

In the verdant vale...Read More

Rewind
By Julia Shaw

At seventy-two my life has been so very fine,
That I'd like to push a button and just rewind.
I'd go back to my wedding day so exciting
And marry again the man I found so inviting.
He's been all things to...Read More

"Christmas Wolves"



Winged ones 
unseen
feathers of pure light
fold their warmth around you 

as you walk 
in solitary silence
throughout the cold
Christmas Dark Night

Warriors alone 
wanting to take flight
always stay by your side
reciting good cheer

They will never leave you alone,
they are found here
Heaven's...Read More

I lay in love
As would be a shoreline
Enjoying the ebb of your tides upon me
I lay in love
Rejoicing the lusty touch of your waves on me
Content, fully aware that you remain here
As each sunset promised the sunrise!

But your hatred surged...Read More

Sixteen-Eighty was brutal on saints and their hissing cats.
A turgid June, thickened as it was by an immature sanguinary wine
failed to quench the civil mob.

Above the birthday cake façade,the pink and cerise porticos,
the heavenly-frocked casements, the stucco -
a tiered sibilance...Read More

" Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs"
  - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gold tinged paints dripped from the air,
under the clear opalescent autumn sky,
jade foliage turned to full-bloom flower,
I flew my heart like a bird over the canopy.

The canopy...Read More

"La forêt interdite"




In my soul
there You,
The Flame,
spend the 
better part of my 
night and day
playing your 
naked mind 
o’er my heart
The Shrew 
a wilding to 
be tamed, a
coaxing coquette,
bids come 
now,
pluck my 
Golden Chord
Insolent 
I lay spread 
before you 
an...Read More

Its hands went frozen a warm summer June,
Bought it new when cool though it waned since then,
Days were young and fresh loved e'er so oft loom,
Vivid hues displayed stills toured page again.

Surged wave tickles feet, residual foams,
A swept updraft breaths...Read More

Enforced Shutdown Five
The geek hacked into the jet plane while in flight.
Used his USB and laptop to gain access via the docking port.
Cosmetic damage to widen the port was nothing 
compared to cutting the engines and crashing the plane.

Two hundred...Read More

MELTING SHADOWS 

See their shadows melt away
See their shadows melt away

All these wooden figures 
How do they turn shadows?
All these wooden figures
Why are they all hollow?

She walks in the maddening crowd alone
searching the way she has lost forlorn
to the sunshine...Read More

To wake up early happily merged with morn
while full of pep rushes as sun energy surged,
was to feel my anticipation and joy fully merge
to best seize each day as its unfolding occurred.
Early mornings held no unreasonable stress -
in fact, I...Read More

Sweltering sun on his beaded sweat
His iron hoofs hammered the dry parched grass
Native winds did part his black mane offset
Heaving nostrils breathing fire flaring past
Wild spirits burst in his running heart unsurpassed

Sinew and stamina pulsed in perfect time
Galloping veins popping...Read More

The seam was torn and its gap ignored,
in the canvas tent at the campsite.
Dark clouds surged from the west,
appearing suddenly over the Kentucky hills
just as the evening sky turned pink.

The parents' eyes met with understanding.
He had been sure it wouldn’t...Read More

In the seamless sky of my fervent freedom
I let the enraptured songbird of heart soar high,
gliding in the spring-rippled amorous breeze
that carried your jasmine fragrance to me,
until the splitting thunder storm surged in
from your mirage horizon receding to obscurity,
wrench of...Read More

You came,
Tears of outraged vanity blurred my vision,
I couldn’t stand your violent and mendacious tongue,
The accelerated beat of my thoughts intensified

Offering me an artificial and delusive smile of languor.
Today, the babble of brooks have grown audible,

Regrets now whizzed on with...Read More

Dancing with the shadow boxer
antithesis 
of sunshine and gray
tears and tidings
joy moments so rare 
they are of priceless value
surged into being with the ringing of a bell or the sounding
of a word
a saga of gladness then sadness,
the noiseless laugh, never...Read More

Predator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus


I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion

Part I

I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with its dying light screaming in agonizing moans
upon bloody battlefields of massive bloated carrion
as weeping echoes...Read More

The clouds of pathos rose from the sea of sorrow,
the storm surged from the horizon of mind’s visage,
melted in many streams of tear to torrentially flow
like the rushing rills of rain drops on face of foliage.

Stanza taken from : Molten...Read More

A single ray shone light through a knothole and anchored his thoughts

At daybreak for the spider-web’s shadow enlightened the beach hut

Tim had lived in a mansion but hardship had unburdened his soul

He was happy because the sun had risen once...Read More