Swims Poems

I can count on one hand how many times I've hunted for sex
Otherwise I'm intreged by how she confronts my respect
With her neglectful insulting self worshiping eyes
With her slowly growing suprize by my burning insides
I've devised plans to manage like...Read More

Beneath her feet sodden ground
motionless and weary she stands alone
a north wind hurls around her
yet, she does not feel the biting cold
her heart is broken and will not mend
an already grey sky darkens
motionless she is in her darkest hour
a cold...Read More

I am the catfish
scavenging muddy rivers
bottom lakes and streams
~
lo, muddy waters
dark and mildly polluted 
feeds I bottoms quake
~
mud lark dark fish swims
at the bottom streams swimming
in deep dark waters 

3/23/20

Mudlark poetry contest
Sponsored by Kai Michael Neumann...Read More

We can manage today and live till tomorrow
With a minimal walk out, or potential for sorrow
There's more than enough, in our fridges and freezers
The dried goods, the cans, and Bacardi Breezers
Whilst some people think that their time and their leisure
Should...Read More

As the night does sing a gentle lullaby  
Beholding an angel, my heart does sing
Catching my Valentine, as she falls from the moon
Dance with me through love’s own stars
Eternal Valentine, touch my passion’d soul
Finding in your heart, the joy...Read More

There is this soul looks back at me
          each time I search the mirror
               who longs to...Read More

She is a beautiful girl
As she walks through the Valley of Trust
With her parents
At eleven

She becomes more graceful
As she sprints through the Grasslands of Independence
Without her parents due to a dispute
At twelve

She hunches her back
As she swims through the River...Read More

Memory has got deeper, 
lake deep. 
There are bodies still yoyoing around in that water – 
most of them younger images of me.

A buoyed-up-recognizable-self rises to the surface:
I’ve lost weight, I think, 
then I recall the year that trimmer-likeness took...Read More

In the middle, a calm steady breeze and we inhale the obvious freshness
In the sky, our sun hides its face and clouds swell and spy on canopies
The first round bulb of a drop of the rain and we bubble with...Read More

Waves

Underwater, the chains, tying me to the world, break, 
In the rippling waves, my shivering body does quake.

Underwater, my body as weightless as a ghost lies, 
Where all sound is muted, where salt stings my eyes. 

Peace engulfs me in...Read More

Various animals, Almighty God created
In water, on land, in the air them he placed
Like a tick, others on other bodies he stuck

The frog on land and in water, he acclimates.
His slippery skin, good protection it makes
Into the water, he dives...Read More

Shallow are the graves of all you remember 
With a covering of dead leaves 
Shades of brown and gold that time has rolled 
Made timeless and dreamlike 
Fragile pieces trees cannot keep 
Waiting for the hands of moments to brush...Read More

Within my mind walls, upon a screen,
amazing adventures can be seen.
Through the fog that slowly drifts,
a lovely swan, her wings she lifts.

Head held high shows she is pleased
by evening light’s embracing breeze.
Into the water, she then glides,
upon liquid silver, she...Read More

Frozen Ice  Pond A Duck Skates- A Haiku

tedious hillside
skating frozen duck ice swims?
betrayed by the pond
~
tedious hillside
duck skating on frozen pond
because of the ice
~
tedious hillside
skating frozen ice swims ducks
pond liquid now ice
~
tedious hillside
duck skating on frozen pond
betrayed by the...Read More

She swims on squealing stream of spring song,
sings solo sailing slow in storm surge so strong,
slips on steep slippery slope of sticky silt sheets,
on snapped strings of split Sarangi she sadly sits.

(Sarangi is an Indian musical instrument with three
or four...Read More

  images are slow to fade; where did they go? why were they here?
  pensive pen and ink, a gentle man of measure
  pipe-smoke wafting cool blue persevering pleasure
  cartoon humour designed with careful modest pride
...Read More

There is a lovely fellow;
a joyous sight to see.
A personality that’s quite mellow;
he swims space easily.

He travels many light years;
dancing in and out through time.
His song in my ears brings the tears;
Sometimes for him, I pine.

In my glass eye, I...Read More

Little John Duba.
Loved to play the tuba.
His dad told him, my son be wise, get some exercise.
He now swims and does scuba.
...Read More

Feline problems
 
The pride behind the sofa leaning against a wall
Are new-born puppies their mother tries to
Hide from me as I should care, but I wonder
How to get rid of them, a bucket of water?
 
You can’t see how old...Read More

The smoke

Smoke engulf us
Your smoke, Prime Minister
Born of climate and change
My rage knows its new bounds
Found in truth

You deny that reality
The reality of life, ordinary life
But what would you know of our existence?
In your bubble of denial
A river of lies...Read More

She darkly dreams in Anger Valley
discovered shortly and belongingly after
original Fear uncovered
floating languorously downstream
to leave behind red hot footprints
of childhood work
and play
and pray for change,
growing health,
by increasing win/win compassion healing,

Or terror aggressively swims upstream Fear
to warn future past angels of...Read More

Brenda has a big bottom,
it causes quite a wake
as she swims toward me.

Soft girl steaming up to my woody
chuffing like a tugboat,
mouth as wide as a catfish.

Such things are not written of
nearly enough.

...Read More

Who by fire
 watches the earth burn?

Who believes that matter
 is neither created nor destroyed?

Who burns their bridges behind them
 after walking across its form?

Who swims the water's edge
 treading through its unknown depths?

Who drowns his spirit
 in alcohol, drug,...Read More

Autumn Silly Swimming Squirrel - A Haiku


chill break of the day
a young, silly squirrel swims
at the perfect fish
~
who ever knew that
a squirrel could swim on top
of the waters so
~
unfriendly cockcrow
a gray, silly squirrel swims
whilst watching the fish


11/25/19
Written words by James...Read More

The radiant river is where I ought to be 
The radiant river is here to set us free
The radiant river is there to supply our endless needs
The radiant river is beyond the wild, reckless weeds

Streams of blood ripple in my...Read More