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Tidewater Poems

When We Spoon

...Your back, a shoreline my breath returns to,
warm as tidewater held past midnight.
I trace the hush between your shoulder blades —
a silence taught to speak in skin.

The room forgets its corner...

Categories: tidewater, sensual, sexy, sweet love,
Form: Free verse

Captain Arcaro

...Gallop vapor folded aluminum mare resonator 
Sun spits decorative decimals bleeding metal
Scatter the hourglass pearl crown tidewater brine dusk
Tongue sings driftwood bone galleys
Captain Arcaro...

Categories: tidewater, africa, allegory, america, animal,
Form: Light Verse

My Trip To the Lake

...Hounds prowl beneath a cold-blooded moon.
Torchbearers cross the levee in unions of two,
Each boasting of the mischief he’ll do.
Ghosts follow hard in Lucifer’s tracks.
Hell’s dignitaries, slippi...

Categories: tidewater, allegory, halloween,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Escape of the Bluesman's Song

...Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives 
a different walk of life...

Categories: tidewater, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse

Train - 1958

...TRAIN – 1958

On a warm summer evening
at North Philadelphia Station
the 6:19 on track three, the "Spirit
of Saint Louis-Limited" from Penn Station
New York, Newark and Trenton bound for
Thirt...

Categories: tidewater, childhood, dream,
Form: Free verse

Love Is Truth-A Joy For Ever-

...True love never dies it’s black and white in books
Love is not love that alters when finds alteration
Love stories are fantasies giving joy to the world
Ideal love is an object set for lo...

Categories: tidewater, joy, love, truth, ,
Form: Sestina

Poverty

...In the midst of the ruined city,
A man wanders ,
his face ravaged by grief,
He approaches silently , to the edge of the cliff,
His dreams robbed by desperation ,
His mind unable to bear the devastati...

Categories: tidewater, death, life, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Maybe the Guff Was Empty, Cancer Full Moon Eclipse

...Maybe the guff was empty—Cancer full moon eclipse

Left field call on the black wall phone
faint cry from the distant end
spoke with throat lump of capital
disaster and a troddened womans most
...

Categories: tidewater, baby, dark, death, grief,
Form: Free verse

Promises, Promises

...Every four years and it seems that every year in between,
Politicians prey upon the masses venting their usual spleen,
Promising this and promising that saying they will deliver!
The scatological ...

Categories: tidewater, funny, political,
Form: Rhyme

"!?A Contemporary Romance Novel"....

...Swirling vistas of such sweetness found floating through the auspian air ~

Pen to pad calibre idioms beyond the verbs measuring these tidewater inkwells aside

Beauties, evergreen genetives in r...

Categories: tidewater, faith, life, love, passion
Form: I do not know?

Love Is Truth-A Joy For Ever-W

...True love never dies it’s black and white in books
Love is not love that alters when  finds alteration
Love stories are fantasies giving joy to the world
Ideal love is an object set for lovers, fo...

Categories: tidewater, beauty, joy, love, ,
Form: Sestina

Promises! Promises!

...Every four years and it seems that every year in between,
Politicians prey upon the populace venting their usual spleen,
Promising this and promising that, saying they will deliver.
The scatologic...

Categories: tidewater, funny
Form: Rhyme