Traipsed Poems

Alone in a crowd

...He, always alone in a crowd
she, always the centre of it;
they always arrived together
then part, he so quick disavowed
she traipsed to the men, in a flit;
he ever held on a tether.
And when th...

The Tops

...up a steep and gritty track
reach the tops
wilderness reclaims a verge
of wintery snags
land juts and tilts
hauls out
lays treeless

clumps and hags
pitch up stricken soil
heap their marshy...

The Rent of Judgement

...I've traipsed down a cobble of your path.
If you're ever lost, forgotten or misstep
I'll surely spruce up a room for you.
It'll be on the mundane -humble side 
but safe-warm and welcoming
like i...

Mother Said

...My mother said for maybe, could be the sixth
Time, or was that the coming up to a higher number like twelfth
Time, to behave as I should, not like a child spoilt
Of course, that was wi...

Blessed Advent Cores His Great Divine

..."Blessed assurance glory divine ..."

Supine haze swiped tall grass wooing shadows,
as chimes of wren's feathers a float parade,
begs a trace with leaves sought resting barrows, 
the...

Mother Said

...Mother said to carry Dad's little green luggage,
Godzilla my foe, I can do a step not a hundred,
Mother said to put in you--that, it's all bronzed,
Ugh, zip-phew Godzilla you stink your breadth.
...

Mother Said NFC

...
Mother said she drempt
and saw into a gloomy depth

where she glimpsed
souls engulfed

within the world's
wounds.

Mother said she saw 
     where demons traipsed 
back and forth into th...

Mother Said

...“You’ll live,” my mother prompts;
above my screams, which pierced
the air with strident oomph;
she, bandaging my wounds.

It happened as I traipsed
the woods; I fell amongst
a pile of jagged r...

The Eight in Seventy Two

...Ploddingly it took the form
Of some dispassionate melody
Our wailing voices at crescendo
For our undying we mourn

With care they traipsed the deck
A mass of notions in mind
Did ten artlessly ...

Mother Said

...How many times must I tell you, monster?
Goddammit, I think it must be the twelfth.
Again! With mud on your feet, in you traipsed.
You are making me extremely angry. 

Goddammit, I think it must...

Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed

...Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...

Oddly enough even 
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping 
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resemb...

Ode To Harry, the Poet

...Title: Ode to Harry, the Poet

Harry, a poet pure as gold
Dedicated to Poetry Soup, we uphold
He traipsed the walks of excellence
And freely provided encouragement with such diligence

A true ...

Spreading Happiness

...Spring appears in waves of magenta, ochre, and kelly green 

Prisms dance across hallways and ceilings 

Raucous laughter rolls over fields of clover 

Each child spreads their arms and runs, t...

The Eight In Seventy Two

...Ploddingly it took the form
Of some dispassionate melody
Our wailing voices at crescendo
For our undying we mourn

With care they traipsed the deck
A mass of notions in mind
Did ten artlessly ...

Personal Vicissitudes Pronounced Irrepressible Self Loathing

...Personal vicissitudes pronounced irrepressible self loathing

Ever since mine late boyhood
when unstoppable coded 
cellular processes did segue
I experienced abhorrence
toward yours truly,
an ...

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