Transom Poems - Poems about Transom

Through Static

...1.
My head is a transom 
Light pours in but cannot escape
There is no window into me worth peering

2.
I hold dear to things
A grip so viced it defies metaphor 
And my clutch does not know th...

Storm Warning

...I love spending nights on the lake.
Once the oven-like sun disappears,
things get suddenly quiet, except for
the occasional hoot of an owl, crickets, frogs
and the soft lapping of the lake on the...

Deception

...bad situations
active imaginations
can kill relations
creating conspiracies
with broad designs to deceive

bloody mockery
shinigami lottery
a dichotomy
of preaching false brotherhood
so oth...

Living On Bread Alone - Gypsy Raga In Monsoon Time

...Watched a slick, oily storm cloud spread a stain ‘cross the sky
In a silence so quiet, you could hear Jesus cry.
Drank a bottle of wishes from a bottomless glass.
Sometimes the most you earn on Mo...

Captain and Janell

...As I stared despairingly at the transom,
my daughter declared, as she gave a smile winsome:

“I wouldn’t stand for such a name, if I were Janell!
It’d be okay of course, if Janell refers to the v...

Better Than Gold

...Nick was a young man who was handsome, 
                    got stuck in a strange basement transom. 
                                          When trainer offered gold
                          ...

The Treasure Chest

...Tim looked at the strong box crafted in oaken wood saplings and reason

Inside a map of his world he had travelled with dreams gusto and passion

Far away seas crested in a whirl wind of passage ...

Odyssey From Africa 11e

...Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11e, The Island Kingdom (continued)

Matto, Lisa and their parents 
Contemplated now a journey 
On the ocean that was longer 
Far than any in their memory 

One wh...

Odyssey From Africa 11d

...Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11 (d) cont...

Thus the boarding of the parties 
Was a speedy operation 
Very soon the whole flotilla
Sailed toward the open ocean

This wide bay from which the s...

To Her Unmasked Certitude

...Today she Decided,
To expose all sentiments without trepidation
Though broken by another’s dissatisfaction,
Inhumane and callous betrayal of her certitude
She chooses to unveil and unmask all res...

Griggs' Bar and Grill

...In two more hours I'll have to shower,
shave and coffee-prop my lids
and otherwise prepare for day. It's 4 a.m.
and now the barkeep, Griggs,

is rushing me, the first 
to come, the last to leav...

Message In a Bottle

...Proem

After Sir Thomas recovered the Spear of Destiny and returned it to the Pope at the Vatican in Rome, he remained there for several months serving His Excellency, attending meetings, and recov...

But Just Where Is God

...(Musings of a poet with huge doubts and a fragile faith)

Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?

When close friends die and other’s thoughts are suicidal,
When mankind’s soup du jour is l...

In My Mind

...Within the passage of time
I see you, my enchanted ecstasy,walking
Down a cobblestone street in silhouette.
Carefully placed footsteps echoing the
The pavement without the slightest of regrets.
Throu...

Bukowski Contest

...Bukowski Contest

Its a video -- Bukowski has a
mistress, she is younger than

he and beautiful.

They fight before the camera
and, she flees like words on 
pale paper across the transom,
o...

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