Uncoupled Poems

The Postmodernist Exhibition

...
Last night's storm
has left its artwork on the beach,
a postmodernist exhibition 
of brown seaweed strewn in clumps 
like hair on a barbershop floor,
broken seashells 
and a fallen rainbow of...

Chain Wire Fence

...
A tall, chain wire fence
surrounds the perimeter 
of the power station, casting
its evening shadow over a wide
bank of grass leading down
to the river. Sometimes I sit there
just to listen to...

Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

...Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the p...

In Memoriam of a Broken Family

...Remembered the 1940s, the season of the holocaust.
Six million irons, disjointed from their ores
Were forged in bottomless pits of anvils.
The swarming bees in a ceremonious buzzing
Were uncouple...

A Kept Woman

...Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a mascu...

Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment

...Wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ...

The Visit

...My jaunt through over crowded hallways
       past bodies grouped like gulls gathering
       a grey murmuring

       patients on overdose
       their creased faces like glaciers streaked 
  ...

A Craftsman's Friend

...An artist's brush
  a poet's pen
Linked to the soul
  a craftsman's friend
 
Uncoupled from 
 the human heart
For destruction fit
 ~ poison darts...

Where Fled the Tenderness

...Where has the romance gone
  moonlit nights kissing 'til dawn
Where fled the tenderness
  from our love once so strong

Where are the conversations
  that used to matter so much
Where are the ...

In Search of Emptiness

...There is no mental pain 
to one with no expectations.
All fears transcended
by one whose fetters are extinct.
It does not occur to me, "I am"
nor that I live or exist, so
what is there to lamen...

Internal Strings

...The two are slow and inelegant.
But the orchestra retains its complex symphony
angry string section
violins of summer heat.

Frenetically mating in the season of apartness
four or six or more
...

Impasse To Contentment Part 2

...courtesy sharp pointed objects
(that string of words
doth hoop fully connive fist
(cuffed) around handles of knife

discounting divorce (from wife)
i.e. remaining uncoupled
mandated eventually...

Just a Passing Thought

...Given a slight remembrance of an uninvited birth to a past forgone, 
the power to recognize/dwell/surpass in a remedial present and a physical/cognitive forethought to seek an immediate, undeniable ...

Playing Now: Butterflies and New Romantic Musical

...A most wonderful thing, natural observation
Copulating on the wing, butterflies on mission
Mostly pure white on this summer day –welcome cool -
Like delicious Autumn, but breaking the rule
Of lon...

Judging Poems

...Only tell, no show, can't imagine the picture.
Cells of heart, don't tickle in lingering pain.
Coherent words, do they flow in cadence?
Rhyme and theme, do they hum in euphony? 
Hmm..the ending, ...

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