Underfoot Poems

The Marathon of Silence

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2025 Poetry Marathon Mile 11 Contest //Sponsored by: Mark Toney
( 2nd Place )

Written: August 27, 2025


No trumpet greets the weary stride,
only gravel grinding underfoot,
the breath that...

She Carries TUKAHOK In Her Chest

...she is matawàhkwí
of the pullaook — turkey clan
she is lenni lenape

born where marsh meets
sky’s reflection
where grass (aski) bends
to east wind (achpateuny)
and water (mbi) feeds
all it t...

Malfeasance of my money

...Malfeasance of my money
which perpetrators most likely find quite funny

Super bastards and sons of es wantonly deceive
easily earning the sobriquet nefarious charlatans heave
vainly doing devil...

The Killers of Happiness

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The Killers of Happiness

Psychologists didn’t want my life, because I love God
They didn’t want my life here.– I respect the ancient past
The modern psychology tramples my life, because I love...

A Philosopher’s Grief

...We sit together in the shadowed halls beyond time—
Plato, Socrates, Spinoza, Protagoras,
Aristotle, Pythagoras, Kant, Descartes, Aquinas—
our words once rivers,
now dust in the mouths of men.

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You Think I’m Dreaming

...I felt the sea on my pulse,
the salt in my brunette,
pebbles underfoot,
the net dragging me.

I felt the familiar ebb and flow,
close to shore,
tippy-toes.

The coconut permeates the dawn,
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Why I Never Get Help

...Dissolve again.
Into some puddle of oil.
Sink, and sunken. 
Then turn into an oil painting. 
Dissolve again. 
Like a penny. 
I don’t think pennies ever dissolve.
They just get dropped into the...

Alarm Clock

...An alarm clock. 
On the edge of the nightstand. 
No one came after me the whole night.
Except the skin of my thoughts. 
Shaking but nothing. 
It’s like I woke up and ate gravity and passed out a...

The Sand Whispers

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In the beginning, there was not
The Word,
But silence, 
A silence that weighs upon the soul.

Then came the dust,
with the flavor of an unfinished word,
like a lingering memory of a promise
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Hot Lava Lover

...Rising on island,
Mountain, with peaks of possibility,
Valley lush and green.
When my knees collapse, lightning and thunder -
Call it butterflies.
The palms warmed and cooled us, warned ...

Under the sky painted with gold and silk shadows

...Under the sky painted with gold and silk shadows,
The sun pours its last rays like an ancient elixir,
And darkness, like a river of velvet, embraces the earth,
Stopping time for mortals, to dive i...

Armageddon, Lyrics

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Broken souls and disillusioned dreams.
(Drowning in a sea of dread…)
Broken toys and angels without wings.
(Fragile things…)
Weep for the fallen brothers and infants without mothers.
(No l...

Maze of Longing - Fear's Abyss

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Written: April 12, 2025 for contest sponsored by Brian Strand

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. . .In the silent expanse of lunar dust
a momento rests 
shards of progress 
glint like stars 
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On the moors 11-04-25

...There was a great incline of stone, weathered
amongst the sparsely green valley
whose feet lay at the door of a thatched cottage
and whose head I was treading over now.
A fair stream, no wider th...

O What a Pleasant Morning

...fine pOwder
      O
what a pleasant
mOrning
  intake
cOffee
    eee…ew
keep the dOOr
     clOsed
  bathe
the steps & car
   thOse
hazardous
areas
   the mat
underfOOt
  handle
that c...

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