SEA WANTS ME
... SEA WANTS ME
Waves are here for the winners
spirals floating in turquoise
dance ululating undulating
blue bright sight
a point with paddle board
to soar sanguine Seas
I know not w...
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Categories:
unfrayed, 12th grade, adventure, emotions,
Form: Ballad
A Star adrift
...A Star Adrift
In the quiet of a shadowed room,
A man sat still, wrapped in gloom.
His hands were clenched, his shoulders low,
A heart weighed down by life’s cruel blows.
Fear lived in him, a...
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Categories:
unfrayed, abuse, adventure, anger, care,
Form: Free verse
Cowboy Up
...Rodeo Poet,
bronc riding Sage
Arena unbridled
—dallies unfrayed
(Las Vegas: December, 2021)...
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Categories:
unfrayed, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Friendship Is Hard
...Friendship is hard
It is like wearing an old sweater some days
The yarn becomes unfrayed
Other days it's like a pair of high heel shoes
Wobbly and crooked is my gait
Some days it seems...
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Categories:
unfrayed, for him, friendship, gender,
Form: Free verse
Ezra
...To the hands that held copper
in red, gleaming red
in open palms brimming
in value, like gold
To these hands of faith
with utensils and bowls
stone upon stone was restored.
To the eyes that we...
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Categories:
unfrayed, devotion, faith, history, people,
Form: Rhyme