Uttering Poems

I Love Being Jet-lagged

...I said to the class,
"Now the first thing we're going to do, is feed this poem."
& I asked my friends, "Do you want to help me write an Arthurian epic?"
They replied, "Do we?!"

My son is writin...

Tweety Bird

...
Minding his own business we have Tweety Bird
up in his cage not uttering a word
until he tawt he taw a puddy tat!
then Tweety turns into a most clever sinister brat
...

IT BAFFLES ME

...It baffles me...
When you lose your warships 
And life puts you in situationships
The mind gets disabled 
Leaving you in disorder 
Uttering your ability 
Turning you into liability 
Even when ...

The Hands That Lit Eternity

...her hands
did not turn on light bulbs.
they were light bulbs,
they were clay vessels through which flowed
a light tired from too much godliness.

when she entered the room,
it wasn’t her who e...

This piece of me fits nowhere in the vastness of the cold world

...This piece of me fits nowhere in the vastness of the cold world.
While others find things to do with their time, places to go.
Things to say to each other in the shadow of the evening falling over ...

Divinely Intrusive Thoughts

...
Intrusive thoughts just invaded my mind…
Yielded, I welcomed them, and so they came
They soon turned as a scene I must behold
Making meditation* vibrantly real.

Oh, these intrusive th...

GOSPEL OF A CURSED WARRIOR

...I converse with my demons.
The monologues are endless,
Dark confessions on scraps of macabre memories.
My mouth stays shut after uttering blasphemies,
I terrorize my ghosts with the darkness of m...

THE WAKE OF MANY LIVES

...
Take a look at what we see.
Out of mind, past the dreams.
A cataclysmic path to roads.
That carries secrets no one knows.
Like skin we shed all we dread.
Replaying lives once we’re dead.
Watc...

Unintended Innuendo

...

“as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhaps did cause
to put her heart’s joy on pause

though we’re gentle, not hostile
we diminished her soul’...

Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominable

...Fate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable

Therefore karma caught up to me big time
and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory
(figurative speaking) by casting a spell,
whereby the ...

Forget About It

...Reciting, of the alphabet, not a waste.
I may get an A plus for trying.

I whistled for it, foraging
through its branches. Collaborating
with the Alpha and Omega, searching
for gold - that Atla...

National Poetry Month

...

Nouns:(choose two)
River
Heart

Verbs: (choose two)
Shiver
Gaze

Adjectives:(choose two)
Lush
Tender

Words pour from my pores, a river of light
	erasing the shadows of a melancholy
...

Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025

...Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025

min(no) newt effect on me.

As part and parcel of terpsichorean repertoire,
one whirling dervish 
flaps his wings at the speed of sound.

With twenty ...

My words are mirrors of a soul seeking its path among the stars

...My words are mirrors of a soul seeking its path among the stars,
if I let them fly, they would tell of time slipping away like sand,
of horrors and martyrdom that sculpted shadows on the walls of m...

Under the bridge of night, two strangers met, in a silence that seemed to halt time

...Under the bridge of night, two strangers met, in a silence that seemed to halt time,
Their hearts grew light, like a breeze caressing a calm and sleeping sea,
Their gazes met, and silence turned in...

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