Wendell Poems - Poems about Wendell

Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon

...Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon 

Elocution lessons for the morality police 
Persecution of those not callously elite
Convolution of the elongation of the technique 
Revolution f...

The Ship Came Like A Flying Horse or Homage to the Famous Poet Franketienne

...The ship came like a flying horse, at an inexact time
Our brother-sailor, from the Pantheon of Poets, was on board
Jean Pierre Basilic Dantor Frankétienne D’argent
Who wrote, in haste, ...

Every January first of the new year

...Every January first of the new year...

finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previou...

THANKFUL FOR VETERANS

...

Today I’m thankful for all our Veterans…
and I pray our country strives to make all our veteran’s futures bright
by offering them as much support when they return…
as we did when se sent them ...

A Very Telling Poem

...“Alas for those who die with their songs still inside them.”
---- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Soul means nothing
until we understand the language of crying.
The voice of the soul
is you brea...

Quiet

..."Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet."  ~Wendell Berry                                                 

Find
A quiet place
A quiet spot
A quiet time
to sit quietly and just l...

Me In the Third Person

...Strange thought just entered my head
What if I critiqued my own poems
D'ya think I'd really be tough on myself
Or would you detect a slight bias tone

Tried using the criteria of accepte...

All I Need

...
Little I ask, my wants are few,
I only wish a roof and home -
a simple one this man will do
   that I may call my own.
To within its walls live and age
with a memoir to fill my page.

Pl...

Away From City Life

...Lawyer Oliver from New York City
Moved to country farm run down then pretty
Wife Liza, a city girl
Name the year-old pet pig Pearl,
Tossing dishes away, was quite bitty

4/4/2022

On A Lim Po...

Changing the Past

...a strange sort of flow
comes with thoughts of long ago
spews a welcome glow
nostalgia may just soothe
when mixed with lies and half-truths

Hitler and his ilk
less troublesome than spilled mil...

Magnum Opus

...Coltrane with Giant Steps coming downstairs, feeling A Love Supreme after two weeks
King going up the mountain and dreaming as he speaks 
Miles said, So What... Kind of Blue
Malcolm, By Any Means ...

Oppressive

...O-ppressive
L-ink
I-n
V-iciousness
E-mploys
R-abidity

W-ith
E-nemy's
N-astiness
D-uring
E-pidemic
L-etting
L-ethal

H-azard's
O-nerous
L-oad
M-orbidly
E-ndorse
S-ickness

Topic...

Then Came the Lady In Blue

...Then Comes the Lady in Blue


(“...But to the sound of his passing/he sings.  It is a kind of triumph/that he grieves— thinking of the white lilacs in bloom, profuse, fragrant, white in excess of ...

To Love and Be Loved By You

..."TO LOVE AND BE LOVED BY YOU"

Shine like the stars
which light the night,
filling your love's
life with your hearts
glow

Be to your love a
masterpiece, she
will forever in her
life want ...

Shot In His Behind

...Wendell just getting off work,
And was headed home 
by way of his favorite place to chill,
a lively place called
Pharaoh’s bar & grill.
With the hope of winning,
his retirement one day,
Wendel...

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