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How one twenty first century married mortal male me - Matthew Scott Harris

...How one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)...
found himself bewitched about Circe,
particularly after reading book title by the same name.

An enchantress and a ...

Bad Face, Bad Hands

...Why am I filled with remorse?
I have the long face of a horse,
and if you want to know the truth,
the hands of John Wilkes Booth....

Dark Dimension

...Could I simply call it hell?
Wherein every evil dwell...!
Does there ring a constant knell?
Don't matters midst men go well...?

Dormammu ruled Multiverse,
By bitterness turns a curse;
Strange...

Loop

...10/22/22


They try to get the inside scoop
By beginning to snoop
But they're just full of poop
Like the ground floor of a chicken coop
Rarely intentions honest, too many out to dupe
Pathetic...

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...

Nostrae Vicaria

...The music
called the dancers
to the floor

The poet
waltzing freely
—with his eyes

(Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania: March, 1980)...

A Son To His Father

...“A vision into 
your future

“A mirror
of your past”

(Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania: March, 1980)...

Caste a Spell

...
O foolish Amerikan klan,
who hath Klux bewitched thee with pale poof?

Kluless to the celestial truth,
Love immutable is infinity grand

Children of the Aryan band,
what doth the dark...

Hollow Drums

...Disco burnout,
fever rampant erosion

Empty glances,
mirrored hollow drums

Bleeding, starving,
passive alertness

Madeup, putdown
—treadmill run

(Woodlands Hotel: Wilkes Barre- January,...

Opinions Matter

...Opinions matter

If you have an opinion
Don’t keep it inside
Don’t go with the fiction 
Or truth is denied 
Don’t reject any knowledge
And say you know squat
Just cos John Lennon 
Spoke out ...

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

...It was brief and short sad moment of time
That still flashes and rings in the painful memory of the country
Enjoying and his wife Mary Todd the play 'Our American Cousin'
In the midst of the laugh...

Dawn of New Day

...DAWN OF NEW DAY 

Sweet sixteen Scarlett so madly loved me,
my mistake I refused to marry her.
As my wife her life could write grand story
in dismal strife-torn years of...

Mississippi Voices

...Dark echoes of the past reverberate 
In Mississippi voices filled with hate. 
This morning nooses hanging from a tree 
Remind us all of lynching history. 

Some people claim great progress has b...

The Annals of History

...Review the annals of history
   Murder upon murder you'll see

Start with Adam and Eve's son, Cain
   Who murdered his brother Abel in vain

Then there's Moses, the saintly lawgiver
   Who mur...

A Place of Today's Past

...The silence of morn makes this place forlorn
in the fields, the hillsides, and trenches.
Over two hundred years since the bloodshed and fear,
yet you can hear the yells, smell the stenches.
The c...

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