Rivers
It was soft twilight – almost night when the golden affair began There were others they say in the home of Jay but I saw only Leanne The organ was playing and someone was saying that Jay should perform the cancan He jazzed by ear but I did not hear […]
Asshole Lovers
All this pain this weekend There is too much pain We sit here together Rendered powerless Women and men alone, Agonizing anguish Asshole lovers gone Hope for fulfillment gone with them We were asshole lovers I blamed my emasculation on her But it is not she Who rendered me impotent […]
Walter and Mary
We go through life with intimates few but there’s something special in sharing a pew with friends. Then something happens just like that and someone says “…so here’s your hat’” and it ends. Last Sunday morning I went back to church I played the […]
Sans the Pipe
Some are men some are boys men stand tall amid the noise. Boys seethe in anger act like fools men stay calm obey the rules. Boys run astray with women and pot men of God say “I’d rather not!” Men of God […]
Desert Sandals
I’m in a mood – need solitude I walk to the desert in sandals leaving the city behind in a bridge of candles. I see the Master, vision at night as candles grow dim and die. there in the desert a man in white Sandalled feet, drawing nigh. […]
Tony
Tony, my old border collie herding his field art Eating rats his only folly fast and very smart Every day he’d show us how out through the pasture gate He’d bark at five and get the cows So seldom late Out on the pasture he’d hunt some mice […]
15 Types of Poems
15 Types of Poetic Forms Blank verse. Blank verse is poetry written with a precise meter—almost always iambic pentameter—that does not rhyme. Learn more about blank verse here. Rhymed poetry. In contrast to blank verse, rhymed poems rhyme by definition, although their scheme varies. Learn more about rhymed poetry here. Free verse. Free verse poetry is […]
Bishop’s Chair
God sitting up in the Bishop’s chair Eyes glued tight to his i-Pad there Spelling out to us on Earth Who we are, it brings him mirth You go up and you go down You get shot and you will drown Tapping out with bits and bytes Names of blacks, killed by whites […]
Beatville
Lonely horn beneath the light Melody borne in heat of night Bottle drained of liquid dreams Dimming light sex-crazed dreams Dancers close arms entwined Faking love nothing to find Shifty beats inhaling stuff Talking loud of being tough Poets with word and background beat Scarcely […]
The Skull
The faces of hell yell out at night with muffled screams dreams become nightmares skull hangs loose in a noose in a tree by the fence. I heave and sob in the night. Dull form of a faceless woman hidden inside a cowl walking down an empty monastic corridor […]