This started out as a shadorma, but I reworked the first couple of stanzas, which led to what I now have. Take the brushstrokes you have offered paint me a new picture in which everything you feel capsizes my ship Every drop of rain that falls down drowns the earth, grain by grain spilling into [...]
Tag: love
The parts of the movie I saw before falling asleep because it was late and I was tired (a poem)
It is a new month, meaning time to come up with a new challenge. After looking at a few different things, I settled upon the shadorma, a six-line form with a syllable count of 3/5/3/3/7/5. My initial effort using this form is an ekphrastic poem, inspired by the Richard Lester version of The Three Musketeers. On the [...]
Blindness (a poem)
Watching a Japanese drama on Netflix… Everyone is so blind to love or blindfolded, as the case may be When love comes willingly to us we turn it away suspicious of the source embarrassed by the attention ashamed at our lack of worth We can feel love’s presence but we’re conditioned not to see it [...]
Lost with the dream (a poem)
A cross of sorts between last night’s dreams and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind… (Note to self: think of better title for this one.) Was it you or Kate Winslet chiding me about being vague? Two LPs and a wedding dress later we were headed home ’35 minutes? You got lucky!’ Now I’m trying to [...]
Time, love, and money (a poem)
With National Poetry Writing Month ended, and a new month begun, it’s time for a new challenge. After looking at a few possibilities, I have decided to give verbless poems a shot. Yup—poems with no verbs. Here is my first entry: Time older but not wiser Money the great leveller Love necessary, but without time [...]
The truth about sci-fi aliens (A poem)
A pantoum I wrote while watching Farscape and contemplating depictions of alien lifeforms in sci-fi… The alien characters are often the most intriguing but are never all that different from humanity to their basic forms, down to their way of speaking add color, an appendage, and a wide streak of insanity They’re never all that [...]
A long-awaited truth (A poem)
Back to the epistles again, after a short break. You are happy now, I cannot deny That’s a truth for which you waited long You need no more to wonder why For your heart now sings a brand new song writ of joy, unbridled and free That’s a truth for which you waited long Worry not, my [...]
Our first date was on Valentine’s Day (A poem)
Back to the epistles again. When he read those words about being in love I couldn’t help but think of you the small moments that we shared the laughs we had the feelings we tried so hard to resist I’m so glad we gave in it may not have been enough but what we had has stayed [...]
That’s what Xmas means to me (A poem)
Watching movies on Xmas eve… Lights out, America it’s a full-moon Xmas this year and here I am the night before Xmas eve preparing to sleep alone That’s what Xmas means to me I’ve got a tiny metal tree a nativity scene in a box stockings packed safely away Another silent night? That sounds about [...]
The brandy chronicles (a sequel) (A poem)
Not much writing these last couple of days. I feel I have been repeating myself a bit too much lately… Oh, it burns so sweet! Wouldn’t you love to have more? I promise no dramatic pauses we can swing it out like we never did before I can imagine in vivid detail the course of [...]
