poems – Page 7 – 365 (RE)Affirmations

Play louder. Winter is coming.

The Space Between the Dark

The days are short, The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Liar Deceiver, dissembler Your trousers are alight From what pole or gallows Shall they dangle in the night? When I asked of your career Why did you have to kick my rear With that stinking lie of thine Proclaiming that you owned a mine? When you asked to borrow my stallion To visit a… Continue reading Liar, liar

Black blood droplet through the fissures

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. “It is futile,” I said, “You can never —” “You lie,” he cried, And ran on. BY STEPHEN CRANE

The Bedded Axle-Tree

A fragmentary thought about the bedded axle tree.

Desert Roots

Desert Places Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost covered smooth in snow, But a few weeds and stubble showing last. The woods around it have it – it is theirs. All animals are smothered in their lairs. I am too absent-spirited… Continue reading Desert Roots

Moving Forward

Today we move, in more ways than one. Moving Forward The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. It seems that things are more like me now, That I can see farther into paintings. I feel closer to what language can’t reach. With my senses, as with… Continue reading Moving Forward

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