Red rivers ride fluttering flags. A smile and a hand, freely offered belie the tip— it’s not a stick you know that I’ll stick you with, not a dream doused with dreamers. God or Man the mortar drips beneath the marble— just a dab of purity to hide stained hands, strawberry walls— Humanity drifting. * [...]
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Cover Up
Posted in Poems, tagged Computer Imaging, Conquering, Conquerors, Cover Up, Galford, Greek, History, Human Nature, Humanity, Means to an End, Observations, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, Peace, People, Photographers, Picture Prompt, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Reflections, Rewriting History, Statues, Thoughts, Walter Parada, War, Writing on May 22, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Welcome to Rapture
Posted in Poems, tagged Apocalypse, Armageddon, Blind Faith, Failed predictions, Galford, Heaven, Observations, People, Poems, Poetry, Prophecy, Rapture, Reality, Religion, The End, Thoughts, Welcome to Rapture, Y2K on May 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Inspired by all this silly Rapture business so many are apparently getting up in arms about today. Because, yes, that’s correct, the world is apparently going to end today…never mind the man that made the prediction made the same prediction in 1994… Into my maw impart All sympathy, with mild ecstasy The will to persevere [...]
Death of a Muse
Posted in Poems, tagged Creativity, Death of a Muse, Dreams, Forgotten, Galford, Identity, Imagination, Inspiration, Muse, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, People, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Reflections, Rejection, Relationships, Thoughts, Writing on May 17, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Tender touches twilight now when you would walk through moon beams silver youth, in my mind, your long-tossed hair that fleeting glimpse unworthy hands would never know. A dream-wrought kiss for all sensation’s cheer— a note to set the pen to dance beneath your light. What is your name? Reality, but a longing and a [...]
Melodious Treason
Posted in Poems, tagged Breakups, Cinquain, Galford, Love, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Rejection, Relationships, Writing on May 10, 2011 | 18 Comments »
Such is melodious treason, foulest madness; you thought that you could break my heart– too late.
Just a Man & a timely Senryu
Posted in Haiku/Senryu, Poems, tagged 9/11, Death, Dust to Dust, Galford, Imagery, Just a Man, Martyrs, Nationalism, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Osama Bin Laden, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Senryu, Symbols, Terrorism, Thoughts, Twin Towers, Writing on May 3, 2011 | 12 Comments »
No martyr, in death A shadow on a cave wall— A symbol stretching. Just a Man Lights erupt on paved hearts and bloodbound screams, the sound, the roar breathless lines in broken exposition— no words to mark the dust in the wind, the starlit flag where planes and concrete fell, bodies gathered in the mass [...]
Master or Mastered?
Posted in Poems, tagged Adventure, Being, Dreams, Flight, Galford, Living, Longing, NAPOWRIMO, National Poetry Month, Observations, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Short Poems, Striking Out, Thoughts, Time, Youth on April 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Master or mastered youth drinks the twilight’s streaming— spreads arms as wings in fluttered flights dreaming.
No More
Posted in Poems, tagged Age, Balance of Power, Cinquain, Civilization, NAPOWRIMO, National Poetry Month, No More, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, People, Poems, Politicians, Politics, Reflections, Society, Time, War, Young vs. Old on April 26, 2011 | 25 Comments »
“No more” the old man cries, spares the young men to die forcing wrinkled face to greet life– a lie. * My latest contribution to the wonderful One Shot Poetry Wednesdays! If you get the chance, be sure to check out all the other talented One Stop poets posting there – and what about yourself? [...]
Hospital Thoughts
Posted in Poems, tagged Child, Doctors, Galford, Health, Hoping, hospitals, NAPOWRIMO, National Poetry Month, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Parent, Poems, Poetry, Prayer, Reflections, Sickness, Thoughts, Waiting, Writing on April 19, 2011 | 30 Comments »
For my father: Through yonder window breaks The boy Kneeling at the bedside table A prayer Somewhere in the midst Of life, The feet of death hang In grayscale Monument of the quiet man’s strength A shroud Over hope, the sing-song memory It perseveres Through white-coat salutations Their assurance Little comfort in the night’s long [...]
Absence Explained
Posted in Thoughts, tagged Absence, Animal Control, Animals, Doctors, Dog, Family, Father, Fear, Galford, Health, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Parents, Photography, Photos, Reflections, Sickness, Surgery, Thoughts on April 13, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Yesterday, you may have noticed I posted a poem for One Shot Wednesday. Nothing out of the ordinary in that, and certainly unorthodox. Those among my commenters section, however, may have noticed that I have not, as my usual goodly self would have, traveled to your blogs in turn for a comment or a quality [...]
No Kiss
Posted in Poems, tagged Body, Galford, Heart, Humanity, Kiss, Love, Lust, Men, Mind, National Poetry Month, No Kiss, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, People, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Romance, Sin, Thoughts, Women, Youth on April 12, 2011 | 17 Comments »
It is not the beard you crave But the lips behind it, The kiss It shook empires In its youth, bitter thing Rendered golden in that Midas way where Men breathe Never seeing a Kiss is never just a kiss It knows not the contours Flesh bone and blood The Sin One weary heart Coaxes [...]
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