Stone by Stone Vines inhale the flesh The world atone Stone by Stone Memories of the haunted-hallowed moan Of all we’ve wrought, kingly mess Stone by Stone Humanity stripped, to rise afresh. * Hello, all. This, obviously, is my submission to One Shoot Sunday over at One Stop Poetry. It’s more than that, though. I [...]
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Stone by Stone
Posted in Poems, tagged Civilization, Death, Galford, History, Humanity, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, People, Poems, Poetry, Rebirth, Ruins, Stone by Stone, Triolet, War on July 10, 2011 | 25 Comments »
Fettered Rise
Posted in Poems, tagged Arrogance, Civilization, Darkness, Domination, Flight, Galford, Graffiti, Greed, Guilt, Humanity, Icarus, Logic, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, Passion, People, Photography, Picture Prompt, Poems, Poetry, Pride, Reaching Too High, Reason, Revelations, Sense, Society, Submission, Thoughts, Wealth on June 19, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Darkness Begets salvation. – Closed eyes embrace Wide-spaced longing, Riveted in fire like Old angels lacquered With the doubt— – The weight, They will come to call it, It lies heavy on the backs That would toil clouds To submission. – Naked passions Circumvent the sense of it, Armani dreams, Gucci heart Wing-tipped longing stands [...]
Stooped Celebration
Posted in Poems, tagged Aging, Construction, Creation, Galford, HDR, Interviews, Labor, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, Photography, Picture Prompt, Poetry, Pride, Rob Hanson, Satisfaction, Simple Things, Time, Weaving, Work, Works Makes the Man on June 5, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Stooped celebration Thread by thread Stringing out the walkers Life of leather— Toiling at the standing grace Of other souls. Breaths ride the strands, Divinity locked in rasping labor; Noon passes stained glass With a smile— the hands know but the one song, they cannot sing it with regret. * My latest work for [...]
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 »
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. * [...]
Birds in Flight
Posted in Haiku/Senryu, tagged Animals, Cycle of Life, Death, Fee Easton, Flight, Galford, Haiku, Hawk, Interview, Life, Nature, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, Photo Prompt, Photography, Photos, Seasons, Short Poems, Summer on May 15, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Feathered summer bright In taloned march sing madness Death—one season’s end. A piece for this week’s edition of One Shoot Sunday. There’s no interview by me (had a couple weeks off, you know?), but several lovely prompt choices to select from a generous old friend of One Stop: Fee Easton. You may remember my earlier [...]
Blood and Beauty
Posted in Poems, tagged Africa, Colonialism, Desert, Europe, Morocco, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, People, Photo Prompt, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Repetition, Rosa Frei, Sahara, Time, World, Writing on May 1, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Sucking at the grains, the eyes, weather-beaten portals portray, in absolution, the sifting sands in hourglass like B-52 roar, the revelation of dry ocean repetition, the ships always setting sail never finding anything but mirage— blistered empty wounds singing long after they have sung, these eyes, these hands left to cover blood and beauty. * [...]
Just thoughts
Posted in Poems, tagged Age, Decisions, Galford, Greg Laychak, Inspirations, Just thoughts, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, People, Photographers, Photography, Picture Prompt, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Regrets, Thoughts, Time on April 24, 2011 | 12 Comments »
It is a long hall we walk, Reflections of decisions Hung in windows, Rain-spattered and sun struck The stains of time rolling down Like tears, never wept In the dawning When other voices rang Rhythm, rhyme, reduced Where they set us yet to roam. Everything is painted now— Just thoughts.
Drift Away
Posted in Poems, tagged Inspirations, Jump, Lauren Randolph, Observations, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, Photo Prompt, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Thoughts, Writing on April 10, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Gravity Saw me once beyond The color and the clouds— In hydrogen dreams it called Imagination but a fluke. Dancing on the sea-sky I left it all Below. * My submission to this week’s edition of the One Shoot Sunday Photo Prompt, with a colorful shot from award-winning photographer Lauren Randolph. Check out my [...]
Inspired by @ChasingTao!
Posted in Haiku/Senryu, tagged Adam Dustus, Brian Miller, ChasingTao, Galford, Inspirations, Leslie Moon, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, Picture Prompt, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Short Poem, Shorty Awards on March 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Reverent crystal— The eyes look through it darkly Raindrop hopes in green. Silence smoothes visions. Lapping at the sea, he bears Life upon his tongue. * My short submissions to this week’s edition of the One Shoot Sunday Photo Prompt, featuring a picture from One Stop’s old friend, ChasingTao. Not only am I interviewing this [...]
Coughing Camels
Posted in Poems, tagged America, Camels, Cigarettes, Death, Galford, History, Indians, Joe Camel, Life, Observations, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, Photographers, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Self-destruction, Smoking, Tobacco on March 13, 2011 | 12 Comments »
It began with little Indians rolling crude puffing psychoactive spirituality in lieu of peace signs in the sand. Pet plants petted coughing Camels patronizingly, coaxing out life one voice at a time. Every breath breathes history says the shaded mammal; it sucks it up in fossilized harmony and spits it out, in yellow – it’s [...]
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