Poems About: NARRATIVE

Everyone’s talking of brave warriors—
Like you and the place where you’re assigned.
They say you’re inspired—stand for love
Devoted to country and mankind. read more »

Of a person known as Peters I will humbly crave your leave
An unusual adventure into narrative to weave
Mr. William Perry Peters, of the town of Muscatel,
A public educator and an orator as well. read more »

Alone, under clouded skies and darkness;
An angel awaits her knight in gloom,
Her cloak of white laced, tinsels sparkle;
To the silvery outlined puffed up moon. read more »

This story's for the humble
And I'll hide identities
For it may make you stumble
To know the realities. read more »

OLD WALL EYE AND OTHER SHARKS.
Tale tales and true. Many stories have been recounted about “OLD WALL EYE”, he lived in real memory, and he was not a figment of too much ‘rum and coffee’. Our ‘friend’ lives out from Brunswick Heads, he has one good eye.

This “Bushy”, read ‘watery’ yarn comes from a personal experience. This must make me 121 years old. Also read; he for she, she for he? read more »

Boredom’s a corrosive force
from which aggression may escape,
not only fighting wars, of course,
when it can even lead to rape, read more »

Some Biblical symbolism and prophecy
are easy to interpret some are very deep
in some I am on milk in others I eat meat read more »

Beauty should be cause of doubt,
remaining as a paradox
within a fog that, with lights-out,
become its combination locks read more »

Genius is a solitary
business. To whom can you liken
artists, craving our idolatry,
every one a godlike icon? read more »

Chance and Geometry

There is a sense that all
the magic has fled us. read more »

Pretension, balancing banality with self-
effacement leads to phoniness,
and although Holden Caulfield is not on the shelf,
his author lives in loneliness, read more »

Smooth and amiable, opaque,
with facades like scrims, genteel,
my friends are ones you ought to take
unseriously, and for a meal read more »