Robert Charles Howard Poems

A shivering ball of fear
wrapped in a crust of pride
too thick for sharpest arrows
huddles alone but well protected.
...

How could I ever understand
what it is you choose
to call existence
and how could I ever
...

Farmers flocked to Blossburg's mines
    willing their abandoned plows
    to perpetual dust and rain.
...

In memoriam, professor Earl Henry

Through shuttered eyes, I see you still -
dressed out in earthen tones
...

Delusions of immortality
vanish in a heartbeat
as earth’s colossal magnets
clutch jagged fire ribbons -
...

A nose is such a ruddy hoot -
sloping south between the eyes
with tubes flared out
like a hungry Hoover
...

A snow blower at maximum throttle
has no cyclonic edge
on a happy quintet of grandkids
assaulting a stack of presents.
...

A stranger ventured
across the universal chasm
setting lips and tongue
to calculated motion.
...

The Gods are money sound these days.
and priests have marketing degrees -
The faithful, called to worship
by giant plasma screens,
...

Spare no lament for the maple leaves
that, defying their impending fall,
play blazing gold and scarlet concerts
bright as Christmas brass in marble halls.
...