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Red is the Color of my True Love’s Hair

by | Oct 20, 2025 | DE, SE

Red is the Color of my True Love’s Hair Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The thing you do not have is dark red hair. If you had that, I’d let you crawl across My chest and stomach to my moving pair Of...

Certain, Contented

by | Oct 20, 2025 | AU, DE

 Certain, Contented Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Great minds insist that we should all embrace What comes our way.  The greatness of this thought Implies that there is not a hiding place From beauty or...

Bitter Brown Sugar

by | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized

  Bitter Brown Sugar Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you could twirl his heart, you would, or spin It like a moon knocked out of orbit, wound It in the process like an angel’s sin Beside the throne of...

With Hair as Curly as a Fugue

by | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized

With Hair as Curly as a Fugue Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem  “Singing is a lover’s thing.”  ~ Saint Augustine A face more beautiful than choiring songs, More beautiful than singing in the choir, A...

 Trip Ups

by | Oct 17, 2025 | CA, FU, HA, JO, RE, SA

        Trip Ups Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A ratatouille made of shadows seen Through God’s kaleidoscope is what the faiths Present to us.  Religions, each a different scene Of glitters, promise...

Petals Fall Around Monticello’s Garden

by | Oct 16, 2025 | AB, HE, LE, LI, RO

Petals Fall Around Monticello’s Garden By a collapsed house A pear tree blooming.  Here a Battle was fought.                           ~ Shiki At Gettysburg we walked across the fields. Not far away from there a pear tree bloomed. In Arlington Lee’s mansion has no...