Monthly Archives: September 2014

I took your breath into my mouth And all my soul went south; Now in warm lands of circled arms I stand and feel your charms. I’m traveling nowhere but right here To hear your whisper, clear, That tells me … Continue reading →

For all this time since human life began With glowing rhyme come praise the mind of man. His thought appears through all he steers, His works are sharp and bold; He plows the lands on which he stands, The seas … Continue reading →

Soft, how soft, feel the pansies faces; Soft on lips and on eyelids closed. Fall’n have I after several races Down in victory light reposed. You come after and bump against me; Laugh, exhausted, breathing so fast. Tied at two, … Continue reading →

Slow, how slowly, through the heavy fog, Moves the boat; as gray, as gray as fog, Slow does float. And no, there is no sound, No one’s around. Like some huge log On the boat goes, a pictured breath Drawing … Continue reading →

The sun goes to nightward at your bright return; The sky, it grows darker as your gray eyes burn; The wind’s kicking higher and the stars twink weak As walk you on up, now, with the wealth I seek. With … Continue reading →

When O’s of silence steal on your ear And round you turn—but naught is all you hear; When wind is nil, and nothing nothings sigh, And all the world is darkness where you lie; Then ‘magine me a-struggling with my … Continue reading →

O, were I bracelet on your wrist A-jingling by your side, I’d ring a tune to get me kissed By your sweet lips of pride. A simple thing, with ding and ding, To pay you with delight, Then would I … Continue reading →

This nippy morning air has bit your cheeks; They glow so loud with your new life that I Am eyes-all-eyes for hearing. Nothing speaks So cleanly clear as wint’ry sun in sky, And as your joy-light circles me around I … Continue reading →

“Youth’s a stuff will not endure,” Truth, a thing that will; Young at heart may play a part Falsehood cannot kill. Love’s a bird will always sing Sweet in ageing tree; Death will not be cancelling Endless love for thee. … Continue reading →

This miracle of love is made by sense; It sees and touches, breathes fair innocence, And seeks no critic’s glory for its crown, But joys in brightest smile and darkest frown. Its makers are partakers in delight Of all that’s … Continue reading →

Captive They hold you captive—rational egoist, But more than this: my dearest living flame, Proud altar, fair clean shrine I’ve never kissed; Only dances through my soul your name Until it twirls into my true life’s sum, Not added on, … Continue reading →

Allah was sucking the teat of a pig Until his nose grew squarish big, Then Allah oinked with all his might, “Oink, oinK, oiNK, OINK!” And Mohammed squealed away in fright. And Moslems all, the whole world o’er, Kept oinking … Continue reading →

Nothing, naught, nil, Obama fills the bill. A nihilist loves nothing; He’s nothing with a will. All nihilists like zero, To them he is a hero. To us he is a bust; Oh, may he sink in dust! Shakespeare knew … Continue reading →

The body of Burgess Laughlin May lie in lifeless coffin, But stands his spirit brave O’er time’s tempestuous wave. He lives in words clear-spoken, As all his strength, unbroken, Lifts up his thoughts refined From one objective mind. Severe he … Continue reading →