Category Archives: teaser/test/preview

Prelude I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine, The deaths ye died I have watched beside,And the lives that ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not share In vigil … Continue reading →

Last Night, After Five Pints of Wine   Last night, after five pints of wine, I said, ‘Procillus, come and dine Tomorrow.’ You assumed I meant What I said (a dangerous precedent) And slyly jotted down a note Of my … Continue reading →

A Time to Talk When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around On all the hills I haven’t hoed, And shout from where I … Continue reading →

Always Marry an April Girl Praise the spells and bless the charms,I found April in my arms.April golden, April cloudy,Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;April soft in flowered languor,April cold with sudden anger,Ever changing, ever true –I love April, I love you. … Continue reading →

Sitting at Night A quiet valley with no man’s footprints, An empty garden lit by the moon. Suddenly my dog barks and I know A friend with a bottle is knocking at the gate. ~ Om Ui-Gil (17th Century) Trans. … Continue reading →

Around Us We need some pines to assuage the darkness when it blankets the mind, we need a silvery stream that banks as smoothly as a plane’s wing, and a worn bed of needles to pad the rumble that fills … Continue reading →

How Doth the Little Crocodile How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes … Continue reading →

I sent this out as my teaser the other day and in my haste did not post it. Here it is, my super, brilliant original compostition: Roses are red. April does what? Time for our poetry pimp, to start busting … Continue reading →