Bites Poems - Poems about Bites

The distance between the stars is stone deaf. Diamonds die last, stones are blind but all knowing. Man is a blip on a self-made monitor. Sound bites are a poets last resort. ...Read the rest...

Loyalty is not royalty or power Being absolutely trustworthy That others confide in you Fearless of betrayals or denials Sharing dreams and secrets Without hesitating or pondering. Loyalty binds companions The bond that bind all together Both the master...Read the rest...

Festival Of San Fermin Running the gamble — living the dream (Pamplona Spain: July, 1977) ‘Pathway To Hell ...” Money is to promises what bureaucracy is to care Chasing lost indemnity — uncertainty’s despair (Dreamsleep: August, 2024) The Lost Garden A bad seed illy planted Fallow —and alone (Denison...Read the rest...

Verbal Foundlings Free or blank tomato tomatto Without rhyme’s link there’s no bravado The verse left orphaned all kinship spurned As unconnected words crash — and burn (The New Room: July, 2024) Death Grip The tighter we hold on The faster — it slips away (Dreamsleep: July, 2024) Now Is Now Freedom in the moment the...Read the rest...

Abeyance Raging against the machine Dying in the light Counting the hours till darkness Waiting — for delight (Dreamsleep: July, 2024) Storm Clouds I wanted to speak my mind until I changed it I wanted to write a book without the critic I wanted to fall in love until...Read the rest...

I am bound and chained to a very tight leash Now the stillness hangs lifeless in the air Icy tentacles grope, grab and squeeze My breath is taken away, I do decree.. Darkness has snuffed out the warming light the...Read the rest...

Blessed Quietude Audibly we rise and fall But Silence ... is the language of God (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) Lost In Place The past is never where you left it Tomorrow — delegitimizes today (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) Groupies Liking ... sometimes better than loving (Keith Richards: June, 2024) First Step Standing...Read the rest...

Mariah’s Return Mistral wishes blow hope to tomorrow Intention most sacred — ushering wind (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) Cupid’s Bow Indifference and hatred are blind — but not love (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) Godot Waits Minding his business biding his time Dodging the bullets — fate preassigned (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) Divinity’s Wind Masters of War Victors of Time Sultans...Read the rest...

Dead Calm Without friction there is no motion Without motion — creation stops (Dreamsleep: May, 2024) Abeyance My pen is searching for its guitar case a place to sleep when the writing’s done To rest in the dark between flowing moments of what might be coming...Read the rest...

Poison Ivy Academia … cesspool of deception harbinger — of lies (Dreamsleep: May, 2024) Occam’s Edge Plurality without necessity — pandering time (Dreamsleep: May, 2024) The Right Fork Newness … birth mother to anticipation (From ‘Calling Me Home:’ May, 2024) ...Read the rest...

If true that old age is but a bad habit … what can youth become _____ Divorcing passion from intellect Two orphans created Homeless together — inside of one soul _____ If you want to be free First be a prisoner A captive of prescience An inmate — of self ------- Contradiction … a privilege...Read the rest...

Out from under the burden of proof Changing the argument — freeing the truth ….. Saying it shorter staying intact Words more empowered — tightening the slack ….. Writing … the cake Reading … the icing Licking the spoon — crumbs of delight ….. Leaders made not born when so inclined To...Read the rest...

The preacher's daughter picky Vicky Went out one night with icky Ricky Both her parents got mad But it wasn't that bad She came home with a sticky hickey ...Read the rest...

Brush off your ant bites. Blind eye the hornets sting. Gone so long with ways of violence. Creatures having done nothing wrong. But it’s fine “they aren’t important”. Legs or wings or hair you just can’t bare. Squash and flush because...Read the rest...

He was jet skiing over a wake But he only made one big mistake He shouted out so pleased Then he suddenly sneezed And blew both his false teeth in the lake...Read the rest...