Set About Poems - Poems about Set About

...After the war There had been a war that Germany lost a soldier found a mask made of wood  in a basement and took it home  as a souvenir When demobilized, he sold the mask to  a second-hand sho......Read the rest...

...(Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862; 2,100 Union dead, 1550 Confederate dead) the day September seventeenth in eighteen sixty-two found stalks of corn in Maryland ......Read the rest...

...Separate, we each keep pages within the book of faces. Alone, we abide in the crowded tome. As desperate loneliness grabs at us, we see pages appear in our paths. Your words touch my soul and min......Read the rest...

...To climb Jacob’s ladder became an ambition of the earth entity non-existent. The object assuming an ego took itself to be real and so set about it’s task. Following holy scripture......Read the rest...

...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come......Read the rest...

...Francie folded with the first contraction .Sam had watched her eyes widen as the amniotic fluid soaked her dress.The contractions began immediately as if a starter pistol had been fired.She could te......Read the rest...

...If not now when, thought the universe before going bang Just then, from a point of oblivion, everything sprang Eons later, pregnant mothers start feeling labour pangs Civilisations ......Read the rest...

...[Arrhhh… this be a rewrite of a yarn I told, which truly wasn’t tawdry alas, I can but wonder if some thought it would be bawdy. The ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ was a fiction, No inuendo there She’s ......Read the rest...

...Fifty fathoms ’neath the sea aboard the ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ The captain guards her secret in three hundred feet of water For twenty years he floundered in a cell; Twas dank and cold They let him ......Read the rest...

...III. He kept off the roads to avoid their eyes, through scrub and dry grass, onwards he did ride, skirting north of the ranch, behind a ridgeline, until he stopped to see what he could find. S......Read the rest...

...An Ogre is mean, an Ogre is ugly An Ogre is smelly, grumpy and gruffly. They are so big they can block out the sun If you ever do hear one it's better to run. Some want to eat you or keep you a......Read the rest...

...Some called him Bacchus, some Dionysus: god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, fruit. Giver of joy, dispenser of sorrow, famous for orgies, bacchantes recruits… Enter King Midas, ruler of Phrygi......Read the rest...

... 'Twas the night before Christmas and I Totally forgot to bake a cake, If my children came to know, oh my! What a noisy ruckus they would make! So I went to the kitchen and found Sugar......Read the rest...

...The black dog stood out in contrast to the snow drift Arlis found her half buried in.Emaciated she was a light load as he hoisted her onto his shoulder.She appeared to be a Irish wolf hound with the......Read the rest...

...We were not there to welcome them home but came later in the long evenings when nightmares ravaged their sleep. Peace had walled in the horrors hiding in the heads of good men. Big blocks g......Read the rest...