October 2019 – Anne's mediocre poetry

Song for Mitch

If I could give you anything it would be a world filled with toads and frogs hopping all around you, warts and all everything amphibian is what I wish for you – I leave the leaves in winter so spring can bring the croak and hop this I do for you, hoppity hop. TheContinue reading “Song for Mitch”

Halloween poem

When careless evil in the minds of men harpoons any good, the women are beaten the children are strewn like moss upon the earth unrooted detached, a life without the living souls transformed to ghosts. Inner monsters lurk around each hallowed feast intent on burial of wisdom into the deep. Blindness oversees theContinue reading “Halloween poem”

All in

How do you keep from weeping at the break of an eagle’s wing? Where does your compass take you when the wretched bring you grief? Why would the howling cease when nature is bowdlerized? What can you do when power remains remote to a people ignored? Let me be your port when the sea respondsContinue reading “All in”

Grifting

Fie! Remarks a peasant – the need to deify kings of blood or those intent to be crowned – buffoons are loath to see the mirror’s image which doesn’t lie, but kings not anointed wish for deification despite the peasant shouting fie. Galileo’s telescope opens the door to a reality the pious would deny. WithContinue reading “Grifting”