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billsheehan1
- Jun 2
- 1 min
GOLDEN YEARS?
Supposed great, golden years, Remembered youth produces tears. Now I have trouble seeing, And worse trouble peeing. Some foods give me...
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billsheehan1
- May 27
- 1 min
DARK AND DEEP
Now I lay me down to sleep In a place dark and deep. My last refuge, my Castle Keep. Now gone for good, no one should weep. Saw much,...
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billsheehan1
- May 27
- 1 min
BEN DOVER
Like an onion, layers and layers of lies Behind many people’s beguiling eyes. Their face calm, occupied by a false smile. So easy for...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
WOLFMAN
The wolf appeared in his dream, To his surprise he did not scream. He thought for sure it was the end, But he glared back, did not bend,...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
RAINFALL
Staring through the windowpane, Focused on crystalline pearls of rain, Euphoric, relaxed, in no pain, Just floating freely, no chain. Now...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 6 min
LOOKING UP AT DEATH
I felt like I had fainted. As I was returning to reality I felt as if I was floating in a rocking and rolling boat. My head started to...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 2 min
A BRAVE SOLDIER DIED TODAY
He was still tall and slim and his hair was thinning fast, And he sat around the table, Telling stories of the past. Of a war that he...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
A PATH DOES THE FUTURE MAKE
A path does a future make. Each person makes the choice. A choice of which path to take, Based upon their personal sake. Pick a path,...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
THE WILDERNESS OF THE MIND
Out of the wilderness of his mind it came, Out of the savage jungle, into the exposed plain, An idea with a sharp feeling, but a vague...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 3 min
THE STRANGER
I see this guy almost every day, A mist of tears guarded by steely eyes. A mysterious smile, unfathomable and His thoughts impenetrable....
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
MORTALITY
I think of death, about my last breath, About my many years, and the hotness of tears, About of life’s sadness, and all of the gladness,...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
PSEUDO-SACRED
All their gods never seen, Like infants shy in the extreme. Bouncing beliefs like a holy ball, Against their pseudo-sacred wall. I think...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
GHOST SOLDIERS
Ghosts noisily roam In my mental zone. Ghosts of those slayed For wrongs they played In a time long gone In a war long done Where...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
FAREWELL YOUTH
Youth has gone, Life nearly done. Set me on a Viking Pyre. My life’s light will expire. My mind lives in youth, But the mirror sees the...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
DRUNKARD
Beer bubbles float on putrid breath, Eyes dark as if feeling the touch of death. Staggering on unsteady feet, Feeling the grasp of the...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
DEFEAT
Iron armor yields to a soft shell. Lips stretch widely in an agonized yell. Desperate thoughts rush in pell-mell, That I am powerless to...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
DARK DREAM
I see now that Death is a friend. It comes to me at my life’s end. I grasp its hand, cold and bony. It lives a life so very lonely,...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 3 min
FRIGHT NIGHT
Once upon a moonless night, Came my greatest fright. In bed with the silence of the night, My heart nearly leaped into flight. A shadow...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min
RAIN (poem, 6-28-99)
It filters the mental dust, confusion, stress. Its tap, tapping, drip, dripping wet melody Soothes me, encapsulates me in a liquid Coat...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 2 min
WHEN (poem, 8-16-78)
When you command both love and hate, And have in mind when each is due, Yet not let hate consume your love, Then friend and foe shall...
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