BLACK RAVEN AND CROW   Black hearted raven and cousin crow. Both portents of death says Poe. But is death quick or slow? Pushed into that...

Supposed great, golden years, Remembered youth produces tears. Now I have trouble seeing, And worse trouble peeing. Some foods give me...

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,...

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...

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,...

Staring through the windowpane, Focused on crystalline pearls of rain, Euphoric, relaxed, in no pain, Just floating freely, no chain. Now...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

I see this guy almost every day, A mist of tears guarded by steely eyes. A mysterious smile, unfathomable and His thoughts impenetrable....

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,...

All their gods never seen, Like infants shy in the extreme. Bouncing beliefs like a holy ball, Against their pseudo-sacred wall. I think...

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...

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...

Beer bubbles float on putrid breath, Eyes dark as if feeling the touch of death. Staggering on unsteady feet, Feeling the grasp of the...

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...

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,...

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...

It filters the mental dust, confusion, stress. Its tap, tapping, drip, dripping wet melody Soothes me, encapsulates me in a liquid Coat...