Villanelle

. Resist Arrest Instead of Arresting Resistance In Denmark, something now is very rotten, As fetid as the food-scraps in...

. Mind Games---Three Cerebral Triolets  Propaganda  It wants your mind. It wants you blind. It warps and washes wayward brains....

. Remembering Ophelia His scathing tongue had thrust her to the edge. It nudged her through the willow’s sunless fringe....

. Birdbrains a villanelle   “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry  about his actions.” ---Carter...

. Shining Armor The knights roll in. They have a rift to heal--- A rift that stokes the embers of...

. Road Trip I ride the countryside for you my friend. The white and yellow lines can’t separate The dots...

. Starbucks Villanelle Will someone call an order for Elaine? I have a bunch of stuff I need to do....

. A Sentimental Villanelle This year I’m wrapped in Christmases of old--- The tinseled tree and glee of hearts on...

. Journey’s End To Adventuresome Children at Bedtime Mountain, forest, stone, and stream all glisten under sun, While golden morn...

. Four Thousand Four Hundred  Miles The shiny willows waved in yellow bloom Inland beyond the spit of dirty sand...

. Who’s the Villain Now? My poems drip with vitriol and gall,Each stanza driving home a heartfelt curse—A side-effect of...

. A Pox Upon My House a pantoum I heard the hiss of sickness as my mind cracked. I scoured...

. Heartfelt Baptism The morning rain that washes this day clean of yesterday's despair, of last night's sleep, and promises...

. Autumn's Hand I reach across for autumn's hand, When leaves begin to ride the air, To walk amid the...

. Cancel Madame Butterfly today! Such racist music cannot soothe the soul. Let’s never show another hate-filled play. The King...

. Grimm   The days of steering princesses from danger With sweet salvation’s life-sustaining kiss From shining-armored knight or regal stranger Are now considered horribly remiss. Young damsels in...

. A Woke Recipe for Disaster a villanelle Heap fresh and zesty chaos on despair. Rub salt in history’s wounds...

. Stream Above the bend, the water deep and clear, the current strong; seen from the Buckman Bridge, ten minutes...

. The Inca Kings Who stole the kings? Even Pachacutec's mummy now is gone from Lima's hospital display of Inca...

  Vocations Always there are things we should be doing; Others, though, are better left unfinished. Also, there are ends...

  a villanelle My heart goes out to those unknown, Whose life by Time’s cruel hand erased, Their ravaged, riven,...

a villanelle We came together with an open mind No crass intolerance or blinkered view Is it too much to...

  Dear Editor, My odes are grandiose and overblown With pudgy gluts of stodgy adjectives In floods of flabby babble...

Hummingbird Communion I watch them play at dawn of day, as molten gold is splashed their way, on feathers flecked...

Mayor Rules Chocolatier "Essential Business" by Mark F. Stone Our craving for chocolate is serious. Deny us and we will...

  From Some Nightmarish Vial a villanelle by Evan Mantyk Did it emerge from some nightmarish vial? Is it a...

  a villanelle The mortal eyes in time shall wilt away, as fast as breath retreats its kiss from glass,...

  To You, My Wife a villanelle To you, my wife, my love I declare, My joy and gain, a...

Palimpsest ...written in their hearts... Romans 2.15 We try, but cannot fully scrape away those ancient words engraved upon the...

Intruders Beware If you but knew what weakness lies concealed Within this adamantine outer shell— What woes, what worries I'm...

originally published on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Oh, run with the sun and the wind in your hair! Before the day-star...

Doublespeak Denial Rondeau Redoublé “Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.” —John...

Dodgeball "But we have the mind of Christ." 1 Corinthians 2.16 Sometimes my thought-life is a dodgeball game— except that...

a villanelle Ye let it flow, the bitter brine, let flow! How long you hold it back, those snowy streams!...

A reading of the below poems by the poet:   The Loan a villanelle This life we hold so dear...

That I Might Learn to Love a villanelle That I might learn to love I sorely prayed with hopes that...

  I am a captive of the wicked queen. My mind’s a blank; the temptress took my soul. I know...

a villanelle Be still now and let them go. Their trials and losses fade away. Briefly, they were yours to...

a villanelle The sun descends into the silent sea. As shadows lengthen in the fading light I journey on to...

  Tulip Tree in Bloom, January Every working day I pass a tulip tree on yellow grass and strain to...