This is an eclectic tapestry of prose, poetry, and doggrel that I have composed over the years. Some is serious; a lot of it is merely word play; different styles of writing using word imagery. Anything that I had on my hard drive and couldn't find any other use for was fair game for this page, so don't get your hopes up.
I have recently placed some poetry by other authors up as well, for you, gentle reader, to purvey; the links on the top are things I've written, the links on the bottom are by authors with a little more renown.
Enjoy.
My Words
These are some of my words; they are personal, they do have meaning. Not wanting them to go unseen and unremembered, they are being shared, gentle reader, with you.
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hazy light
cold
whistle
looking glass
Clouds
Simple
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Strange Wanderings
Haiku
Doggrel
Poetry
Words of others
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William Carlos Williams
I read this, thought it was quite funny, so here it is for you to enjoy. See the opposite number by Kenneth Koch.
THIS IS JUST TO SAY
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
--William Carlos Williams…
E.E. Cummings - pity this busy monster manunkind
Thomas Hardy - Hap, I look into My Glass, and A Broken Appointment
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias
T.S. Elliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Rudyard Kipling - If
Rudyard Kipling - The Last of the Light Brigade
Rudyard Kipling - Mandalay
Rudyard Kipling - Recessional
Rudyard Kipling - Tommy
William Carlos Williams - THIS IS JUST TO SAY
Kenneth Koch - Variations on a Theme by Wiliam Carlos Williams
William Butler Yeats - Sailing to Byzantium
William Butler Yeats - On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac