I wash the canvas bleeding bruised blues into black dripping drops of white onto purple yellow bursts attempting to capture you.
Category: Poetry
Poetic Form: Tanka
The tanka (or waka) is a classical Japanese poetic form, typically consisting of five lines or units (lines in the Romanized forms). Each line or unit has a specific number … Continue reading Poetic Form: Tanka
School Days
The taste of nickle fills my mouth as I put on my bulletproof vest over my Superman shirt and kiss my mother goodbye.
Can’t Wake Me
Sleep — death’s twin sister stole me away at dawn leaving my breathing stale husk
West Coast Winter
air the flavor of BBQ left out overnight tobacco smoke from a walnut pipe crisp as an open freezer grey as hospital walls
Poetic Form: Gogyohka
Ladies and gentle dragons, I would like to present to you the 2nd easiest poetic form known to mankind: the Gogyohka. It is literally just a 5 line poem. That’s … Continue reading Poetic Form: Gogyohka
Dragon Incantation
A is for Apalala, water converter B is for Bakunawa, moon devourer C is for Cuélebre, Xana kidnapper D is for Dreq, Christian tormentor E is for Evren, flame secretor … Continue reading Dragon Incantation
Poetic Form: Abecedarian
Quick Lesson Time: Poems are not just short phrases or cute greeting card sayings. Poems are a form of written art — paintings created from language and/or the tools of … Continue reading Poetic Form: Abecedarian
A Conflagration of Gold
Sweet Winter smoke fills my lungs bringing me back to California.
A Song Called Happiness
asthmatic lungs push air between the untrained larynx Happi– a thick-tongued hiss between thin lips ness arrhythmic inhalation and ventilation is a lot like ribs rattling through exhalation sorrow a guttural … Continue reading A Song Called Happiness
The Literary Dragon 