Tag: relationship
member name: Mike Ellwood
|
April 25, 2008 11:28 AM EDT --
The Scaffold
Superficial? The fragile scaffolding
Leant lightly on the tower's rising flanks -
A web of tubing, spigots, wooden planks,
Cross-braces, . . .
more
|
|
February 01, 2008 07:33 AM EST --
Hopper Visits a Diner
Her hands for warmth enfold the coffee cup.
Remembering her pale translucent skin,
The veins that bear the cool blue blood . . .
more
|
|
March 12, 2008 05:42 AM EDT --
My Violin
Our rosin powders mingle in the case,
Where, fallen from the belly and the bow,
Each particle trapped in the velvet space
Becomes our common . . .
more
|
|
June 11, 2008 05:35 PM EDT --
. . .
more
|
|
August 18, 2008 03:26 PM EDT --
A sonnet for my students.......
The World is Waiting
The world is waiting, but not just for you.
That audience is never satisfied,
Grasping voraciously for something . . .
more
|
|
September 13, 2008 05:00 AM EDT --
The Sunless Sea
The murmur of the sunless sea
With its dark swell and lambent foam
Is forming words enticingly
That conjure and describe for me
A stately . . .
more
|
|
January 16, 2009 06:07 AM EST --
Abram and Sarai
You are still mine although your hair is straight
And shimmering scents surround you as you move.
You are still mine, the power of my love
Could melt those golden . . .
more
|
|
April 10, 2008 10:00 AM EDT --
Daphne and Apollo
Pricked by Cupid's arrow? Oh, Apollo,
You were obsessed. A monomaniac,
Beyond your own control. Some of us know
How your sickness operates with its lack . . .
more
|
|
July 02, 2008 04:10 AM EDT --
The Old Man and the Tree
The day Jack Brand was born the topsoil moved
Aside, displaced by gentle force, nature's
Relentless strength when roots split free and . . .
more
|
|
July 23, 2008 04:58 AM EDT --
A Vacant Chamber
He did not tell her the truth.
He let her think the seashell's whisper . . .
more
|
|
December 06, 2008 09:33 AM EST --
In the Hole!
Perhaps fatigue or stress had cramped my style
But I was wilting, flaccid, losing nerve,
Frustrated with myself as all the while
My eager partner rued my lack of verve.
Try as . . .
more
|
|
December 20, 2008 12:15 PM EST --
Settlement
The bubble in the level's glass behaves
As if moon-drawn and plaster-cracks, like veins,
Bleed dust. The creaking fabrication strains
Against . . .
more
|
|
April 12, 2009 04:33 PM EDT --
The Fault
The globe contracts. Now feel the wrinkled flesh
Fissure and shift. Perhaps you sense some pain
As crunching rock gives way like crumbling bone . . .
more
|
|
April 17, 2008 03:32 AM EDT --
The Capstan's Arc
"Please tell me. Did my father save my life
That day I swung upon the capstan arm?"
"Of course. Though light, my . . .
more
|
|
June 28, 2008 04:28 AM EDT --
Ever noticed how, as you get older, you begin to look like your parents?
Villanelle
I'm sleeping with my mother-in-law,
My wife is . . .
more
|
|
January 10, 2009 03:50 PM EST --
Temptation
This idea of mine,
At least, this desire
That has grown somehow
And now requires me,
As if in a dream,
Obediently,
. . .
more
|
|
February 24, 2009 06:09 PM EST --
To Snowdrops
Frail, but resilient
Wan petals, yet brilliant
Emerging from drifts
As Winter's coat lifts
See trembling snowdrops.
. . .
more
|
|
January 27, 2009 04:55 AM EST --
After Sarah had given birth to Isaac the presence of Hagar and Ishmael displeased her greatly. She had no intention of allowing Ishmael to share in Isaac's inheritance and required Abraham to effect . . .
more
|
|
May 14, 2009 04:21 AM EDT --
Weeding in May
I plunge my fingers in the warming ground
Up to my knuckles. In this private place
I grope through tender strands of living lace . . .
more
|
|
January 27, 2008 02:59 PM EST --
In the Supermarket
Is he a footman or a charioteer?
A few yards down the aisle his busy wife
Selects the treats and staples for their life,
The trolley . . .
more
|
|
|
|
