Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Spiraling Indifference
Indifferent...and at timeswe speak with forked tongue,tightly wrapped in leather,sometimes forced to breathewith sharp bloodied knivesthrough our..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
The 86 Of Sceince...
Arrogance...the varicose egos;time and space is nothing morethan synchronized Death;so, I wonder...wonder, wonder I do -'bout satellites, space and..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
War, Wisdom And Oz...
Our world is not yet hanging by its final thread,for if it were, we'd all be reading Nostradamus,yet, th' World is dangling loose by frayed nervesand..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Beyond Stigmata? { Contrassegno Santo Della Crucifissione }
Church doors ablaze, who be there...?Seven Souls lost, in embers epilogue,flesh melting off the shankof blackened marrow -'once' mortal bone.Burns..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Psychology 101.3 [ Minute Verse- A Series ]
[A Minute Verse]_____MINUTE VERSEOLOGY____What is a Minute Verse? Nothing much...It's (as far as I know from my research)my own created poetic form..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Love Is Love Is Love { For My Daughter } (Repost)
_________Author's Prologue____________Originally written for my (then) 12 year old daughteron her challenge for me to write a rhyming poem inless..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Solitude...
Contemporary Haiku formattedwith the Syllabic requirementof a Traditional Zen Haiku...Old Man On a BenchIn the Bog With The WillowsMusing Leaves..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Aristotle's Abstract Acrostical { X 1 To The Power Of Zero }
Attitude, with a format alphaAccepting, the linguistical ticBarring algorithmic murmurSpooning for cadence, tempoWhilst uttering..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Oh Winter, Sir Winter Come You Soon...
Oh Winter, Sir Winter, my eyes wide with aweat your cherub like showcase of which you were born.You bring wisp, and whistle over treetops and trailas..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Oh Winter, Sir Winter Come You Soon...
Oh Winter, Sir Winter, my eyes wide with aweat your cherub like showcase of which you were born.You bring wisp, and whistle over treetops and trailas..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Two Elderly Women At A New York City Cafe Taking Liberty By Sunset...
Dolan's Nook cafe, on The City's west-side by the Hudson;people come for joe, squak... the Wall Street Journal.Meanwhile, outside,on the riverside..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
The Butterfly Effect...
A Traditional Zen Haiku constructed incompliance with all required elements...Goldenrod And MaizeYellow Butterfly fluttersEdith's CheckerboardFjR-MMXX
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Immanence.
A Contemporary Haiku formattedwith the employment of traditionalHaikus Syllabic requirement.The Hands of The ClockCircle Like a Cul de SacDead End In..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
On Edgar Allan Poe { The Prologue To The Series }
From a night time apparition, better known as a Dream,perhaps within a Dream and a dark perditious scheme,which made for a thrillingly, chillingly..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
A Poe-Try Wordplay Before Logging Off
Insight... is only superseded by foresight,which in truth is an out-of-the-box sight-of thinking, brainstorming, eyes phased and sideways,tapping the..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
On The Breeze Of Christmas Bells
???????????A Triad Senyru for theClebration of Christmas???????????The Whistle of WindO'erthe Church Steeples BelfryChristmas Chimes in AirPeople..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
P A W N...
You have honored their rules,Harnessed their dreams,You 've always looked pastTheir scrupulous schemes.But now it is ''You''Who will join the manyAs..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Oh! The Charm Of Our Classic Poets...
Oh! the charm of our old Classic Poets,how abasing they could be to one another,criticizing reams of poems by the other'til fisticuffs at times it..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
About Pleasure....
Contemporary haiku with the employment oftraditional haikus syllabic requirement.Midnight RomanticI Raise My Chalice of YenImbibe Its Sweet Pour...
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
I Sense Your Erotic Side { Cryptic-Senryu }
{A Cryptic-Senryu composed with thesyllabic requirement of Haiku form}Dancing On SunsetThe cascade so Arousing'Pon Twilights Climax...FjR-MMXV
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
In Memory*
IN MEMORY*Not often have I found the timeTo talk of things we shared,Nor often have I looked behindOr told you how I cared.Now the endless days..
© Adeline Foster
~ Expiation
~ ExpiationEven the greatest love will sometimes bring you pain.Forgiveness opens up the door of love again.I forgave and therein lies the beauty of..
© Adeline Foster
Malgre Soi
~ Malgre SoiOne footstep on a mountainLeaves a footprint on the land,And never more is the mountainUntrod by any man.One small mark on a paperWill..
© Adeline Foster
~adopt Im
ADOPT IMIf you say, as you do,That I am better off with you,Why do you blot each memoryAnd tell me that I am not me?You were a child; have you not..
© Adeline Foster
~ Errors In Gibeah*
~ Errors In Gibeah*I’d rather be judged by a sinful manWho knows that all have sinned,Than fall into the hand of a self- righteous manWho thinks the..
© Adeline Foster