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").
Old English Grammatical...
Contemporary Haiku formatted withthe strict Syllabic requirement ofTradition Zen Haiku verse...Elision is OptTo Substitute Lone LettersWith..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Oh! Maria . . .
Intrinsically, Maria ripped and sweptthrough every Island, town and villageinside, outside Puerto Ricoangry storm witch carried deathwithin the Eye..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Of Winterscape...
Sprays of windglaced ice-dust....freezing mornings dew,on the fresh needled spruce, immune to autumns wake -of feral gusts, that sent sprite colour..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Of The Red Or The Black...
Contemporary Haiku with theemployment of TraditionalHaikus required syllabic ad-herence...Hope you enjoy...Mind And Breath Be AllWe Have To Color Our..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Of The Autumn And The Springtide...
The essence of hickory wafted higho'er gatherings of naked treetops,while the flailing of fragile limbsfrom the infant Japanese Maples,drew vex from..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Of Surgical Fields And Sunsets...
Strong scent of ether,stale and mundungus,scaling pale wallsof a sterile ambience;and I ponder the strange crossingof perception to delusion..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Of Poets Long Passed...
Contemporary Haiku formatted withthe employment of Traditional Haikusstrict Syllabic requirement...Under Hill's WoodshedThe Voices of Donne And..
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Of Dysthymic Opus Magnum...
You dye your reflections in indigo-singing dirges of blue-devil,conjuring orbs to house your taboos,forgetting no circle is perfect;culling goodness..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Of Autumn And Springtide
The essence of hickory wafted higho'er gatherings of naked treetops,while the flailing of fragile limbsfrom the infant Japanese Maples,drew vex from..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
O'er The Darkside Of The Hemispheres...
Dotage, pervades upon th' ashen grey -silent whisps...of an old rankled Brain.Hemispheric's universe sore estranged,obstruction, occlusion..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Ode To The Plagiarist (Reposted By Special Request
Pleased to meet you, Mr. Plagiarist,I've seen your jacket of work,supposed epic tales of Lifethat you, yourself quilled by nightfrom personal poetic..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
October's Autumntide Sonnet (Unorthodox Format)
October survives behind its vim,Of amber and umbers flailing limbs,Novembers wind ghosts hide and loomIn Mother Natures scruple less wombExacting..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Obsessing Upon Illusions Of A Dream...
Have you ever taken noticeof cracks on your ceilingwhile lying supineunder organdy sheets?Your first look...peripheral,shadow or illusion,your mystic..
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Observations...
Liquid stone feels smooth an' cool 'neath an August sunrise,breezes flutter leaves, dry the shackles of morning's dew-taxing the weakest of the..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Observations At St.Sixtus Cemetery On An August Afternoon...
Liquid stone feels smooth'pon an August morning sunrise,misted breeze, leaves flutter, dries the lay of the morning dew.Nascent heat, noon..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Objects Of Dream Or Illusion? (Repost)
The grain of your flesh fits perfectlyagainst mine,like images from Eye's Gallery II.Endulging each other,tightly pressed, and curling,dyslexically..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
O! Those Old Morose ' Traditions Still Tarried Upon Mourning The Dead...
Fresh flowers...clipped at the stems,sliced on an angle-so they'll breathe at the parlor....deeper, longer, yet in two day'sthey'll lay dying, with..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
O R B...
The below Haiku is of contemporarytone, though the Theme still has todo with Nature, as all TraditionalHaikus are required to be. ~FjR~Sunset clones..
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O C D
Where all is in place...perfectly-with everything else that surrounds it.Symmetrical, in every direction,by every dimension, yet, NOT-to the..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Now Serving: : Hillary's Host Of Horrors...
She has her reasons, and more than not-she barks them out on strings of liesvitriolic, with pout and bat-of an eyelash, as she sews her cyber WEBof..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
November's Wind On Wings (Triad Haiku }
Traditional Haiku with a Contemporarytouch of two(2)additional stanzas -Watching From a Bench,'Neath the Winds of November,By a Bridal Path.Flock of..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
November's Autumn 'ku
A Traditional Zen style Haiku withit's required syllabic adherence -Hickory RisingFrom Hearths as Golden Flames BurnEmbers To AshesFjR-MMXVI
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No Sirrom - The End
Strange as People can be at timesThis cryptic Senryu carries strange lines...The Music's OverNo Mojo Will Be RisingThrough These Dead-Locked Doors.
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
No Second Chances Here...
A rather odd theme in the form of Senryu Verse,and composed via the employment of TraditionalZen Haikus (5 - 7 - 5) syllabic requirement.There's No..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Night Of The Woodshed { The 50 Year Haunting }(Rep.)
An insidious slice of Macabre grandeurFor a Happy Halloween to you and yours!__________________________Beneath the floor of the woodshed,the woodshed..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.