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").
Go Now, Unto Your Silent Sleep
She said, ''Go now...unto your silent sleep'',Christ's Seraphim's await your deliverance,Behind pillars of a Kingdom bare of crosses,The sacred..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Genre '69...........
Where are The Beatles?Where are The Doors?Where is Tim Leary?Out hunting orbs?Questions to analyze,Answers be realized;'Nam was just conflictLike..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Genocide By Gynocology
The vacuum wasn't working today,so a dozen infants were spared aspirationfrom a room custom built as a suitefor natal genocide;while the deep, steel..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
From The Womb Of Iblis... -
They say we are creatures of habitwhoever the hell ''They'' are...Such a shame ''They'' gave us allthis excuse for avoiding Change,even though..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
From Church Pew's Grieving
Breathing the polished wood pewslistening to acoustical poignanceof steeple bell's, dripping sweetlywrapping around Cathedral ceilings,with its eerie..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Fox In Brass...
Tawny beige, young fox...carries her arrogance well,poisingly... upon narrowed woodso dexterous, so 'smooooth',she could hold a Waterford..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Forifnotwhywerewebornandgivensouls
Time, is not a reversible consequence of Life,For if it were, we would never, soldier forward.And, that would greatly stunt our opportunitiesTo..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Forever Unknown, Until...
Time, Space and the number of Starsincubating on the far-side of each,are moving like waves on the Bering,because water is lighter than fire,because..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
For Two Elderly Women At A New York Café Taking Liberty By Sunset { A Tribute To America }
Dolan's Nook cafe, on The City's west-side;people come for joe.....the Wall St. Journal.Meanwhile, outside...on the flagstone patio,two elderly women..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
For The Poet Donne (A Quintet Haiku)
An example of a ContemporaryQuintet Haiku with the employ-ment of Traditional HaikusSyllabic requirement.[FjR]One Hundred Drafts PennedCompulsion And..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
For My Father Who Died 8 Yrs. Ago At Midnight Tonight...
September first, two-thousand-eight,my own personal day of 'Infamy'though i'm grown and self-sufficientand have always walked a private paththat many..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Fj R's Feline Fallacy Facts...
A Senryu with a factual theme,& as always with the employmentof Traditional Haiku's syllabicstructure of [ 5 - 7 - 5 ]....CuriosityNever Killed A..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Fj R 's New Years Wish...
Each year Tradition takes our arm, and we followDespite the many troubled Mind's left to wallowWe wish for each other good tidings, great..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Fibanacci's Ratio...
The below work is a Senryuwith the employment of thesyllabic requirement of Haiku.The Divine NumberFibanacci in AbstractNumerical Life
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Feel My Smile Next To You
Like a storm cloud in April, breaking,You wept upon my chest,Felt the hollow shaft of your loneliness.I watch your tears descend in grooveAlong the..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Fatal Assumption...
Said, you needed some time, so I watched you walk away,determination was never a suit of strength worn by you.I hadn't seen you in weeks after you..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Fade Not In Death Under Willows Shade
A Contemporary style Haiku Versewith employment of the Syllabicrequirement of Traditional HaikuAged Willows Hang LowShade Arches and..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
F O R S A K E N
And, in lesser worlds ther'd be time to rest-ones eyes from the eysores set before them.For eyesore's cast a veil o'er Natures Heart-drains the..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Eyes Open Wide, 'til Death Finds You...
History is not always faithful,times and tone portray dueling chaos,events become a scene from Golgotha,with its teflon and steel outer shellcoyly..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Exfixiation [senryu]
Senryu from my dark side quill,writ... for a wee bit 'o chillOxygen Denied,Brain Tells Heart It's Time To Die;'Twas It's Final Breath.FjR-MMXVII
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Euthanasia Infused By Duress
Cannot place the day or the timeNari will come to our houseCannot project the month or yearLisi will come to our houseCannot predict the hour or..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Escariot X
The below work is a ContemporaryHaiku with the employment of therequired Syllabic adherence ofTraditional Zen Haiku...Enjoy!In All That's..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Equilibrium / Revelation Renaissance
_______I__________EQUILIBRIUM__...of the beginningwhere influence,affluence,and prestigeupheld its worthin colored auction,massaging the backsof..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Ephramites
Apparent to they who be of Shibboleth,like Masons of their esoteric Orderin cellars, with piceous window panes,so the normal be occluded from..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Elevation (An Exercise In Metaphor)
A non-Traditional Haiku, usingmetaphor in place of imagery,yet keeping with the syllabicrequirement of Traditional Ku'.Great Mountains and TidesRise..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.