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").
Parallel 69 { A Pentad-Senryu }(Sensual Content)
Won't you come with meTo Utopic DimensionsHoneyed Dreams sublime?Do you thirst like me,For a taste of Rhapsody..?Take me in....imbibe.You are warm..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Quinary Couplets On Life For The Musing Cynic...
Does one really know when catastrophe will strike?Some sense portent of the bizarre by malediction.Did the Mayans really understand God, and..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Heroes (Elegy For A Friend)
Sacrificing the ordinary...they ridestone white horses sans the reignsover black, cold tumorous mountains,and they do so... because they..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
The Equal Night [contemporary Haiku ]
Below is a Contemporary Style Haiku.Although It's Nature theme andSyllabic structure complies withTraditional Haiku, the absence ofSharp image and..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
The Right To Verse Free...
A Contemporary Haiku with theemployment of the required syllabicadherence of Traditional Zen HaikuThe First AmendmentIs Poetry's Quill of GoldWhose..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Woman On Fire...
A Contemporary Haiku with theemployment of the required syllabicadherence of Traditional Zen HaikuSmitten by Her Eye'sHe Saw Within Them a RageOf..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
An Execution [ A Sestet Senryu ]
Below is an example of a Sestet SeryuThe metering however, is employed viathe 5-7-5 syllabic requirement of Tra-ditional Zen style Haiku.Hope you..
© 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.
The Last Days Of Earth { A Clockwork Destiny I I } (Rev.)
winnowing, at the likes of ourselves,minded like narrowed corridors;we occularise antithesis, like charlatans,in lieu of the antipathy, that of..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
The Poem That Might Just Blow You Away!
Authors Note-The below work is my attempt to pena simple poem void of POE-etical twist & turns,mystery & cryptics, not to mention Life..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
' My Nirvana Love (Romanticism W/ Envoy)
When I see your face in the night,I'm dreaming.When I sense your aura about me,I'm trancing.When I feel your warmth upon meI waken to my senses..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Point Of Submission [ Deictic Conclusions ]
You obfuscate these events as if somehowYou have been given pontiffical judgementMight I ask where your source of blaspheme comesand coronates you..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
X X I I I A.D. - M M X V I I A.D.
The below Pentamerous Senryu poem iswritten with the employment of therequired 5-7-5 Syllabic adherenceof Traditional Zen Haiku poetry.__ XXXIII Anos..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Erotisea Under Atlantic { Love Song For The Mermaid }
_____(I) The Notion______Savoring midnightin Atlantics soul,soundless and weightlesswe....gravity-freebreeze o'er coral,erotically fixed;will you..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Woodwinds
Begin the day... and I awaken to the gentle tinglingOf the morning mists even flow, nights final breath.And malaised by the murky shroud impeding the..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Dead Silence...
Walking out the front doorof a house she called ''Space''she found a comfortable bench,in a bog by a pondwith tall chained swingsand sweeping..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
The Madness
Dawn breaks and another dayis born to all who have risenfrom nights host of demons,like Incubi and Succubus,who prey upon labyrinth dreams,plagued by..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Growing Old With A Breeze Of Dignity
They sit together, back to backat Briar Park, on a metal benchlike bookends,cold from the icy steelonce cloaked by the warmth of oak,that modern day..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
When Forests Dance Before Me
When the forests of darkness dance before meMy sense of pleasure intoxicates with fervor'Tis only my instinct to enter a forest darkSeek its sweet..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
The Sweet Sound Of Death Ii (A Quinate Senryu)
In the Aftermath,There Was A Sound of Sad Peace,A Silence of Death,Rising o'er The Black-O'Fields, Once Soft, Plush Meadow,Now Square Holes dug..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
The Un-Perfect Murder...
You're making a witless lout of yourselfCan't you see, in your mirror of vanityShe said this, an' that, and finally sheWas as quiet and still as a..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Happy Morning People Waiting On The Monday Morning Train
Waiting on the morning train one Monday,trying to ignore the happy morning people;listening from a distance not so far awayto the jabberwocky gossip..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
An Allegiance Of Hope (A Thanksgiving Psalm)
'tis a time for harvesting peace in crisis'tis a time for harnessing cultural vices'tis a time for mending bridges and fence'tis a time for extending..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
An Angel's Act A La Anticipation { Alliteration Format W / Recapitulating Envoy }a
.....Seven Seals sans silver steeds, Satan's surreptition;.....Regardless, Revelation's Rapture Realises resolution;.....Beleaguers, bedraggles..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Come Breathe Me Within You
Come breathe me within you,The fervor of my passing,Of our love slowly dancingTo the rhythm of our souls.My breath holds onto yoursBy the cords of..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.