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").

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Been up for forty hoursI've taken four warm showersIn hopes to wind on downFrom a pass time that I foundMarch fifth of twenty'O sixAfter watching..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

You Take Yeats...I'll Take Emily; Let's Call The Whole Thing Off(To Poetry)

'She' reads her dust-bathed congeriesof Yeats over and over -each night; perhaps(thinks'She')he might appear in her dreams,a fantasy dream he..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

You Have No Voice; It's Author's Choice

You cannot have a voiceIt's always the Author's choiceThe consonants and vowelsAll conjured from the bowelsOf the naked Third-EyeImaginations black..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Xaverian

The below work is a ''Triad Senryu''poem, all three works which connect& tell a succinct story. In addition,I chose to implement the syllabic..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

X X X

A Modern-Contemporary Haikuwith the syllabic employmentof Traditional Zen style 'Ku(W/an untraditional lilt of humor)A Triple X TaleAbout Three Girls..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

X E S....{ A Succinct Dyslexic Acrostical Yarn }

The below succinct work is just me havinga wee bit 'o folly, if nobody minds...FjRX-Ray machines cannot... image the outer beautyEroticies cannot.....

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Would The Day's Of The Week Be Easier To Keep Track Of By Names With Numbers?

Let's Have us A Wee Bit of Fun WithMy Noble Attempt at Creative Levity...____________________________Onesday, the first day of the week,the weekends..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Woodstock, New York, August '69...

A Tetrad Senryu with theemployment of the syllabicadherence (5-7-5) requiredin Traditional Haiku VerseJust Back From WoodstockDon't Know Where To..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Woman In The Night...

Woman in the nightsinging songs to a lamp post,in her tight, haughty wrap,ornate spangled shiny glass,like Gruosi knock-off diamonds.Still, she dons..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Woman And Time...

Pulse...Perception...Integral...Woman on a corner,'Neath looming storm clouds,Stands stoically gracefull,Arms cossed and waiting,For her Wall Street..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

'Within The Throes Of November

Below is a Haiku inTraditional format which hasthree(3)standard requirements.(1) Three Lines(2) Syllabic pattern of 5-7-5(3) Content must be Nature..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Winter In Harlem

A Contemporary Haiku>>>>>>>>>>White Flake And WindbreakSqualls Find Stead in Dark AlleysWinter In Harlem

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Who Sent In The Clowns? (Repost)

A Senryu for the esoterically humored...''IT'' Was A Great Flick'Til The Devil Got CableCan't Blame Stephen King...FjR-MMXVI

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

White () Noise

The noise broke whitefrom far behindso it seemed,that it was,as the Douglas Firs bristledin feared anticipation.We watched from a nearby mountain..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Whispers On Air...

A Traditional formatted HaikuTickles Brush My LobesHear a Whisper in My Ear"I am Winter's Wind"...FjR- MMXX

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Whilst Imbibing In Dark Irish Beer On A Storm-Swept Afternoon In June, At O'reilly's Pub, In Claverstown, County Kildare...

It pushed hard 'gainst the trees,sparing none its path;old maple, leaf naked,limbs cracked off the bark,bloody bleeding xylemfrom the open pores of..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

While You Were Asleep { Ariel's Obsequy } - Version 2

I watch you as you sleep,Feel a warming breeze pass your cold, still lips;An essence of florals, and my eyes affix-On the bleeding heart draped 'pon..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Where Is This Vulgar Dreck Coming From?

Last night I observed with my ethical eyesA pair of postings, shameful linesDidn't even have to read the text to seeThe ignorance on display for our..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

When The River Breaks (A Metaphorical Verse)

When The River Breaks (A Metaphorical Verse) - Poem by Frank James Ryan Jr (FjR)Standing 'side th' riverbreak,water streaks like lightening,flowing..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

When Death Doth Cometh 'fore Ye { For A Friend }

After Death Hath Cometh 'fore Ye { For A Friend } - Poem by Frank James Ryan Jr (FjR)In separate worlds live surfeit minds,disagreement veiled by..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

When Come The Final Day's...

Yellow orb veils the gravid Moon...shocking the brains of Mother Earth,lambs lay down, eyes to the sky,they live by congenital presage;the world..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

What Have We Become?

Senryu Verse with the employmentof Traditional Haiku's required5-7-5 Syllabic format.Where Are We Heading?Diablio, Hades, River Styx?What have We..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

What Exactly Does Poetry Do?

Poems speak conscience an' depthSilent words, empowered breadthLines in sync that merge and glideImages... from a bards Third EyePoems deliver on..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

We, The Poweless Be Till Souls We Become

Death and its particularsbe negotiation optionlessas this entity be puissant-its arrangement, impermeableto pause(...) or abrogation,as its fiber..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

We Were Just Kids, Iz All { A Tale Of Tango & Catechism } -

Fourteen was a boring year to have to bearas a kid, unless of course you or one of yourcrone friends had the talent for innovativethrill, albeit that..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.