After Catullus V Let us live and let us love, My Lesbia, My Layla, My dark princess of […]
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Mad Pollyanna poetDepressedIn love with the night,Admirer of the stars,Constellations, and galaxies,The milky white wayAgainst the raven blackEchoes […]
Freckles and Curls In embryonic Eden Before the rains came: Seeds were planted, Hand in hand, Giving rise […]
In Memory of Patricia Spoon (1940-2021) I heard the banshee Wailing in the distance, Echoing in the valley, […]
On the field at Camlann, Lancelot lays bleeding, Though not a single sword Scratched his plated armor. […]
Smokey dim lit pool hall– Red lights making volcanic plumes Of loneliness, desperation, and shame– Next to a […]
The Beatles opened my eyes To a kaleidoscope of colors Illuminating that frizzy haired Ragamuffin on the corner […]
I lost my voice In the fog, Crushed by the darkness On which it once fed. I […]
The years go flying by Like shooting stars, A flash, A motion in the sky, And then they’re […]
I look into the abyss And the abyss looks away, Frightened by what it sees. I feel so […]
John W. Leys 