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").
Taking A Knee (For The National Flagbruised League)
A Senryu of an Alternative Contemporary slant,if you will...or won't...Choice be up to you.Want To Take A Knee,With Your Heroes on Your Team?Than..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Tachycardia
See above yourself...the P-Waves;place your eyes on the digital screenwatch the abstract lightening stagewax and wane...ebb and flowdyslexic..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
T S A R...
A modern-Contemporary Haikuwith the syllabic requirementof Traditional verse Haiku...Strike Fast, Strike Hard...Win!Temperance, An Empires Morgue;And..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
T A P S... (Rp)
T A P S... (rp)Whistle of wind across the earof a man on a distant hill,awaiting Father MacGarrity'sfinal blessing of water.The Priest looks up to..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Swans On Lake, Crossing
Watching swans on lake, crossingeffervescence beyond their dignity,imbred from the womb of solitude,reclusiveness...for they-embrace isolation as..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
'Sunsets Of November
Have you ever watched th' pour of November's Sunsetinto th' nethers of a western skies ocean,and if so, did you awe...did it capture your breath?Gold..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Succinct, Yet Societally Surfeit & Seeking Symmetry
Who are those who we and theyTake umbrage with- for something's sakeThat when pinned and pined for reasonsWe always wind up wearing lesionsOf Bigotry..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Succinct, Yet Societally Surfeit & Seeking Symmetry
Who are those who we and theyTake umbrage with- for something's sakeThat when pinned and pined for reasonsWe always wind up wearing lesionsOf Bigotry..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Stunned...
To hear of the tragedy in CharlestonTo hear it was the Democratswho raised the Confederate Flag.To hear the Reverend PresidentWasn't playing Golf..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Striking Clocks And Paradox... (Rv-Rp)
Still, dance....dance we mustover skies of billowing sagein search of lost tabernacles,tarnished gold now bible black.And..... what shall we do when..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
St. Crispin's Day...
A Senryu with TraditionalHaiku Syllabic adherence.These Bands of BrothersEmbattled in AgincourtCrispin's Day It Was...
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
St. Brigid Of Kildare (Senryu)
A bit of a different spin on a Senryuwith the employment of the requiredsyllabic adherence of Traditional Haiku.Can You Feel The TwistAt The Church..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
St. Briget Of Kildaire (Senryu)
Holding Her Reed CrossLife Touched By Holy FireTo Warm Many Souls...
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Spirits In The Attic... [senryu]
A Senyru with the syllabic compliancerequired in Traditional ZOn Haiku...Attics Hide SpiritsImperilled Souls Lost in WoodHung Strings of Cobweb
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Space In Time
A space in Time left void,why do the planets revolve,and will do so, incessantly-until comets take aim,and strike center mass;but, really, then, will..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Sounds Inside An Empty Church, While God Listens...
Below is a Senryu Versewith the employment ofthe syllabic requirementof Traditional Zen HaikuThrough an empty Church,Walking past aisles, brisklyTo..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Souls In Sleep... (Revised)
Souls in sleep, beneath morning's dew,felt the breeze of death through the willows,smelt the fetor of flowers wiltingall over each other, on freshly..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Sorrow Be The Colour Indigo
Bleeding-out the heart like xylem sap,oozing from the bark of autumn trees;inertia, negotiating crooked grooves,in depressed, sardonic..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Sonnet For The The Silent Sleeping
Stories from the grave, speak their tales on winds of faith;methodically, we lay our wreaths and sweet moon orchids,standing o'er the steel-grey rock..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Sonnet For The Eve Of All Hallows (4-4-4-2 Format)
Stories from th' grave, speak their tales on winds of faithMethodically, we lay our wreaths and sweet moon orchidsStanding o'er the steel-grey rock..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Sonnet For The Dying {4-3-3-4- Format}
And, should my hemispheres ever ossify,Freezing logic's mind from reason's plane,Should I ever be trapped in desuetude-Close my eyes, love, and tell..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Sometimes Love Is Just Like That, Sometimes...
Sometimes it's time to move on,away from the hurt you've delivereddespite the gold ribbonyour intentions were wrapped in,how you'll miss this..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Solipsism (Father Of Hubris) -
Certain for pause in the empty spaceof unknowing or lacking cognition,so to speak, and at times it's all-we do when our tongues speak overour..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Social Infectioin { God Of Genocide }
I am shivering coldby chemical means,by congenital state,through genetic root,that one might toe-tag''socially expired''in cultural terms, of..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.
Snow Blind Joe...{ Lyrical Version }
How do you do it...how do you seeIn the eyes of solar brilliancy,Trees obscured from drifts of whiteReflecting off the mid-day's light.Warping angles..
© Frank James Ryan Jr.