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").

Sleeping Under Fallen Wood Of The Sacred...

Breathing was shallowthe earwigs were suckingthe death out of pinewood remains-Who goes there?Sweet voices, soprano...a visitation of..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Senryu Psychosis 1 (An Unborn Series In Womb)

Below is a strange literary exercisein abstractivity, which I may or maynot pursue as a future series....FjRSerendipity;An Air of AccidentalsFrom The..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Senryu For The Poet Godz...

The below Senryu Is composed with thesyllabic requirement of Haiku poetry.Please Accept This GiftOf Silent Word Quilled To Be-Verse of Deity.©..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Senryu For Our Soldiers In Arms. { July 4th Tribute }..

A Senryu Verse with the syllabicrequirement of Traditional Haiku.Theme: AMERICA!War Is a Cruel Cross,Shouldered By They Who Take Arms-To Secure..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Seismologic Simile

Contemporary Haiku with the (5 - 7- 5)syllabic requirement of Traditional Haiku...Humans Are like Land;We Move, We Grow, We Settle-And Fault Like..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Seer's See Suns' Shadow As Seven Seals Sign... { Terza-Rima Format }

{Dedicated to the Annular Solar Eclipse of May 20th,2012}See Suns eclipse first rear its shadowed spine,glossed, warm skies veiled by wafts of stone..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Searching For Stonehenge And Paradise { Psalm 777}

__________I___________TIME, TEMPTATION & TRUTHTime will never deign requests,entertain Life's regrets.It's hand's methodic..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Scenario @ 96

Scenario @ 96May I pour y'u a cup of som' tulsi green teaKeep yo'r demitasse safe in yo'r breakfrontFor yo'r Ladies Club meeting next TuesdayWhen y'u..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Saturday's Sultry Soho Spinster { An Exercise In Alliteration Format }

Sordidly, she stumbles.....shuffling south of th' sun porch Steinway;Sighing sensually, supined social-service, such superfluous satiation;Stained..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Santería...{ Artists Against Animal Abuse }

A different yet(IMO) animportant statement con-veyed via senryu styleverse about the shocking& illegal rituals practicedby many organized..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Sanguinem Luna { Blood Moon }

Colors of 'stil de graine' clothing Moonpassing 'cross the Earths Northern Lightscomets dance vociferously by the Archerpointing his arrow at the..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Salem's Shivering Senryu { A Triad Senryu }

A Modern-Contemporary Senryu with the employmentof Traditional Haikus Syllabic adherence(5-7-5)The Wood-Held BladeAcross The Jugular VeinOf The Last..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Sacred { Sacrae Patet Quam Sancta }

Approaching the stone carved fountainon a flesh-toasting noon in Milanthere's allurement for oneto turn palms towards the sky,immerse them beneaththe..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

S N O W B L I N D

How do you do it....how do you seeIn the eyesore of solar resplendency.Trees obscured from drifts of whiteReflecting its sheen off mid-day's..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

S E X U A L ((E N C O U N T E R

A Modern-Contemporary Senryuwritten with the syllabic re-quirement of Traditional Zen-style Haiku...(5...7...5)Erotic MovementFrom A Spot-Lit..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

S E P A R A T I O N

Separation can be fatalwhen the principals are analin their patterned little world,depending on one anotherfor their next breadth exhale-of breath..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

S A V A N T?

A Senryu Verse employed with the syllabicrequirement of Traditional Zen style Haiku.He Had Strange KnowledgeThat Defied Comprehension;As If He Had..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

S A L E M { Haiku }

A Modern-Contemporary Haikuwith the employment of thesyllabic requirement of Trad-ional Zen-Styled Haiku Verse.Sixteen-Ninety-Two,Twenty Souls Were..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Romancing Against Time...

Awoke to feel your voice seducing me....................................mmmmmmm,so sensuously.Glancing, at th' handsof th' clockon th' wall,counting..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Romance Be The Colour Aqua...

Somewhere between emerald 'n topaz is a world of aquaCoral 'n rocks that glisten 'neath sea, reflecting off wavesInspiring an aural seascape, that..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Rio Rocked & Ruled!

A Senryu with the syllabic re-quirement of Traditional Haiku...The Olympics ProvedWorld Peace is AchievableIf The Athletes Ruled

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Respect

Distant blade-runnernot content to status quo,indifferent to conformity,speaks with ambiguity;ostensibly no-one understandswhat he's doing, or..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Reaching For Satellites { Dimensions & Speculations }

All they who seek satellites with parallel orbitshall never realize their latitude.... en maxum;to conquer that which be so deemed timelesswarrants..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

Random Thoughts By Fireside, On A Stormy Autumn Night

Embedded stench of etherbleeding thru' cracked tile,washed in antiseptic drip......................................and-I'm wondering how they..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.

R E D *) I C E

Waiting on the movement, a child is bornto diplomats of c o l d conscientiousness,with inherited proclivities for great powerlike the..

© Frank James Ryan Jr.