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Diagnosed by Cynara Moore This is basically reancting a persom being diagnosed with a chronic illness. [235 words]
What Else Can Sunrise Do by E Rocco Caldwell Driving to work I see the sunrise nearly everyday...it's a wonderful death and life ex... [60 words]
Place's End by E Rocco Caldwell This is an old one I posted a while ago but thought I would re-write it and re-submit it. [137 words]
Zadkine's Diana by Jersey Mike Inspired in the Brussels Fine Arts Museum a few years ago. [48 words]
Will He Won't He by Diana Venditti - [61 words]
When I Think Of You by Megan Quesenberry This one is for David too... [95 words]
What Is......It by G N I tried something new for me...hope it works. [35 words]
Waterfall by Amber A Whitman A scenic poem about nature. [31 words]
Watching Me Fade by Skyler Drevan - [54 words]
War Of The Clans by Diana Venditti - [93 words]
Walk On The Wild Side by Diana Venditti She was a wild one. [109 words]
Waiting For Sally by Joe Newton - [74 words]
Until There Was You by Victoria Taginod Tangan How you can't manage the feeling that suddenly grew inside you that no matter how much you ... [172 words]
Two Parents Within A Matriarch by Cynara Moore This poem is meant to symbolize our strong single mothers and depict their abi... [80 words]
Transition In Relation by Inchara This is about the change in relationship between parents and children when children grow... [110 words]
Traces Of Us by Dri Cook To accept with serene indifference ghosts from the past, is the best medication to scare them away... [37 words]
To Thee On High by Penkup Family Describes the work-function amd prospects of PENKUP FAMILY... [123 words]
Tiger by Diana Venditti To one of the most beautiful creatures on the earth. [91 words]
Thoughts Of You by G N Love speaks. [54 words]
The World Keeps Turning by David Con - [60 words]
The Witch by Diana Venditti A story of a witch. [267 words]
The Tender Loving Smile by Penkup Family "The joyful testimony of my infancy in the hands of my mother..." -Obohwemu O. Kenned... [119 words]
The Spinner Of Time by Diana Venditti - [58 words]
The Sistrum by Diana Venditti For he who loves Africa. [79 words]
The Rat by Diana Venditti A secret fear. [142 words]
The Mermaid by Diana Venditti For those with children. [111 words]
The Masterpiece by Victoria Taginod Tangan For nature lovers who loves to appreciate the beauty of nature... [78 words]
The Last Star In The Last Galaxy by Diana Venditti This kind of poem is new to me see what you think. [114 words]
The Kiss by Diana Venditti Keep wishing girls. [120 words]
The Killing Fields by Diana Venditti - [230 words]
The Key To My Heart. by David Baker Key to the truest/purest feelings inside of me. [85 words]
The Indian by Diana Venditti - [211 words]
The Hunted Hunter by Diana Venditti A lttle justice sometimes. [131 words]
The Hand by Diana Venditti Has it happened to you? [76 words]
The Ghost by Diana Venditti Goose bumps. [102 words]
The Frog by Diana Venditti A freaky frog story. [110 words]
The Fire Is Almost Out by Skyler Drevan - [100 words]
The Final Solution by Diana Venditti Never forgotten. [61 words]
The Elevator by Dri Cook Not always friends are supposed to use words to communicate, are they? [199 words]
The Countess Of Storymania by D G Williford Everyone knows. [13 words]
The Cascade Hills by E Rocco Caldwell In Washington State, there is nothing more lovely than the Cascades in the dawn. Another inst... [67 words]
The Bill by Dri Cook To Jim Cook. [69 words]
The Arm-Chair by Dri Cook Even an old chair can hold deep emotions. [75 words]
The Angel by Diana Venditti I believe in angels. [59 words]
Sunday by Diana Venditti - [87 words]
Sunday Snow by Diana Venditti A brief encounter. [85 words]
Street Music by Diana Venditti Sometimes fate does the right thing. [153 words]
Still Image by Nesam Pillay - [151 words]
Spiderman by Jersey Mike Just one night last month. the wife was off to a party. I was contemplating going to a soccer game.... [125 words]
Someone Special by Diana Venditti - [97 words]
Soft Touch by Nesam Pillay First Experience. [18 words]
Small World by Skyler Drevan - [137 words]
Simba by Diana Venditti Another to my faithfull friend who loves Africa. [67 words]
She Lays Dreaming by Joe Newton I am new here, I just write what I feel,hope it is not too boring. [63 words]
Shadow by Inchara Creepy shadow. [92 words]
Seven Months by Nesam Pillay - [47 words]
Sentinels Of Time by Diana Venditti A yearning to return. [91 words]
Sent To Heaven by Victoria Taginod Tangan A poem for a friend who's so dear, who died without saying a sweet goodbye.... [115 words]
Seduced by Amber A Whitman A slightly more sexy poem than I usually write. [89 words]
Scorching Sun by Victoria Paul - [283 words]
Satisfaction Guaranteed: Refundexchange by Skyler Drevan - [70 words]
Reminisce by Amber A Whitman - [45 words]
Red Rose by Diana Venditti - [58 words]
Red Lights by Jersey Mike Out my window, about a half mile away is a tall antenna with red lights. [52 words]
Plunge by Skyler Drevan This is one of my final seven submissions to this site for a while. [173 words]
Pain Is My Friend by David Con A man realizes with depressing clarity that pain is his closest companion. [52 words]
Out Of Nowhere by Diana Venditti - [154 words]
Noble Loss by Kellie Barqs One young woman's ramblings of whether what she did was noble or just retarded. [144 words]
My Poems by Jersey Mike Where they come from! [48 words]
My Cat by E Rocco Caldwell What exactly is a habit any ways? [135 words]
Monday Again by Diana Venditti I hate mondays. [127 words]
Missing Him by Nesam Pillay - [32 words]
Miss Winterbottom by Diana Venditti This was made into a song. [133 words]
Melody Of Praise by Victoria Taginod Tangan A poem that shows how positive we had to think of the blessings we receive, that among anybody... [104 words]
Man And A Tree by D G Williford What happens in a relationship when a man tries to contain a woman and not let her be herself. [215 words]
Luvin You by Megan Quesenberry This is for David... [75 words]
Love On A Rainy Afternoon by Diana Venditti Long live rainy afternoons. [81 words]
Love Ended A Long Time Past by E Rocco Caldwell Another poem in my series of the usage of sunlight [97 words]
Lost In Me by Adam Wieland - [182 words]
Looks Like Rain by Diana Venditti Well got to laugh sometimes. [100 words]
Looks Like Rain Part 2 by Diana Venditti Come on in now ya hear! [104 words]
Let Me Be A Woman by Dri Cook "My darling, I am yours, and you desire me..." - Song of songs. Thought about this one as a s... [95 words]
Ladies And Gentlemen Your Comments Please by Diana Venditti We all need feed back. [134 words]
Kissed By An Angel. by David Baker - [166 words]
Just Sunday by Jersey Mike Thinking about what really happens on this holy day. [53 words]
Just Me And Giov And The Olive Grove by Diana Venditti - [77 words]
Just A Feeling by Jannah Akira Imagine yourself as a feeling. [68 words]
Isn't It Strange? by Skyler Drevan - [24 words]
Is It True by Diana Venditti Words that disturb sleep. [98 words]
Ihy by Diana Venditti Magic and myth. [85 words]
If I Could Do It Again by Skyler Drevan Regret. [96 words]
I Should Have Known by Dri Cook I'm back! Had to give my brain a rest for so much work. I wrote this one from a male perspe... [151 words]
I Fall by David Baker Falling in love..... [59 words]
I Cry by David Baker Crying lol..... hard to explain. first poem I ever wrote so yeh.....lol. [66 words]
I Am by Dri Cook I love to be what I have become and still working on it. Thanks to the great I AM [73 words]
How Can One Start Writing A Poem?? by Shiladitya Sengupta - [142 words]
He's Done It Again by Diana Venditti - [49 words]
Here's To You All by Diana Venditti A little ditty to you all. [94 words]
Hell Riders by Diana Venditti In the night they come. [93 words]
Hatshepsut by Diana Venditti Attempted assassination of a queen. [147 words]
Hanging With Jack Day by E Rocco Caldwell Jack Day was a friend of mine who shot himself one afternoon....at times I think of him. [182 words]
Hallowed Ground by Diana Venditti Beware when you walk in a graveyard after midnight. [103 words]
Haiku by Inchara It is a collection of Haikus. [46 words]
Go West Young Man Part 1 by Diana Venditti A new kind of poem would like your opinion to say if it works. [165 words]
Getting To Know Me by Diana Venditti For all my new friends. [201 words]
Gaurdian Angel. by David Baker - [83 words]
Friday Again by Diana Venditti A magic moment. [59 words]
Freedom Riders Of 1966 by E Rocco Caldwell After a rally in a southern town in 1966 four SNCC kids are heading back to Vermont. [83 words]
Forever Mystery by Skyler Drevan - [136 words]
For England And King Harry by Diana Venditti - [158 words]
Fifteen Friends And A House On The Hill by Diana Venditti Paradise found. [207 words]
Fear At It's Worst. by David Baker Fear of life and loosing a loved one in hospital. [64 words]
Falling Again by Dri Cook He melts my heart, charms me, how could I resist? I bet you too would fall for him. [153 words]
Fairy Tale by Victoria Taginod Tangan The love had found only by chance, so accidental that it will make you realize that you are falling ... [146 words]
Every Step Of The Way by Megan Quesenberry This is a poem I wrote for my bestfriend Ciara the day that her and her boyfriend broke u... [109 words]
Eulogy For Superman by Anthony S Maulucci A tribute to Christopher Reeve. [60 words]
Eternity by Dri Cook Are you ready for it? [91 words]
Engagement by Inchara This is about the engagement ceremony of one of my friend. [63 words]
Endless Slumber by Ari Bush - [54 words]
Enchanting Journey by Inchara Its about life and its perplexity. [71 words]
Don't Know by L A Walters How I feel. [37 words]
Diamond Dreams by Amber A Whitman A fantasy poem. [31 words]
Demons Gods And Heros by Diana Venditti - [73 words]
Death Of A Godking by Diana Venditti - [142 words]
Daughter Of The Sun by Diana Venditti - [175 words]
Dancing In The Dark by Dri Cook I grew up under the beat of his music. A tribute to someone who has always been part of my ... [305 words]
Congo Stopover by Diana Venditti A true story. [134 words]
Collapse by Hayley Burdett - [61 words]
Cold by Nesam Pillay - [160 words]
Cheek To Cheek by Dri Cook One of those moments of heavenly insanity. [68 words]
Changing Lanes by L A Walters - [52 words]
Cameo Of My Psyche. A Collection
Bottled Up Inside by David Baker Amounts of mixed feelings all trying to come out at once..... [244 words]
Bonny by Diana Venditti A dedication to a dear friend. [114 words]
Black Night by Adam Wieland - [64 words]
Beauty Without The Beast by Dri Cook The battles are supposed to lift our spirit. Let the beast go and if it's meant to com... [96 words]
Bath Time by G N Nothing can refresh the mind or soul like a hot bath. [127 words]
Autonomía. (Poema Que Nunca Verá La Luz) by Martin De Leon - [50 words]
Attila by Diana Venditti - [78 words]
Asphyxiate by Skyler Drevan - [169 words]
Asleep by Skyler Drevan - [170 words]
As It Is by Jersey Mike Started this last autumn in Turkey while watching TV in Oludeniz in the hotel. Finished it several mo... [187 words]
April 31st - Belgium by Jersey Mike One written back a few years ago on april 31st. it was a very stormy night that refused t... [146 words]
Another Routine Day by Dri Cook A boring and dull routine day can also become special. It all depends on the way we look at... [141 words]
An End To Her Missery by Melissa Milonopoulos - [57 words]
About A Girl. by David Baker A girl I recently met, although I've only known her for little time I'm soo happy each time im wi... [83 words]
A War Somewhere by Diana Venditti Will man ever learn. [158 words]
A War Of Wills by Diana Venditti - [81 words]
A Walk By The Ocean by Dri Cook Again, the SHE part is my unconscious and it talks about our interaction and the healing pr... [160 words]
A Sparrow Falls by Diana Venditti For hostages killed in Irak. [79 words]
A Search For Words by Diana Venditti - [57 words]
A Random Sample Of Senryu by Higgins A cross section of Senryu poems. [152 words]
A Perfect Affair by Diana Venditti Eat your heart out. [94 words]
A New Feeling by Diana Venditti Sometimes we have to find the courage to walk away. [170 words]
A Great Many Words by Penkup Family Tries to picture in its entirety, the great depth of a mother's love...Dedicated to mother. [114 words]
A Fight Against Time by Diana Venditti Based on a true event in south africa, No.1 shaft western holding, welcome orange free sta... [152 words]
A Fairy Tale by Diana Venditti For all of you with children. [105 words]

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TITLE (EDIT)
Cameo Of My Psyche. A Collection
DESCRIPTION
Says exectly what it is in the tittle.
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TITLE KEYWORD
Popular Fiction
AUTHOR
Ulysses Hero
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Can I be like batman, don a mask and wear underpants on the outside of my trousers? Can I hide behind a nom de plume and write of childish things?
[September 2002]
AUTHOR'S E-MAIL ADDRESS
ukhero@btopenworld.com
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (12)
At The Bus Stop (Poetry) Still working on this but would like some early feedback. I'm not too sure if I've captured the scene correctly? [425 words] [Romance]
Before 6 (Poetry) Long before I could spell the word innocence. [129 words] [Literary Fiction]
Blink (Poetry) A snipet of life through a childs eyes. [149 words]
Comic (Poetry) Light hearted poetry. [187 words] [Humor]
Devolution. The Box (Poetry) Poetry should never be described, it needs to be read and enjoyed for what it is. I will say, my own poetry swings towards surrealism. Enough said. [247 words] [Literary Fiction]
Fin (Poetry) Parting is such sweet sorrow.- Shakespeare Parting is like a chinese a meal: sweet for some, sour for others. - Ulysses Hero [142 words]
Hammock (Poetry) For all you writers who scribe away on hot summers day: a dreamy submission for the tired of hand. [32 words]
If Dali Wrote Poetry: (Poetry) Odd and totally bizarre. Yes, that's what it's meant to be. [180 words] [Art]
My Parents Have The Mania (Poetry) A little light Humor. [177 words] [Humor]
On A Napkin At Rialto's (Poetry) Surreal writing. To explain is to say too much. [96 words] [Relationships]
Reverso (Poetry) Doesn't need one. [114 words]
Satirical Lyrical - Contemporary Poetry (Poetry) - [121 words] [Literary Fiction]
Cameo Of My Psyche. A Collection
Ulysses Hero



Cameo of my psyche. A Collection


As you love it


All the world's a siege,
and all the men and women merely warriors;
they have their hopes and their defences,
and one man in his time wounds many hearts...


Before I write
The first act is a little odd,
simply put, I unscrew my head,
hold it tight under the crutch of an arm,

and with a free hand, preferably clean,
pull out the tulips and daffodils
to plant the seeds of surrealism.

I then place the house on mute.
It is important to note
that I don't actually press a button-

to leave the pendulum in mid swing
or the dog, jaws open, in the throes of a bark,
its just a figure of speech.

But sometimes the topic,
that little something I'd been thinking of,
mulls about in a trough

in a far quarter of my brain
before it waves farewell,
retires to a quaint cottage in Nova Scotia

where its midnight
and fog rules the land with a shadowed fist.
And so to the theme, the idea,

the vary nature of the poem
is largely forgotten,
lost, misplaced.

But to anyone who enters
that silence of the room
before I'm ready, vague, uncomposed,

the image of a headless man,
knee deep in the petals of spring flowers,
will forever remain.


Sausages

The strangest oddity
about sausages
is:
they may sound great
in the hot swirl of a pan,
but in the cold waters of a verse
they're lousy.

A Blooming Thorn

Where are my flowers?
Where are the roses? The peonies? The daffodils?

Where are all the niceties of life which you so passionately embellished?
All you offer is a sweet kernel of a poem, a half nurtured rendition of love.
And your meagre explanation -an arrow to the butt of my heart-
that it will grow in an anthologies garden,
a little thumbed plot in the middle of a book,
sadly, it must be said, this does not our relationship make...

We haven't made love for a week!
Other people make love every night!

Why don't we make love every night?
Why do I get the feeling that I'm a door and you the bolt?
My feelings are open and you hold yours back!
So what are you going to do about it?
Its late. Put down your pen and snuff out the light.
Have you bolted the door? Fed the cat?
Are you sure? Check the door again.
And what did you mean, when you said,

        'Even the blind will see them.
         The diligent trace of a finger
         moving over the soft wind of a page
         to reel back, for a wary moment,
        on the first prick of a scorn.'

Ha, ha! I get it. You write of me.
I am the thorn, the hole in the bucket.
But I see no sense in your work!
It does not mow the lawn of modern literature;
it does not paint a fence, a- bold - white - picket fence
around the structured grounds of your poem;
it entices the sundry reader, that casual slipper of an arcane society,
to trample on your well manicured lawn;
it's neither a wild orchid to the trailered lapel of critics,
nor is it a vivid carnation to the buttonhole of a passing mind.

Don't look so glum! You can write again_ perhaps next week.
Is the window open? Are you sure? Check it!
And did I tell you Mrs Morrovitch has a new suite?
And did I tell you *D.F.S. has a sale? 
...I'm tired, the heady stream of the day has been
a flash flood to my head_,
so leave your verse, its budding rhyme,
in the notebooks shallow fields,
and by the way_, we need to be there for nine.


* DFS is a major store in the UK for suites and room accessories.


Confucius say

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Unless, of course, there's a lawyer involved
and then it becomes a Chinese meal:
sweet for some, sour for others.


The Planetarium.
Of gravity and other things


Bubbles rise!
And so does smoke!

We congregated in the science room.
A gathering of infants.
Young minds waiting to be expanded.

The science man spoke with big words:
inertia, relativity, Einstein.
He seemed not to know what it was
only how it operates!
As it had yet to be proved, he said,
beyond mathematical doubt.

Even so, he filled our minds
with the heaviest of explanations
about gravity and other things,
how to earth all things come, whether an apple,
a meteor,  an object tossed from the hand;
and he demonstrated with marbles.

He mentioned a resistance to it all,
a growing velocity that can be calculated,
and I asked him, 'these upsurges,
these none believers to the gravity thing,
did they use computers or an abacus?'

He was not amused, his face contorted
as if weighed by infantile views.


Recipe for war

Take one middle range country,
preferably hot,
and marinate in oil for a million years.
 
As for spice: add a despot.

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