and their cries echoed with the ringing bells as christmas crested on the chilly breeze heated words hung with odious timbre boiling over like spiced wine ‘pon a flame just as potent yet not so fragrant nor as sweet as black liquorice and peppercorn christmas spirits lacking complexity mulled with bitter words dripping acidic as…
The Word Exchange – A Blank Verse Poem
so many words are wasted in a day exhausted in tedious dialogue haphazardly inserted in emails frivolously texted without a thought lavishly painted purple in our prose pretentiously spouted in poetry repetitively belted out in song meandering in legato fashion excruciating staccato pacing exchanging words without a second thought ringing hollow like a dead tree…
Do You Feel a Bit Peckish?
within a derelict detachment of thought a morbid curiosity expands shrinking the image of concubine earth eliminating hunger of satisfaction thirsting lust in this dripping heat
Thank You Everyone!
I’d like to take a moment to show appreciation for everyone who took time to view my blog and follow me this past year. This has been a prolific period for Piecework Prose and it has seen exponential growth in that time. Two books were self-published (Calling Forth, In the Midst of Crisis) with an…
Hard Sell – A Haiku
moment of your time have i got a deal for you you can’t pass this up
A Convolution of Thoughts on Parents
i must be claiming the minority knowledge for all the people i meet wisdom respect their parents despite understanding their flaws they’ve no right their abuse to claim their foolishness and the older i get it’s difficult to relate the more sure to this approach as i become it seems to me many parents are…
Black Birds on the Line – A Haiku
blackbirds on the line muggy august afternoon smoke blood and wreckage
Avaricious Flame – A Haiku
avaricious flame nipping at the falling rain a kiss from my love
Bleak Ocean Sighing – A Haiku
bleak ocean sighing ships amid the breaking waves starless night adrift