Poetry Catalog

Instrumental in dripping torturous echoes of my mindI feel the wax begin to melt beneath my feetAnd all in all the purest darkest vision I could findWas viewing there the world as so much meat An abattoir of friends and faces arching with desireTowards the very blackened heart they'd ever knowBut who am I to turn away those souls destined for fire?And who are they to think … [Read more...] about So Much Meat, By: Paul White

Daring a footfall through this portal it was exhausting sweeping up the remnants of hubris from under the carpet left behind in my think tank’s truancy. It’s all clambering hands on deck I can’t keep all the recollections. Still, like memory foam melancholy and folly impressions remain, when they’re gone do I become immortal? This consciousness I have was never mine to … [Read more...] about The Long Way Home, By: Phillip Jordan

"How disappeared he?" Ask the newt and toad;Ask of his fellow-men, and they will tellHow he was found, cold as an icicle,Under an arch of that forlorn abode;Where he, unpropped, and by the gathering floodOf years hemmed round, had dwelt, prepared to tryPrivation's worst extremities, and dieWith no one near save the omnipresent God.Verily so to live was an awful choiceA choice … [Read more...] about The Brownie, By: William Wordsworth

I once worked for a feller, a gent who I liked really wellThe pay was good, the comp'ny too, the job fit perty swellBut he had this ole' red healer, a mangy cur named JoeAnd 'fore too long this much I knew: one of us had to go It was my first day in the outfit, and we was fixin' fenceWhen I had me my first skirmish, I wadn't left in suspenseI was sent to fetch the … [Read more...] about The Battle For Rainey-Crick Ranch, By: Patrick Davis