The Bard’s Prologue
When the Miller had finished up his tale, And everything which was to be was told, All around laughed, both the young and the old....
The Ballad of the Unwilling Pork
Another world hosted a farm A farm like all others. This farm was run by one old John And all his twelve brothers. This farm was not Old...
Canterbury Tales: Knights Tale; a Ballad Summary
My story now shalt thou hear quick; I have been asked by you To tell my share that is due first, So hear a tale full true. I would not...
The Fall of a Star
An adaptation of a Mafia night narration. A short story you now shall hear, A tragedy to tell. A tale I’ve seen, ending quite sad And you...
God of Horizons
You are blue meeting blue in unbroken symmetry. You are in the highways and high places. How come? How can it be? It’s you in the dirt...
Age
Will I ever grow up? It's so far away. Right now, the wind blows Full in my face. It doesn't chill my bones, or make me shake. I run...
Jubilee
We take hiatuses from things when our emotional landscape becomes parched. Social media, dessert, and television all get purged when we...
The Poker Game
They gathered round the table so Three men with cards in hand 'Twas the weekly poker game night 'Twas what they always planned. An...
Glassblowing
So we are not steel. We burn easily. Our outer layers peel, melt into our unexpected meant-to-bes – it is, indeed, always unexpected to...
Clementine Poem
I miss the clementine days: bright and light and little. No pain in peeling, no struggle in segmenting each separate slice of life. Those...
Apology and Plea For The New Year
We've lived with shame, with guilt, with fear. We've spurned the God who holds us dear. How stained and tainted is the year which now...
Justice
Who judges justice? How can one man do For fellow man due diligence? And who Has confidence in his sinful decisions? What mortal lives...