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A Familiar Stranger

A Poem by Red Brick Keshner

A barely audible creak greeted meAs I entered this still unfamiliar place.His figure approached, step by step, slowly,Aged and wizened, his steps mark..

no longer spectral, Brontë's shall remain

A Poem by Red Brick Keshner

In London’s quiet Poets’ Corner stands,A stone of memories, carved by gentle hands.Eighty-five years since its first debut,Yet names were ..

A Rare Edition

A Poem by Red Brick Keshner

In Kilmarnock's print, a treasure lies,A first edition, where history sighs,From eighteen eighty-six, its verses flow,Robert Burns’ heart, in di..

be-lightedly

A Poem by Red Brick Keshner

being an unlit candlean unlit match stickwill surely not sufficeneither the twain shall meetunless you strike onethe other remains andunless the lit s..

Being an NPC in their story

A Poem by Red Brick Keshner

*npc: non-playing character

verse on a hill

A Poem by Red Brick Keshner

A known quantity bereft of quality;a name of little beyond its letters,by road’s shoulder perhaps guideto openly weep a slippery slopeof once ha..

dream slices

A Poem by Red Brick Keshner

once nimble fingersgrasp at lithe reedsas they slip and dancein a breeze’s lullabyever present companionsas days turn into nights

look out tomorrow

A Poem by Red Brick Keshner

The letterbox is usually emptyWhat with the P.O. Box andsocial media, emails, SMSall so many differing waysto keep ourselves in touch.But this day&rsq..

by fiction of pen

A Poem by Red Brick Keshner

there be legal entities by fiction of law and there too literary entities by fiction of pen

mail carrier’s bill

A Poem by Red Brick Keshner

leeward of a lean-to hilliambic cadence thrillamber flecked lemonademorsels don pleated frillbring on tend’rest brocadewhile at windward dalewiz..