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a doleful daughter's rememberance

A Poem by J. Randall Dodd

my mother spent many nights weaving strings of colored silk into my hair that glint of streaked silver and braided bronze and the beads or the ..

a lady and her lover

A Poem by J. Randall Dodd

pray and peer inside the depths of my darkness, the coldest grey and chill of night beneath this stone slab in this act, find warmt..

kennedy echoes

A Poem by J. Randall Dodd

beneath the printbehind the plotbeyond the tears and the back-room cheersan echo--my echoi was herei am deadeverything has changed

a two thirty-two showing

A Poem by J. Randall Dodd

I often wish for days gone past when seconds held no sway when the concepts of time went undiscovered the struggle tween moments w..

Nocturne I

A Poem by J. Randall Dodd

Look deep into the evening pool of silence the distilled quiet of reflections forget and forget the forgettingbeingnot the supposition of being

scriptor ignotus

A Poem by J. Randall Dodd

mottled scribbles, chaotic symbols i placed upon this blank page;in these you will not find the essence of this poem's message--the truer meaning is h..

a kiss

A Poem by J. Randall Dodd

o a kiss! a kiss so rough and tender-less! so wet, so searing, so sweet that it turns my stomach with burn'd desire. take your temptre..

unrequit'd love

A Poem by J. Randall Dodd

you hang your head heavy and weep for someone, something not deserving. ragg’d look upon you, tired tears streaming the creases o..

my beard grows lengthy 'neath these waves

A Poem by J. Randall Dodd

my beard grows lengthy 'neath these waves of north atlantic deep. it's been far too long since i felt the cool razor slide from stem..

felo-de-se(1)

A Poem by J. Randall Dodd

as a sorrowful sun sinks into the surrounding countryside, and turns its e'er watchful eye from this church bell-tower; gloom adva..