~Wisps~

Poetry by Daniel F Mitchell

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Contents

I. Prodigy

Golden Morning
The Breath of God
I am the Sky
Fly
Sage Minstrel
Subjects of the Pond
Surprise at a Lake
Builder
Angels in Green
Poem from an Elm Branch
March
April Showers
The Colors of a Ray
A June Bug
Dandelion
Robins are Singing
Garden Jester
Feline
A Bird in the Hand
Wish on a Starfish
arizona rope
Heart of Wood
Morning Has Broken in Idaho
Closed for the Season
Those Winds
Feathered Fairies of Midnight
On a Magical Night
Winter’s Hand
Teeth of Winter
Diamonds
Lady Winter
Marauder
Goblin
Denizens
Meadow at Midnight
Among the Thronging Flowers

A Lasting Mark
Stirrings
Facets
My Task Master’s Beckoning
No Market
Dangling Phrase
Pencil Marks Only
Shy One
Ventriloquist
Clear Confusion
Euphemism
Grammar
Doggerel
What Was That Word?
Moon
For Whom It Shines
Compulsive Wisdom
A Note on Linguistics
On The Tip of My Tongue
A Word of Advice
Ah, Shut Your Damn Poetry!
Originality
Peering Into Ginsberg’s Toilet
Perhaps
3000 AD
Student
A Poet’s Prayer
I Am Your Muse
Bard Erratic
Lingering
As Ye Elizabethans
The Words of My Heart
Verse in an Old Man’s Notebook
In My Words
Poets
Singer

Clover Ring
Roma
Mona Lisa
I Have Found You
On the Pinnacle of the Afternoon
Time Limit
Thy Spirit’s Effervescence
Reluctance
Nocturnal Butterfly
In the Heart of a Wild Night
The Roll of Rhythmic Rhyme
A Tart
Queen of the Night
The Magic Cave
Helen’s Valley
Cease Not This Exalting Fire
Wild Flower
Nymph
Can You Take Me Higher?
One Last Taste of Fire
Specter
Am Main
The Light of Your Presence
I Will Remember You
She Was Young
Just Like You
My Goddess
Portrait

Good Boy
In the School Yard
Comprehension
Sweet Child, Innocence
Haiku
Roses
A Point of Cacti
Mutation
Flower Wilted
Overindulged
Snowflake
Narcissus, Who Loves You?
In the Eye of the Illusion
Toadstool
Mosquito
Sovereignty
Power and Glory
Simple Menu
Let Us Prey
Garden in Disarray
Vegetable
Rosemary
By Way of Confession
Michelangelo’s Child
Finias Cuckold
The One That Got Away
Snake
Smart Pills
The Shallow End of the Pool
In the Genes
Bomb
Good Neighbors
Utility
In a Cozy Hornet’s Nest
Cute Little Scorpion
leaping
Clair
The Vicious Beast
Disfigured
Production
The Other Cheek
Lieutenant Governor Morgan
Pecking Order
In Oklahoma
Night Fire
Kwang Ju
Tinian
Two Boys
Lebanon 1983
The Hundred-Year War
Sophistication
Taking up Cudgels
The Notion
Final Battle
Tired Tiger
In Storage
Longevity
Yea Sayer
Tongue Unleashing
Sizing up the Tooth Fairy
Rhinoceri
Worm’s-eye View
Bad Samaritans
Sincerity
The Pretenders
Mani, I Name You
Mother Shipton’s Prophecy
Blinded By The Light
A Mystery for the Sphinx
Having Believed
Where’s the Resurrection?
Straight Dose
Gathering Perspective
La Brea
A Sage Shall Find
Thy Only Kingdom
Goal
Attrition
Play Time

VII. Comedy

For Amusement
Law of the Jungle
The Most Stones
March of the Stone People
Only So Much Sand
Virus
Hypocrisy
Lord of the Rule
Power Man
Parasite
Web
in your honor
The United Snakes
Ex-president
Legacy
Pigs in Gold
Sing With Pomp And Circumstance
Some Day in Bombay
Twinkle Twinkle
To the Neon Gods
The Root of It
The Ragged Line
Monarch of the Street
The Aroma of Poverty
Entree
Superstar
Poor, Rich, Man
Niggard
Black Bird
Fink
Behind a Dumpster in Baltimore
Cartoon Man
Some Eat to Live
Eat, Piggy, Eat
Thar She Blows
The Empty Can
Bimbo
A Busy Bird
Gossip
Speech Therapy
Mama’s Boy
The Man/Woman
Mummy
A Mean, Old, Witch
Fruit of His Loins
Dead Dinosaurs
Survival
Ship of Fools
The Mud People
The Factory
The Movement
correct me if i’m wrong
White Man Overburdened
Ego Man
Fair-weather Friends
A Shallow Sanctuary
Chameleon
Philanderer
Golliwog Logic
Pessimist
Mystical Magical Men
The Chosen One
Missionary
One On Every Mountain
Order According to Thomas More
A Fool in a Mire
Blanket of Ignorance
Saint Machiavelli
April Fool’s Day
Pride of John Duns Scotus
Idiot School
Academic Aspirations
Paper for Sale
Education
The Death of the Book
Of Asininity
Hear This Harmony
The Song We Sing
Oriental Medicine

VIII. Confusion

A Viking
The Vicissitude of Fate
Tribute
A Page Turned
Along a Street in Incheon
Hillbilly Bill
The Night Janitor
Less Than a Movie
Woo Woo
Sunday School Teacher
Junkyard Man’s Dog
One-Eyed King
Katzenjammer
Dental Tyranny
Witch Grass
Moonshine
Water Witch
Under a Culvert
Go the Spoils
Baptism
A Fairy Tale
Middle Ground
Shades
Newspaper Romance
Slash Burning
Frost on an Art Gallery Window
A Saucy Lass From Malta
Sorry, Bane
City Girl
Water Witch
An Angle
Raising Ned
Hit Man
Badge
Taking Free License
Having Not Understood Five Pages of Shakespeare
The Poet Thief
Guilt While Eating a Pork Chop
Blessing on the Food
Thankless Giving Day
While Eating Tortellini
Happy Weed
Mary Jane
The Cure
The Connection
Fellow on the Sidewalk
Stages
Searching
The Ultimate Question
Supplication
Watcher
Writ of Apocalypse
Paranoid
Mixed Signals
driftwood
Pacific
What Shall You Be?
On Becoming a Golden Statue
Reflection
In the Basement
Intangible
To the Morning Sun
Sage
Form

IX. Shelter

Looking Back on It
Pedigree
Passing an Old House
In a Garage
Mothers
Ogre in the Armchair
Horseshoe-Nail Ring
Cat Lady
Shelter from the Storm
Puppy Street
Fame for a Plain-Jane
Toy Story
In a Pile of Leaves
The Ripening of Delight
Ten Tenets of a Roman’s Meditations
Preston School
Through Preston
Album
Reunion
Witch Spell
Cuckoo Clock
Adventure’s Track
A Broken, Old, Man at the Windowsill
I Believe in Christmas Eve
Vision from My Porch on a Starry September Night

X. Conflict

Just After Dawn
Thinning the Crop
I Did Not Shoot an Albatross
A Watermelon
Self Worth
Wasted Words
Drought Season
Mediocrity
Rebuttal
Sins of Omission
What to Say
Rebel Without a Clue
Be Prepared
Pertaining to Rage
Rage Against the Machine
Retort
Renegade
Run, Monster, Run
Computer Man
Sylvia
Until the Wind Blows Again to Frankfurt
A Mouse in a Mouse Trap
Today
Laborer
Machine
Companion
Fugitive
Toying with Joy
The Heart of my Mind
No Where to Go But Up
Lonely Crow
Pantomime
Warbler on the Wing
From the Top of the Tree
Phoebe
Schism

XI. Price

I Will Make a Snowman
Webster’s Lair
Sweet, Poisonous, Dreams
Bait
Flower
Tread Softly My Heart
Quiet Suffering
Bleeding Heart
Absence
Turtledove
Breath of Heather
Solo
If I Could Melt Your Heart
Somewhere Along the Way
Remnants
The Price
I Don’t See an Easy Way to Get Out of This
Postscript
Parting Seas
She Had to Fly
Will O’Wisp
One Twilight Apparition
I Will Wait for You

XII. Oblivion

Free Falling
Flying High Once More
I’ll Be Hiding Behind a Cloud
I am the Silent One
Into the Arms of Morpheus
On My Bed Sleeping
Life at Twilight
Swiftly Flowing
Off to Find Paradise
Rock
In the Library
Silver Lining
Do You Feel Like I Do?
Pumpkin Patch
To an Unknown Woman
Iron Cross
Pipes Calling
Our Little Life
In the Jubilation of My Zenith
A Snowflake Has Melted in My Eye
Here Before the Cold Hearth, Weary

XIII. Lamentation

In the Beginning
The Initial Thought
Thy Will Be Done
Ugly Monkey
Before I Slip into That Faraway
Beneath Your Eye of Gold
Candles in the Wind
Animal Crackers
Tree of Life
The Way and the Light
Eye to Eye
Warlord
Pandora’s Box
Death of a Parakeet
Ceaseless Yearning
Milk of My Beginning
Rearing the Paradox
Prophecy
The End of Days
New Year 2000
The Year 2000
Beneath All Things
Must Be Madness
Bring Omnipresence to Me

XIV. Fear

Genesis
Jack-o’-lantern
Bedtime Rhyme
All Hallow’s Eve
Bones
A Ghoul Next Door
Mary
Wishing Ghost
Axeman Bill
Rock-a-bye
Rotting Flesh
About the Headstone
Waiting for the Worms
Shadow Man
Dream Weaver
The One True Word
Calamity

XV. Stumble

Tower
Reckoning
The Waking of the Ghoul
When She Passed
Silver Dreams
Milk of Rilke
The Final Lines
Sandman
The Memoirs of Susan Duncan Clark
The Best of Worlds
Welcome to the Arena
Terah
A Shallow Grave
Earth’s Shadow
For Lorca
Aubrey
Billy
Hunter
Silly, Silly, Me
Rag Doll Clown
Poor Thin Ferris
Funeral for a Crone
Maria
Myung Ji
Alligator Doll
Shattered Purpose
Box
Hand of Justice
Vacuum
The Magic
Broken Soldier
From Where the Sun Stands
Mirage
No Going Back
From the End of the Hall
How Shall I Teach Them Horror?
A Rabbit Prayed
All the World Shall Never Have Been
What’s in Your Head?
Balanced on a Razor Blade

XVI. Fall

Who Cast the Rock?
The Feast
What Were You Thinking?
Allah Smiles Tonight
Funny Man
Inventor
Blasphemy
Halo
storm chief
Own Up
Demons
Vengeance Is Mine
Objection from the Bottom of the Pit
Worm Berries
Therefore
The Bottom Line
Zombie
Volcano
Rape Me
I’m a Train
Montage from a Madman’s Mind
The Leak in the Dam
Dark Side of the Moon
Mother
Go to Sleep, My Little Baby
Siren
Dictate of Oblivion

XVII. Abyss

Last of the 222nd Terrestrial Assault
Battalion
A Land
Shall I Join You?
The Answer
Lights Out
The Chamber of the Spurious Dust
Surprised?
Conclusion
Enter Then, Mystery
The Suicide Society
Tea Time
Term Paper
The Final Cut
The Sarcophagus
Croon
Forever Home
I Must Go Alone to My Bed
Oh, Sleep
I Go, Yet I Stay
May or May Not
My Soul Take
A Minute to Midnight
This Dark Night
Scream of Silence
Home No More
Eternal Romance
Spirits of the Mist
Surrender
Sad and Sleepy Twilight
Until I Sleep
The Struggle
Embarkation
Your Fire
Dry Leaf

XVIII. Redemption

The Measure Of Victory
Protagonist
To A Better Day
Refusal
A Few Steps More
Firmly Rooted
The Writ Of Creation’s Power
Exhortation
Demon Night
Awake
Alive Again
Oath Of Defiance
Stand Your Ground
Hail Caesar
Oh, West-Charging Charioteer
Fabric Of Existence
Star Burned Out
Weep O Stars!
For The Going
Make Joy My Monument
A Man Went Forth
The Final Fence
The Fifth Element
A Plan
Trace Of Passing
What It Comes Down To
Making Peace
Rose For A Nightingale
Gardens Of My Dreams
Cathedral
Visions Of Eternity
Redemption

XIX. Emancipation

Someone Painted Stars
When I Was a Child
Peeking Beneath the Door
Beyond Night
Intangible
Lighthouse
Shine on Yellow Flower
Here, Where a Star and Stream Meet
Stepping Stones
Time and Place
When I Was Hungry
I Dreamt I Walked with Yeats
Didactic Garden
Compost Pile
Sit with Me
Make Me Free
Wasn’t that a Mighty Storm?
Ghost Lights
In a Wisp
Tender Autumn Light
Fire on a Wintry Night
Ghosts Array
Open the Curtain
Ship Overladen
Measuring Up
Consolation
The Sum
From the Lost Dead
Where is the Pine Bow?
Here, We Passed
Paradise Bird
Afternoon Shower
Transformation
Kindred Light
Tranquility
When I am God
Spanning the Gap
Measuring the Gain
Pressed Rose
A Blending of Souls
The Trick is to Eat Lotus
The End of Your Choice
This Is a Gift
Here Is Your Canvas

XX. Reconciliation

Out of the Fire
Across a Field of Clover Running
This Day’s Refrain
That Pact
To the Victor
Live for the Day
A Wish
Spring Side
Elusive Taste
The Wind Is Good for a Soul
The Spring of Our Origin
Under November Clouds
Given a Will to Rake
Pluck
Miner
Here Is a Dream to Dream
I Don’t Want to Wait
Today as Forever
Ahoy!
Furious, Headlong, Beast
Depiction
Train Departed
Here and There
To Show You Me
Embodiment of Perfection
A Friend True
Cassandra
I Long to Abide Forever There
I Passed a Garden
Good-Bye, Lady Sunset
To You, When You Are Old
Across a Million Miles of Heaven
The Edge of My Divination
One Last Deed
Say That It Was Not in Vain
Wisps
Assessment

© Copyright 2000 by Daniel F Mitchell

Published by Gray Matter Press Athens, Georgia


ISBN: 0-935931-78-3

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