Tankas

MENDACITY There is no such thing As an honest person… for Everybody Is at some point dishonest… Especially to themselves. LIFE CAN BE TOUGH Being tough is to Be prepared for hardship… there Is never an end To Hardship… and there Is no limit to...

Syllabics

HARD LESSONS Experience gives Us the hardest lessons… but The hardest lessons Give the easiest options. SEARCHING I look not to things Which I can achieve… Rather… I look for those things Which I can’t achieve… And I’m still looking… CONSEQUENCES Soldiers fight…...

I AM NOT AFRAID

Noli temeram… nihil timeam… I am not afraid… I fear nothing… I do not dwell within the realm of Fear… Dread has relinquished its dominion unto me. Disquiet’s trespass has no lordship of my soul… Nor I am in the servitude of Terror. I am not afflicted by perfidious...

MISUNDERSTOOD

I thought once you had asked me ‘Please… Help rid my body of these fleas. These bites are driving me insane… I do not want to ask again.’ I did not help you, for instead… Your voice was just inside your head I thought once you had asked me ‘Please… Help end all...

Haiku/Syllabic poems

LIFE’S CYCLE Death and revival… Autumn’s falling leaves exalt The budding in spring. Kevin M Welsh 2015 AN INNOCENT VICTIM When war is at hand… Conscience is the first victim Of early onslaught. Kevin M Welsh 2015 R.I.P Inter my body In this cold earth… and I will...