Poems
by Terry
Brinkman
Ghastly Plateaus Gruffly
Sheep-herders snore in sleeping straw
Laughed merrily straddling straw’s crack
Wooden shutters gruffly clack
Ghastly plateaus pine guffaws
Rock and Cactus desert See-Saw
Rocky wet hay stack
Slope of sage methadone Zodiac
Gracefully sleeping healthful Awe
Zig-Zag over the Moon lightning flash
Star shadows embedded her face
Others poignancy the bitter trash
Scare-Crow’s her hauntingly embrace
Silent red articulated cheeks rash
Vague remorse after midnight grace
Para Nymph
Odoriferous flambeaus begin rising
Para Nymph quadrupedal lasting pitfall
Life slowly ran very drawl
Moon and Sun harmonizing
Bitter-milk in coffee scrutinizing
Minot atrocities crawl
Sub-solar Crystal Rainbow water-fall
Egypt’s meeting in Grece compromising
Long-straight sunset Budapest
Coffee-House Hospital Nurse
Cavity of mountain’s Gold-Mine suggest
Old Croaks Stocking Purse
Black Deaths infests
Topsy-Turvy driving Hearse
NoHo daddy’s request manifest
Natura-light phenomenon universe
Lost Bruins Hat
Houseboat camping on water
Lock to Lock, North to South
Tuff chair from the midland bogs
Lost Bruins cap, stone cutters’ Granite-yard
Sleeping on the curb-stone old tramp
Dumping dirt and stones, from her high boots
Found guilty, only circumstantial
Unwedded garden, unpainted, gloomy house
Wrongfully condemned, her outrage
Curbstone requiem’s funeral
They still love reading about last-night
Red Labeled Tim Gin
Wedded life to enter open door or not too
Chalk scrolled to-do list in my room
Alabaster White Bride and Fair Groom
Minister’s Toad’s belly Kazoo
Father’s in-law too well-to-do
Wedding just after Eclipse at noon
Honeymoon’s ride at Lagoon
Red labeled Tin-Gin cash bar taboo
Temporary insanity home study course
Dance, endless punch drunk
A burr in the mane of a horse
Long-legged cotton stockings Monk
Live like the devil before the divorce
Next morning, sleeping Skunk
Snot Green Fishing
Ivory Bear-River Duck
Blue-Pigeon house
Yellow, gossoon spouse
Happy hunger Pink-Potluck
Snot green Fishing Truck
Steely-Silver sea’s mad-house
CACI Sabastian chasing mouse
Deep-Blue Velvet Buck
Green minded drunk
Toil rusted Pickax
Clear-Wine dark Monk
Snow-White skiing Wasatch backs
Blue Gun-Powder cigarettes spunk
Coco steams of coffee, relax
Coen Earnestly
Five Gunnies bet by a Ghost King on an Ace
Bells toll slowly as ghost woman exhales Acre
Coen earnestly dachshund Cemetery baker
I once was in the final days employed playing Base
She is bearing missing leg Knee Brace
Bottle of Sherry wakes’ Heart-Breaker
Burial docket prays for the maker
Cat and mouse Cathal cheese chase
Dear Devil Salmon leap actual
Icky lackey mickey sticky Wolfman Actor
Fate worst broken bone serine slips contractual
Gazelles leaping Cedar Trees factor
Rose draws apart stems shame factual
Toren and bloody corduroy overalls under the tractor
Oyster Eyes
Waiting until after midnight to write
Love that kills ghost women kissing men
She will haunt you until you can’t lift your pen
Cemetery gates glimmer in a still night
Putrefied graves Red-Moon-Light
Evening dancing on the bowling Green-Ten
Gravely oaths affidavits until then
Cold fowl cigars to smoke at starlight
Until Maggot bites wake us in vain
Lilla tree dang side of laughter
Clapped carrying her torn sleeves insane
Rooted dislike of that drowned rafter
Oyster eyes sappy head profane
Sub-normal adhockery thereafter
First Embraced
Greyed drinking Stratford Goddess Cider
Moon-Light hot white explicable wide
Picking Peppers Piper is back with a Ghost-Bride
Kids tumble through a cornfield bailor glider
Found between the Catcher and the Rye outsider
Home Roses cemetery unveiled dyed
Fire-Flies in the face of best friends’ burial fireside
Sixty-seven years after the final decider
First embraced last embraced still chill
Sheeted mirror candles after midnight view willing
Bronze Azul Eyes under the Daffodils
Old fellow pee push pull chilling
Carping voice cried like a singing Whippoorwill
Shashlik Sweeney’s moustache wax thrilling
Valentines Day Dinner
Signage Above Register Two
We trust in God all others pay Cash
No Cell-Phone usage allowed
Saloon’s Chalk scrolled list also in my room
Alabaster Cake topped Bride and Groom
Minister’s walk a Toad’s belly Kazoo
My Father’s in-law La-De-Da well-to-do
Tomorrows wedding too close to noon
Honeymoon Eclipse on the moon
New Orleans Gin taboo
Temporary signs insanity course
Closed eyes an endless pint drunk
Rented sofa burr in the mane of a horse
Long winded Monk
We all drink like the devil until hoarse
Next morning in bed with a sleeping Skunk
Motley Ocean
Shattered backboard glass Basketball toss
Nightfall Wooden-Shoe’s Dutch
Hobbling with the shadows of her touch
England to France Chenglei cross
Motley Ocean’s morning gloss
Hypostasis tickled her in as much
Medieval roes cry as such
Ousting masonry covered in moss
Lace fringed cut from her toast
Stranger ads scorch
Faintly sent of pine boat to boast
Cold English morning tea on the porch
Spiritual conditional lost ghost
Weak wasting dim lit torch
Green Lawns
Medium in the ghost magnifier
Did she did not adopt
Water-Lily dinking bottle copped
Tearless domestic bogus statement required
Lonely men surroundings to change her Tire
Bike path loop railway flipped flopped
Azul house blind lady who mopped
Green lawns renewed what was to transpire
Mumbles incoherently loosened affection
Without looking up from her he answered Page
Indecent uproar and cat calls bisection
Pharaoh Prima levity Bear Garden Cage
Especial atavism lobber’s weak unction
Hotly popular love-hand fight rampage
Wedded
Wedded life to enter or not too; Saloon’s Chalk scrolled list in my wife’s to be sleeping pod Alabaster Dark Bride and Fair Groom Minister’s talking to his mum; a Toad’s belly Kazoo. The Father’s in-law one of those well-to-do; wedding will be too close to noon; Honeymoon will be on the moon. Wedding guest Red Labeled Gin cash bar should be taboo. Temporary insanity day of course. Dance with a left-handed endless pint drunk dancing like a burr, in the mane of a horse. Mrs.’s long-legged silk stockings left on the kitchen floor. Monk We all drink like the devil before the day after; The next morning limp as a sleeping Skunk. Gun-whale of her dad’s boat stuck in the mud after the wedding last fall. New wife allowed his bowels to a Seith without compromising; Not smelling fresh rag paper from Budapest Honeymoon still a darkness in the brightness of the shadow laying over her. Purse Bristles shining wirily infester hat was left on the floor of the Hearse
Under the Window
Eager anticipation morning rising
Solemnities ironical hearts pitfall
Hymns to heavenly drawl
Murmuring waterfall harmonizing
Unmentionables odor scrutinizing
Her shadows morning philosophical crawl
Boat stuck in the muck last fall
Allowed bowels to ease without compromising
Snow nearing steeple still rising
Love’s intellect’s pitfall
Soul’s shamed by Mary’s drawl
Midnight ash harmonizing
Shadow lay over moon scrutinizing
Stench of foul flower compromising
Crossed legged smoking a coiled pipe in Bud-Pub
Sachs quash missing link
Vaster sapient quirk
May’s Moon yen
Wooden Shutters
Sheep-herders all breeds sleeping on straw
Laughed cried stranded in her Cadillac
Wooden shutters rude gruffly clack
Ghastly plateaus pine covered guffaws
Ridding Rock and Cactus See-Saw
Rocky ramparts climbing wet hay stack
Slope of sage methadone nightly Zodiac
Gracefully sleeping in healthful Awe
Blinding Zig-Zag of midnight lightning flash
Star thrown shadows of night on her face
Others poignancy bitter recycled trash
Memories hauntingly sweet embrace
Silent scaled chicken’s cheeks rash
Vague remorse smile grace
Lace Fringed
Shattered glass covered in moss to toss
Her nightfall hand torch too hot to touch
Hobbling the shadows of nightcrawlers Dutch
England to France she swims to and throw across
Looking far and near back-and-forth Motley Ocean’s gloss
Hypostasis tickled her brains so in as much
Medieval Roses ads roes to such
Toppling masonry not yet fallen covered in moss
Lace fringed of her breast to toast
Stranger rites scorch
Faintly sent of dried urine to boast
Misty English morning Crumpets and Tea on the porch
Spiritual conditional of her deceased ghost
Weak wasting hands left holding the torch
Sundering Bloom
Shadows snowing falling midnight hanging over paradox que
Well warm pub exit of misunderstood drunk young
Stacie task bee won’t leave me unsung
Night by night recluse unweave the curfew
Tearless eyes glinting wrinkled Nehru
Pub Mistress weaves ghost stories strung
Gaius in the Fish-Market sprung
Shadow Fireworks hell of a view
Heart-Attic of man sundering bloom
Bottom of Champane-Flute red cone capped worm
Cypher jugglers Granite High apocrypha broom
Lost again Dublin High Road confirm
An after life musing flume
Undramatic lonely monologues’ princely term
Grecian Vice
Unshed tears hung over New-Years mug of cider
Touch forehead lightly with two index fingers wide
Recluse cat box sand sifter bride
Grecian vice genius gender glider
Awful clever cat door insider
Speaker last night grand old tongue died
Loneliest time doing clever sketches fireside
Correspondence nook-shortens French decider
Girl left outside in a chill
Earthquake cookies willing
Tear-favored cry of Daffodils
London bedchambers chilling
War-wick-shine passionate whippoorwill
Blame she speech less thrilling
Sand Slowly Stacks
Wearing Opal Ball-Dress to the Sky Bar
Elbow length ivory gloves my glory
Tortoise shell telescope dormitory
Objectionable Big Dipper playing guitar
Her drive to the moon and back in his car
Swelling claves Blue Horizon Observatory
Dug her spurs in telegraphing Sky Story
Light of uncondensed Milky Way Stars
Fellow Cat-o-nine-tails squeaky cat door
Arcturus equinoxes discernible Wine Glass
Unbuttoned Scorpio gauntlet left on floor
Falling-Star wish for Christmas
Chastise Meteor-Ridding sore
Sand slowly stacking Hourglass
