Robert Charles Howard Poems

A shivering ball of fear
wrapped in a crust of pride
too thick for sharpest arrows
huddles alone but well protected.
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The power scythe roared and quivered;
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Farmers flocked to Blossburg's mines
    willing their abandoned plows
    to perpetual dust and rain.
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How could I ever understand
what it is you choose
to call existence
and how could I ever
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In memoriam, professor Earl Henry

Through shuttered eyes, I see you still -
dressed out in earthen tones
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Delusions of immortality
vanish in a heartbeat
as earth’s colossal magnets
clutch jagged fire ribbons -
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A nose is such a ruddy hoot -
sloping south between the eyes
with tubes flared out
like a hungry Hoover
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A snow blower at maximum throttle
has no cyclonic edge
on a happy quintet of grandkids
assaulting a stack of presents.
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A stranger ventured
across the universal chasm
setting lips and tongue
to calculated motion.
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The Gods are money sound these days.
and priests have marketing degrees -
The faithful, called to worship
by giant plasma screens,
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