Eyes of Green
Not known strains from eyes of green
Tic pleasure of floral light
Proceeded to the Jordan River at twilight
Erin of Salt Lake Barges burning Kerosene
Seismic disturbance brings the Nazarene
She’s always a mass of ruins at daylight
Violet atmosphere perturbation night
Limb from limb drinking Caffeine
Sonnet CDLXVI
The sun was nearing the steeple that eve
Under her clean shirt Tattoo of a Feather
Old man who fished alone with a Tether
Cheerful and undefeated to breath
Nudging the door open with her knee to leave
Dark lady and fair man wearing black leather
Well so deep the bottom could not be better
Wearing her snot green scrawled sleeve
No two opinions on it lately
Porters corner Red Bridge squelch
Played Hopscotch there in Nineteen Eighty
Beer with Erin’s belch
Life begins with fishermen matai
We went to Idaho to eat like the Welch
Sonnet CDLXIII
Faintly scented Urine of the Nile
Running across the sweep of the wheel
Boulders bones for my steeping stones kneel
Gun Whale of a boat bit by a Crocodile
Peekaboo molten pewter wrathful
Dane Viking torch of Tomahawks Eel
Stood pale silent during the meal
White Rose Ivory vile
Shrieked whistle thistle
Tippet proper unattended risker
Shadow lay over the rock brisker
Darkness shining in the brightness missile
Turned up trousers drinking Irish whiskey
Sonnet CDLXI
Vague loneliness of alibi
Irish Face legendary beauty’s goal
Lonely silence of the Tadpole
Butt of Cigar smoking Bar-fly
Vague loneliness she can’t deny
Deep Velvet Azure through the Porthole
Grim and aloof steel Maypole
She whispered by the wind a lonely Lullaby
Time stood still in these shoes
Red Stone White Clay whirl
Un-washed under car drinking her booze
Mescal brooding silence with girl
Like a burr sticking in a woman’s news
Slope of sage thunder whittled Pearl
Terry Brinkman has been painting for over forty five years. He started creating poems. He has five Amazon E- Books, also poems in Rue Scribe, Tiny Seed. Winamop, Snapdragon Journal, Poets Choice, Adelaide Magazine, Variant, the Writing Disorder, Ink Pantry, In Parentheses, Ariel Chat, New Ulster, Glove, and in Pamp-le-mousse, North Dakota Quarterly, Barzakh, Urban Arts, Wingless Dreamer, LKMNDS and Milk Carton Press.
You can find more of Terry’s work here on Ink Pantry.