Miscellaneous poems

Here is a collection short poems, mostly written a while ago.

I wrote this first one about G.K. Chesterton's biography of St. Francis of Assisi which I read in my literature class. St Francis was a man who took a vow of poverty and began the Franciscan order of monks. Here, I was trying to convey St. Francis' joyful, jester-like, “jongleur” attitude that Chesterton described.

St Francis of Assisi 12/2008
He's a happy little homie with a hoodie and some rope.
He's begging on the ground with no food and lots of hope.
He's the lowest of the low, see him stroll along and sing,
But look and you will see that he's higher than a king.


Time 2006ish
That ceaseless scavenger: time.
Sounds like a start, but I can't think of a rhyme.


Alexander the Great 2/2008
Alexander: king of kings,
Conquered all within his sight.
Carried far on legend's wings;
All men trembled at his might.

Then at age of thirty-two,
He caught a fever like the flu
and
died...

His kingdom fell apart soon after.
Where he had crushed, now there is laughter.
Many know not of his deeds,
Buried deep in hist'ry's weeds.


The New Rhyming Dictionary 5/13/08
A rhyming dictionary is a wonderful thing,
You'll find fine words from unsling to Beijing.
You've cyclone and earphone and millstone
And acetone and saxaphone and mononucleosis.
And though odd phrases arise oftentimes,
Who needs meter when you've got rhymes!