Poetry is storytelling in its purest form and has always been a part of my life though I seem to write it spasmodically in groups or cycles and at infrequent intervals. Celtic/Viking war poems (of which a collection " Warrior Memories " is available at lulu.com), western poems, love poems, humorous haiku and other poem types all happen from somewhere deeply felt. I hope you enjoy those who show up here.....
by Teel James Glenn
When your arm is to weak to hold steal,
Why would you send others sons to go die
As if to their mothers'
Their deaths were not real.
Are your plots and your plans
That all consuming,
Your conspiracies better than love
Are your yachts that you buy
'cause some underlings die
better fitted
'cause they were christened in blood?
Once the warrior made the decisions,
Once the fighters determined the course
And a man who had something to argue
Would leap on the back of a horse--
So YOU in your towers of ivory,
Make note of the salient fact
'twas no castle such men couldn't tackle
So speak true or 'asure guard your back!
3/19/04
Copyright 2004 by Teel James Glenn
Teel James Glenn
Winter of Wisdom
Summer of pain
Fall of our hopes
'till spring comes again,
life is a cycle
and death is a part
never an ending
but that there's a start.
Life is a circle
Never an end
Living and loving
The foe and the friend
Hope springs eternal
But dispair's always near
Hold on to all love
Throw out the fear
11/5/04
Copyright 2004 by Teel James Glenn
By Teel James Glenn
The shears of fate
My thread have cut,
The cord is severed through,
But purpose keeps me on the earth
I stay here now for you
No obligation more sa'cred,
No vow of greater weight
Could take me from my loving child
Though all creation wait--
An d I a shadow of my past
A phantom of my joy--
Deserted by my partner,
As gods discard a toy,
Must find within me
Odin's mind and Balders stalwart heart
To give you daughter a rainbow bridge
And a hero's running start.
3/15/04
Copyright 2004 by Teel James Glenn