Author: Richard J Tilley

  • Social Contracts

    Social constructs Are not social contracts In the sunken duress Of our father’s joy Pin up the garden rage For a display of bellicose roses Revival Is the promise Of...

  • Reification of Secrets

    The burden of affairs Is intolerant to the touch Of mis-changed rhythms And silent didactic rodeos Certain of the dream We spread (re)inundates With our secrets The secrets of our...

  • Shortcuts and Brokerage Meetings

    Just because one side Was immeasurable And the other side Was normal The taxonomy of the brokerage Despair was curtains and lace For all Wednesday trifles And stolen bulbs of...

  • Untitled

    I sent you my poetry But you only wanted my wine I paved through these orchards You’ll have to listen in time

  • Gravity Fires

    Flowers are the gravity of our cosmos Taken away from the deeming waters The coarse graviton mutiny Reduces sand salts to mine surfaces And combines moist hearts with solid mixtures...

  • Navigating the Amusement of Sparrows

    Today I received a call From the other side of the neighborhood “Let’s be free” God showed me a pattern, A motion in the waves of life experience That said,...

  • Data

    The ontological reduction That data experiences Is a full mouth’s castaway’s Malignant tongue away From hope and austere protections.

  • Drafting Greatness, Volumes I-II

    Vol. I There is a distilled voice That emigrates among the dirges Of greatness And resuscitates like a peace pipe Among the darting sea I do not have too many...

  • Decision Making

    Decision making is an artform I’m thinking of taking it up again The long cruel night settles in Without Václav Havel to warm the Earth From cold, frosty, red timbers...

  • Master and a Coin

    There is a nice / list Legs join together and snow Forgetting the appraisal For lost donkey fountains And celebrated rhythms of time Forfeiting our nature For a moment of...