POETRY A-O | poetry

“I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”

- William Faulkner - (American short-story Writer and Novelist)

A Being Of Thunder

A Better Man Than I Am

A Boy’s Dream

A Candle In The Wind

A Challenge To The Devil

A Character In Your Dream

A Chat With The Devil

A Dream In God's Mind

A Face Made For The Screen

A Glance At The Mirror

A Glimpse Of Paradise

A Good Dream

A Grave In The Wilderness

A Great Fire In Our Mind

A Lonely Night In Hollywood

A Look Inside Me

A Lost Soul Passing By

A Love I Did Not Know

A Love Note To My Enemy

A Lovely Woman Died

A Man Defined

A Man Like Me

A Man Of Gentle Temper

A Man Worth Knowing

A Man's Valor Tells His Story

A Man's Worth

A Minor God

A Moment Alone In My Head

A New Life (Each day is a new life)
A New Life (In a moment I will sleep)

A Plea To Passion

A Pleasant Place

A Poet For Your Lover

A Poet To His Muse

A Prayer For The Dead And Dying

A Pretty Woman's Tear

A Private Sin

A Reason For My Birth

A Red Rose In The Graveyard

A Rose On The High Plain

A Saving Memory

A Secret

A Secret Place

A Shadow Crossed The Moon

(A Birthday Card To Jesus)

A Soldier’s Dream

A Soldier's Last Day

A Soldier's Last Minute

A Walk In The Moonless Night

A Walk With Other Ghosts

A War With Time

A Warning To The Muslims Attacking
Our Diplomatic Posts

A Warrior Mother’s Farewell To Her Son

A Warrior’s Boast

A Warrior’s Death

A Warrior's Prayer To His Angel

A Whisper

A Woman In My Arms

A Wondrous Dream

A Word For Loneliness

A World Is Born

A Yellow Rose

A Young Man's Passing

Adventure

Advice To Myself

Afloat

After Falling From A Dream

After The Battle

After The Darkness

After The War Is Over

Again

Alamo

Alexander’s Woman

Alexis Mae's Bright Eyes

Alive
All I Need

All Mankind In My Heart

All My Loves

All My Pain

All Right, God

All The People, All The Places

Allies

Almost

Alone (Is there only me?)

Alone (Sometimes I feel so damned alone)

Alone At The End Of The Dance

Am I Bound By My Past?

Angel Passing (I sensed someone
standing near

Angel Passing (Look at me, passing..)

Angels Have The Grace

Arm Yourself, Good Man

Armless

Arousing You
As He Died

As She Passed By

Ash Wednesday

Ask Not To Tame My Soul

At The End

At Your Side

Aurora Colorado July 20, 2012

Bathing Naked In The Sunshine Of Life
Battle Sky

Beauty In Dawn's Mist

Beauty In Her Mind

Beauty In The Winter Sky

Between Sleep And Waking

Beware The Tiger

Beware They Who Speak For Gods

Bless The Woman, Bless Her Child

Blessed

Blessed Curse Of The Soul
Blink Of An Eye

Blue Skies In My Mind

Breaking Through Infinity

Breath (Deeply he breathed in)

Breath (This is an ordinary breath)

Breathe Deep

Breathe Her Name Softly

Breathe Life

Breathe Life Deep

Breathe The Morning Air

Breathing Out Her Heat
Breathing The World

Breathless

Breeze

Bridge

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Brother Killing Brother

Brother, Take My Hand

Brother Wind

Brutus

Burn
But For The Grace

Can I Come With You
Can I Go Back And Find My Youth?

Celebrate This Breath

Celebrity

Challenge To A Blowhard

Challenge To The Minor Gods

Chance At Glory

Chance Waking

Changing (Every day I'm changing)

Changing (I feel life dripping from me)

Charlie Walked To School Today

Child Of Rock
Choctaw

Christmas

Christmas On The Street
Chrysalis

Cinnamon
City On A Hill

Cloud Mountain Burning

Come In From The Cold

Come Inside

Come, Life

Come To Me, Muse

Come With Me Into My Dreams

Constellation Marjorie Stoneman
Douglas High School

Creatures On The Hill

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Dallas: Blue Lives Matter

Dancing To The Silence

Dancing With A Whirlwind

Dawn (I awoke with the dawn)

Dawn (Kiss me, Dawn, my love)

Death I Do Not Fear You

Death In A Far Land

Death In The Cantina

Death Is Not My Master

Death Of A Brother In My Arms

Death Of A Confederate Soldier At
Vicksburg

Death Of A Mercenary

Death Of A Raindrop

Death Of My Dog

Death Of The Diplomat's Guard

Death, Show Me Your Face

Dewdrops On September Morn

Diana's Bed

Did I Cause That Tear

Did I Hear God Laugh

Did You Make Me Just To Die

Different Gods

Different Points Of View

Do I Make A Difference?

Do Not Stay Huddled On The Earth

Do You Feel Me

Dog Barking In The Night

Dreaming I bought Mona Lisa

Dreams That Disappoint

Dreamtime

Dreamtruths

Dressed Only In Our Laughter

Dust (Dust settled on the butterfly)

Dust (Dust covers my emotions)

Dying Ground

Each Life Has A Special Song
Eagle Watcher

Embrace God, Do Not Kneel

Emma On the Mountaintop

Escape Of My Damned Soul

Execution Of A Mercenary Soldier

Face Bravely Your Demise

Face The Sun

Face The World With Me

Face To The Wind

Fade Soft Into The Night

Fall Gently On Me, New Day

Fear Not The Angry Face

Feel The Heartbeat Of The Earth

Fireflies
First Flight

First Love Remembered

Flowers In The Desert

Freedom Fight (To the Oppressed
People of Venezuela)

Gentle Springtime Breezes

Gentle Wind (Flow over me, you gentle)

Gentle Wind (I feel the gentle wind)

Get Back Temptation

Ghost Voice In The Night

Ghost Wind (Ghost wind blows through)

Ghost Wind (The Ghost wind blew the)

Ghosts

Ghosts On The Dawn Wind

Go Softly Down The Road

Go Your Own Way

God Blinked

God Made Man A Growing Seed

God, Send Me A Fear

God Strolled Through My Soul

Going To Wichita
Gold Dust Woman

Goodbye To Unhappiness

Goodbyes

Grab Life

Grandeur In The Storm

Grant Me To Be Kind

Grasp The Dawn

Great Golden Sun

Great-Grandad The Lawman

Great Soul

Green Leaves To Gold

Greet Warm The Falling Night

Gringo Guerrero

Guard The Gate

Guardian

Guardian To His Charge

Happiness Flew Past Me
Happy Morning

Hard Life

Hard Times (I've seen hard times in..)
Hard Times (Long as I remember)

Hate

Haunted By A Face

Have You Seen My Love's Heart?

Have You Seen My Sweetheart

Hear The Candle
Heartbeat (Hear my heartbeat)

Heartbeat (I close my eyes)

Heartbeat's Sound

Heartstrings

Heat (Heat rises as our bodies slide)

Heat (Heat is cursing through me...)

Heaven, When You Call Me

Heaven's Portal

Hello, Life (Life, Don't You Know Me?)

Hello Life (Hello, Life, my trusted friend

Hello, New Year

Hello, Silence, My Old Friend

Helpless

Her (Her soul glows through her eyes)

Her (The sidewalk crouches at her feet)

Her Baby’s Father

Her Beauty Betrays Her

Her Lips (Her lips were moist with...)

Her Lips (I found heaven on her lips)

Hide In My Heart With Me

Hold Me Close, Sweet Night

Hold Me Life

Hold Me Up, My Brother

Hold My Hand

Hold The Day

Holding Back The Dawn

Holiday Greetings to ISIS

Homeless Spirits Passing By

Honeybee

Honor The Warrior

Hope (Hope is a bird with golden...)

Hope (He looked up at the sky)

Hope (Fluttering within my grasp)

How I Died
How I Survived The War
Hugo

I Am Passing Here And Scribbling

I Am The Storm (My enemy best fear)
I Am The Storm (I am the storm)

I'm Off To Find My Way
I'm Ready

I Believe In Magic

I Blinked

I Can Feel The Cosmos' Beat

I Cannot Be Killed

I Can't Stay

I Close My Eyes And Wait

I Could Grasp The Evening Star

I Cry Out In The Night

I'd Do It All Again

I Danced With The Wind

I Didn't Know

I Did Not Want To Wake You
I Died For You Today

I Don't Think I'll Die

I Embrace You, Friends

I Fall Soft Into My Dreams

I Found A Wonderful Line Of Verse

I Glimpsed The Special Word

I Have An Ugly Face

I Have Been Here Before

I Have Seen Your Face In Winter

I Hear Spirits Whirring

I Heard God Laugh

I Heard The Cosmos Scream

I Kissed The Face Of God

I Left A Letter For You

I Live Fully

I Live In The Journey
I Lived A Long Life

I Looked Inside And Saw God There

I Looked Out At The World Today

I Lost Someone

I Love The Storm

I Made A World

I Need A Friendly Star

I Pen Verses That Are Not Mine

I Pulled A Comet From The Sky

I, Quixote

I Saw A Ghost

I Saw A Ghost This Dawn

I Saw A Ragged Man Today

I Saw A Soldier Die Today

I Saw Emma Dancing

I Saw God This Morning

I Saw The Enemy Crying

I See You In The Dawn

I Set The World In Motion

I Sit Here And Wonder

I Sold My Soul In Hollywood

I Stand Unbowed

I Swallowed The Sun

I Think God Whispered To Me Then

I Took The World To Bed

I Touch You

I Walk Unseen

I Want To Be A Shooting Star

I Want Your Touch

I Was An Angel
I Will Eat Life Today

I Will Find It

I Will Help You

I Will Keep My Honor Whole

I Will Lie With You In Flowers

I Will Live

I Will Meet You
I Will Not Die Today

I Will Walk With You

I Will Win Today

I Will Worship With My Lips

I Wonder

I Write The Words

I Write To Touch Your Heart

Icarus

If I Blink

If I Die That You May Live
If I Don't Fight

If I Fall

If I Have Time

If I Looked Into Your Heart

If I Loved You

If I'm Not Here In The Morning

If I Sleep

If I Sleep, Don't Wake Me

If My Soul You Wish To See

If Our Leaders Are Too Weak

If We Kiss, Will Then You Tell?

If We Must Fight

If You And I Had Not Been Born

If You Are Leaving

If You Find Me

If You Kiss Me (a song)

If You Love Me, Say

If You See Mary

If Your Soul Unites With Mine

In Honor Of Our Veterans

In The Shadowed Light

In The Soft Light

In The Still

In This Desert I Drink My Tears

Initiation To Reality

Innocence

Inside

Inside Me

Inside The Mind Of God

Inside The Storm Cloud

It’s Coming (It's coming, I can feel
it. The reason I am here.)

It's Coming (It’s coming, I can feel
it. I smell power in the air.)

Jimmy's Sleeping (A Song)

John Jacob

Johnny Was A Soldier Born

Joy (Sweet joy, you can't escape me)

Joy (Reach inside for joy)

Juan Arturo

Jump Up (Jump up! New morning's
waiting)

Jump Up! (Jump up! Chariot’s
comin’!)

Jumped From The Sun

Just Get Me Through The Night

Kiss Me Beneath The Autumn Moon

Kiss Me If You Dare

Kiss Me In The Morning

Kiss Me, Life

Kiss Me Softly, Death

Last Of The Summer Rain

Last Taste

Laugh With Me

Laughing At Mortality

Laughing At The Devil

Laughter Hiding

Lay Your Body Down

Lean Against Me, Friend

Leave, Sadness

Leaving

Legacy (We hold no man foe)

Legacy (I feel it in the air tonight)

Lend Me A Hand, God

Let Me Dream

Let Me In

Let My Living Have Some Worth

Life Courses Through Me

Life, I Need Your Help

Life, I Saw You Coming

Life In Dreams

Life Is A Disease

Life Is Worth The Pain

Life Kiss

Life Leaves No Prisoners Taken

Life Power
Life Slips By Me

Life Woke Me This Morning

Life, You Do Not Own Me

Light From A Distant Star

Light In The Distance

Lightning

Like Wounded Wolves At Bay

Like You, Lord

Lips Of Fire

Listen To The Quiet

Listen To The Angel's Voice

Listen To The Wind Blow

Look For Me In The Dawn

Look For Me In The Sunset

Look For The Spark

Look Into My Eyes

Look Into The Sun (If you look into)

Look Into The Sun (Don't dare look)

Look Into Your Mind

Look Not Back

Look Now

Looking At The Midnight Sky

Lost Pieces Of My Soul

Love In Anger
Love Is Today

Lover In The Night Storm

Lying Quiet In The Jungle Night

Machete

Madness (Is this Madness I see)

Madness (Sanity I found wanting)

Memory Of Love In Spring Grass

Memory Of Thanksgiving Past

Mend My Heart

Mercenary, Treasure Seeker

Message In The Thunder

Message To The Bold
Metamorphosis

Mix Your Words With Mine

Moondust And Teardrops

More Than Meets The Eye

More Worlds To Conquer

My Ancestral Neanderthal

My Blood Is Ink For My Verses
My Body Serves My Soul

My Heart Has Empty Places

My Lips Will Give You Pleasure

My Mouth Will Serve And Praise You

My Sweet Summer Is Gone

My Verses are Fool's Crying

My Wildness

My Words To You
My Words Will Not Stop Evil Men

My World

Mystery Of Life

Natalia Pushkina (Pushkin’s Wife)

Neanderthal Blood

Nectar On Your Lips

Neither Beg Nor Yield

Never Look Behind You

New Day (I see the new sun rising)

New Day (I see the new dawn glowing)

Night Falls In Colors

North Texas Rainy Day Blues

Ode To A Shot Of Tequila

Ode To The Cross At Mount Soledad

Old Joey And His Blues Guitar

On The Road To The City Of Angels

One Man

Once

Once Honor Ruled This Land

Our American Experiment

Outside Heaven's Door

Oz

“I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”

Just click on any of my poems below to read them. To return to this page click on the "back" button of your browser.

© Carl Martin Johnson, All rights reserved

Just click on any of my poems below to read them.
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