David Bradford: 77 books

Pomegranate is a story about a person finding a moment of enlightenment through some not so ordinary pomegranate seeds. As the poem evolves, so does our understanding of how this revelation may indeed be just the drunken excitement of a circus goer! There are five groupings of four stanzas...

    Travelers is a poem about going where you haven't gone before, as seen through the eyes of a the reader, a buffalo and a locust.     There are two stanzas of ten lines each. Each line is fourteen syllables, and each pair of lines share the same rhyme.   ...

    Fruit Cup is a lovely introspective poem about contemplating, and then eating, a fruit cup! Of course, one can't help but wonder if the fruit cup knows it is going to be eaten, and, as well, once eaten, how that fruit cup might be influential in the resulting satiation!  ...

    Eternity is a darker poem inspired by the unbribe-able nature of life traveling towards death. Using rich imagery I pursue the visage of death through the many ways we try to influence the 'ever-after' and the ultimate futility such efforts. The culmination of the poem is to deny death power....

You Were There was written about the idea of a protector, a father figure modeled after my own father. Such a person is able to hold all the horrors of the night at bay for no reason other than their love. There are three stanzas of nineteen lines each. There is a similarity to the meter and...

    Dragonfly Time is a poem I wrote one day walking around my neighborhood. There were a lot of dragonfly about and I got to wondering how they viewed time. It is a fun exploration of what it means to have so many eyes and how we understand and think about what we see.    ...

    Oubliette is a poem about two delicious creatures - an orange and a candy cane, who sadly cannot see their own deliciousness. An oubliette is a dungeon from which there is no escape and this concept is what they experience as they focus not on their positive qualities, but, instead,...

   My Eyes is a poem about finding the self by way of knowledge of what it is one can see (based on ones own expectations of what is to be seen by ones own point of view); it questions if consciousness has a self and what, if consciousness is freed from the body, is there for the...

    The Chest is a poem in the vein of discovering self. If you know what you will discover, will you open it?     There are twelve stanzas of four lines each. The lines rhyme ABAB and every line is 6 syllables. Every stanza's first line (each of the twelve) starts with...

    The spoken word, depending on the orator, can produce wide-ranging effects and emotions in a listener. Likewise, the written word, whether a story, an autobiography, an historical account, or even a fortune cookie, can also impress upon its reader innumerable feelings. This impact, the...

    The spoken word, depending on the orator, can have a profound effect upon the listener. Likewise, the written word, whether a story, an autobiography, an historical account, or even a fortune cookie, also can influence a reader. This is not only due to the content of the speech (or work...

    Are You ... is a poem that I wrote prior to a vacation, where I was in a cloudy mood and striving to climb out of it. I was struggling to see not the negatives of existence but the positives, so, I envisioned a poem which started out negative and rose stanza by stanza through to...

    Loving Bread is a poem that I wrote which is somewhat of a memory, and yet it never happened. The story is of a child meeting their mother with a basket and wondering if there is bread in the basket (because the smell of bread is coming out of the basket). Of course, there is bread in...

    Subtextual Entwinings is a poem that I wrote which is somewhat of a memory, and yet it never happened. The story is a reverse jabberwocky in that jabberwocky took a definite idea (of battle and forest and beast) and presented it with words undefined, this poemering was trying to...