David Bradford Jr : 55 books

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 work's influence,...

    Sharing is a poem about two people enjoying their world together, and being grateful for each other.     There are five stanzas of ten lines each. every two lines rhyme, each line is 7 syllables, 5 pairs of lines make a stanza, 5 stanzas total, the meter is da da DUM...

    Invitation is a short poem about a small bird who flutters down next to a person to remind them to return the courtesy already given by that person's friends (but not yet returned).     There are six stanzas. Each stanza has five lines. The first four lines rhyme A,B,A,B...

   Samara's Garden is a poem that I wrote which experiences the life of a falling "helicopter" seed.    There are eight stanzas of four lines each. The odd lines are all 14 syllables with an internal rhyme matching the last word of that line, then, the even lines (having an internal rhyme...

    Bird Of Paradise is a poem from the point of view of a psychiatrist (whether real or imagined, you can judge) who is visited by three very disturbed 'patients', each of whom are tormented, or in love with, birds of paradise. The ending sheds some light on what is actually going on, and...

The Ostrich Roar is a single poem using rich imagery that brings the reader into a fantasy world of animals as people. It speaks to the urge to be unique, to do something meaningful in not only your own eyes but also in the eyes of your fellows. We meet the young ostrich striving to be recognized...

    Gauzy is a fun poem inspired by the water lily paintings of Monet, not the crisp ones, but the ones where sky and water mix, where surface becomes color becomes reflection. I repeat the poems words and phrases, in different combinations, attempting to evoke the impression of imagery,...

    Pumpernickel is a a fun filled children’s poem. It is the appearance of a giraffe at a party who enjoys itself regardless of what others may think, and, in the end gets everyone to also enjoy themselves.       Each stanza is three lines and there are 8 stanzas....

What Is follow four characters (a luna month, a cuttlefish, a hippocampaus, and a sea cucumber) during a casual encounter with a rafting centaur in the open seas. They discuss the philosphical goal of achieving happiness by ones owns means, without blaming other forces for any unhappiness. It is twelve...

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...