David Bradford Jr : 55 books

    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...

    Watermelon Candy is a fun poem about eating watermelon candy, and those who might also watch you eat that candy and want some.     There are eight stanzas of four lines each. The odd stanazas repeat. The even stanzas star creatures who may be after that candy. There...

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,...

   Lucid Dreamings is a poem that I wrote which is a combination of two poems woven together. One poem is 'the dream' and the other is the realization of that dream, and all dreams. The dream portrayed is a food landscape, where "great mountains of cookies rise covered in fudge". The realization...

    Acorn - The Movie is a fun look into the life of an acorn that has been to the movies - with a surprise twist at the end. The acorn begins to wonder if what it thinks about the movie is really coming from its own mind or if the movie was somehow telling it what to think!  ...

    Lilac Days is a short poem about reminiscing fondly about a particular vacation with a loved one - a vacation in which the color lilac was prominent!     There are five stanzas. Each stanza, but one, has four lines - one stanza has five and that extra line is the only...