Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2019
early morning quiet, cheap motel
     watching, praying, waiting
        work begins again today
              JMU in the CAA . ..

  The Colonial Assassination Association
Qualyxian Quest  Apr 2023
Verona
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
tired, long and lonely
grateful for the rest
ambiguity
even at my best

European trains
Sunlit Italy
Latin, a little Latin
Shakespeare's tragedies

                JMU
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
There's no way to know for sure
Have to trust when I can't understand
Also need suspicion
Also need to hold your hand

Music makes me happy
I know very little Thai
This is what it sounds like
When Doves Cry

He said he saw Prince in Spain
Best show of his life
Summer of 69
Cuts Like a Knife

I like those 80s ladies
Even in 2022
Her hair is wavy black
Her eyes are ocean blue

   We are the Dukes of JMU!
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2019
be ignited or be gone, wrote Ms. Oliver
I was hired at JMU by George Toliver
       for me philosophy’s dawn

O Mary, help me be ignited before gone.
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2023
Probably it doesn't make sense
But I still pray
At times
Even when I can't believe in God

I like Albert Camus
My favorite French atheist
Unde Malum?
North Africa. Berber Mother.

Me at JMU
Lonely as the rain
Her boyfriends studlier than I
Might place Life of Pi

The Shinkansen is impressive
Chesterton aggressive
I tend toward confessive
Like Augustine. But still shy.

               Thank you, Ry.
Qualyxian Quest Nov 2019
staring at Guernica, focus on the flower
no man knows the day or hour

but for my friends and country I will try
prayers above Seattle's starry sky

Fr. John Grace, help me be true
decades later, I still remember you

                                             Amen.
Brian McDonagh Jan 2019
UCF XGF ACX AKGW
EHAEBW WKGW
JMU KL BXM LEKH
BXU'HH FOFZ QZFOEKH
HINT: U=T
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2021
I can't quite find it
Always out of reach
About to get my car
Might drive to the beach

Taipei 101
Restaurant in Cary
At times my father's voice
Deep and loud and scary

Ravenstory stamps
Carolina Inn
Get me through till Sunday
Monday begin again

I miss you, Dr. Thomas
Duke Divinity
Sweetly Southern charm
Help me Barthly see

           Mail my destiny
Qualyxian Quest  Sep 2022
2037
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2022
All men are created equal
But all women are definitely not
Buddhamind in Bangkok
Tremendum at Angkor Wat

Me at JMU
UVA was Scott
Ry is Virginia Tech
I post and play and plot

Just a few rooms
I do not own a yacht
Als Ick Kan
Give the best I got

      2037. What?

— The End —