Category Poetry
Parting Comments
How many times have I auditioned for this play For numberless roles I have landed or have lost I may be tasked to exit my last stage on this day With my life and my hair both the color of frost Focus; my character must never slip from my face As the lead or as […]
Ere We Fall
Who knows what we have lost to the cause of war Music, art, novels, plays, poems, films and more Bachs, Da Vincis, Berninis, Monets create wings The Shakespeares, Elliotts, Cassatts gone missing Would we find saviors numbered among the dead No way now to know to where they may have led Wars are equal-opportunity, high […]
My Head Might Explode
What convoluted scenes we nightly do create Within our dreams our world to contemplate When we can learn how, cogitate this fluidly We should then, finally, comprehend reality Yet our mind clearly contains what we need It has done its utmost to propagate this seed We, dullards who cannot decipher this code Cannot try too […]
A Living Hell
Imagine if everyone who had ever lived, lived forever Decrepit old carcasses stacked up like a cord of wood What? You thought we’d stay young, no changes ever That is crazy and totally absurd; it would do no good Consider history’s myriad heroes, sidekicks and villains Who’d battle to retain, increase, consolidate their power Plus […]
What?
What we know and what we think we know Live in constant conflict, a dubious do-si-do What we believe, will never have to grieve What we conceive denies what we perceive
Now
The future is not finished The future has not begun It will not be remembered For it has the past become
Thoughts in Fishbowls
Living in a fishbowl, it’s hard to understand Those living on the outside are in command
In an Instant
Oh, how the world has changed since I was born Some days I feel lost, confused and quite forlorn Will it matter that I cannot leave my past behind When I feel harassed, harried by the daily grind The world around us has sped up as I slowed down So much changed, I clutch the […]
A Tribute the Victors and the Fallen
A Tribute the Victors and the Fallen A Wish Granted, A Dream Denied Bright displays fill the air, as fireworks boom Young baseball fan’s world filled with gloom One team must win, one lose, no other way At seven, eight or nine, you dream only today Celebrating raucously, the fans’ hearts flying Remember little […]
The Same Advice
The time is now; it’s what they say It is our time now to seize the day As carpe diem is urged on humans The outcome ended less than nice When others took the same advice And that’s what ruined the Romans
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