When in life we reach an age, a need, a trial, a test, the razor’s edge Delving deeper, pondering, reflecting, remembering, planning, hoping Denying, angry, we bargain, we grieve while craving peace, acceptance Until we understand acceptance is a choice with nothing and much to say I wonder the reason for my being, my […]
My famished soul, hungers, yearns, lingers Crawling through horrors, terror, real, imagined Light-blasted sky flooded, illuminates nothing Offended darkness turns away, offers no succor Sup with the greedy devil, you’ll go hungry always Skeletal fingers tightly grasping runcible spoons The bounty on the plate far beyond your reach Let go, rejoice, count on your fingers […]
A Lingering Joy Thinking of those who have gone before When the boundary barrier between the realms grows ever slender Mine will not be willful, wayward spirits wandering abroad this night Not phantoms, specters or poltergeists, but a mother sweetly tender To watch her children and those yet unborn when her soul took flight See […]
Are you liberal, conservative, radical, stoic, centrist, anarchist, green? You can fill in the blanks I’ve missed. Maybe you want to bring back the Wobblies or worship the sun. What you label yourself is much less important than what you believe. Can you tell me why you believe, what you believe and why it matters? […]
If you find something’s wrong don’t cast about looking for a reason I’m the one to libel, always, I must honestly admit, this or any season You think you’re wrong, you’re incorrect, I’ll swear an oath I did it From simple misspelled words to atom bombs, for all I will take credit The argument […]
You. Stop. Right Now. Whatever else you are doing, besides reading these words, and I know you’re doing something else, stop. In a world where multitasking is the norm and dealing with disparate desires and duties is the only way to survive, simply doing one thing feels foolish, wasteful. Perhaps, to you, it even feels […]
For all of you who “like” my work and anyone who follows I do apologize most sincerely for rarely saying thank you It’s not that I’m ignoring you, my mother taught me right I just haven’t found the extra minutes to fix this oversight Since writing occupies my “free” time I thought I’d do so […]
Because We Have Not Stopped A Poet’s Words with Poets’ Words When myriad commit cruel murder, macho maniacs brutally rape, mad hermits dream and decimate, Then will we need to know where the sidewalk ends, where a phenomenal woman’s secrets lie With daily tribunes crying madness, feasts of destruction, humanity the savage, ravenous beast Will […]
Hot lights shine, burn yellow, orange, blue and red Reflecting back off crimson shoes and scarlet laces Clashing with those many white and black clad Sharp counterpoint to their serious, sober faces Red the vagrant color corrupts the evening’s show Bright blood, a wound, mimicked by a flautist’s tie Stark food-color hair in back, […]
