Tag Archives: free verse
Never Live In Fear
How will we decide what to do, what to think, what we will think In our world of conflicting opinions, way too much information While we caper and cavort blindfolded, ever so close to the brink Believing we’re so ordinary, nothing extraordinary can be done When actions are performed beyond the pale, it will not […]
So We Pretend
How do we choose all the choices we make From the simplest ones to risks we will take What motivates us to decide what’s our goal Will power, money, love, sex make us whole Are health and happiness the top on our list Or upon a good life of beauty, fame we insist We want […]
What Can Be Done
What can be done When two become One minus one And zero the sum Is less than nothing Painfully derived from More than something A complex problem You love both One related, one not You’re loathe To be on the spot Yet the story heard Is only half Of two endeared Incomplete math Yes, you’ve […]
Total Can’t Recall
Tech jackets, watches, glasses won’t mean a single thing Won’t matter what they know or do, unless they’re bling Sure, there is a certain status in the land of the nerd elite Doesn’t mean they’ll play the burbs, be seen every street Unless this tech makes you look sharp, stylin’ and profilin’ Can you honestly […]
Blue Screen Cafes
What do expect, from texts Just the usual suspects How would that be With life the fee Head down Smile or frown Attention, intention locked In a little box, a pox Yet only letters in a row Like any word we don’t know Shorthand, perhaps But often slaps Is there reason to listen Moments to […]
Cart Before the Horse
If we made our lives wide open to reading, music, art How would we choose, decide where we should start Never relished classical, like in the Saturday cartoons Hate rock, jazz, yet to elevator Muzak you hum tunes Presentation may be wrong; nothing works every age Not just times around the sun; how each fills […]
You’re Not
No longer will we require any high-school senior To recognize the words sagacious or prevaricator I do not think that’s wise, to say I do, I’d be a liar As the dumber we become, the lower we’ll aspire The only smart things we’ll own are phones, cars And really, both are more intelligent than we […]
Love
You have always given me more than mere love Laughter and music, and the occasional shove You have helped me to grow, relearn how to cry You have helped me to sometimes not ask why You have been so loyal and steadfast; my rock You were forged in love, the only key to my lock […]
Incomparable
Incomparable A Poet’s words with poets’ words The mind is its own place It sits here behind my face If I can keep my head, It’ll serve till I’m dead Why, friends, do I compare me To all gone before, all to be Too soon full fathom five No longer alive What story will be […]
Sing a Different Tune
When I was very small, the lines and squiggles baffled me As I grew, what I learned of letters, numbers set me free I learned to imitate them; mine were large if done neatly Growing gradually smaller as I grew larger, exponentially For many years I could see all right, whether day or night Gradually, […]
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