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Love Poems There is a face I love. A skin I crave to press against. Eyes I never refuse. Ears perked and stretched at my wrestling cries. Hands I must handle. Legs that...
Category: Poetry
Sometimes, You and I
Sometimes, in the rainy days of autumn the wind whistles your name underneath the umbrella of my thoughts. You stick to my mind like a wet leaf on damp earth brought by cold and...
You Change
You plan, you do, you smile, You wait, you cry, You see, you die You change In every moment differently Like the sky And you never know How will the next day Bleed out...
Conflicted Expectations
Contemporary Haibun Poem We cleared gravy-stained plates and tainted wine glasses. The remains of the turkey could feed the five of us for days. It was the first year we didn’t host. Mom...
Holy Narcist, Batman!
Behold the spirit narcissist, who alone is consort to the unnameable, and sings of Him ecstatically, incessant. Beware: her assured salvation shall not suffice for she is more than smug; she is the prophetess,...
Calling Names
Free Verse Poems You keep calling me names and James Will’s tarred shadow swings from Cairo’s fragrantly stark magnolias repeating Colts’ reframing shells upon the Shawnees’ skinned at its tannery. You keep calling...
Not a Sonnet
Take me to the place where promises go to die I think my heart is waiting there for you Holding out its remainders and saying, “Whatever’s left is yours, if you want it” It’s...
Green Eyes
I walked into those green eyes hurting the sky terrified of loosing my breath and yet I walked like a soldier towards its death or was it liberation? The leaves were cutting my skin...
A Marigold May Wonder
Cherish to weep A wish to die To know Pain I lay in the Sun but I am not the Sun I feel the warmth The sky is clear I feel the sadness but...
