By Any Other Name
Poem True, it hadn’t grown a sleek, tall stem. The delicate petals, though vibrant, were easily torn. And thorns…well, who knew they would sprout? Yet it bloomed, against all odds. We furtively watered...
Category: Poetry
Lionize with Care
Poem Never place one foot forward and the other Backward In the dim of the screen’s glare I Dared to dream the quiet texts Wishful boredom Polite, forced attention was for My fifteen...
Hurricane Sandy Serenade, Part One
Haibun October 29th I tremble starting the job. Ebony curtain rods are still in the original packaging. So are the wall anchors and screws. I had already lost myself to a fever-pitched rage over...
Who’d Blame You
Poem Who’d blame the waves for leaving the oceans Now leaching oil through their shores The garbage washed upon the grains of millions of years This man-made travesty upon nature’s course As if...
Song of Winter
Poem The crispy yellow leaves blow over the stones Like the last fragments of summer, Whispering of all the golden memories they saw. Everyone walks a little bit faster. A bitterness is in...
Good Night
Poem It’s a good night to die. The weather is fine, And the battle in my brain will not ever subside, My God, it’s a good night to die. It’s a good night...
Exposing Me In You
Poem I bow in your reflection In the eye that stares At me I drop my fears on you As you look up at me In my moment I can’t see you But...
Into the Final Frontier
Love Poem As we laid on the grass and looked at the crescent, I grabbed my love’s hand and dreamt. I began to speak but she was incessant And said “I know what...
The Explorers
Poem And so the earth was so wetted with rain Its surfaces steeped in so much moisture That all below the surface met that above it and So bodies of water were formed...
Realizations
Poem I realized, Perfect weekend is sitting in bed and reading a book I realized, You cannot have everything you want in life. I realized, It is okay to have no one beside...
