Category: Poetry

Reflection Poems 0

What Hope There Is…

Reflection Poems   Alas my father, Lo my mother, Alas my brother, Lo my sister, I come. No lies to tell, No self to hide, No expectant bites can tame me. No illusions as...

Poem About Nightmares 0

2 a.m.

Poem About Nightmares   Sleep has wrapped its thick bands around me and lazily pulls me down into bed. The alarm clock sits, poised on the edge of the nightstand relishing every minute that...

Poem About Winter 0

The Angst of Winter

Poem About Winter   The sky doesn’t bleed. That makes today special. Momma used to say the bad days only make the good ones brighter. If true then days like today should make the...

Poem About Love Lost 0

Universal

Poem About Love Lost   For years at end she waited night and day, Longed for his love in every way. When he finally came around confessing his love, she felt it was already...

Poems About Dreams 2

Lost

Poems About Dreams   I am lost and never found, is this what I deserve: life loveless and inert? I am lost, no one is around, is it my destiny, my curse: to be...

Free-Form Poetry 2

Behind the Glass

Free-Form Poetry   Moving in a slow-motion daydream Trying to touch the ocean Behind my opened eyes Taking time to sense The depth of each wave Making my way through The blue water sky...

Long Poems About Life 0

Portrait — Part II

It’s falling; a shrill of absence, a dreamy strangling, the days uniform and rationed, where jingles hold the spaces of love and immoderations, and zealotry redeems a country of her past. Gone. Gone, the...

free-form poetry 0

Untitled 32

Free-Form Poetry Ashy skin The pride of a hard worker The downfall of a dream On its way to the last bit of Sunshine it has before ending The day Kisses for the weak:...

Haibun Poems 0

Oasis

Haibun Poems   A dog’s staccato bark. The melody of a robin singing in the maples. Harmony by the other songbirds. A wisp of breeze fluttering the canopy in the backyard. A pale blue...

Anger Poems 0

Let It Lie

Anger Poems   I killed a dream dead with my own two hands Wielding the knives of my sentences As you sat across, unsuspecting Letting me overpower you My emotional instability no match for...

Poems About Home 0

No Longer in New England

Poems About Home   Its snowing, at least that’s what the windows tell me. It piles on the rails of my neighbor’s deck, the red one where they sit every morning when the temperature...

Poems About Life and Love 0

Engulfed In Me

Love Poem   The urge to fulfill Falling drunk in Brazil Becoming less of me I lay deep in a dream Floating in a stream Without your passion Melting in my rhymes Viewed as...