Tagged: new poetry
Suburban Perseus
Contemporary Poetry I spend all my time screaming at walls and watching my prison sink. Circumvented by people I no longer respect, The tears they shed are meaningless like pages devoid of ink. Nothing,...
Just Let Me Be
Poem Crazy, wild, so weird! Things I am, it’s me, Oh, just let me be! Blind and deaf, so astray! No need to say I have to see, Oh, just let me be!...
Portrait – Part IV
Poem Up! She pushed. Up! She was still. A dead elephant. So still she felt the babe’s throbbing. They could do nothing. Her children, 5 and 6, fed and washed — she wept. Up!...
Untitled — Swearing Off
Breakup Poem I finally have to go Will I write you? Possibility will be on your side As soon as I make room with parting It’ll feel that uncomfortable sensation Of my warmth, still...
Last Laugh
Haibun Poem Sitting on a rock, cross-legged, I pretend to meditate. My eyes half-closed, hands on my knees fingers up, I keep repeating “ommm.” Even when he’s so far up the trail, I...
Winter’s Midas
Self-Reflective Poem My chest feels like an emptied stone cave Nestled in the peaks of pine-ridden mountainside In which a giant, brown grizzly once hibernated But decided to finish his sleep months earlier...
Thirty Thousand Feet
Poem Infinitesimal fireworks pop like a silent flash from a lone diode light bulb. The craft carries on northward bound as I type on these electronic keys. The boy behind me has a...
Three Years
Poem The weariness shows, Time now slows, and life cripples Autumn lets out a sigh Incubating Ice Shelter all the loneliness Anesthetize me Our copulation Rain puddles that we drowned in This budding...
By Your Side
Poem Sitting here, it’s a late night with you You warned me of how you were feeling I don’t know why Trying to protect me from disappointment, expectation Even though it builds concern...
