Listening To The Tree
Poems About Nature Twisting out from the ground Making a reach out to the impossible Leaning into the wind The music of gnarled roots Pulsing through chipping Skin and veins A dog curls...
Tagged: new poetry
Haiku In Three. Shirts. Re: Romance
Haiku Poetry Ev’ry time you see A tree in its growing phase Do you think of me? The feel of your breaths Against my ear; leaving marks No one else can see You button...
Avian Duel
Haibun Poetry A blue jay soars downward like a falcon returning to an outstretched gauntlet. He swerves up at the last minute, perches on a branch of the maple overhanging the deck. Not...
Man About Town
Reflection Poems I’ve spent so much time reflecting on the lives of everyone else, it’s time to turn the mirror around and have a look at myself. I don’t really do – anything....
To Ginsberg
Poem Ginsberg wept For the soul of others, But I weep for his soul alone. If only I could be his Green eyed copy boy, And He my troubled Home. Sweet roses bloom...
Outside and In
American Poems Signal I hide in my eyes made of glitter, made of lies I hide in my house of cards. I hide from the fact that you’re never going see me Bleeding...
Such a Moment
Haibun Poetry A breeze blows. The Syracuse wind chime behind the chaise sounds a three-note melody. A sparrow’s song answers. The neighbor behind my house hosts a party. Adults chat, children squeal and...
The World Before
Free Form Poem I married young before I knew the world, before I knew how to hide my nakedness, my innocence and before I stopped accepting the unacceptable. My husband was a small...
Beauty in the Break Up
Love Poem What makes a man move on? When his mind floods with images of her, of them. The way she would impersonate a dinosaur to force a smile or how they transformed the...
