Tagged: new poetry

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End of the Hyphen

Brother, it’s not like I want to marry it! I only like leftover 90’s correctness a little more than you. The reason I lug around this appendage is not to ruin your life with...

Hot Spring 0

Tempestuous Sea

I sailed a sea of dreams in hope to find a heart so pure, and free of crippling doubt. I had her pictured in my restless mind, before I knew to wake and seek...

Asian Lady 1

Feed Me (with your love)

You are the air I need, Drowning in this pool of life. You are my oxygen, Pure and refreshing. Where do I lay my head, For your healing. You are the best place to...

Sunset 0

Home?

Eyes stinging in the stale air around me I watch the sun rise below me A new world lies before me. Am I home? Exclamations I can’t understand Stranger’s faces in a foreign land...

Head to Wall 0

Like Never Before

You hurt deep down and regret, immensely, while the invisible wall in your room plays tricks with your mind. You sing a song out loud: “One two three, one two three, There is a...

San Francisco 0

City By The Bay

The fog is yet lingering on my skin The salted sea crystallizing on my lips Trances of the place I had always been Golden Gates welcoming every eclipse Massive burritos from sidewalk taco trucks...

She and the Leopard 1

Licking

Men in Beauty eat their eyes in strange chambers unknown While little girls dragonfly for tranquils fool told, A crawling leaf might find itself strung out upon the grass, But I for one still...

Dew 0

Girl

Unaccustomed to long lashes finding out which way she can be a flower or something close to further apart, each finger caresses tall grass a nurturing father ahead of his time yet behind her...

English Haibun, Cooking Pan 0

Holiday Epilogue

English Haibun Poem   Oil cracks on the frying pan in the kitchen. Dice in a boggle bubble rattle. I just can’t stop plays on the black-and-blue mini radio Frankie got for Christmas. Aroma...

Winter Forest 0

Winter Night

Trees wrapped in fog Bundled on the hilltops Twilight weaving A silver blue shawl. Pale cheeks, flashing eyes Running through the shadows Fallen leaves, broken twigs A forest of obstacles. Tripping through rocky mud...

Free Verse Poems, American Flag 0

Psalms for a Dying People

Free Verse Poems   By the shabby shag covering on the sofa, we sat down in banal indifference when we turned on Sunday Night Football cheering like Romans while Nero set aflame candles of...

Hey Stacks 0

Weighting

We can write these words in many ways Carrying them differently in the satchels of our minds As if books bound by leather Pressed together in perfect lessons Conglomerated between desire and expectation Some...