London Crowds
Contemporary Poem High rise buildings Shattered high hopes Wound together like Tethered tight ropes Won’t someone smile For me in the crowd? How can they all Pretend to be so proud? Coffee in...
Tagged: rebellion
At The Rally
Abstract Poems Grab your coat tails! An encroachment on slippery slopes Because your megaphone gives you Ephemeral rights over the air It pierces using your voice Would it give a permanent View to...
Sleep Over
Poem My nephew turned five and asked me to sleep over the other day. We’d spent most of it together: going for dim sum, then a puppet show, kicking the Hover Ball, building...
Our Post-Mortem
Haibun Poetry I sit on your beige sofa across from you in your living room. Mike — your husband, my fraternity brother— prepares the VHS tape. Of your wedding. There is a moment...
Battling Myself
Poem My voice flows in time, I am the energy. All eyes on me, climbing steadily. My words etched in your mind indelibly. One of a kind, a pedigree, top dog, better believe...
Bury Me With a Smile
Inspirational Poem When I die, bury me with a smile So everyone will know my life was worth while. Put me in the box, but leave out the suit. Let me wear street...
My Proclamation To You
Love Poems My proclamation to you I proclaim to you, You are the soul Bringing my life to life. Your nourishing love Is the instrument To my salvation. Encompassing my heart ardently. Possessing...
First Easter after Dad
Haibun Poetry Chocolate-centered pastries; strawberry shortcake; sliced pineapple, melon and cantaloupe: all on platters spread across the row of tables. A pitcher of homemade red wine sits near empty glasses. Mira and her...
Not Too Many and Not Too Few
Poem Trying to lightly find connection by trimming the tree of lost affection Cut too deeply with a desire for more Hurts and pulls the roots from the core Continue to trim those dying...
Closer – Animus
Abstract Poetry Context based on sex Forever saying what’s best to have a bedroom victory tune becomes redundant, never misses its mark acquiesce with aplomb then figure out the fallout in somebody else’s...
