Author: Kristen Green

Antique Store 0

The Trip

Today we ate blueberry pancakes with warm maple butter after waiting an hour for our table at the baking company to take the train upstate As the yellowing trees whooshed past our windows and...

Searching for the Perfect Sunset 0

Hinterland

You There As I see you from this close I can imagine worser things still within my mind But you may like that It’s unfair that one should be left so broken and away...

Sparkler 1

The Blaze

Today there was a fire in Williamsburg A huge storage facility went up in smoke 200 firefighters fighting the heat against the January cold As ash filled the air with the familiar smells of...

Wine Chats 0

Conversations

Swirling As wine in a glass To aerate, to breathe That the terroir and the vintage and the winemaker Can mean as much as each individual grape Each sigh Every word Raised and pressed...

Short Poem 0

Constellations

Short Poem   You sat next to me and held my hand as we watched the play That reflected the highs and lows of a couple’s life As they shopped for beds Argued on...

New York City 0

Other Tuesdays

Other Tuesdays were not as bleak The trees held more leaves Nature’s warmth still held us close As the fall winds called for change Other Tuesdays were better off spent There were cobblestone streets...

recharge poem 0

One Day Last Week

Poem   you are the warmth in my heart that melted the glass that pierced the veil that covered my widowed heart as the their freed withholdings fell down from the counter like waterfalls...

silence poem 0

Between Two

Poem   To think of the disparity between what we feel and what we tell Each other you would almost think at times the other didn’t Deign to say anything at all with everything...

True Poems 0

What Was Lost

True Poems   We watched the poets upon the stage Far better ones than I Ones that melt your heart speak their tongues swirl their breaths intermingling their emotions with the crowd As they...

inspiring poem about life 0

Of Storms

Inspiring Poem   To know that the thatches will hold To know that the storm will break To know of a forecast beyond today I say to you this: These books are my life...

poetry for lovers apart 0

Dearest

Poem   Remind me not that we are far apart my love Instead embrace the distance as the closeness Lend the idea of your body to mine as words to paper Sparrows to song...

poem about social issues 0

The Man

Poem The most heartbreaking thing I saw today Was a homeless man in Union Square with a sign that read HOMELESS VETERAN 82 Please help any work I’m a plumber Please need old clothes...