Category: Poetry

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3.8.2016

Poem   Remember when I said that I wrote you a poem every week for more than a year and you told me that you read a few and that they weren’t all about...

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An Adage of Pizza Day

Poem   When its late at night and all you hear is the wind rattling your window pane and a distant siren singing like a chihuahua at passersby, you might think loneliness is a...

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Dream Boats

Poem Woke up from a dream I am far away A trail of thoughts Disconnected and small A moment fleeting A moment here and gone Standing now Picking up the pieces Trying to remember...

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Memorial

Haibun Mandy — dressed in black — welcomes a line of guests. They fill the Suffern Library Meeting room to capacity. Her boys, in their dark suits, sit next to her weary mother on...

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On Writing

Spoken Word   I couldn’t get you off my mind today so instead I just Unleashed my strain of consciousness upon this Webpage which is hardly the same grand gesture as a Hand-written note...

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A Collection of Short Poems II

Collection of Poems   Soul Love A boy and girl talk of love, the windows of their souls glittering, forgetting the black backdrop of their dark mental temples setting contrast for the sparkles escaping their eyes. New love, old...

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Wild Dreaming

Poem   Looks like you spend Your free time Shopping through The windows of my eyes Your dreams! Your dreams! Looking like my sights Keep dreaming Oh, keep in that space Laying in my...

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I Will Not Beg For Mercy

Poem I can’t remember anything, the day, the night the faces, was it rum or vodka in my glass, or it was your poison, your eyes. As the sun is shining blindingly, I thank...

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Failed Breakup

Spoken Word   Don’t be a child about it Seriously Where can you get this In this form In this way In that manner Very well Is my answer and The way you do...

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Educational Sights

Haibun Brightly decorated bulletin boards show off fraction worksheets and reading logs. A table outside Ms. Flynn’s classroom has a ball suspended in water or a magnet-with magnets around. Frankie, Stephan, James and another...

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White Flames

Poem   White flames Set fire to bones: Lights me up From the inside out. My limbs are on fire, Like the kindling in a tree Licked clean to the bones By the blaze....

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Res Waterfall

Haibun   The waterfall foams as it rushes over weathered black rocks. Its steady roar is a constant, alluring song whose lyrics I almost make out. Almost. sunlight gleaming from running water just sitting...