Tagged: new poetry
Sunday Memories
Poem With tears in your eyes you told us stories about friendship, war, life and family. So we don’t forget, so you don’t forget your life that was already fading away. You came...
Treehouses
Poem About Nature Huckleberries Bountiful and almost ripe Cold lake shimmering turquoise Cooling the hot dust and bark Ripple in the water Imperceptible below the mountain Thousands of years tall Rows of trees...
Personal Paschal Mystery
Haibun Poem You took your last breath. You, the Life, died. Where you could never be, you went. Death, through yours, becomes the door to life. My cousin, who could sit still no...
Along the Bones
Free Verse Poetry See them as they race through the sinews and along the bones Interwoven with their preordained infrastructures ill-afforded them by freedoms Products of existing where they were born and expanded...
Kish and My Left Foot
Poem O, sister of my heart You are no longer the Deviation of my mind The purge in my sole Or the ivory footsteps You walk alone in Midnight skies along Trees that...
The Life Theatre
Poem It breaks my heart to see you in pain, unhappy, tired, inanimate like a puppet on strings held by this marvellous creature of sorrow. The scissors are lying on the floor. Too...
A Great Way to Displace Unwanted Matter
Poem about Memory Fume Fret Fumble over hands that fail to pay attention where needed Yesterday we all but shared Tonight stand alone is the order Fumble Easy words stick in the throat...
Seventh Annual Fun Run
Haibun Poem Parents in T-shirts and shorts herd their hyperactive children to the starting line. We ignore the green-shirted volunteer speaking through a bullhorn. Other volunteers attempt to corral us to one-half of...
