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...
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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...
Calling Names
Free Verse Poems You keep calling me names and James Will’s tarred shadow swings from Cairo’s fragrantly stark magnolias repeating Colts’ reframing shells upon the Shawnees’ skinned at its tannery. You keep calling...
A Marigold May Wonder
Cherish to weep A wish to die To know Pain I lay in the Sun but I am not the Sun I feel the warmth The sky is clear I feel the sadness but...
Diminishing Time
The signs of age appear for the first time I am faced with physical restrictions that will only deteriorate from here Dulled pains making me irritable altering my states of mind making me say...
A Collection of Short Poems
Another Angle Wind loops through the rain. Dark, grey, cloudy silence. No more rocks, worms, and twisted corners to battle with. The sky will be blue from another angle. Mist It falls, soft...
The Reckoning
I did what my mother and her mother done before me… sit down… shut up! Just listen; stay in your place… your worth is no more than your race. Tears fell from fear, deceived…...
Too Much Murakami
I’ve fallen down a well, Descending through stretching darkness The mysteries of the universe flashing past me Like road signs, Too fast to read. And I could fall forever, Feel the cool comfort of...
Sombre Sky Sailor
I imagined his ghost standing and waving from the docks As I sailed into the sky With my heart in pandora’s box Joining my scarred sword Unspoken words Velvet riding cape And caged birds...
Cup of Tea, Cup of Coffee
Haibun Poem Eighteen years earlier across the pond, a cup of hot Earl Grey tea. Hot bitter-sweetness spreads out from the first sip. Daylight fills the living room through cream curtains. The hum...
Out of… (Ordinary’s Reckoning)
Deal… deal, deal, deal Come, be a perfect excuse to stay outside fear’s halo shhh! On your tiptoes, now plie, demi-point turn toward blackened fireplace blow kisses in cold air while suitable mates trudge...
The Sand Pear
The sun has descended Jersey’s belly as I climb the hill to home. A cold front presses Liberty Street. An old woman flaps beneath a flood of light like moth stripped of a wing...
