Category: My Poetry
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Query
Query The sky above, the earth below, All well-ordered things where they belong. Is it too much to ask That they remain so?
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Despite It All
Despite It All Despite that devil-may-care flip of the chin, That air of nonchalance and ennui, That steely shell of indifference, That look of ultimate cool, I really care what others think, Especially of me. I was born to be concerned, Taught to sympathize and empathize, Put myself in another’s shoes. I see myself as…
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Give An Ear To The Drones
Give An Ear To The Drones The chanter is for artistry and flash Impossible notes that take no time Dancing fingers and lightning burls With nary a squeak nor squawk. Effortlessly from high A to low G And back again describing melodies Of tunes familiar to please the crowd And set the troops to a…
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Haiku #36 – Uncertainties
Uncertainties These book-bound objects Taught as examples of what Verse should never be Taught to young adults In English Lit one-o-one Of what to avoid I am terrified All this is mere doggerel Fit for derision I live in fear that My scribblings are insipid Art without merit Guilt lives within me I am subject…
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Vignette
Vignette A glance over your shoulder, Your eyes cast my way, To capture the essence of that moment. Would take a thousand words And still fall short of doing justice To the vision before my eyes.
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How Can I Help?
How Can I Help? How can I help? I sense your need. I can hear it in the tenor of your voice, The trembling in your lips. I see it in the desperation of your eyes. A surrender to forces you no longer control. Can we reach that point with dignity intact? That is the…
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Vignette
Vignette A glance over your shoulder, Your eyes demurely cast my way, To capture the essence of that moment. Would take a thousand words And still fall short of doing justice To the vision before my eyes.
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Summoned to King George’s Army
Summoned To King George’s Army Marching, marching in a row Through thicket and bracken, by forest and lake Ordered redcoats by your side Neath skies and stars so unfamiliar In a land that is not your own. King George’s men came marching through, Left in their wake the wails of children. They sought to crush…
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Maypole
Maypole Spinning round the ribbon’d Maypole Aprons, skirts and crinolines akimbo Weave in and out in patterns so dizzying Pagan celebration of spring’s renewal Music and laughter cast up to the sky. Billowing tents around shapely legs Laughing eyes and smiling lips Cheeks as pink as summer peaches Call out to young beaus of longing…
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Ideas
Ideas So much to tell. Words bubble like molten lava Rising to the surface, bursting forth In pyroclastic fury Creating the first firmament. Life as we know it Evolved on this spinning globe, Moved from sea to land Taking hold in microscopic stages Invisible In human scale. Now building islands of ideas For new life…
Palimpsest 