Poems

Pain plays games with our physical self, as we take physical measures to protect our emotional self.

WHO SHALL LOOK OUT FOR OUR KIDS DOES ANYONE KNOW ?
PARENTS MUST TRAIN UP THEIR CHILDREN IN THE WAY...

Space at a premium
in our apartment
lettered and numbered b44
at Highland Manor,...

I just planted a pumpkin patch
for who for what for why would you ask
because I got hundreds...

In 1977, you starred in an episode of Doctor Who.
If you hadn't died, today you would've turned 82...

LIFE DANCE
Fine is the wine drops from your lips;
To dance and to sing, I hold your hips;...

INNER FLAME
Tumble into a pool of molten rocks nearby….
clutched each atom on my chassis in...

SOULFUL, POWERFUL
Just a few steps of
a divine dance
To my own love of music,
...

Lost in an empty space.
No longer part of the human race.
Darkness blinds my once happy eyes...

Beseech my soul beneath the weeping willow,

Distended wolf and sheep mending into one,...

Burnt umber is the color of the clay
Red orange the color of the fire flames
Dusty charcoal...

She was to pretty for makeup, nor did she ever wear it. That all changed when she met him, he wore her...

From his hole in the wall bars, to our home he put holes in the walls and left scars.

mommy said it...

Dear Dad,

Why would you choose to bring me into your world of hatred?
If you didn't have...

We did not want it
But there we all were
Remnants and bits of us
Smiles with throats...

In your eyes
the captured moonlight,
floating in a pool of
gathered stars.

In...

She loves me
she loves me not
I keep picking pedals
but they never run out
...