Poems

I had a green parakeet and Sparkle was his name.
When he died thirty-five years ago, it was a shame...

You're just another Ticket Purchase...

While they enjoy your spending money...

You might...

A drifterʻs song, to nowhere we belong,
To sing of grifts, as we drift from to drift,
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Candles glowing on a birthday cake

Waxen soldiers, short and bright

...

I gave you a third of my life
Almost exactly 10 years of it
After so many years you changed...

Options they give...

They don't tell you the consequences...

You worked hard...

...

LET ME WALK AWAY
Now do not cease me, let me walk away
And go and escape to far beyond the...

Eyes are like half closed windows,
My soul rest in peace in a dark corner,
Heartbeat bends,...

You lied to me when you were sober
But told me the truth when you were drunk
Sober you,...

OH TO BE 14 AGAIN

I look behind me at the road which is littered with the mistakes I've made...

The vessel navigates alone
from the day he was born
till the hours of a new dawn,
And...

Wow, it’s so surprising to see sand on a beach.
So cold and hard pressed below my feet.

So...

Deep dive.
Silence.
Cosmic
silence.
Everywhere,
not a peep....

Smoke on the battlefield

Witches stand in smoky haze

A prophecy foretold...

POTATO PICKING IN THE SIXTIES

It was one summer, must have been '65.

What had been...

ECHOES OF LOVE
Love's an echo, soft and low,
A gentle breeze, where feelings flow.
A...

HER ARMS ENFOLD
The womb, a haven, now a distant shore,
A tiny soul, a life forevermore....