Absence

I found myself loving all the wrong people and hiding things I really wanted. I was a people pleaser, but I...

In Italy
When you order your meal it sounds like
Sophia Loren
Reading a menu with a...

Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated...

After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible...

I walked past them again, the family
They didn't look at me
They were busy
Busy with...

Silence,
Empty rooms and unworn shoes,

A coldness in the air,

Your whispers echo in...

While these eyes may not be
what they once were ..
Do you really think me so blind
...

The pyromaniac within yours truly
beckons sacrificial ritual
mine burning (man's)
...

Death no longer jars, nixes,
and rattles mine sense and sensibilities
without pride nor...

Moving fast, yet I feel nothing in front of me
Let the beings walk by

Losing touch with...

Last rays of wicked flickering candlelight
even to this present day
(October 4th, 2023)...

Continental drift spelled birth
once spelled Pangaea,
in early geologic time,
a...

Glad for birth write to express views
aware cunning linguists
will apply figurative screws...

Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash...

Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would...

O’ sail beloved on Mistress Sea
Her briny call beckons thee
I be thy landlubber true
...