Archives for Life Poems
Poem: Mirrored
That old buggaboo of finding your worth in someone else's eyes. Mirrored Reflections of my worth can’t be found in your eyes, nor yours in mine Drawn in lines and…
Poem: Nigglement
Looking all too carefully at something without form and trying to give it shape, when its charm is illusion. Nigglement I walk carelessly between fine lines, some of them drawn…
Poem: The Stove is Elsewhere
A personal favorite of mine, a treatise on why it's not a good idea to cook and write simultaneously. The Stove is Elsewhere Well, to begin with, you can’t mix…
Poem: Here and There
It seems my whole life was preparatory to leaving America to live in Europe and yet it's such a singular experience that only one in a thousand would even know…
Poem: Soft Landing
I believe this and so it becomes intimidating in its own way, because its sometimes more comfortable to hide behind words. Soft Landing When mankind outgrows its need of things,…
Poem: Under the Influence
There are those who believe and those desperate to believe. Under the Influence Astrology, it seemed to him was a good bet Because he was tired of carrying the load…
Poem: The Next Left Turn
Overwhelmed by sadness, then over it with the new day . . . but still . . . The Next Left Turn Sometimes I’m rocked by sadness But it passes,…
Poem: Snapshots Filed
That stranger passing spent 25 years becoming a corner of my peripheral vision. Snapshots Filed These streets I walk and walk again, each time more deeply lost in a constant…
Poem: Setting Fire to My Life
Ah, the genesis of my leaving all that comfort for the unknown writer's life and what I thought it meant and perhaps what it actually did. Each poet writes a…
Poem: Celebrity
Deconstruction is very hip, so why not deconstruct celebrity? Celebrity Celebrity seems a hungry mouth to feed, a demanding child that wails, stamps its foot and screams for its fifteen…