Category Archives: Poems

He steps from the screened porch at 4:06 PM, just before the birds fly in to feed. The feeders he filled early this morning are calling them, tempting them beyond their capacity for reluctance. His presence, sitting on a molding, … Continue reading →

Ya see? I want my money’s worth so when I buy a book, say in my “wise-fool” year of college because my professor said to “read it!” and it teaches me something I didn’t know, confirms something I wasn’t sure … Continue reading →

Pray only under a clear night sky to see in the depths of the stars, how far off and away stretches the ever expanding responsibilities of God. Pray not beneath that limiting canopy of days blue sky, that cocoon enclosing … Continue reading →

You’ve heard of it. Dark Matter. Makes up 93.8% of the universe, but Science doesn’t know what it is. I Know! It is Evil. (not as modifier, rather noun) always growing… I mean we don’t seem to be getting kinder, … Continue reading →

There is no farewell like a good bowel movement. Good sex leaves you panting for more, soon! A good book will lead to a second read. Travel in Spain leads to travel in France. A 4-Star chefs dinner’ is always … Continue reading →

Travels done. Holy Days accomplished. Gifts unwrapped. Suitcases emptied. Dirty clothes washed, dried, hung in the closet, folded in the dresser drawers Time, at last, to sit! No, not at the dinning room table. Not at my roll-top desk. Not … Continue reading →

Picture me, a scuba diver, tank strapped to my back, deep-dived-down among rainbow coral and flashing-by-fast-fish. There I am, submerged in that wet world… Now! (Just for the hell of it!) change the slide. Picture me a believer in soul … Continue reading →

An infinity before me and an infinity before me. Yes! “Before me” as in “In front of” and “Before me” as in , “Back then, a long way back but not like when I wasn’t , but when I wasn’t … Continue reading →

Ya know, I’ve tried to decipher some other poets poetry but can’t. It seems to me they strive to make a goddess of obscurity! Why must poems be writ like puzzles with missing pieces to defy even the wisest puzzle … Continue reading →

Life is the terrible war in which everyone dies. But you might win anyway, facing the beast bravely, screaming your truth, ,at least once, to the one you love lying together in your muddy, bloody foxhole, guns blazing against the … Continue reading →