In These Streets Where We Walked
"the future was not big enough
to hold the plans of which we talked."
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- May 19, 2020
- 2 min
Set Fire to the Rain
"Now you have a separate fate
and may soon find another mate
but you are one I'll never hate
find it's just a love too late."
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- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
I Will Never Ask You
"There are so many things
you will stumble over
as you forge ahead
without me into the future."
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- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
Moments of My Son
"It would be the moment
your young sister asked
if you could dance in a silly way
and you mimicked her perfectly."
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- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
Descent to Nowhen
"Two in the morning
drinking decaf again;
hating that king-size
torture slab of cotton
and memory foam
that gives no comfort."
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- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
Wooden Spoon
"It was a gift, a silly thing,
made by my child in second grade,
not meant for anything special
once brightly colored in vegetable dyes"
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- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
From a Father
"For your sake I stood tall
unwilling to see
disappointment in those
ever fresh eyes.
I hope you will always be
my adoring child."
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- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
Heart Inflamed
"Unquenched fire under a deluge;
pouring cool love onto hot coal
has not provided a refuge,"
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- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
White Funeral
"So two days after standing to "I do"
heart's sinking at the same altar;
never a wife, ever a blushing bride"
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- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
Dreams, ... and then?
"Her flights to the sky reveal
new horizons, new journeys -
the fortune of never ending quests
and so life ever begins anew"
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- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
I Never Think of Her
"I never think of her
when leaf buds make a sheen
of ghostly green upon the trees
or when azaleas bloom."
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- May 14, 2020
- 1 min
Worn Down
"Melted away are my protests
and nowhere can be found
the firm resolve never to let
anyone onto this solitary isle."
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- May 14, 2020
- 1 min
Angry Love (Etheree)
"Ire
rising
with the tide
overwhelms me
tearing words from lips
never should have been heard"
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