Inattentive Poems - Poems about Inattentive

...Am I really this old, so many ghosts beckoning? —Michael R. Burch Sleepyheads! I recite my haiku to the inattentive lilies. —Michael R. Burch Stillness: the sound of petals drifting dow......Read the rest...

...These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others. Am I really this old, so many ghosts beck......Read the rest...

...In the mirror, one day, the stranger will stand and you will gaze long, The shadow of what was, shall fade into the unknown to be. You allowed others to be the carriers of self, and they misdirecte......Read the rest...

...In the mid 80's, I took a job as a receptionist for a wholesale floral company. Encased in a glass claustrophobic space, I answered their busy phone lines as I gazed at the warehouse walls of green......Read the rest...

...Gaelic: it was my mother's native tongue, and her grandmother’s elder tongue. Grandfather was a Romani gypsy, horses naturally understood his voice. My lips follow English, a tangled language ......Read the rest...

...Being in the mind of a savage. All I know is how to act ferociously. Manipulating the minds of the weak, fearful, and the victims. Beating them into submissive. Emasculating the strongest, just......Read the rest...

...SPIRIT AND STONE & A GREAT LAKE NEARBY Her father was a difficult contradiction, annoyingly similar to a certain type of teacher, minister or priest, to a certain type of imam, rabbi or occa......Read the rest...

...First-Person Personal By Sy Roth Here adrift wrapped in a coat of heebeejeebies Fearful of using the first-person personal Masking it instead by holograms of itself, Playful non-entities cavor......Read the rest...

...in an angst- saturated moment i find you there in my travel bag, injured by the neglect of a poorly screwed-on sparkling water bottle cap: m......Read the rest...

...Here they come, not one by one but the majority out of reach doubting reasons to impeach. It's okay to have a bully president tweeting nonsense, bias, wordings without precedent, stroke ......Read the rest...

...Was it something I said inadvertently Did my eyes reveal uncertainty O, why'd you leave Was my rapt listening inattentive Or passion's kisses uninventive O, how I grieve Alcohol, not once......Read the rest...

...Images of incineration interrupt Infernal imagery imposes in intricate intervals, illegible to those ill with ignorance Inadequate ideologies imply impoverish ways, never to be incriminated no matt......Read the rest...

...You get no breaks from dumb mistakes For when you’re inattentive, You’re bound to miss or else dismiss A step that is preventive. An extra glance may make the chance Of messing up much lower, ......Read the rest...

...Deliver my shattered soul – It has done more harm than good I felt darkness take its toll When I wore the abyss shirt with a hood… Shadows dare to consume me Darkness will disappear drastical......Read the rest...

...Where then the emotive happiness with such procrastinated enchantment brings desirous supposedly encountered and romantic wanderings heady cadence which pins the inattentive to the skins of longi......Read the rest...