Woman Addiction Poems

I live my life sober and clean
but once was called a bean

I started with promise and hope 
then found myself drowning in dope

I smoked a...

Read More

(Lights dim, a single spotlight illuminates Judy Garland, center stage. She wears a faded housecoat, her eyes holding a lifetime of stories. She speaks directly...

Read More

Stories, stories that was told on to me,
"A woman so pretty, with her flawless eyes.
Soft lips, clear skin and her hair dancing tonight."
My reflection, grudgingly...

Read More

The canvas shoes in Kinshasa

Once when the time was right
A sweet girl had her picture taken
because she was seven years old
and in her mind, almost...

Read More

Where I looked, I found solace.
Don't look at it anymore, it's time to let go.
So I surrendered to a woman-river's embrace.
Hemlock juice across the river...

Read More

Where I looked
Don't look at it anymore
So I surrendered to a woman-river
Hemlock juice across the river blue
I am blue-throated; Duel flaps its wings
Let's go through...

Read More

Lapsed contra dancer rediscovers his happy place

I tip figurative hat to the late Cathy Robertson, longtime (lifetime) Thomas Paine Unitarian Church member, who unwittingly and...

Read More

He yelled at me in Ewe, my friend.
I asked him to calm down.
Such an accent, powerful and forceful,
It fired me up, igniting a desire:
Passionate love...

Read More

Sister In The Clouds


I warned you about the alley filled with snakes and waste.
I told you not to walk it, I told you not to...

Read More

Howl, I said, roar at the moon
Reign I said, cast upon the land
Fill me with fury, feel me with greed
For I am the coursing blood...

Read More

When I do it I love me
When I don't I hate me

I am beautiful lying upon my bed
Open like a flower
But I'm dirty
And I won't...

Read More

The woman in the next booth was gorgeous
Ronnie started to introduce himself
Then he saw the cigarette
His mother had been a smoker

He could not abide the...

Read More

I once had a lover who was a smoker
I told him I really wish he’d quit
The smell alone was quite a choker
And his clothes were...

Read More

11
Turning the tide
On this loneliness inside
Can’t wait to wash it away
It’ll be gone someday
Then I’ll have a woman
To bare me a daughter + son
Maybe 4...

Read More

9
Cant cool the calm collected
Been at home base resurrected
Live life like a zombie corrected
To be more than human
To be in love with a woman
Is all...

Read More