Dark April Poems

April 15 Lament Watching the News

While watching the news
I am constantly lamenting
The sad state of political discourse
In these increasingly
Disunited United States of America.

Where we have...

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Sometimes I think
My computer is plotting against me
And only me!
Trying deliberately to drive me mad.

My computer knows
When I am busy,
Then it throws a hissy fit.


Constantly...

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Civil War 2.0 

Reading the latest polls 
Showing that President Biden
 And Ex-President Trump 
Tied in a dead  heat
In the polls
Particularly in the swing...

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And even how small the Problems are.
When you know you can't Tell your parents, because they will think you see everything bizarre, it makes them...

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Idyllic reverie during break of day

May today bring unbridled bliss 
delivered courtesy sunshine kissed
giving Midas a run for his money.

When the last trace of night...

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     In Battery Point, two centuries stayed
     Settlers’ cottage, compact, sandstone stoic
     Paired...

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Raindrops and showers,
April opens its windows
looking at the flowers.

Cloudy and sunny days,
cold and warm feelings
crossing different ways.

April has magic sleeves
that you can hide or show,
as...

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April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa

The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift...

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Under the broad sweep of endless sky,
In that rare and hallowed moment
When the moon, in audacious stealth,
Edges before the sun,
A quietude descends, profound and deep.

The...

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Oh April
I hear you tapping
Tapping on sweet Spring’s back door
Running through the streets after dark
Undisciplined, unchaperoned
Chattering in a fledgling nest
Peeking from behind softened soil
Basking in...

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In my earthy, sad and waterless heart
I was caught in the trap of danger 

In this sea of ??passion, my only ship
Wrapped in your thoughts,...

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in the flares of twilight
This gloomy night of patience will burn someday
We are the niche of hope, says the ashes of dawn
For every painful thorn...

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      Pressed on perforated lines by a lonely playmate 
    ...

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My losing struggle with not so easy "chair"

buoyed me aloft beyond
outer limits of the twilight zone
where dark shadows
lurked along green acres
creating hee haw sounds.

Aforementioned adventure
occurred...

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Once a pawn a time within castellated bishopric

We purchased 2020 Hyundai Elantra
at Enterprise Car Rental
1207 West Ridge Pike
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428
April thirteenth two thousand twenty three
witnessed...

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