Arizona Poems - Poems about Arizona

1. To Fly My father was an admiral, and so I joined the Navy. Back in fifty-eight to be a pilot seemed the way to go: ship-sailors were committed to a crate. Scrub decks? Paint rusting gunwales? That’s a ‘no’. The Skyhawk was my weapon (and my fate!) 2. Rubicon Crossing Some nations follow rainbows, I am told: we thought, in Vietnam, ‘search and...

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Show me shimmering light With your utmost might Couldn’t fight the fright inside There’s nowhere I can hide…hide… I cried aloud in the middle of the night For you to be my delight tonight, tonight But, this morning, I’m growing up and moving on I’m moving on and letting go after the dawn, dawn Almost breaking, almost waking up from my sleep in...

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If you miss Arizona that much, It’s not best to write a poem, The best thing is to take a plane ticket, If California tempts you as before, The best thing is to take a plane ticket. O cross the Atlantic, It’s better than reading children’s books, Visiting Beverly Hills or Phoenix under the sun, It’s better than writing a love song, It’s better...

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I see your mane, in each passing cloud, the smoky stallion’s poll to the withers, its giddyup and gallop, at midday peak, in this arid Tucson where cowboys trod. On the open road, contented and sleepy, I see the shadows that form like a blanket over the mountains with their historic shapes - points, arches, dips and waves corral me. I see...

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I dreamt upon a blessed night that suddenly the world went right man turned from darkness back toward Light – I dreamt upon a blessed night that evil had finally been defeated – the Devil, sorely retreated for man had rejected darkness in favor of Light – and all of God's angels, rejoicing reached down into the earth-grave plucking from ashen depth all those long deceived...

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hasty journey south tombstone circle k wade through wanna be cowboys and rv queens to check out counter and zip outta the parking lot onto the open road only to be cut off by a paint truck laying lines really? crawling down the highway slower than a snail no way to get back home now slow motion anesthesia fade kicking in paint truck procession will it ever end finally interstate cruising and bless my soul heart of saguaro forest rising...

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sweet pungent fermented hay dark and warm slithers of light spit through the cracks of the warped weathered wood old pie tin lies in the dirt in its corner where the mean old bull snake drank milk with the cats and kept the rats and rattlers at bay there's a buzzing and a hissing on the other side of this rickety door inside...

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Arizona I live in the great western state of Arizona. She is beautiful to me. Her mountains are high, and they touch the sky. Her rivers are wide and full of fish. The deserts are cold, and hot, all on the same day, nearly at the same time. She is not for the faint of heart, but...

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Drip drip drop drop. Don't seem able to stop the drips and the drops; water finding new ways in, to seep sop, seep sop, rain has such a watery plop; slop slop slop slop without a stop: from the bottom to the top~ full empty full empty, in my living room not a plug to pull; slosh slosh~ Oh my God! Oh my gosh! Till,...

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I am an old man a deep well an epoch marriage a raven haired beauty five above average kids Orion deckhand and cook teacher of the year Bible study leader jail preacher song worship leader NAU graduate --graduate school ASU graduate --undergraduate school life guard breakfast cook English tutor Archie Brokeshoulder's well puller grain elevator operator pizza chef dishwasher mental hospital patient prisoner welder all region linebacker wrestler pole vaulter 3 high schools 4 jr highs 2 elementary schools 8 states 2 dads 5...

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All I've seen is a black star in the night sky, We fell asleep after our cross-country awry. In my dream, I saw weak, cynical starlight, Subtle as a map packed toward the plight. City by the Bay up against our New York, Oh, guys burn you agile with real torque! A dull star of little utility in the night...

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Association of the Living Dead Republicans In India, several years ago A man falsely claimed his brother Was dead so he could inherit the family assets, The dead brother had to fight To be declared legally not dead And contest the will. “The Association of the Living Dead” Became a movement Of thousands of people. For in India apparently, It was a thing...

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Sometimes our nature steps into the wild Walking against the light into the shade For it was her who could not bear a child Politely took a part in what was played Dying undear to dark decisions made The past became a man and woman's pain Into the night a thief took their Elaine Consuming each with arctic hearts to break While kissing...

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©1996 RICO LEFFANTA ...

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I race toward my workspace, now battle station Code Zebra, ASAP, batten down the hatches! Ka-boom! Boom! Boom! A trance-like sensation Shipmates scramble for smokes and matches Ray, Dale, and Russ don’t show I think: run, jump; if you die, die free Not trapped and sealed in steel below Not buried alive like me! Kaboom! Overhead bolts shoot from the...

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