Best Adjoining Poems

My poetry garden of late has lain untended and forlorn.
I succumbed to shock and dismay upon entering recently, for I observed that
great disagreement had erupted...

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When tons of doom filled nights fall on your head,
hot embers glow and fires burn unabated,
you recall her last breath and wish you were dead.
In...

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Gnarled tree rooted firm, fallen bark,
abundant earthen ground cradles.
Horned larks and thrushes beat their wings,
wavering within sun's gold rays.
Lace shade dance a hush call, seep...

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small gifts - 
contributing to other's happiness? 

# show me a man or woman of simple mind
people who we commonly term as slow #

point out ====>
people 
of simple...

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Come wrestle with a gator!
Said the poster at the fair.
With tape around its mouth, it looked
Pathetic in its lair.

Yet in a cage adjoining it,
A tortoise...

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This is the last poem on the history of Felicity, a person I know from correspondence with a friend abroad.  No relation of mine.

In...

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It is 3:00 a.m. on an icy cold winter morning.
A piercing alarm shatters the silence at the station, and
he is sped away on a flashing...

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T~he minds eye closes and envisages the overflowing of true love from one's
H~eart, gravitating to thy One and Only;
E~scaping in conjunction with

B~rackish water adjoining to...

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When tons of doom filled nights fall upon your head,
embers glow fierce and fires burn unabated.
Recalling her last breath and wish you were dead
in poem's...

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Martha was rudely awaken on Monday morning
With the phone call we all dread
“Mrs Palmer we regret to inform you
That your husband Edward is dead”
She thought...

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Accessible,adjacent,adjoining
Akin and alongside-
A man made for us.

Close,connected,contigious,
Neighbourly and nigh-
A man made for us.

Mentor,mediator,moderator
'Twixt and between-
A man made or us.

Advocate and honest broker
Intervening interceder-
A man made...

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Looking through poetry both old and new
in the bookstore down the street
A certain paperback caught my eye
and I carried it to my seat
I opened the...

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It is always there,
never quite within range
where the mind can snare
some shadowy form, or shape
an outline and hold it long enough 
to name. 
It waits...

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Good Morning     1/2
East West North & South


Birds and flowers said, Good Morning to not yet visible Sun
The Butter flies, Black bee...

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Well, here I am sitting on the golf course
Watching the fireworks display overhead
Yes, I know I'm not as big as a horse
But at least one...

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