Best Coattails Poems

The universe revolves around patterns and numbers.
Like an insomniac knowing not the meaning of the word slumber.
To say it's a big place would be a...

Read more of this work...

my muse and I - riding on the coattails of infinity


...

Read more of this work...

Again words have failed me, creating a blank.
I feel like a pirate who's walking the plank.
With a head full of thoughts that will plunge to...

Read more of this work...

Verses in italics by Jesse Whitehead
Verses in normal font by Timothy Hicks



birds in tuxedos
marching through snow
stifled laughter
 
a pair of short legs
behind the coats
 
patient...

Read more of this work...

The pendulum swings
(Left to right)

Zenith approaches
The vortex opens up…

With head spinning
My spin is heading
Towards your light
On the coattails of a watch and chain…

Tumbling down the...

Read more of this work...

through
thick fog
tall ship
in silence
gliding
autumn
on its
coattails



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on November 5, 2018...

Read more of this work...

Sorry ,
My friend and confident of days old

Do not fret
Regret is wasted until the cost is met

I still hold you in high regard 
I still...

Read more of this work...

If I Were A Millionaire

If I were a millionaire....
There goes the plaintive cry of a popular song..
What a catchy phrase to incite one to dream...

Read more of this work...

It began with rain, pelting
yellow daffodils to the ground.
Sleet rode rain's coattails,
staccato dings on our windshield.

In the empty parking lot,
black-lettered buses stood
empty; no church today.

Through...

Read more of this work...

You ask, Do I believe in miracles? Have I seen healing outside the Bible?
Is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit accessible –
To me and you,...

Read more of this work...

To steal Moon's glow in troughs beneath my feet
as earth recedes and clouds embrace my flight;
a weightlessness and joy become my meat
and angels reach to...

Read more of this work...

That's my dad for you... getting his hands deep into the knitty-gritty, when most others would just back off a safe distance away saying, "No...

Read more of this work...

My kid sister, nosy parker, 
sneaky peeker, what a pest! 
always hangin' on my coattails, 
never fails, unwelcome guest. 
Precocious tomboy, she would try 
to...

Read more of this work...

Politicians put their souls for sale
So they can sip cocktails
Riding the coattails of the working class
It's a mass barrage of phonies and poison gas
But everyone's...

Read more of this work...

I try to establish strong mental footholds
In resemblance to fort knox physical strongholds
Through repentance I lost the spiritual blindfold
So every sentence I mock material billfolds

I...

Read more of this work...