Best Fits And Starts Poems

I didn’t ask for help.
Yet someone heard
my inward crying voice
without a word.

“When the student is ready
a teacher will appear”
somehow it seems these teachers
pop up everywhere.

Their...

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the buildings gray stood grand and tall
      the proudest prize of man's bright call
      ...

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Out in the night
A wolf howls.
Dogs bark and coyotes chatter.
The birds are still;
Silence is their shroud.

Stars twinkle overhead.
Saturn turns and spins like a top.
Nothing is...

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There’s a part of you 
I cannot see or touch.  

In the dark, alone, I know 
every curve of your body.  
I could...

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Another night descends upon her heart
to serve a cup of haunting memories.
Her entrée? Shreds of long-deserted dreams.
A bitter bite compounding her unease

will be dessert. Then...

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My memory is like an ill-tempered old car
that refuses to start
on cold, miserable mornings...
or sometimes stutters
and shudders to life
in fits and starts with rattling parts

Names...

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Our bodies, like machines, break down,
Their warranties expired,
So slowly we relinquish
Certain habits we’ve acquired.

The jog morphs into walking;
The glass of wine, a sip.
The dinners switch...

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I fell in love by fits and starts
We needed time to knit our hearts;
It was your eyes that cast the spell
The promise there I loved...

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Three cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more...

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One of the greatest pals that I have ever had,
Was a high school buddy and fellow grad!
He was renowned as the notorious class clown,
And his...

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Three warriors strong, of fleeting 
Foot, beset by  columns of night’s
Thick soot, to  waadi’s tears dried 
Long and loud, waits deadly mine
With shrapnel’s...

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The day is brilliant with sunlight,
songbirds serenade the season,
maples sway to music of the spheres
melodies only they can hear.
Cabbage whites flutter and flit
above and about,...

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Silliness coupled with much humdrum
drains creative energy from the minds of children.
Bored kids, raised by televisions, make warped decisions.
Viewed daily by the hour, murder becomes...

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I'm mystified by my unruly brain
while grasping for a word, I draw a blank
like ticker tape that moves in fits and starts
elusive phrases flicker in...

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Douobting Thomas, the tom-est of tomfoolery,
Tomcat screeching at another moon.
What other metaphors can I make
For this most foul of fools?

Foolishness is one of my ...

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