Best Reacting Poems

Every family has them
These unsettling times these misunderstandings
Times when many things come into play
In most cases these wee spats are soon over and forgotten
But sometimes...

Read more of this work...

A mother’s ears become magic
the minute she hears her newborn cry—
nature turns up the volume
like at no other time.

The slightest cry, whimper, sneeze, cough, hiccup,
sounds...

Read more of this work...

~ I DREAM a DREAM ~

I dream a dream so placid~~
**
A commitment that burns every morning brink
I feel the pain as I slip into my...

Read more of this work...

Do you remember?
We lay in the moonlight, exhausted and content,
Moments from perfection, skin glistening with moisture,
Salty and sweet from love - love so amazing
That it...

Read more of this work...

Teardrops fall like a cleansing rain,
splashing against your broken heart.
And washed away by years of hurt,
empty promises drift apart.

Your fate is all too familiar;
you found...

Read more of this work...

Last evening I noticed another disconcerting Trump headline.
This felt and smelled more like a deadline
for disintegration
than a lifeline,
a bootstrap, if you will,
toward integrity of health...

Read more of this work...

I met the most amazing woman today
So pretty, such a looker all the way
Everything about her had me reacting 
In the most sensual ways
So interesting...

Read more of this work...

All organic parties
committed to EarthTribe
as My HomeTeam
could become EarthPatriots
experiencing every day EarthDay;
which, of course 
we are revolving through
together,
more resiliently 
than ecopolitically polarizing
AnthroSupremacist Apartheid.

Speaking from our...

Read more of this work...

I reminisce -
My entering sixteen 
Though looked fourteen 
Full of perplexities of adolescence 
More of vigor and less of sense
Thighs bulging out of my half-trouser-veins...

Read more of this work...

Silly Sally sells books, this week there's a sale -
               New...

Read more of this work...

Driving down a dark street,
raging havoc 
on the person one seeks.
Smokin' on the Mary J.,
displays the premonitions
of one's own mission,
to strike out
with all deadly intentions.
seeing...

Read more of this work...

Insurmountable
These feelings seem to overpower
As your breath seduces me
Calls to me 
Excites the very part of me
That seems to always seek more
And needs more

I am...

Read more of this work...

My mossy ferns awakened, anticipating something wonderful and new.
They are coming, the violets whispered. Their tiny voices flowing through.

Faerie parades whimsically teaching my woodland creatures...

Read more of this work...

she had enough curiosity to kill a thousand cats but not about sex

she awoke to him on top of her AGAIN then a quick blow...

Read more of this work...

white balloon of pulse beats
its sluggish hops on March land
matted with half melted snow
freed from a nearby high rise balcony 
cut from its red and...

Read more of this work...