Best Running Back Poems

You sat there crying with tears rolling down you face
Asked me why I didn’t show you any compassion
All I could say was that: 
‘I’m just...

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POINTING TO THE PROBLEMS 
  {Bivouacs}

Beat down with legal fees
Tied up with taxes;
Tripped up with mortgages;
Ripped off with student loans
Insulted with insurance
Telephone updates.

Out of...

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 Reverie … 
 
Maybe I was dreaming, the season was the spring, 
Blissful, joyful, youthful, I lived it like a king. 
 
Maybe I...

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~My Tricycle~

Christmas  eve,
I could not help but peek.

There it was, a blue and pinkish bike.
With streamers all for me...

A ride, I wanted to feel...

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She comes to bat with the score tied three to three.
Staring out at the pitcher,
she goes into her stance, 
just hoping the ball will come...

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A teen when Mom died

Five young brothers and sisters

Dunn supported them

Pro football player with heart

Started running for his life


Written for Brian Strand’s Ekphrasis contest. ...

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1969, two boys on the run
But on the run 
To have much fun
 
Monday night, Boys Brigade
Where on this evening
A life will fade
 
The older...

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People and animals are helpless on the street of any city,
regarded as worthless, society just passes them by, 
empty and hollow, . . . 
they...

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In midst of night,
When I was deep in slumber,
The memory rattled,
Eyes sunk with fear,
Saw the houses crumble,
The trees tremble,
The thunder storm made me nimble,
The ocean...

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They promised to never leave each other, never say goodbye,
Even when their hands parted, and they went their ways. 
He never knew until it was...

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Mary had a little lamb, everyone knows that's true
But Mary loves all pets so, she’s added on a few.
What Mary Had
Mary had a little frog,...

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Diarrhea and Constipation,
oh how I hate those two
One has you running all the time,
the other has you feeling
like a log is wedged inside of you
Those...

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A CAT, A HORSE AND JUDE

I am a tabby, with one green eye and the other blue,
My human mummy always says “North I love you’,
And...

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The pain in my chest wont stop pounding.
My salty tears wont cease to flow from my blue eyes. 
I get cut by a razor every...

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dealing with too much worry
never any good news
I'm thinking of running away
running back to you

I need someone to hold me
a different point of view
I'm thinking...

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