Mother Blank Verse Poems

Accountancy 

It was a quiet day, I was driving around 
with my camera, but not in the mood
to take pictures of my Savannah
which is today a flat...

Read More

The Bumblebee 

He grew up in a poor household, thought
sofa-beds were the norm, but his mother
an eager reader had many books that were
given and sometimes...

Read More

Rat Catcher

I feel repulsed when he is near, I ought to have compassion
for this cripple, a twisted foot. an arm that does not 
function as...

Read More

Our numbers continue to grow at speed.
Now we approach eight thousand million.
But we grow at the expense of wildlife	
as we now commandeer most of their...

Read More

— Their adulterous ones too?
— Are mothers' love and wives' faith
    The same or synonymous?
2.27.2024

No comments, please!
...

Read More

the visit


A knock on the door to my conscience
it was my brother, I hadn't seen for fifty years
while I have grown old, he has stayed...

Read More

Unter den Linden 


I have a soft spot for the German language
 when a toddler, I had free access to a military camp where they...

Read More

He becomes envious of her power 
so tries to muscle in and take control.
He shall be master of the planet earth
and she shall be servant...

Read More

A tree in love

By the old road, before it meets a widened way
 in a nearby stands two trees close together
 we can see they...

Read More

Meeting a princess

It was, according to the old, the coldest winter
any could remember, the wise said it was because 
the war had disturbed the weather...

Read More

Europe's cold heart

Evening storm, brown leaves, torn torn lose from

the mother tree blows heather and dither, if lucky, lands huddled in a backyard corner

I think...

Read More

a short memory

There were and still are two airports on the flatland 
outside of our town, therefore many German soldiers 
where stationed here.
Since roads, and...

Read More

The Mariner ashore

the night in the hallway paled into a yellowish screen
showing a black&white movie ca 1963
A time machine of memories sent him back to...

Read More

a newspaper and frost

The winter of 1947 was very cold, the country was 
exhausted, the German army that had given employment
to civilians, had surrendered and...

Read More

To lost friends
I have opened the window and inhale the summer
Some of the cottages I see, made of stone and lime are empty, their owners...

Read More