Son Blank Verse Poems

A family affair

A big hotel was built in our rather shy town
the hotel's façade faced the town's lake that
had many birds that visitors thought charming
the...

Read More

a doomed affair


when a young doctor/padre came to the convent 
to check on the nuns' health, he met the young abbess, and their world ignited
when...

Read More

Due to the extreme measures my 
identity thieves have taken in order 
to extort my American poetry from 

mafia wise guys to corruption to Jamaican...

Read More

She wandered like a gypsy to Wyoming,
Where she settled in and sojourned for a spell.
She found herself a billet at the Hog Ranch,
And son, there...

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

The Death of Art

He was an artist, a painter spending much of his time
in his mother's garage painting when not out drinking with his many...

Read More

Of late I find myself talking at length 
to my dog – just “puppy talk” at first.
Then with a more grown-up vocabulary
 
most doting dog-owners...

Read More

The Garden of Peace


lately, I have been thinking of the many religions and how each one offers the best salvation is dependent on the circumstances...

Read More

The phone rang it was Alfred, the man most likely to be my father if he confessed the relationship he had with 
Olga, the dancer...

Read More

Erik Bye was a writer, entertainer, TV personality, and easily, in the sixties and the seventies, the most popular man around.
He was born in New...

Read More

Alexander Kielland 

a Norwegian writer regarded as a fine author, if not the top drawer, but somewhere in the middle, one does not need to...

Read More

Jhon Lenox,
The messenger of the queen of science!.
Your exploding English,
Your tact to bring your rival
To dust
Has often made my heart
Forget a beat!!
I envy your students...

Read More

Hearts are meant to be opened, aren't they? 
You never failed to make me feel unloved! 
With your charming face, charismatic voice, vibrant soul 
I...

Read More

A busy Friday afternoon 

Exploding plane, but not an exploding cigar, as days of fun have long since gone.
The Byzantine Empire never left Russia, either...

Read More

When it is too late

When I was twelve I lived at a farm milking and looking after cows, but a war had ended and the...

Read More