Song Blank Verse Poems

A ship's cook 

The sea is dark, clunky, and calm today
 slowly undulate 
turns white where the ship's bow has plowed a furrow
that stretches for miles.
Gulls still follow...

Read More

Valhalla 

rest day
Sunday is the day of rest for most people
except for cooks, servers, and housewives 
They have Mondays
that day hasn't got many customers ...

Read More

Step side to side 
Sway to our song
Your heart is the lyrics
My soul the instrumental
Hold my hand the way Jesus held the nails
Step side to...

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

I Did Not Mean It

I didn't mean it.  

I didn't mean to hurt you,
I didn't mean to deceive you,
I didn't mean to lie,
It hurted...

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

Have I really been working on myself or did I just change from my work clothes to something more comfortable
Is this depression or is it...

Read More

I want Love again and again 
Although Love does not want me!
Drenched in deathless golden light
I inscribe her name on the rib of the chest
...

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

thee hour of the mind the hour the soul 
masters the hearts need for growth 
bestowed between the cunny desires
 
where the muses dance the...

Read More

Morning song

it is six in the morning
I get down and move the car from
the place reserved for vans.
This the best of times cooling before the...

Read More

My Way


When I hear the song, “My Way.” I think of the narrow road I used
to walk in the valley of my Shangri-La, with lions...

Read More

Why can't I write a few lines of poem this moment,
while the beautiful fowlers glow in morning sunshine,
while the little birds chirp and play lovingly...

Read More

Be aware that serendipity may 
Unexpectedly tap you on your shoulder.
Such a nonchalant kiss in happenstance,
from the passing breeze is too easily missed.
Stay openly aware...

Read More

The future

In Japan, an island where old people live
there is a push for euthanasia
 after a good meal
watching spring flowers on a screen and resting
...

Read More