Booklet Poems

I slept wrong

...The back of my neck hurts.
My finger is cramped around the pencil.
My eyes face paper full of number.
Whenever I try to measure the line, 
my vision sees double, it sees the line twice.
The numb...

Even When I Win I Lose

...Sitting here in an adult diaper,
‘cancer free’ I’m told. Thumbing through
a booklet of kegel exercises
for men, this.

After nine long years, in and out of
specialist offices, batting around my...

Journal

...Many years ago, I documented certain life events.
Some were personals about family, college, and relationships.
And others were current events. Back then, we called those
personal items dairies, b...

Messages In the Clouds

...Observer of the skies, I thrill to see
a puppy cloud stretch out to dragon length,
a shapeless mass become a well-formed heart,
or pastel puffs become an ice cream cone. 
These sights call forth ...

Steps Aside

...STEPS ASIDE

They’ve banned the “step counters”
Outlawed the treadmill and stationary bike
Banned jogging (aka fast walking for the elderly)
Sports will be limited to “non-aerobic” activities
T...

Whisper the Wind

...first day
writing new letters
in the same old journal

a hymn
the only accompaniment 
rain drumming the roof

*****

just in time
it stops raining
first cherry blossoms 

spring...

Growing Up and Liking It

...At 13 years of age, a pamphlet
Showed up in my home.
My mother bought it, not to be
The subject of a poem.

It was intended to explain
(A lecture would be worse)
The facts of menstruation,
Of...

Harry the Heathen Haddock

...[A couple… ONLY TWO?… of you have wondered about my recent absence from Soup. I’m on a personal challenge to write 52 poems for kiddies… maybe, only maybe, to put a booklet together. My mind doesn’t ...

Courtesy Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies

...Courtesy Gretchen Rubin's four tendencies...

Yours truly classified as rebel
after accessing https://quiz.gretchenrubin.com/.

I thank Renée J. Cardone
affiliated with Spring Ford, Pennsylvani...

Wells of God's Blessings We Thank Him For

...We stand by God’s well of blessings daily
As He invites us to delight in them tremendously.
There He assures us of His eternal loving presence wondrously
With His providence and protection...

I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here Part 3

...Note: If you haven’t please check out part 1 and 2 
before reading this. It will make more sense that way Thanks.

"May I?" she asked motioning to my dog-eared notepad as a child might
ask...

The Chameleon

...Where I  once lived natural and free on and island boarded by an azure sea. I found myself now living in what is called euphemistically  a 55 plus community.
Here the people from more northern locat...

Don't Let the Bread Get Stale

...Don’t let the bread get stale came about when I had this huge crush on my lil sweetheart at work. I began putting snacks in his desk, basically things I know he likes. Well, I noticed the snacks were...

It Was a Struggle But He Got It Up - For Viv Wigley

...Viv had planned to be out supping real ale
But his wife had a different idea
Furniture assembly - Viv's face turn pale
but he gritted his teeth, and said ‘yes dear’

Alas, to poor Vi...

Hall of Fame

...Hall of Fame:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES 
VERSE 1:
Just a little girl,...grown up in a cold zone,
but I get something different,
Lady,life is full of dream and you need to sit down for what I...

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