Holiday Boyfriend Poems

You wanna play a silly game?
I question him, What?
Tell me if I'm cute or hot
Umm... I'd rather not.
Was I afraid my feelings will be caught?
Maybe...

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Santa Claus is coming.
This isn’t a luck situation.
He knows things, like if you’re sleeping.
Which is kind of creepy if you think about it.
I suppose I’m...

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I love it when Lisa and I take our show out and, on the road,
like this twilight helicopter flight, from New Haven to LaGuardia.
I’m so...

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The wheel of fortune has spun our way,
we’re on Spring-break for 8 more days!

The transition to leisure was as smooth as oil,
without classes, he’s just...

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I heard them say~love is blind,                   ...

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January…new year, new me.
Met you and now I’m happy. 
We watched the ball drop and kissed at midnight.


My February Valentine
hearts and flowers because you’re mine
as...

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To the man i met in spain 
By the pool in baywatch gear
I could never have imagined
Wed create a life so dear...

I would catch you...

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I posted a New short story - "Flowers" - it was 483 characters to long for here.

It's under short stories it's called: "New Year's and...

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My latest piece is -1600 characters too long for the poetry section (sigh)

So it's under short stories. The URL is:

www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/merritt_and_the_power_of_charm_10833
 
I hope you like it....

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It’s Tuesday morning. I’d thought, until Leeza corrected me, that Thanksgiving was today. 

“Thanksgiving always falls on Thursday, dorkus,” Leeza said Sunday, at breakfast (extirpating...

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part 2 of 2

“How’s school going?” Annick asked later, moving some of my fly-away hair out of my face - a trace of the maternal...

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part 1 of 2

Annick (my 28 year old sister) came down to NYC, from Boston, for a day visit. It was one of those warm,...

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Long, long ago when I was seventeen
I knew an older man, I had a crush.
I noticed him, but me he had not seen.
He managed Ralph’s...

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He walked with her miles apart
Step by step fallin for her heart,
They were stucked in a  mysterious allure
As if one is the disease another...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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