Life Buffalo Poems

Buffalo wings,   buffalo wings,   buffalo wings
when I was young, just a boy
the skies overflowed with flying buffalo.

 Take shelter for if...

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EPIGRAMS IV

Improve yourself by others' writings, attaining freely what they purchased at the expense of experience.
—Socrates, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to...

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I had never met a buffalo who smokes a pipe.
But this one did it without any kind of hype.
It looked natural hanging from the big...

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Watching a Buffalo Bills game Last night.
I was shocked to see a player down!
Lying on his back, to our surprise!
 We hoped, You get up...

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You can take my house

you can take my truck

you can take my money

I don't give a f***

but you can't take 

what you can't break

you can't...

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Cars line the highways
with their broken life inhabitants,
coffined tributes to a last wish that got away,
android druids in mock procession
—racing toward the end 

(University Of...

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The Stars and Moon had long been friends
    but this was set to change.
As the Moon just up and walked away
 ...

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THIS dream.
   I am walking through a tunnel between the streets.  Air as thick
as my misconceptions of life.  The gutters are...

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Buffalo Soldier

If you know your history
 Then you will know where I'm coming from
 Jam to Jah
 Rhasta enlighten man
 Out in the bush where...

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The one that got away
A girl who turned heads anywhere
Oh how I wish she would stay
As all could see we were the perfect pair

Sadly though...

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A little light lesson in some facts of life, if you have a just a moment or two
The buffalo herd can only move as fast...

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She was no longer young
But not quite old
Still deep in her soul
She was a romantic
Believing in love at first sight
And of course
Soul mates
On starlit nights
She...

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She was no longer young
But not quite old
Still deep in her soul
She was a romantic
Believing in love at first sight
And of course
Soul mates
On starlit nights
She...

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elder's spirit born
white fur roams among brown capes
pale face prophecies...

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There once was a time
During the long forgotten era
The frontier so majestic
In the age of the arrow

All the tools needed
The Earth would provide
Nothing went to...

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