Company Poems

they recreated the virus to find what would naturally destroy it
research had shown that re-evaluating what existed to find
what might exist could
allow us a greater understanding of the virus.
from mutating and regenerating
to overpower any cure or remedy we might find...Read More

Don’t wanna sit up 
Don’t wanna lie down
Don’t wanna play
Don’t wanna work
Don’t wanna create
Don’t wanna be idle. 

Don’t wanna sing
Don’t wanna dance
Don’t wanna talk
Don’t wanna listen 
Don’t wanna know
Don’t wanna think

Don’t wanna lie
Don’t wanna die
Don’t wanna live
Don’t wanna cry
Don’t want...Read More

Retirement from community development,
facilitating cooperative economic justice
in this post-millennial time of climate crisis,
feels like being put out to pasture
with the rest of us toothless and feckless horses

Stalking senior centers
and gated communities
to weather the fade-out storm
of physical
and mental,
natural
and spiritual encroaching unease
and...Read More

What nights began at dawn
For the day is strained to
end with the setting of the
Sun
Lonely nights have women
To be less than perfect angels

Days eager end leaves her cold
Must these strangers have
Need for her company
Must strangers make mention
Of those nights
Whos whispers...Read More

What nights began at dawn
For the day is strained to
end with the setting of the
Sun
Lonely nights have women
To be less than perfect angels

Days eager end leaves her cold
Must these strangers have
Need for her company
Must strangers make mention
Of those nights
Whos whispers...Read More

Dear PS Friends,
Many of my PS friends would be surprised to see this concluding part of this love story of 2014. 
I am concluding to-day the last part of this unique Love story of Kacha & Devyani on which...Read More

Bowling ball bag
Delivered to a large law firm
No one wants to open it

Or get close enough
To listen
To see if it is ticking

What if it is a head? Someone whispers
No one laughs, many thinking the same thing
President of company approaches

Picks it...Read More

Click, click, on the keyboard
Tick, tick I’m getting old 
It’s getting old,
This waiting for you

I call your name
You don’t hear me
I’m talking to myself 
Headphones, cellphone
Zoned in, tuned out
You still don’t see
That you are losing me
You love your work
More than...Read More

When I Die

Upon mine passing, ye be it naught there to grieve me soonest, thence grieve me at thine appointed hour, for I wilt knowest upon thy feel of thee, the touch that I have come to know as thee....Read More

Micro-managing her employees is what she does best.
Showing them how to use a spatula, stapler and scissors
Assuming they cannot pour water into a sink without her supervision
The employees have their resumes out in all directions
And her uncle who hired her...Read More

When I was young my mother's hand
Led me through a joyful land
Where neither war nor hate exist
Nor something more I must resist 

Where nothing but the night is black
And black is never dark for lack
Of something bright or greater light
But...Read More

greeted by
the owner

the owner
is the waiter

the chef is
the owner's

wife welcoming
us as if family

one of four
tables to

fill the
frame

begins a
pitcher

filled
red but

with fruit
then next

two glasses to 
be drunk from

for as the
order is being

made as is
added shadows

of a simple
tapas plate

proudly served
happily received

the sangria
agrees with

my...Read More

I see his gaze adrift
his eyes stray miles away
were I to guess
it wouldn’t be
a far stretch to think
he’s wondering
what’s next and
where this journey’s going

I ask what he’s thinking
and he makes up some phony line
I’m not buying it but I don’t...Read More

he’s not the winner of any
popularity contest
his closest ones
resent him
he’s aloof
likes his privacy
doesn’t crave their company
his friends are sparse
and far between
he’s the
annoying reminder
that their life feels empty
and without passion
that nags
at
them quietly
in the middle of the night



posted on February 17, 2020...Read More

            





                          February 19th-...Read More

Looking into your eyes, I see a determined man
spurned by an arrogant father, who ignored him.
Your eyes are a porthole of courage and restraint.

Looking at your face, there a flash of goodness
when your young son reaches up to be held....Read More

Mike had an overdraft that put him in a pickle
He wasn't worth a dime not even a nickel
He would be the first to say when he got his pay
He went out to play
He loved playing cards, he mostly lost
He bet...Read More

Love is the only gift that continues to give 
after the giver gets diagnosed w cirrohsis 
on the liver and dies in his crib still wearing
his favorite timbs, 
Love floats through time kinda like butterflies
determined to bloom again and die...Read More

In the company of Poets,
I make my bed

In the company of Poets,
I rest my head

In the company of Poets,
my dreams congeal

In the company of Poets,
my heart revealed

In the company of Poets,
my thoughts are brave

In the company of Poets,
all time a...Read More

My worth is not in what I own -
In real estate, or company,
Big car or boat, prized jewelry,
Investments that have grown.

My worth is not in what I do -
The job I work, or what I’m paid
Awards, promotions, deals I’ve made;
How...Read More

I climbed a mountain in a land of sun
Of epic landscape and of sweet cuisine
But scarecely had my lone ascent begun
Than woke a silent urge for a latrine

Too long must I have lingered at the wide
And bounteous smorgasbord in the...Read More

Empty Windowsill 

The sun shines through, feel the warmth
But you are gone now
You leave an empty space in our hearts
Never will be filled again

Your company and all your little ways
So dearly missed
Such sorrow we feel, such sadness and dismay
Almost 12...Read More

I woke up rested this morning
And kinda excited too
Sending out text notifications to
A few friends for a review.
One in particular from so far away
I spoke with at length.
A few hours ahead in time
He spoke to me in the future
As I...Read More

Robins Soul 

I hear you my friend come sit a while. 
As nature’s earth is heaped to a pile. 
I see you now, so come please eat 
There’s food for you in this muddy peat 

Taking your fill I watch...Read More

What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching your breath enter and leave, the rise and fall of such loveliness.,
reminded of our miracle...Read More