Fellowships
...I’ve only been at my fellowship gig a week, but It’s official, I’m a candy-striper. Sort of, I wear a blue vest, not the old, red-striped dress, but it’s the same job. I shadow my surgeon (Rebecca) m...
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Categories:
conversationally, business, feelings, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
They Scored the Winning Run That Day
...Rachel Robinson, Jackie's wife, still alive for me
When she speaks of April 15, 1947, conversationally
The day that Jackie broke the toughest barrier
There ever was and may ever well be
The color...
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Categories:
conversationally, baby, baseball, hero, life,
Form: Narrative
Reunions
...I think of the beautiful reunions we have had through the years,
Mom and I would reserve the craft kitchen.
Each of my relatives would bring a delicious dish of food,
Our mother would insist tha...
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Categories:
conversationally, appreciation, blessing, christmas, god,
Form: Free verse
Miss Translation 3
...i said to her why
don't you wear
your yellow
thing
you know which
one i'm talking
about the thing
that runs between
your butt cheeks
making them seem
even more rounded
then they are ro...
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Categories:
conversationally, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Circa January 2010 Bell Tower and Carillon
...Twittered Via Chilled Wren
At Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Prior carte blanche to confessing illicit
extra-marital affair
I embolden tomb ache
elicit, and baldly bare
faced laid out s...
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Categories:
conversationally, 12th grade, animal, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?
Sunny Weather
...The sun shone beautifully,
Friends sat outside conversationally on the bench.
Her favorite handsome prince walked past,
How nice she thought, summer is on its way.
She had had a delicious lun...
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Categories:
conversationally, beautiful, blessing, friend,
Form: Free verse
Over the Top
...Over the Top (1)
When is poetry by man, much more than scuzz (from top)?
Know a bard who hears his muse say it’s past time to stop?
Our emotions are dust devils that spin blinding us,
And most ...
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Categories:
conversationally, life, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
My Knight In Shinning Armour
...He was my knight in shinning armour,
My shelter from the storm.
God's chosen companion for a day,
We were destined to meet,
Nature our favorite church,
Sheltered by the sounds of the songbir...
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Categories:
conversationally, faith, family, friendship, religion,
Form: Free verse
Flower-Talk
...The Lilies sent a message to the Lilacs:
There is not enough light at noon
Around these parts; what shall we do
Replied the Lilac, bloom
Bloom: where you are planted.
The Honeysuckle sent a no...
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Categories:
conversationally, allegoryblue,
Form: Light Verse