Counterbalance Poems

OUR PUZZLE

...
Friends of ours have died this year…
and though we’ve had friends who’ve died before…
as each year we grow a little older…it seems to happen more.

We’re sad when the life of someone we love co...

Filched formerly anatomical slender man me! Thus I take a pot belly stance!

...Filched formerly anatomical slender man - me! Thus I take a pot belly stance!

Absolute zero escape
velocity gutted dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full abundance
abdominal a...

Birthdays

...
Birthdays were always shared.
Two cakes sat mid-table, 
‘Happy Birthday’ was sung
with two names instead of one. 
I did not like being a twin, 
having a sister the same age, 
always being lab...

The Needed Contradiction, Part II

......I think the counterbalance is
our craving for community,
and not the local government,
no, the things we enter freely.
I’m talking about your neighbors,
your churches and your civic clubs,
t...

The Importance Of Retaining Experienced Public Defender's

...Experienced public defenders are indispensable guardians of justice within the legal system, crucial in maintaining the delicate balance between the state's prosecutorial power and safeguarding the r...

Rich an Poor Poem

...I have been rich
I have been poor
Rich is better

You cannot say all rich
Because I have been generous rich
I have also been selfish rich

You cannot say all poor
Because I have been angry p...

How To Spend a Summer

...The first inevitability of summer is
that your fingertips will never be clean
They will at all times be covered
in fruit juices
strawberries first, then cherries,
watermelon, peaches, blueberrie...

Filched Physiognomy Mine Revisited

...Filched Physiognomy – Mine revisited!

Absolute zero escape
velocity guts dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full abundance
abdominal adipose tissue acceptance
not in accordanc...

To a Friend

...To A Friend

Well, I can't say I don't admire you.
 Being a pillar of Reality.
- But if you're open to those of us
Who live half in the world of dreams,
I'd just like to say, it wouldn't be unw...

The Men Who Write Your Christmas Movies, Part Iii

...“If it had just been one of two messages,
I could have passed it off as an outlier,
but when it got up to forty percent…
then my own fears began rising higher.

“The clincher was the stray handf...

Prose Poem the Eternal

...A sense of the scared,where the spirit finds liberty.An everchanging  interplay in perfect counterbalance.This reciprocal aesthetic of reflections synthesized in a balanced vision.Shadows and light,i...

Life Moves Like a Pendelumn

..."Imagine life as a pendulum,
Marking our continuum

From birth through death,
And the in betweens of our quest 

Left to right the counterbalance moves,
Harmony,  it’s out to prove 

The gen...

Filched Physiognomy Mine

...Filched Physiognomy - Mine!

Absolute zero escape
velocity guts dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full abundance
abdominal adipose tissue acceptance
not in accordance

with ...

Roller-Coaster

...So carefully chosen
the augmented thread of clarity
inside the birds nest
and from out of its maze
to find some sense of confusion
and teased apart the fibers 
of all my questions

And for th...

Emery

...Emery

Emery had a nose of stone,
An outgrowth of his weighted mind.
Of alabaster was it honed
Into a feature aquiline.
Its heft was such that Emery
Would counterbalance with his jaw
B...

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