Despairingly Poems

The Death of Love

...All she wanted was love, but he
forgot the dreamy days of yore.
Gone were those sweet caresses,
Gone were the walks hand in hand,
Gone was any passionate lovemaking.
All sentiment evaporated int...

There's Nothing To It

...There’s Nothing To It

I found a piece of nothing in my back yard yesterday.
I’d planned to mow the lawn so tried to move the piece away.
I thought to get behind it, backing off and sneaking roun...

See Me

...See Me
I want, desperately, to Impress
Why
I don't know why
Hmm
I just, despairingly, want to Impress
I, sincerely, wish you knew why
Why, pray tell
So, interestingly, I may want to Impress t...

Let No One Despise Your Youth

...Let no one despise your youth
May all disciples tell you the truth 
In Word,
Not just the first, second, or third, let your thoughts be heard
And your feelings unstirred
Your heart Misguided and...

Mud

...In old London
the Thames used to be muddy,
not muddy like the Mississippi,
but the mud of the drowned,
murdered, and of long lost dreams.

On gray dawns
scrawny kids would sift through
the de...

Suicidal Ideation March 30th, 2022 Linkedin

...Suicidal Ideation March 30th, 2022 linkedin...
to mein kampf insync with mine body dysmorphia

After reading articles
published within April 4/11 2022
of The Nation
I challenged the efficacy
t...

Keepsake

...a gift from my father - on the first day of college,
"Golden Treasury"...A book of poetry...
the first poem I read... "She Walks In Beauty".
I carried that book throughout my life as a keepsake......

Hate

...Hate

Why must you carry the blackness of hate
Why do you find it so easy to belittle and berate
Anger is such a negative way to communicate 
And all it does is create an avenue to separate 

...

He Gave Her a Book

..."melliflous birds are still cooing in the forest of my amber dreams " (by poet)



a gift from my father - on the first day of college,
"Golden Treasury"...A book of poetry...
the first poem I ...

Captain and Janell

...As I stared despairingly at the transom,
my daughter declared, as she gave a smile winsome:

“I wouldn’t stand for such a name, if I were Janell!
It’d be okay of course, if Janell refers to the v...

They Will Need Another Lifetime

...Shuffling through life in a slow and painful way
Expecting the worst almost every single day
The lonely, angry man who had never felt love 
Had no idea he had spiritual guardians above

They tri...

Democratizing Health Care

...I've heard it said,
and seen it done,

"This currency of capitalism
is the very venomous root of all evil."

And, I've heard good cooperative capitalists say,
perhaps a bit too loudly,

"Not...

Unsappy Happy Talk

...I said to my son,
He said back to me,
To be honest with us,
I'm worried

We want to be happy
while bypassing disciplines of left-brain healthy
is not too right-brain cooperatively sappy.

Bu...

Suicidal Ideation

...Deliberation about courting death rooted
throughout mine psyche fueling sinister chortle
at least since bout with anorexia nervosa,
but... maybe ginned blood,
sans umbilical cord transfused in ut...

The Once Mighty Sun

...Broken hearts
begged light to brighten broken hearts,
the frozen and forlorn
beckoned despairingly for warmth, solace,
and begging was answered, at last.
Unforgiving and radiant
he always came ...

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