Freedom Divorce Poems

   Condemned to death
     prisoner's granted one last request

   Gimme a divorce, said he
   ...

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Go now! I shall stay amidst my woe,
My soft heart twitches with affliction.
Fleeing condemnation,  I will go!
A cold man of science; is no show.
Obscene...

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Dazzling spikes elude my confusion as I ponder on the starvation in my essence.
I'll miss you, but glueing to fragments of a pane would drive...

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Congratulations, friend of mine, for getting back on course,
And for the sense of joy you found in getting your divorce,
We sometimes try an alibi to...

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Drained, estranged, fragrance of love ebbs
Immersed now in dark dungeons of despair
Vibrancy of dying ember, for freedom begs
Oh, why no longer does love with love...

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Aloneness 
metamorphosizes 
into isolating loneliness
with haunting banshee-like screams; 
daily caged inside
perennially mute 
four walls, 
a divorced empty nester.
Inhabiting 
      ...

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A delicate dance, a balance to abide.
Let me share a verse, a tale profound,
Of union wed in hallowed ground.

When vows were spoken, love's embrace,
Within the...

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Alone in the darkest hour 
A loss of life and loss of power 
Words like knives that punctured me 
Leaving bruises none can see 
Lying...

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I have realized that I have been in an unhealthy, unhappy marriage for a long, long time and it’s just not what I want anymore....

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A little broken, a little fixed, my devilish ways has me mixed, came from a broken home parents split apart, us kids just stuck with...

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Dearest Daughter
(written for Amy)

My dearest daughter, 
we just met, 
but I know I know you, 
from your father's words. 
You are full of laughter, 
and...

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laminated love
    institutionalized us
dead marriage-go-round...

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Absence of a Sibling

I always imagined you’d call me
Want to spend time, Sunday dinner
All meet up for a birthday, Christmas
Just thought you’d pop in, child...

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The Tricky Chirp

The nester bird comes to live, 
in a nest, they did not make. 
Yet... the bird, 
feels right at home 
and not alone...

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Driving down that familiar road,
For miles and miles and miles it goes,
You forget about keeping your eyes on your travels, 
On that same old bumpy...

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