Teen Environment Poems

Lisa, Leong and I were supposed to eat at a sushi place called “Bow Wow”. Lisa and I were coming back from our last class....

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I finished moving into my residential college as a storm began
- fat raindrops, as big as coconuts, falling from a black and fouling sky.

These northerners...

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The Long House

Precontact	            Our sky is incense
       ...

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Almost every tree has been cut down,
a resort for the gamblers is being built;
elders and fortune seekers will frequent it often,
say farewell to those quiet...

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Draw a stick figure 
future - diminished
and virus ransomed.

Paint the landscape
with the sweltering glare
of global warming.

Come share this
with me - let kisses heal and
soft whispers...

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*(a poem in Senryus)*

You don’t have to count,
when you lose a boyfriend, you
know. There was just one.

He was gone before
I knew it - he wasn’t,...

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(a series of haikus)

I will not woo
until this virus is cured
or there are vaccines.

I refuse to kick
my brother until there’s
some police reform.

I won't fight with
my...

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Have you had enough of childish lies
and incompetent response?
Have you bathed in toxic manhood
until you long for nuance?
Are we going to save this planet?
Or will...

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Don't promise me or say things that you don't really mean
Don't say that you love me and then start to act obscene
Don't promise me...

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Little Jack Marty 
He was a smarty 
Sitting in his second grade online class 
He developed an urge to pass some gas 
When it came...

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GRETA WEPT

She wept but it wasn’t just crying 
It was the kind of weeping that makes you feel her profound pain
He could not stand the...

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Ethiopian Sand


Miles on exhausted feet
Walking in dessert heat
Sand storms cause disarray 
Individuals lose their way
Some fall from  dehydration and fatigue 
Others lost to snake...

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This last day of February two thousand nineteen
Southeastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
unlikely to be inundated with heavy snowy scene
methinks buds will burst early issuing royal green
carpeting...

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Welcome, welcome twenty nineteen
Good bye,good bye twenty eighteen
How came,how gone twenty eighteen?
Welcome,welcome twenty nineteen!

Two thousand years with seven teens
Thirteen,fourteen and fifteen
Some more sixteen,seventeen and eighteen
Two...

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I was in my living room sitting on my couch
I've gotten up to dim the lights
Sitting back down I rub my eyes
Relax in the calm...

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