Finish Out Poems

My Barn

...Now on with my yarn
About living in a barn
Paying rent
While living in a tent
A wood stove I ordered and got
Hopefully it keeps this barn nice and hot
Gathered my brother
Another son of my mot...

When You Give Up

...When you give up 
Look up to the stars 
They will keep you company
You may not see them every night
But they will soon reunite
And they will never abandon you whenever you see moonlight
It may ...

Met the New Art Substitute Teacher

...We had a new art sub yesterday.
No surprise.
We have had nineteen art subs since March.
It is the last week of school.

Mr. G the new art sub was positive.
Energetic.
Glad to be here.
Told me...

I Think I Need a Wife-

...Future tense
I think I need a wife 
to finish out my life
 I have one life to give
 for Christ God and me

 before I leave this plane 
agreed i'm about to love again
 the thought o...

Being Sick Is An Inconvenience

...I am chewing some tummy tablets
Because I have felt physically sick
For about forty minutes

I am glad to work in a school
Where there is a nurse
She has access to the things I needed

I aske...

The Ghosts of Capital Hill

...I used to be into politics,
I would shout loud, and chant, and march,
believed we could change everything
if only we could be in charge.

Get new blood into hallowed halls,
the old paradigms we...

Lookin' For My Plastic Pic One Night In June

...Written In Iambic Heptameter utilizing an aabb rhyme scheme throughout the entire six stanza poem. thank you. easyeverett


Just sittin' in my touring bus, alone, throughout the day,
Then found m...

Caregiving Stories

...The Tyrant

Was born ginger
and learned WhiteRacist
from Dad
dead now about a year.

Possibly opioid addiction
but certainly something
in growing families
of yin-suppressed
self-medicating...

Screaming

...So…
King Jr. died at 39...and I wonder if my confusion with gender identity issues is supposed to be his gift of my birth as I close in on 40...but the disabling pressures that pack down on my consc...

:i Was Just Wondering:

...Hello, It's me again.
I was wondering if your doing better.
I'm wondering how you've been.
I hope you don't mind my letter.
I heard that you have said,
That you want me dead.
Your own sister?
...

The Vp

...With V.P.'s picked, the candidates
Are on the campaign trail,
Each hoping that the other's choice
Will make some voters bail.

But really, no one cares that much
If running mates seem weak.
Fo...

Life

...When we loose a person to the heaven's above

It is so hard to accept even though we know they are loved,

Why does this have to be

The life cycle isn't long enough for us to see,

All the b...

My Salvation

...I had just reached the summit of the mountain;
The final reward for my four hour hike up the steep terrain.
There was still snow in abundance at the peak
Even though the summer sun bathed me in light...

Eulogy For Frank

...My father died prematurely while away on 
a business trip from a rogue blood clot to the heart  
I never doubted he loved me, would have liked me, 
(not the same thing), adult to adult, provided I 
w...

A Sailors Soul

...A sailor's soul has an 
epic thirst 
Only nourished by the sea
For only upon it's waves and 
swells
Is a sailor's soul set free
He prays for winds to fill his 
sails
And clear skies t...

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