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Foreclosing Poems

-debt Service-

...I’m running out of money,
but I’ve still got some time
and only just one question
…can you lend me a dime

My dollars spent on something
that quarters can’t divide
my nickels for what’s come a...

Categories: foreclosing, money, time,
Form: Rhyme

Believing Is Seeing

...Seeing is believing
but active listening
costs expansive empathic commitment

As patriarchal competitive investments
often fall short of resonant faith
in ecowomanist multicultural
polycultura...

Categories: foreclosing, community, health, integrity, senses,
Form: Political Verse

Bottled Water

...Bottled water is being consumed by everyone,
who don't realize the horrible thing that they are all doing.
Water is being drilled to the extent of present day oil drilling,
and as a result water l...

Categories: foreclosing, water,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Humming Bird

...The gentle buzzing sound echoed memories of a fading childhood

When she and her cousin had whispered secrets at the mosque

About undying love and first kisses before being stung by a bee

‘Ho...

Categories: foreclosing, conflict,
Form: Free verse

The Past Foreclosed

...Nostalgia,
and future wishing

The present
—foreclosing on the past

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)...

Categories: foreclosing, time,
Form: Free verse

The Endgame

...The endgame 

And the cemetery was
nowhere to be found
yet was so present
in the shallow depth
the graveyard of the mind

No tombstone unturned
fragmented torn and twisted 
sorrow flowing d...

Categories: foreclosing, death, depression, emotions, grave,
Form: Free verse

Black Christmas

...Black Christmas
 
Black Christmas, is not a time with little children hanging out their stockings
Or about Santa coming down the chimney pot and delivering presents
Nor Rudolph and the reindeers pull...

Categories: foreclosing, depression, people, poverty,
Form: Prose

Page Twenty Eight

...Everything is out in the open no matter how I try to dress 
it, I'm on my Adam & Eve my sins are naked so I felt as 
tho I address it we all got sloppy seconds everything 
nowadays is recycled, we...

Categories: foreclosing, faithme,
Form: ABC

Christmas With Scrooge

...On my street there are many MacMansions
Full of stuff but not many grandsons
No pets with dirty feet
Just black balance sheets
And morality they have abandoned.

These nouveau riche Ole moneyed...

Categories: foreclosing, holiday, introspection
Form: Limerick

The Fisherman

...The sun's rays come calling
Foreclosing on winter's frost
The sounds of life awaken
With the return of a season lost

Water lapping upon the shore
Shrouded by a misty fog
Nightcrawlers peeking...

Categories: foreclosing, adventure, animals, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Outside Our Cottage Door.

...Winter's promise
foreclosing on the fall,
    dust of ashes
blowing burning colors,
bits of autumn leaves
         that fell
to the wind and more,

Remember ......
       in the winter
    ...

Categories: foreclosing, nature, seasons, autumn,
Form: Free verse

Reaper Man

...I am the reaper man
and I’m always here,
striding through an ambience
of gut rot and fear.

I am the reaper man
with touch as cold as snow,
I stalk the darkest landscape
where angels never go...

Categories: foreclosing, death,
Form: Verse

Shadows

...I felt the shadows falling in the places 
We used to be 
Upon our mutual company, 
Upon the things we used to see. 

I felt the Gods foreclosing on the times 
That we once had, 
On the good an...

Categories: foreclosing, confusion, loss, love, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme