Handbook Poems

Custody Blues in C minor

..."Custody Blues in C Minor"
 (Disaster and Love as a Single Father)


 One coffee mug I purchased had a cracked lip, A plastic spoon, and half a bed,
 And the echo of her "I’m done with you"
 St...

Duplicity

...Duplicity
Is there a person present beyond the plastic shell?
The AI generation exemplifies artificiality
The same plastic makeup that is prevalent in humans.
Are we people, or are we robots with...

GNRT DAY 37 MONTREAL AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE FRENCH

...
How can you not love the language, the accent…
they way they form their words in France?
How French words flow so easily…linger in the air…and dance

Luckily we didn’t have to go to France…
to...

Sonnet 18 and me!

...Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake and darling buds of May and summer's lease hath all too short a day. Sometimes too hot the eye o...

That Act Your Age Nonsense

...9/30/2023   


     I have heard this saying all of my life,
     There is just no handbook, for any age!
     I hear it still~ and it fills me with strife.
     These Dudley-Do-Rights, please ...

Housewife Handbook

...oh, wow! The housewife handbook
given to me by six people in my husband’s family
they all got thrown out the window the same day
from an apartment we rented ten stories up from the sidewalk

hav...

He Supposed He Was a Self-Made Man

...He often thought to himself
that he has been too quickly assembled
that he should have taken more time
for the busy hands of his constructing mind
to fill-in the flaws, smooth-out the cracks,
pr...

Miracle Ova Fertilized Cell

...Miracle ova fertilized cell...

Yielded pink bundle of joy
self determined autonomous millennial
relocated University of Pennsylvania
Engineering graduate class of 2019
calls Oakland, Californi...

Ruskie Rudolph

...Old Russian Rudolph, a self confirmed red
His communist handbook hid under his bed
He once checked the weather which made him complain
Dear wife you’ll be shocked for it’s pouring with rain
His w...

Wonderstruck

...I see wonder wherever I look,
be it the sea or a babbling brook.
Decoding Mother Nature's handbook,
Time scribes Her secrets in its scrapbook
cataloging every niche and nook.

I need bu...

The Handbook

...My heart truly goes out to
all of the people who think they are better than me.
I know that I'm not anything special...
if they saw my house cleaning habits
I know they'd agree.

My clear open ...

Green Planet Denial

...

Make believe times 
are not bad?
Conform to the crushing 
ruin of our land?

How can I see this, and 
not ask why?
Freedom's loss deserves 
a hue and a cry!

Alas, I have seen few po...

Green Planet Denial

...Make believe these times are not bad?
Conform to the crushing ruin of our land?

How can I see this, and not ask why?
Freedom's loss deserves a hue and a cry!

Alas, I have seen few poets respo...

The Cloud Appreciation Society

...have you heard of the cloud appreciation society?
Jesus Christ
cloud spotters
points for clouds
you got ya stratocumulus
I just saw a cumulus congestus tower
thirty points for that
fifty-five ...

No Part of the World

...NO PART OF THE WORLD (Part 1)


Have you read Jesus words at John 17:16?

Referring to his disciples he said
"They are no part of THE WORLD, just as I am no part of THE WORLD"

What could he ...

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