Hb Poems

Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest

...Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest

Just before logging off for the day,
and ready to boogie out of the joint
an email landed squarely in my inbox
cordially ...

Moss

...Moss

On Sundays I make myself familiar with 
the moss on 
the oaf of 
rocks adjacent to 
the driveway on 
the west side of 
the house. 
They’re always keen to know if 
I prefer the last le...

German Poetry translations into English I

...These are modern English translations of poems by the German poets Hannah Arendt, Ingeborg Bachmann, Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim and Heinrich Heine.



Heinrich Heine

The Seas Have Their Pearls
by H...

Ay Be Ay

...It's a Dixon Ticonderoga HB#2
This pencil, still my favorite, 
Still ties me back to you.

I'm so distant as of late,
In my mind, in my heart,
It seems there's too much on my plate.

I've bee...

THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD Part 1, from THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD

...THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD


Who defied science?
The Woman Who Could Eat Wood had. 
How and why at first no doctor could say
to her mom and dad. 

Years later the doctors had discovered tha...

Swans Reflecting Elephants - Salvador Dali, Collaboration With Di11y Da11y

...Collaboration With Di11y Da11y

I see you there beneath the sheen
From high atop my neck I lean
Reflect upon the waters glare
Beneath the sheen, I see you there

Keep me stable, inverted trees...

The Poems I Never Wrote

...I had my eye on him since the third grade, but I never told him how I felt
Back then girls were girls, they were never meant to be cheeky or bold 
He sat behind me in math class, while he counted n...

Birthday Birds

...They knew by instinct what I have known for more than 50 years.
They were being informed by their maker that someone very special                                                              
resid...

Silly Goose

...Sometimes, the pernicious
is just desserts like alveoli
losing pink to a ciggy devil
Love - an enterprise astral
yields to blemish: mockery

Garish sentry sn...

Love Letter From the Soul Xlvi

...HB,

Steam stretches and stirs
in the great expanse 
of her pearl opulence

clear succumbs 
and clouds
the mirror mists over

I shower in the remoteness of love
each droplet da...

Hb

...Your green eyes are pools of bliss.
Your smile so beaming and full of gleam.
Your wavy hair you keep bone straight,
Kept so soft and shiny.
Your body you feel is wrong, 
But I see as oh so right...

Pencil

...Number 2 HB, Number 2 HB, Number 2 HB,              

I have know you all my life.
  
Your slender ORANGE silhouette, dressed in a neat fashion. 

Tight laced, tightened up, and tarnished.

So put to...

The Greatest Power ''Hb 11:1''

...Straight from the human's heart
Charging into the fabrics of every nation
Why stop it from its spark
Melting away its extravagant power of creation

It could be a mustard seed or gigantic rock
Manife...

Feelings of a Pencil

...I am a pencil

  i have somany names

  but  actually

  i have no name

  everyone call me

  HB or Camel

  i want to be a tall one

  but all make me short

  i will became

  sh...

The Life of An Hb Pencil

...I am from the Birch and Pine,
my brothers and I--a single frame.
Some labeled two and others nine,
they call our home an assembly line--

We are clothed in Orange and Blues,
and shaved from end...

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