Sad Hyperbole Poems

I ride to the store on horseback and saddle,
I Leave him outside its distasteful to ride indoors,
My horse stays there it waits it needs no...

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With nowhere else to turn,
I'm driving this defective time machine off a cliff 
I'm the lead detective but I'm off this case 
If blankets and...

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Hurricane Haiku: 5 Movements

		The sea is angry;
		The winds echo her screaming—
		The hurricane comes…

		Torrential waves
		Carry furry to the shores:
		Fragility doomed…

		Island paradise,
		Poised and ready for combat;
		Nature’s sad...

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Abandoned Trunks And The Children  
		There laid the empty gray trunk;
		never to hold a thing again.
		There in the blood-wet soil,
		a sadden decaying lump.
 ...

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Now instead of getting your texts,
I’m sitting in bed With tears in my eyes
at Three am, Putting on a sad playlist
Facing The celling Trying to...

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(Apropos Of A School-Day Happenstance)

There she stood on the edge 
of the cliff of loneliness—her
tiny eyes staring out into space.

As I cautiously approached her,
I softly...

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Granite monoliths get raised to the dead,
engraved markers, inked by light and shadow.
And with the moon shining high overhead
Juliet seeks to find her Romeo,
amidst gravestones...

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Dreaming dreams is silly.
Realistically you well be working a dead end job where you work for hours with a pay that is only slightly above...

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A pebble on the walkway 
A smooth soft grain of sand
A microscopic  insect
A freckle on your hand
Sometimes I want to shrink myself 
Crawl in...

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Headlines of irony in life…
Human satire—cuts like a knife.
The unsinkable ship, that sinks.
Surrounded by peeps, yet alone.
Priests who ‘prey’—yet sins they atone.
Pastor fights alcohol, but...

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A single drop escapes

A single drop made from
Water, lysozymes and glucose,
But it's so much more than just that.

I miss you
and I want you
and I love...

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On the cusp of the gloaming,
frigid air turns crystal clear.
And the frosted window panes
assume an icy veneer.

The season slowly shifted
as warmer days slipped away.
And Sol's...

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i am not a Russian doll
i am not here for you to reach for off of the shelf
just so you can decide which layer you...

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I have abandoned all my ships,
Just because I see stars.
That is when you caught my glimpse.
But I should recall
That since everything eventually dies,
Now, you are...

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Nature has painted you
a moldy shade of green;
and you're the ugliest
scarecrow I've ever seen.

A grotesque effigy
in the image of man,
you're a collage of rags
on a...

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