I Do Not Know Poems

the writer
said no
drafts

the publisher
thought no
giraffes

and so as in
the animal
KINGdom

my muse
stepped
in and

in her
QUEEN
dom

said what
i told him
he meant

right or left
nothing fake
nothing said

they can't
construe
or misuse

what you
said but
say now

it's fake
for no
mistake

under oath
did you say
..... i

take not
the third
or the

fourth
but the
fifth...Read More

it was a left
over from last
night's feeding
frenzy

actually a piece
that was not
one from
being

caught in my
teeth but one
that had the
pleasure of

the feeling of
floating left
alone to do
what one

would do in a 
room where
eventually
told that

you're a
lone just
a piece of
something

found that was
around and see
med to...Read More

Being productive
Live each day
as if you had no hope of tomorrow.
Tom

Doing Your Best
Be careful of today's doings,
once in your past, they remain forever.
Tom

Worry Not
Waste not time worrying about tomorrow,
lest your worrying bear fruit and it be upon you.
Tom

Time runs equal...Read More

Concerning Procrastination

Issues not dealt with expeditiously,
Are meteorically elevated into problems.
Tom
...Read More

Patience & Focus
Our dreams are not taken from us,
but, without patience and focus, we often abandon them.
Tom

Dreams, old tires, and worn out couches have this in common,
they are often kicked into a ditch to thereby rot.
Tom

Orchardist
An Orchardist's dream starts with...Read More

it was once said 
well actually 
sung "What
ever it is I'm
against it".

though a
comedic
routine it
seems it
is the

catch phrase
of the modern
age because
after all what
ever it is

is fake so
surely what
ever it is i'm 
against
it...Read More

Thoughts For Today
Being productive
Live each day
as if you had no hope of tomorrow.
Tom

Doing Your Best
Be careful of today's doings,
once in your past, they remain forever.
Tom

Worry Not
Waste not time worrying about tomorrow,
lest your worrying bear fruit and it be upon you.
Tom

Time...Read More

i'm awake
though i work
nights military time

it's 1347
but in the year
of Europe's time

it's black
death and
never ending

singing of 
ring around
the rosy and

so lets make
a t-shirt to date
each city time and

place but
hopefully none
of their dates relate

to a
place
near you...Read More

When the sun no longer shines,
With its ever warming light.
And the stars that once did sparkle
Fade away into the night.

When the waves of all the oceans
Stop dancing shore to shore.
And the lightning no longer crashes
With all its thunderous roar.

When the...Read More

she sleeps
while i watch
owl like through

the night
that what
might may

never
happen
for she i

need 
for her 
to breathe

into me
poetry
for

without
her i am
a shell a

vessel
for her
lips to

put
upon
and blow

then the
sound of
the horn

will take
its form
in lines

of her
dear 
est

poesy...Read More

my mind is on
a hairpin trigger
shotgun thoughts

blast but not
splatter but fit 
in a tight spread

pattern perhaps
taxed from asking
too many questions

leading my 
sight from 
other 

suggestions
but then
again
like

a
gun
this
time

one that
pumps to
shoot from
the hips and

is actually auto
matic dramatically
endorsed by the Sicilian
mafia and of course...Read More

i had
a wife
twice if

only the
second of
each minute

i sleep
single in
a double

bed but
instead of
cozy warmth

i have
a mess
of paper

and
pens
and 

bottles
of water
and boxes

of crackers
and cereal it
almost seems

surreal
but really
the objects

occupying
the other
side of

my bed
are me
without

bodily
form...Read More

the impact of
the damage done
in fact an inactive
radio doesn't play

but if it's in a 
state of static
the exact amount
of millirems is about

how i feel
overexposed
as i approach
the site where 

i work
and as i 
get nearer the
clicking begins as

the geiger
counter needle
reveals the...Read More

perhaps 
i'm asking
for a poor
favor from

you but want
to add to what
i'm saying that
i know you

could but
would you
if i say
please

por
favor...Read More

(While reading this try to fit the melody
and rhyming rhythm with parts of Don 
McLean's song "American Pie")


it was written in 
the book of rocks
just looking at the 
pictures for they can't talk 
and dinosaurs were here 
and every 
where

the...Read More

Cuts like a knife
Destroyed my life
Now i’ll never
Be your wife

You played your games
For 20 years
Whilst i grew old
And felt the fears
A lonely life
Brim full of tears.
A cruel encapsulation.

You are free
And i am not
So now you’ve gone
What have i got -
Absolutely...Read More

I have been standing here on the corner 
Waiting, waiting for you to come
I have been standing on the corner
Waiting, waiting to hear your song
I have been observing the apparatus of nature
And the will that draw us closer
Big heart, big...Read More

Abhi to wo khadi hui thi gaad diya zinda,
Tumhare paap se hai insaniyat sharminda,
Khauf hai har aankh me kyuki jeena bhi zaruri hai,
Betiyon ko ghar me rakhna bana baap ki majboori hai,
Yun mombattiyan jala kar kaise zindagi sawaroge,
Badlaav aayega jab...Read More

it was 
seventeen
ninety one

just one
of those
years

a passing
note in
time

Mozart died
but is still
alive
...Read More

always thanks
for sharing but
i don't like
Boston not
the city but
the band but
know their 
song but

i don't like
that either but
the title sings
like lightning
ready to strike
for when i write
the hairs on my
legs chest face
and head know
these poems for
her are more
than a
feeling
...Read More

Go!
 That ancient life
You have on your shoulder
By the river of time
Love is all there's left to lose
Lost
You're not alone anymore
This ancient life
Ghost!
Their voices are all 
Resting in your bones
In the river of time
Love is all there's left to lose
Lost
You...Read More

am i swallowing
them or are they
swallowing me

the hourglass has
been turned over
for another minute

and with each second
it seems the quicksand
is quickly taking me

deeper down a rabbit's
hole darker than dark
nothing to see i can't

even see the darkness
and though a synapse
sparks i think...Read More

A car ride to me is pulling out from my previous location and driving to an unknown destination 
Leaving wherever I'm going completely up to chance and imagination
It's moving between the speeds of 40 and 60 to keep things safe...Read More

Need I tell you
My sadness is no longer a secret
Openly I shed tears
Dull my eyes
And wet my cheeks
My sadness is mine
I too suffer that unique pain
Caused not by being alone 
But by being born again and again
As though rising from...Read More

(If you Google English to Spanish.
Copy and paste. Hopefully this
poem will take on a different
linguistic shape from off the page.)


My muse

I use you

But need you

To breathe with kiss

This and these

That make poetry

And my heart beat


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Mi musa

Te uso

Pero te...Read More