Latchkey Poems - Poems about Latchkey

Forewarning of Dawn

...A bird that dips and wavers
Over lone waters round,
Then with a cry that quavers
Is gone—a spectral sound.
— Cale Young Rice

Sopping wet, the organ floats,
flounders in one o...

My Sister Marilyn - No Blood Relative

...Although my sister and I are not related by blood, we are as close as any two humans can get outside the bond of marriage. It started when at the age of six, my own mother placed me with this fam...

DAWN OF QUICK PURSUIT

...Tis brisk, this love, that rounds her abs with haste.
With dawn of quick pursuit, she trembles light.
His eyes, they stroke the lamb, her wooly-chaste.
Her long locks, bind, grab hold the sun, exc...

Gen X 1965-1980

...
   Gen X or the
MTV generation.
   See a big growth in the
 Dept. of education.

   A generation of latchkey 
Kids home alone.
   Rocky hits the box office,
With Sylvester Stallone....

A Visitor

...A woman left for work. Her child went to school.
A latchkey kid, her daughter that day got
straight home from school, aware of every rule
to not let strangers in no matter what.

A neighbor said...

A Definite Bonehead Moment

...A definite bonehead moment

since revised when das scribe 
made laughing stock of himself 
(circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem 
December twenty eighth, 2022).

A retrospective account
revisited court...

Morning Breeze

...There's cobalt clouds across the sun
A nice cool breeze moves the oak tree
Somewhere on earth, someone buys a gun
All the while, the sun shines with glee 
Jesus loves all
Though some...

Muse Came In a Storm

... 
 ~ ~ ~ ~

Looking up I was so awestruck,
suddenly my muse was unstuck;
oh windstorm_

I saw a huge flock of bluebirds,
singing a song so long unheard;
oh rainstorm_

I got ou...

Freedom, Feigned

...Confinement -

I carry my prison with me

no bounds or bars or barriers

can equal the breadth of my bondage

its burning poison possesses marrow and mind

squeezing the emotion...

A Lotus Scrawled Fiat

...Mandated this faux gremlin explorer
(alias Cliff Ford) donning reinforced
rubber baby buggy bumpers to dodge
any errant wild jaguar, ram, thunder bird,
bee in blue bonnet hood lamb, et cetera

...

Dogs Bark

...She stands at the barbed-wire fence
 Her chest heaves up and down
  Her picture is taken ~ dogs bark
   They are ferocious

The gate in the middle creaks open
 admitting her
  It slams shut be...

Hand of God

...HAND OF GOD

The deluge came like splattered tears,
palm’s held out to see if it was real.
Hemlines lifted as feet kicked against the water.
The scourge of cold could be felt on thei...

The Altar

...A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, 
and clamours of construction mutter, 
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice 
belies an old man struggling with a stutter. 
He comes and goes in dead of ni...

The Altar

...A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, 
and clamours of construction mutter, 
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice 
belies an old man struggling with a stutter. 
He comes and goes in dead of ni...

The Altar

......inspired by the performance piece 
   'What's He Building In There?' by Tom Waits


A green glow dribbles 'neath his door,
and clamors of construction mutter,
bellow and insinuate, his broke...

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