January Leaving Poems

 I needed a job to pay the bills
not knowing what I was getting into.
A telemarketing company if you can believe
selling pieces of Titanic’s carpet...

Read More

Five days of hell
on the phone, selling lies
and pieces of the Titanic carpet.
A sinking ship of a company
with a captain who gropes and leers
and a...

Read More

Once, so long ago, in love, we did believe
A union was forged, forever to conceive
But shattered dreams and promises untold
Betrayal's wrath, our story now unfolds

With...

Read More

I was off for my vacation. After a long flight and drive, I reached my cozy apartment. Stars like diamonds filled the cold January night....

Read More

Canal channel calm
              Calm swan route rowed
     ...

Read More

Mother is eighty-seven now
still spry, sometimes naughty,
espousing wisdom from her brow,
her speech never bawdy.

She always dried my tears,
She always calmed my fears,
She always cleaned up...

Read More

I was reading by a lamp,                                       ...

Read More

I want to leave on your mind
woven memories...
my grand entrance... 
who I became...
and the legacy I leave behind
 
©Copyright January 14, 2021 by Brian Pierre-Alexander
©...

Read More

The Last Love letter 
 A letter in a bottle to my love
I hope someone, somewhere will pick it up
That it will journey safe across...

Read More

Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

Read More

January 1, 2020, what do I see.                  ...

Read More

We’re born,
as we start dying

We change,
while remaining the same

We search,
neglecting to find

We return
—while leaving again

(Ronald McDonald House-Phila: January, 2020)...

Read More

Resolutions each January I feel I must do.                 ...

Read More

She was losing her husband of forty four years
He’d been sick for so long on and off
He was wilting away and his body shutting down
He...

Read More

End Of The Road


There comes that certain turning point,
     direction to end of the road;
a private one-way sign that leads
 ...

Read More