Long Blazer Poems

When still young,                                ...

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Whether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be nothing more...

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Midterms are over and I killed ‘em (Yes, even physics) - yeah me! I spent the last two weeks like prisoners do, marking off days until - freedom. Now the pressure’s off and I can...

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You could never be me,
For I am not you,	
You could never do what I do,
 For my life’s path is not yours.

You are you and I am me,
We need each other,
 But still you can...

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I Send This Letter, Like A Message
Drumming Like Earth’s Hearts-Tribal
It Is A Lover’s Letter To You
Sent Like A Heaven-Sent Bible
Filled With Love –Just Like A Bible

My Lovely One –I Know Its Been Hard
During Our Separation
Its...

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Chorus x 2
It’s okay if my ego wears jacket
it’s nice if my resume plays drums
I’m endowed, dazzling and full
so let the world know my hands are a major part
of those holding  it.

1. A personality...

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They called it school
I called it hell 
From the huge imposing prison like doors
To the doom like toll of the bell
Everyday the same
Running for the school bus
Full of uncivilized Wild kids
Being pushed and shoved
Countless kids...

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I want to share a few,
Fond memories of my dad,
With an experience or two,
Of the times together we had.

He was a carpenter by trade,
Just like Jesus used to be,
But the full time job with mom...

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Great Walls of Life

That Northern Wall  in Chicago:
With high hopes and unhindered confidence, in early 1974 I was sailing free as a bird. I felt prepared for any and everything that would attempt my...

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When the vast sky is its bluest
and crowned by the glory of sun,
three granite forms tower above 
the forest-covered valley,
as the day nears end they are
captured by clouds who sprinkle their
magical mist among their weary...

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A Flock of Startled Birds

He had sat for an hour on a long, low, flat rock,
He had checked himself over from bald patch to sock.
His leather shoes burnished to a mirror-like shine,
Tie ironed flat –...

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The Catering officer
Once upon a time, I was a seaman; I began as a galley boy
and after six months was promoted to the second cook,
What dizzying height. At home, I went to a catering school...

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Not that Type of Lover, 2012
V. Ortiz Vazquez

I am not that type of lover
You know, the one who softly caresses you with her gentle touch
Take you places by whispering sweet words into your earlobe
Out of...

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6/1/21


Life has been like an elevator

Going up sometimes, often down to the bottom layer

The outcome was minor or major

Paid it no mind, or it started to hanker

Feeling calm or full of anger

Done in good will...

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37th Floor
Shiodome City Center
The Japanese Secretaries 
Stand in unison
Upon my arrival
All for me
You shouldn’t have
But thank you

180 degree view of Tokyo
900 square miles
10 Million people
All walking in unison
To a tune I don’t understand
I will never...

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Within my mind are dusty cobwebs
 where drafty breathings edge the corners of remembering
 as they hold in a picture stilled that looms, 
unchanged but not for lack of a broom;
 school books, pads and...

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Sicut Miles Christi I stand tall 
Sicut Miles Christi I give my all 
To a Man who deprived the devil of his will 
To a Man who tumbled Jericho's hill  

 I'm a soldier in...

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The golden rings

It was his first work as a leader of a job, which made him anxious
onboard the ship, the captain told him to wear a uniform
but one with three silver rings since he was...

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Getting ready to go to the big school
Was such a worrying thing
I heard grim tales of bullies
The teachers and the cane
And when I saw the savages
Get of the bus and fight
The worry almost drove me...

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We're together in this, the fault is ours
withhold the explanation
we'll share the blame.
"Not in this life! my take is already on the billboard"

Now is the time to stick together
holding each other, sharing one umbrella
until this...

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Life is so short 
But you wear trousers a blazer and a tie 
You make money and drive by 
Watch the news you are sad some random people died 
You are still too important to...

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TRIBUTE TO BOB CORKISH



Captain Tom’s a UK trail blazer
Bob Corkish is our Manx fundraiser
He’s raised over ten grand
Walking around Southlands
For care workers he’s a big praiser

Bob is ninety-three years of age
His endeavour now takes center...

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Young lad sitting on your lap
Listening to a concert on the radiogram
The rest of the family around us in the front room

I could never thank you enough for instilling me with a passion for music
I...

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Where do you come from?
And where do you go?
Pigeon steps, crinkled blazer, bent 
Posture, sunken face, worn and never changed, 
Stumbling along your broken track 
Over hills, underpasses and tarmac 
Carrying shopping bags two for...

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I'd rather sail the sky
Than a stormy sea
Or ride on a rainbow
Not some bumpy, blue thing.
I could climb a cloud
Or move moonbeams

But I'd rather blaze the blunt
I'm toking on with you
I'm the blunt blazer
Stoking one...

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