Long Coincidences Poems

This is a totally true episode from our 40 years spent collecting antiques -  


You never know for sure what lays ahead in life, my friend…
And here’s a tale I love to tell, and...

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"The desire for personal exculpation from the sins of society is a kind of fetish,
akin to solar panels on a 4,000-square-foot house."

Exemption from our anti-social competition and egocentrism
is a desire for ever more cognitive dissonance
as...

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Be bold, I tell myself through whispers of driven reinforcement…
Reassuring myself that His might is as high as the mountains
He told me to be not deceived by the wickedness and resentment
Feel me, relief from grief…pouring...

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A Storm is brewing, quietly churning above.
Residents working to prepare a town tradition.
Mobilizing able citizens, attempts to guarantee success.
A hundred year tradition, the town's shining gem
Times are changing, still they cling to the past.
As if...

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My Life is definitely trying to tell me something....
It is almost certainly painting a picture, but I can't see what it's a picture
of.
It's been a series of Magic Moments, Crushing Blows, surreal and unfortunate
events, earth...

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Double Feature

Flashback! Three friends of childhood featuring a blond, brunette and red-head
Sharing the script of summer days and rain soaked winter afternoon
Unfolding documentary of roads ocean journey to California, Colorado and Norway.

Zoom in on a...

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Cerulean sky in the quiet jungle was shook up by the unexpected tremor of a white and red bimotor plane. Larry, a tall, olive skin, green eyes, was the handsome pilot of the plane called...

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Oh Whisperer, whisperer of loves endless refrain, the circle turns again
Earthly desires echo in time, your thoughts I feel, echoing through mine
Tapestry of time, mysteries of rhyme, friendly gestures haunt my mind
Subliminal touch, I breathe...

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I hadn’t seen her in over twenty years,
but I knew her face on sight;
I should have asked her to the senior prom - 
instead, we both stayed home that night.

High school friends who never went...

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They say everything happens for a reason,
People come into your life at the exact moment you need them, some stay for ever, some for a while , some even more briefly.
It doesn't matter how long...

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I saw a side of a friend 
I couldn’t trust or ever mend 
Behaviour so crazy 
it completely changed me 
disturbing, unnerving 
and it was reoccurring 
Publicly placed 
with a spaced face 
I said excuse...

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Dear Mom,
Hey Mom, I hope you are well. Not feeling much pain. 
I guess, when  you get this letter I’ll be long gone.
It’s my goddamn birthday what a coincidence.
See I took a direct hit...

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It's a good day, though abnormalities made me pay,
Aching back, yellow eyes, pale nails, falling for the fever of jaundice,
Loosing game, turning backs, thundery nights, falling for the fever of your love 
Last benchers being...

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I would rather be at that moment
When we sang our first duet
Words came so smoothly to our lips
Interlinking thoughts and feelings
We wrote deeply from the heart and soul
Every idea danced and played music to our...

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Gavrilo Princip wanted to kill the Arch-duke Franz Ferninand
To integrate Bosnian-born Serbians into the Greater Serbia
So with bombs and pistols supplied by the Serbian military
With another seven conspirators who positioned themselves
Along the route in Sarajevo...

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I gaze at the approaching thunderstorm
and inhale the earthly scent of rainstorm
Her tears
as spears
is like a million blows on human fears

I ponder awhile beneath the lit-up sky
then words start rolling & a prayer is sent...

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Hillary, dear Hillary—where do we begin?
In your tale of deceit and corrupt political spin.
First lady, poor victim—
‘Vast Right Wing’ to blame,
A Chicago born, carpet bagging, New Yorker—how lame.
For over four decades, you ruthlessly fought,
Every virtuous...

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White vapors appear as pollution sized continents reside in our open waters. 

Men are missing more teeth than technology has to offer.

Beggars are asking for cigarettes and demanding five dollars. 

Cars are so many and...

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(A poetic representation of this world unfolding before a child as he grows up to adolescence) 

He stood on a hill,
And saw a picture,
A silent stare at the universe,
Meaning without a description.

It hung by a...

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THE MONTH OF MY BIRTH

The sound of June sounds like nothing but June.
Sweet! like the last drop of fine wine dripping from the warm tongue of a lover.
Leaving you wanting more for the remaining 29...

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Sitting here tonight thinking about you 
the phone rings and it's you on the other end 
you say I was just thinking about you 
how have you been? 
I say well I'm fine but it's...

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Forces of Good and Evil


Angels of the dark and angels of the light
They walk among men, day and night
The advent of the third eye, hidden behind the curtain
Night vision of the human eye, in the...

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We reap what we sow
but that is not concrete defined. 
Karma is a spiritual law
That should not keep us confined. 

Its how we choose to live our lives
and the affect we have on others.
Sometimes goodness...

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Six relatives
shell upon shell of relationships
Each layer has its function
Even hens keeps the family in order

My sister Lina and I 
are completely different
only a leaf thin wall 
separates the laughter from the tears
She is hypersensitive
but...

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I 
I am 
I am more then what this poem can hold
Broken bones
Empty hands
A full head
Impossible dreams 
Do you like making 
out?             ...

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