Long Crosswalk Poems

Having been unemployed for some time, I had a fresh job prospect,
As sunlit rainbow beamed jaunty colors, the last time you checked.

I really needed some good news, as my savings were almost gone;
And without the...

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This sinner here --Michelle--
learned at St. Peter Chanel
there's no point to rebel
Life without God is Hell

Not just a state of mind
also an afterlife confined
to weep, & teeth-grind
all happiness -- behind

It would NOT be fun--
not "a...

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Where is your love is gone, my Dear? Where is your beloved 
My beloved is gone done into his garden to the bed of spices to feed in the 
garden and pick lilies of a...

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                    Where's this years "Turkey_Pardon"?
Pardon me, where's the pardon on the Family?
Was the CCP funding too...

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Daylight fades, a city pulsates, and traffic is reflected in store windows.  
Hurrying headlights come out of the darkness. 
They crisscross like dueling knights.  People in the crosswalk scamper 
as if squirrels and...

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Makes me chuckle when I hear folks talking about living rough; heck some of them think that not having HD3D is living rough! Well, let me tell you a little story about a young fellow...

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She turned her head, looking back at the crosswalk, with her feet slapping the ground as cold 
rain poured down her neck. Tears mingled with the fat pounding drops, that stuck her cocoa 
brown hair...

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CHARLIE'S CARTOON CHARACTERS

Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a far away land, in the land where Charlie lived, there was a group of cartoon characters who felt as though they were the greatest...

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A day like any other
          Brighter than the norm, if anything
               Enjoying...

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Everything can change in the blink of an eye,
One choice you make can change everything.
Just think, something that YOU do could change all your family and you!


It all changed,
It all changed when Joe was little...

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She holds her Lover's hand this night
Walks companionably
His eyes look very blue and bright
Talking excitedly

He really likes these kids' movies
And in truth she does too
All talking animals and songs
And friendship through and through

They walk the...

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Oh, where had my sweet love gone that morning
when later that day he’d met his death?
It was early January, cold and dreary
when he left unusually early without a word.
For days I wondered and I wondered
where...

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Walking up uneven sidewalks—
up cracked little hills of pavement,
past dingy apartments
gliding through trailer parks—
rough rails and low fences
skidding my fingertips—
reaching the dampened street.

Through an empty crosswalk
where children once would
wait to pass—
vigilant cross guards leading
laughing kids...

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It was a busy boulevard as usual with people going places.                        ...

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How can a stranger standing at the corner,
leave me breathless, in a trance...   I ask you?…
What are the chances, in such a moment,
one brief encounter could change a life?

You were the sunlight, after...

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The air thickens,  it smells different
Beads of sweat form on an anxious brow

He's watching me
He's watching me

Oh God what do I do now
Tip toeing through every room
Like a silent little carpet mouse
Overcome with sudden...

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We suddenly strolled down Lakeshore drive
facing Goethe street named after Wolfgang von
Goethe famous German poet just at the crosswalk 
while waving to the hidden Walter Payton  
nooks wandering steel of recycled metal 

forming beautiful...

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The grand wind blows as it hums along – 
This dark and grey velvet morning hardly risen.
 A well dressed classy drunk smears her finger across
 The doorman’s lips and whispers, “Don’t tell anyone.”
Stumbling along...

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Traffic Jam Slam


Who dresses them up and puts them in cars
gives them their keys as they leave the bars
these drivers who sit at the red light and grin
preachers out practicing Sunday’s big sin.
Somehow they think...

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Walking down the boulevard early one day
Crossing with the light going the right way
He stepped into the street
On his nimble feet
She checked to the left checked to the right
No traffic around not a car in...

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Daylight fades, as day is done
A city pulsates out of breath
Headlights duel upon the streets
and I am like the kiss of death
to those who scurry home to eat
They pass me by, on rapid feet
heading to...

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Most days it's so peaceful when Kimmy leaves home,
And the dust settles briefly, felled leaves never roam
On the floor where they mold now (till she's home again)
If not crunched in my passing, for some there's...

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It had not rained for more than three years,
And there was neither sight nor sign of anything like rain.

Elijah said to the king, "I hear the sound of the abundance of rain".
He then told his...

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Killer jeans ... 
sidewalk recombinant retinal lethal
Hazardous faded denim optics
Mahogany bombshell — 
moving target  drop-dead beautiful

Double helix ... 
T-virus (Tantalizing) traffic stop double take
Gazelle graceful mitotic movement 
cause pedestrian pause,
magnetic gawk gyroscopic directional

DNA dynamite...

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Poetry is a busy crosswalk downtown,
when everyone moves together with elbows 
held a little wider than normal.
Poetry is a middle-aged man, creased 
and folded, sprawled out on the neglected 
weeds in Woodruff park, eyes wide...

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