Long Dartmouth Poems

A pair of monolid eyes, and I’m academically enlightened.
As if I’m some talented prodigy on his way to an Ivy League.
Able to quickly solve problems without ever breaking a sweat.
Absolutely - perfect - in every...

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I woke to the sound of sizzling bacon, the aroma of fresh baked Muffins and my Beautiful Lenore in her bright green Teddy. "Nubbies", I said, "what time is it." Lenore said" for You it...

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This is Harry who's this? Its Tom Mansfield. Tom you realize its 11:30 P.M. Sorry we have 5 climbers missing on the...

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My Aunt Darlene used up hours worrying.
Turning down invitations, sitting in one spot.
Afraid she would fall if she got up.
People brought her meals, so she would eat.
It is unclear whether or not she ever used...

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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells”, 
Stated Theodore Geisel one time,
Yet further than just nonsense he wrote,
Who became famous from his unique type of rhyme. 

His story begins,
March 2, 1904,
Son of a...

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FAREWELL   TO    NOVA    SCOTIA


A net of cables stretching overhead  in the mist to Dartmouth Bay:
Our boat slips under Angus McDonald bridge out into the Atlantic greys,
Leaving...

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On the cliff at the Worm’s Head 
High above the horns of the bay
I see the surfers ride great waves
With horses’ manes
That ever fail, but never end
In the strong Atlantic surge

In the estuary at Dartmouth
Where...

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Red blood courses through my veins
    I've written my will, I pay my bills
  The currents of the day reach me too
    I am a poet, not a...

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What does it mean, to be green,
Referring to color, not politics or emotions.
There's some tints or hues, between yellows and blues;
With a lot of room, in between, for so many types of green.

There are some...

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"Wah-hoo-wah!"
said the 'bro,'
 "Let's head toward 
  Fraternity Row."

The Library bells
toll ding-dong,
  Drunken brothers
  play beer-pong;

All through the night
play and drink,
  By dawn of day, 
  their breath stinks.

Men of...

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Left To Wander

Confusion’s underbelly
frustration’s embryo
Orphaned seeds of black and white
spread where nothing grows
Choices wander celibate
new pregnancy unfound
Up or down left to right
— dubiety impounds 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

Incognito

Thinking the worst
of people
life has cast a...

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North of Nottingham, there lies a wood

Clothed with fern in Dartmouth green

A barefoot Beauty, There she stood

The likes of which, the worlds not seen



A man observes, but undetected

Concealed up in The Major Oak

She drops her...

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It's so hard to select just one president --
  even harder to put a new resident
into a WH occupied by true decadents

You think I mean Biden and Trump, ho-ho
  but I'm thinking Bush...

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Avatar Queen
The mask or the screen
What’s never to know
What’s never to see

Avatar Queen
Your name to mislead
One more cryptic posting
That always deceives

Avatar Queen
Both petty and preened
The bees in your bonnet
Its stinger unclean

Avatar Queen
You know what I...

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Saturday nights I remember
  were bad in September
    even worse in November

On campus, roving mobs and gangs
  looking for girls to get drunk and then bang

In dorms, wise fools dropping...

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(This poem is a lightly satirical look back in history at what 
  was known as the Boston Tea Party)


Something's brewing on the Dartmouth
"Are those Mohawks that we see."
No, but over-taxed colonists crying
"Wake up...

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The American Scholar,
professor of English at Dartmouth College.
Books for children
were your domain.

From “The Trumpeter of Krakow”
I learnt the second part of the legend. 
“The Golden Star of Halicz”,
has ancient story of Galicia.

In Mexico you helped...

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