Long Deteriorate Poems

New England's late May sun was long up,
and yet her laundry began to unfold
and clip onto the droopy clothesline,
while yet to warm into 8 AM.

She wore a light spring jacket
and need not think long
about why...

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When I was born in 1949, Harry Truman was the President of The United States.  Of course I do not personally remember him.  Mr. Truman was followed by Mr. Dwight Eisenhower, but I...

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Her cognition is sporadic
Longing for her to relax
And display calm tactics
Lay on my chest like it’s a hammock
When she isn't calm
I can't stand it
Cause behaviors like these in women
Can easily become habits
It won't happen to...

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THIS IS ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
VERSE 1:
Not a Ballpoint To Sleep
I dare blame them for any detriment,
As I care more to rubbish these bait flip men.
So simple having their downfall predistined,
Can sense struggles thrown from their...

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{"This heavy humanness she burdened inside, 
Sent electrical shocks through her body, 
she would weep silently with a fist pressed up against her maw with her eyes evidently glistening nobody would attempt to console her...

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Pandemic!
A pandemic is widespread and affects everything and everyone. No one is safe and there are no lives without risk. Pandemic’s once unleashed on unsuspecting, innocent people wreaks havoc. There are numerous unknown’s and more...

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Pandemic!
A pandemic is widespread and affects everything and everyone. No one is safe and there are no lives without risk. Pandemic’s once unleashed on unsuspecting, innocent people wreaks havoc. There are numerous unknown’s and more...

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              DEAR MR PRESIDENT*

Mr President



We used to pledge our allegiance to the motor one Zambia one  nation
we believed the mystery of...

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SOMEONE WHO WILL TAKE ME AS ME


Someone who will take me as me...

Gone are the days that I set standards 
just to possibly disinter who is who
Gone are the days that I dig into
just the...

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I am perched in a dark and damp castle, clouded by the putrid scent of death.  Even 
the floors know of death, for they are basking in blood like the bottom of a sea...

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It's a shame when you have a good thing going
& people want to intervene.
They don't want you to have
They are jealous & mean.
Their lives are not going well
They have nothing at all.
Instead of praying for...

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My sister called, “You must come now, to see him still alive.”
He’d had the dreadful verdict just a week or so before,
my precious younger brother, last remaining one of five.
“You should accept the Hospice care,...

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Bone-drained, there is no respite, no split second of peace.  The “sundowner”, a hyper-active toddler in a man’s vehicle, never sleeps nor sits.
When I succumb to that one precious moment of rest; I am...

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***Collaborative by father and son...***


I'd like to tell a story
Of romance at it's best
I'll speak to you of deja-vu                ...

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it all started on a nothing day
one where the sun shines just so
not too hot, not too cold, like the tea
that stirred easy in the mug staring up at her &
the fact that they had...

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A single stray tear streaming down a scarred cheek
the quick sting of walking on a brisky, cold March morning
the symbolic start of disintegration, end of bold sanity for the month
The very definition of the label:...

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It's a nondescript shoe box. Maybe it contained my husband's shoes. That's why it's so big. The lid doesn't come off, but falls to the side.. still attached. A strange place to keep love. Perhaps....

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Life Is Terminal

By: Olivia Rodrigue


Though there is light ever present
It fades, flickers and is swallowed

Life passes in snippets and snapshots
 moments and memories
 heads full but hallowed

As people we are more than one person in...

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October 16th
We lost one of the best people
I ever saw.
My beautiful, sweet, dear
Mother-In-Law.
She loved her children
She introduced them to God.
Constantly smiling
Even though her life was so hard. 
"Blood Of Jesus"
Was her favorite thing to say.
She...

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A couple of years later, at age 19, this farm girl married and, true to her Catholic
upbringing, began having children. She had four live births and four miscarriages over the course of less than seven...

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“Penetration” 


Baby remember this date 

For it could one day be great 

Unless you prefer to listen to those who hate 

Rather than allowing your heart to decide your fate 

Even though your mind will...

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In a movie entitled, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp said to Doc Holliday,                        ...

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My thoughts are compressed and expressed violently as alcohol increases the stress,
I confess I don't address the mess when I'm lost to the dark compass,
My past often surfaces while I try to relocate different faces...

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Slowly, slowly we’re slipping away.
We’re losing sight of who we are together, 
of what we can be.
We’re losing each other.
No matter how hard we try, it doesn’t stop. 
This ship we’ve built up for so...

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I lay here, unarmed, and vulnerable to the damage that has been done. I want to cry, I can cry and I will.
The feeling of it all, discomforts me, hypnotizes me, leaves me wondering; who...

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