Long Diabetic Poems

De ja vu is seen right before my 7 senses...don't listen to the cries of lies...
Complete me...don't leave me empty - let my 6 become 7 (complete me) This bothersome feeling of disbelief intensifies -...

Read More

UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers

If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s out-of-stock -...

Read More

Such as a woman would say with low self-esteem ...
Some say I'm not beautiful nor am I pretty 
But that's okay I can relay
 I Was Made created holy God Made Me for God 
Made...

Read More

still the climbing green lianoid lass


her tender tendrils torn  


massive metal lying like a cutlass


in her lap forlorn


                ...

Read More

I CAN’T BREATHE, I CAN’T BREATHE, I CAN’T BREATHE
WHY? WONT YOU TAKE YOUR KNEE OFF ME
These are the voices of victimized Blackman in the USA
WAKE UP GEORGE FLOYD
Questions about, Police officer’s attitudes
Toward Black Americans, Protesters...

Read More

Managing my diabetes? 

Let's face it managing my diabetes I have not been doing very well at all,
instead I have been giving myself the lowest academic grade possible,
F-, the exact same failing grade I have...

Read More

When my yearly nurse from United Healthcare exam-ed my legs she informed me." I have been cured of Lymphedema, but it could come back again at any time."

Each time she mentioned how did I get...

Read More

I have been an adult one-set diabetic since 1998.  I have developed a point system to help me keep track and better manage my diabetes.

The normal blood sugar range is between 80-130.  In...

Read More

It is night yet in the West
   and the planes land between listlessly burning tarmac lamps
   stealthy fingers scurrying through diadems of neons  halogens and amber
    ...

Read More

The Poet in His Casket

Well, look at you lying there!
In your brown suit and gold tie.
How I want to hug you now!
You can't be dead, you're only forty
years old!

We lived together till you took a...

Read More

In wooden covered wagons on the out 
Flanks of town is where you will find the
Gypsy encampment.
Do you have an inquisitive mind?
They have all kinds of entertainment
That has to be lucrative for them to stay
Alive...

Read More

MY SHORTCOMINGS ARE OVERWHELMING - HOWEVER MY STRENGTHS ARE DEFEATING THEM - POETRY CONTEST

I stood there,
...slowly...
I removed my clothes...
you could tell that my date who was 
about to see me naked for the first time 
was...was...well...EXCITED!
I was worried...

Read More

It's inauguration day, January 20, 2021.
I could be at home, watching the TV presentation
pomp and pageantry. But old, achy, onerous and 
anxious, bladder full with no toilet near, I wait 
in a chilly car in...

Read More

Daddy promised to treat,
Only if I didn’t leave any beet.

Mummy kept it high up on the shelf,
So that I couldn’t take it by myself.

The teacher announced it as a prize,
Only if my grades gave her...

Read More

Between You and I,
What's going on?
torn stitches,
Girl!
Smiles of diabolical impression,
brutally appealing,
gestures of charismatic sweet melodies,
best described: very dangerous indeed,
on this brown wooden bed,
over the same bloated pillow we sleep madly in love,
within the blanket of...

Read More

He's in the line for a quick pick up,
it's early in the morning and not much of a line

and he needs some milk and toilet papers, says
“I've had better days, this shall pass.”

He's said that...

Read More

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Writes a chronicle, which he claims is about Nothing that, for us, ( Nothing ) encompasses a mountain of words
reflecting the need of the needs ofman
Antonio protested against the Portuguese wars in Africa
“...

Read More

You didn’t notice my tears.

As you both kissed each other
like two lonely plungers
who just escaped from plumber’s solitary confinement,
your eyes open and wander up.

You didn’t look across that banquet hall
with my feet planted against wood...

Read More

:)

Author Note:
45 minutes in the district library trying to find former president Jimmy Carter's and wife Rosalyn's book they wrote in the 1980's on Youth cause my children are driving me nuts.
(hahaha)

Good day though, even...

Read More

Snow is white
He was born in a rather narrow-minded town that had
strict rules for acceptable behaviour, no bars, no restaurant
serving alcohol and no public display of affection.
A Muslim scholar who came to this town by...

Read More

I guess I'm what one would call a "Chocoholic" 
     I make trips to Wockenfuss Candies more than the average guy. 
 I wish I could only go on Valentine's Day,...

Read More

Said she was Sitting Bulls great, great, great
from Bill Cody's rodeo days in Germany ~
I did see a resemblance ~ pix, side by side!
Germany ~ before and after ~ Nazi's!

Now Monica a left-over immigrant to...

Read More

I don’t know which flowed faster, my blood or tears;
“Our country will endure”, Mr. President, doesn’t alleviate my fears.

Every night I thanked God for the roof over my head;
But now dear Jesus please don’t make...

Read More

Do decimels count?  Exponentials?
Remember this crazy dude, I'll surely only get crazier as I age.
And I'm doing that fast.
Got some catchin' up to do.
The soap opera around me grows ever more bizarre.
And worrisome.
And I...

Read More

I lit up everything for you...
the empty roads..
to the dark sky...
the candle light..
to the broken lamps...
nothing was remaining to be lovely...
everything was just perfect...as you said...
 
I planned and walked..to do all the above done...
I...

Read More