Long Eyeglasses Poems

Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...

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Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery...

lurks within the outer limits of cyberspace,
where dark shadows eclipse edge of night
indistinguishable from the twilight zone.

Within the Internet binary size weavers loom
shuttlecock whizzes (analogous to a bad mitten)
at speed of...

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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...

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"METAL....I AM METAL"

                                You...

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Somewhere beyond the deep young girls are crying out in their sleep. 
Cries that span beyond decades wounding the hearts of weeping mothers 
And breaking the souls of desperate fathers. 

I can hear those cries...

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A Rift in Time

By Elton Camp

	Henry Higgins, B.A., M.A. Ph.D., graduate in physics from the Massachusetts Institution of Technology, is missing.  Born August 8, 1950, he was thought of as a genius by some,...

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Who could forget what happened on that unsuspecting and sunny day,
when no visible clouds drifted over the Twin Towers?
Little after midnight, the cool rain adds to the melancholy 
of the descending angels; and I join...

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I was a marvelous ophthalmologist, impacting how others saw this world,
As tomorrow one day sees yesterday, on lanes where hued leaves swirled.

I corrected hazy, crazy vision problems, with eyeglasses and with surgery;
Like a second look,...

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Hooray for Captain Spaulding...
though he played only a cameo role
helping me secure corrective eyewear I sport

mucho gratitude to all parties involved
including the missus,
cuz she needed to shuttle me
to and from hither and yon,
wherever I needed...

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Luke* and Frank* were my cousins from two of my father’s sisters.
Luke and Frank lived in the same city, and I joined them for an important family event.  I had not seen nor spoken...

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Lost my kids once just for a  minute or so in the fair:  needle in haystack.
Busy and purposeful Sunday morning. Fascinating bee hive but I wanted my kids back

Thought they were next to...

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We need our "Eyeglasses",or we must learn to function in "Darkness"if necessary,and that is not liked,but can be adjusted to so that we can continue through faith to do what we need to do!"Some Doctors...

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MARKET    IN    BRITTANY,     FRANCE

Lost my kids once just for a  minute   or so  in the market:   needle in haystack.
Busy...

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The burial is over and the mourners leave,
                and the departed one is left with the dead;
soon, squirrels come...

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the humid thick air of a July 10 evening 
streets of new york city in july
heat that invites two wretched souls
into the beatnik hall

coffee pouring- smell of tobacco burning
a squares  mistake of showing up...

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Let me tell you a sad story, a true story . . .

     In another time, under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi
Party, millions deemed undesirable were murdered, including...

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*Image of Eventful 2023 by NBHA.

Parodical Resolutions 2023

Conceding the current aspects of conformity, I have constructed a perspective of 2023 resolutions in a parody.
I will turn off the light so that I can see in...

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To celebrate his new glasses,
home a nearsighted dragon, did fly.
the doctor had truly, helped his sight.
A party he’d throw, full of savories; 
on many delicacies, his friends would feed.
All night they’d party, till morning’s light.

His...

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"Know that Christ is always with you,

TO: those who got their first boo-boo
Those who want to win a race
Those who want to pass the driving test
Those who want to pass the final exam
Those who want...

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Let me tell you a sad story, a true story . . . 

Maybe some of my facts are not exactly right on,
maybe some of my dates are off, but the story is true.


In...

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There is always a right and wrong 
choice for everything.
God has only one strict rule.  
No interference.
God put Satan into our lives,
by ousting him from heaven.

I have heard it said that God lets children...

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Is it fair that youth is beauty
That the best we can ever be
Is before we are twenty three
Why can't a wrinkle be sexy
Who says grey hairs are icky
Contact lenses are too tricky
Comfort and ease of...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: U And I Are Different
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: November/1987


U and I are different
    we choose/not 2b
what NOTS  R -

We know/that
NOTS-R-nots,
and

They know/who
they/R -

EaCh and EVerY one
of them R SNobS,
who don't give a...

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*Image of Alphabet Blackboard by Pixabay.

U - C, I - C: Nursery Rhyme

*Rhyming meter similar to, "Little Miss Muffet."

Tommy and Peggy were a bit edgy,
doing their A B C's,
then came Miss Hammerschmidt,
they almost had a...

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Our faint life


Some brushstrokes project our fate, two hands, I am disabled, lives
without arms. Missing yours. Mine tired, wanted one to create the lives

Yes, saying the life, you cannot go on the road only with...

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