Long Faucets Poems

Flint 
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...

Read More

The sun is burning intensely outside, and it is melting the passion inside, the dogs are running around gasping for breath, and throwing their frivolous bodies on the ground.

They are looking for clean drinking water...

Read More

Hell, let’s talk.

Heres my mind outlined in chalk/
Hold it tight so it won’t take off/
Holding you down with each of my thoughts/
Folding you over with 40 ton locks

wondering why we’re all loosing it/
All because we’re...

Read More

***Crazy Menagerie***


I definitely bit off more than I could chew,
when I came a-running to my friend's rescue
He said it was no big deal, a real snooze actually
to just please, please look after his cutie menagerie

He...

Read More

Preface: There is entirely too much water being consumed.  People should be satisfied with thirst and being dry.  They should think about desert sand, romancing dunes and bleached bones in repose.

 
People become...

Read More

painted my fingernails
  lips, eyes, cheeks
          with dark
lovely pink
went out on the town
purse, shoes, belt
   had hues and shades
of pink and of brown
spritz...

Read More

Each of us has a unique set of memories when we think of someone.  Each of us has our 
own "piece" of him that we take through life.  These few are just some...

Read More

She rose from the table moving slowly to the sink. This was not her favorite time, too much time to think.  Her body moved from memory now, the right bit of dish detergent, she...

Read More

“The Lost Daughter”



Thursday walked through the doors on a Tuesday
She sat in the Waiting Room, 
the place smelled too sterile, 
Antiseptic wash, 
rank clean with soaps of fine lyes 
no rugs to sweep bulldust under
such...

Read More

No person wants to live in a condemned building, with it's decrepit roof and ceiling
raining asbestos and lead upon your head, no one wants it but you can always go outside.

No person wants to live...

Read More

No one knows the hour of Christ’s return.
And when he comes to earth what will He find?
A place where man and creatures co-exist
Or places where the greed of man confines?

Has man replenished Earth as God...

Read More

*~*


          In the house where love had died
               Shadows echo off walls...

Read More

" Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house; can you hear the whispering?" - Constance La France.

         dilapidated and weather-beaten,
     ...

Read More

The snow fell lightly facing Tehran the stars all seemed to glow over the Capsien Sea from a heated Indian Ocean beholder of the Black Sea we hadn't battled cold like this an yet a...

Read More

I drew a sweet faerie girl with a half acorn hat
Then I swept horrible kitchen floor in three seconds flat
On a roll now, I wrote a number of banal, boring poems
All to avoid a bossy,...

Read More

Waves on the rocks 
a'crashing
In it human feet go 
splashing
And elsewhere in the 
swollen river
'gator tails go thrashing
Water may be stagnant 
or it may be thus moving

Sometimes softly 
dripping
at times forcefully 
gushing
In brooks babbling
In streams...

Read More

I pace through the house to find behind closed doors
A little boy alone, cold, and crying on his bed
Face buried in hands and hair knotted, greasy from neglect
His back split and bleedng from sores of...

Read More

Their grinning heads cover the fields for acres
A sea of happy mini suns, welcoming us to Kansas.
We stare, amazed, having no idea this was possible.
There are photo moments and we take them all.

A gift shop...

Read More

Confusion rakes away at my brain
I don’t want to face this life…this pain
Yet I can’t leave behind those many others
Living life and love till it smothers

No one feels quite the same
In a shining sun, or...

Read More

Halloween - Jeepers Creepers

Zany zombies lumber and stumble on streets,
as vain vampires stalk for bloody treats.
Syrupy blood oozes from water faucets,
and gory goonies crawl out of cob-webbed closets.

Best time of year for the terrifying undead,
with...

Read More

dry skies shimmer and the skin sweats
earth harden and cracked to bits
winds whip laughter of tumbleweeds
red dust blush as heaven bleeds

parch and thirsty burns yellow sun
prayers for rain seem overdone
bodies of water disappeared
rationing life's liquid...

Read More

Things that I close 

Windows to not let any 
flies and mosquitos in
Doors to not let any 
air or heat out of the house as my mother would say, 
Jars full of fireflies, if only...

Read More

flying around in the attic
crashing into the walls
these dark angels never sleep
circle games and bocce balls
old men on sidewalks
blind canes tapping
faucets dripping iron 
ghosts, ghosts
I smell the fear
vipers fangs
antique dogs barking
cluttered rooms 
play ground to...

Read More

Faucets  leak another tomorrow,

pecking my shoulder with excuse

me's.



Always being asked directions to

streets never heard of.....


                   ...

Read More

Tasty home-cooked meals
  A heater that works every time
Shoes that ease my neuropathy
  My collection of Mercury dimes 

Glasses that calibrate my vision
  Grown sons who consider my advice
A computer that responds...

Read More