Long Flach Poems

My wife maintained her spirit and humor all through the pre-op preparation process.  She 
joked and laughed with the nurses, assistants and doctors as they poked her, pushed her, squeezed her, took blood, took...

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1.  LIFE:  February (you can guess which year.)
     I came to earth as a little dear. 
     After I wailed and cried a tear.
 ...

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 It takes a lot to drive one to thoughts of suicide

A lot of pain
A lot of sorrow
A lot of loneliness
A lot of heartbreak
A lot of disappointment
A lot of misunderstanding
A lot of abuse

There on the...

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“In lieu of flowers”, the obituary read, “please donate to a worthy cause.”
But when I thought about how she loved her garden, I really had to take a moment 
and pause.
I know her daughters meant...

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"I shall be telling this with a sigh" 
Robert Frost, The Road Less Travelled. 

I’ve wiped her tears for many years,
through pain and heartbreak, too.
I’ve held her hands and lent an ear,
so tough times she...

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I still remember that first day of school in our fourth grade year;
My family had just moved in and I didn’t have any friends there.
I sat in the cafeteria all alone, my lunch box I’d...

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She held my hands and looked up at me, as I sat on the side of our bed.
In the whispered voice, which was all she had left, this is what she said:

“Write for me a...

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20 Titles – Breaking Free 

I've been Roaming the Shores of Love,
Standing By the Water's Edge 
Where Joy and Sorrow Blend.
It hurts to recall Whispered Passions Exploding
when Yesterday's Shadows conceal
What Might have Been…
yet it’s So...

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My daughter posed to me a curious question.
She asked, “Dad, where do you get your inspiration,
To get up each morning before the rising sun,
And put your garbage collector’s clothes back on?

I know you told me...

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Differences can tear apart or bring you close together
Sometimes songs have harmony when sung by birds of different feather
Listen close and you might learn about a thing or two
Close your mind and shout a lot...

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This time you've really thrown me a challengin' curve, Mr. Flach!
You've asked this old "rhymer" to write somethin' called "free verse!"
To concoct such a "masterpiece" is agin' my poetical "religion!"
But if you insist, I'll give...

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The guy she hired to do me in,
unbeknownst to her,
was one of the blokes on Friday nights
with whom I played poker.

All this time she thought I lied
and was having a sordid affair,
because I didn’t tell...

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You can give me 
the pen of Emily Dickson or
Langston Hughes but still 
submerged in losing 
languished hues. 

I just cant win,
to the air I never hold my chin, 
with my trophy in the air...

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There is a poetry contest on a web site to write your own dedication
A difficult task for a humble man; good thing I am not him.
They will line up by the door, I am sure,...

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As consciousness escaped me,
My journey got under way;
Floating on clouds of thoughtlessness,
The subconscious came in to play.

My spirit left my body;
Watching it from above;
Departing while it lay sleeping;
Flying away like a dove.

I journeyed into the...

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1977 BRIDGE SITE MINER`S BLUES.
Down in old south Brisbane, 
where the derro`s do hang out, 
Where the pipes were stacked 6 high, 
the homeless camped about. 
I was working mate as a miner, 
on a...

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He was a midnight black stallion with little white spots;
Who only let me ride him, but others could not.
He had a temperament unstable, make no mistake;
His looks, not his personality, earned him the name of...

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I have come forth via political poetry.
However, I am being ignored.
The Courts have violated my constitutional rights.
I am a United States of America native-born child who is now an adult.
This human rights violation is not...

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I was only five and barely alive; diagnosed with a dreaded disease;
For six months I lay in a hospital bed not quite ready to leave.

My kidneys had failed; medications were no avail;
dialysis seemed the only...

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The stars shine brighter away from the city lights;
My load feels lighter sleeping in an open field at night;
The air smells fresher with no exhaust from passing cars;
I get more pleasure wishing upon a shooting...

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Thank You, God.
Thank You for everything
that I know that I wanted and You withheld.
Thank You for everything
that I thought that I did not need and You provided.
Let me be like the one leper
out of ten...

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Sometimes, the worries that fester under the heat of the sun
are softened by the glow of the moon.
Sometimes, that deed done in daylight that we think has ruined our lives forever
seems less devastating and more...

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Please Daddy, can we build just one more
Just one more castle on the ocean’s door
Build a sandcastle better than all before
Can we build one more before we leave the shore

I can still hear her begging...

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On the boardwalk, skies and waters a majestic blue
On the boardwalk it’s me and you
Together hand in hand.
Together we just bought this square of land.
Monopolizing from
People who landed to hear the wave’s drum
People who landed...

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Passed down to me from my dear mother,
this cleaning bug even bit my brother.
I spent many hours doing house chores.
The need to clean, we could not ignore.

I always felt such satisfaction,
my friends all thought a...

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