Long Hards Poems

“Words We Cannot Escape”

Words we can no longer speak

we tap dance over keys 
bruised blackly numb
Winter palette in hand 
Autumn now gone 

across white-washed notes fixated on stark enclosed walls 
the scent of old Lavender...

Read More

Here in this fledging nation of 28 million, Bolehland is really something...
For everything is possible and by the Addidas punchline, Impossible is Nothing..

Today there is an interesting bit of news concerning the local health ministry...
It...

Read More

She prayed each night

For a sign that life

Would improve her lonely plight

Night after night

She prayed and prayed

Until she heard a voice one day

It asked to be invited in

So he could offer her a blessing

And when...

Read More

Die Hard Smokers And Taxes


Die hard smokers, by the thousands countrywide, they rightly feel a bit abused…
Ouch! A latest 40% hike in price for a ciggie pack, they  are definitely not amused…

Now is the...

Read More

'Twas a week  before Christmas, when at the Kalikimaka's house, I thought I heard a shout, it must be my boyfriend, quiet like a mouse.
The Christmas tree was dry and had no Tylenol ...

Read More

To predict the weather do we need a meteorologist?
Not here, although this method by some is dismissed
Maybe not so scientific but time tested and long lasting
Welcome to the prairies and pig spleen forecasting
Call your nearest...

Read More

Third Rails
                by Odin Roark

One’s temptable 20's say “flirt with it.”
40's say “not on my watch.”
60's say “made it across...

Read More

I thank God 
every day I sleep 
every morning is a blessing
I never knew how
 long is the night 
cos my sleep is peaceful
yet the sound of the alarm
is always a remainder of 
a new...

Read More

Life is ups and it's downs, 
                it's shorts and it's longs
It's crooks and it's straights, 
   ...

Read More

I found a way of enjoying Golf,
when you're 80 plus years old!
It isn't rocket-science,
so listen and behold!

First of all, stop keeping  score,
it's important that you do!
Counting strokes, makes no sense,
for someone old as you!

The...

Read More

In any law school, it is the first lesson taught
And not one of us should ever forget
A man with his hands tied, can still kick you on the chin
The bigger they are, the harder they...

Read More

The constitution of ‘behind closed doors’ has been ripped apart
wild and adventurous, the silent additions to personalities
while morality is shredded in the offices of humanistic views
giving character an explosiveness 
for goodness to break the boundaries...

Read More

We were still free to dream,
however, a tax on any imaginative writing
that contravened the rules or regulations
for literary acceptability 
or worse
were deemed counter-revolutionary.

In Poland, the last of the hold-outs
wrote odes to Chopin
but essentially all was...

Read More

Solely self inflicted
Jury Judged Convicted
On them I've fed
Salty years I've bled
A society in form, though not in norm
Their eyes rake as headless mouths intake
A  knotted pine snake heedless to participate,
I am in the middle...

Read More

It’s 8 AM in the morning and my friend got robbed last night.

That’s the result of a person going through hards times and not workin’ but steady workin’ on 

how to get the quick buck.

My...

Read More