Long Race car Poems

I got you on my mind 
You got me hooked to you, you're sublime and I am no longer blind
By temporary infatuations that were not to be
By scary, horrifying nightmares of blasphemy 
Be not afraid...
I'm...

Read More

Superhero



The Boy is  three,  his sister, two

I can’t hear your water
Make it bigger 
The windows are colorful
Rainbow indigo
Like a pillow 
Because it’s colorful 
Why you say that  to me?
Why why why?
I’m gonna...

Read More

Some things are royal
others so prosaic

and then there's everything else

You bring your own biases to the choice

BUT the question then arises:

do these (even these)

belong to you?

It's Your day
Your life
Your breath

(cratered between small clumps
of sunrise and...

Read More

When my mother was at the age of thirteen,
A dirty old man asked her to come clean,
He invited her over so she could make a few bucks
When she arrived he was in a black tucks
He...

Read More

A profession that's not the norm.
It borders on the absurd.
In the mountains and down the hollers,
powerful engines could be heard.

I decided to try something new.
Put my driving skills to the test.
Driving from Harlan County to...

Read More

He dreamt of car races and our sunny California beaches.
Of tanned women playing volleyball. Yes, all were within his vibrant reach.
Porsche-mania, though was his all.
Some talk endlessly of dreams coming true, but Bruce, followed them. He
packed...

Read More

A true story....


Well I lived in Sioux City for a little while
Another job site, hubby and I have covered some miles

While there, my mother in law came to visit
She drove Elvira, the biggest Buick ever...

Read More

There are people who have known since birth what they want to do when they grow up. I was one of them. I wanted to be a newspaper reporter, race car driver, ballerina – a...

Read More

A FAMILY

                        “Anna” is so happy to declare,
    ...

Read More

The best advice I ever received about growing old…I offer now to you:
It came from an old married couple…She had just turned 80…he was 82

You are going to love this couple… before I met them...

Read More

I lollygag as much as I can
As I travel from meadow to prairie
Grandma packs me a lunch
Knowing she will not see me for hours
It is 1960. She is not frightened I will be found dead
Kidnappers...

Read More

It's rare that most would call me a hot head
I am usually the coolest cucumber instead
I have no tells, so their heads don't swell
and I don't get entangled to soon

But there is this tall lanky...

Read More

A game we were all born to play
Comes out of the closet today
It's right there next to the game of "Life"
It's "MONOPOLY" and it's mine

Find the token that lets you fit the part
Let us all...

Read More

Like a race car in a derby,
time sure flies by fast.
I always treasure every second,
for who knows if it'll be my last.
From the very moment I was born,
I never knew what to expect.
I didn't know...

Read More

Forget my acts and word of mouth

For the love i have for you i had no dout

Ive fallin to deep and cant get out

Yes i love you and thats whats counts

This hole you made i...

Read More

I am puffed up. I am proud. My nose is cold.
Maybe the coldest in the competition.
I am healthy, and I am ready. Put me in coach.
I am Champ, the number one dog in the country...

Read More

Today we played "Shop" and the unpacking of your room began...

(I was the shop keeper)

You brought me a tambourine. - I told you it was a worm holder.  
You shake it with the worms...

Read More

I'm sitting like a fat gray cat in the sun,
watching my forest gently dance, 
The wind is barely breezing, 

The bird songs are the only sounds
I hear except for the running water
of my fountain and...

Read More

A Dog’s best friend (a Cat)
A Cat’s worst foe (a Rat)
A flying mammal that shows its presence at nights (a Bat)
A deaconess soul-mate her church (Hat)

What a girl cannot do without her (phone)
The muscular structure...

Read More

Ebony drunk  and burnt rubber   sienna swerving,
I crossed the white line ...
And tragically,
with emotional intensity,
word vehicular hit a vanilla-colored human being

My coal senses were belly dulled 
by the intoxicating,   sepia...

Read More

The beans are still green
but the corn stalks have begun to brown 
I watch the first leaves fall lazily from an elm tree to the ground
I’ll soon find frost on my windshield in the morning...

Read More

My inspiration comes from my shattered heart
Of all my emotions strung apart

Distance valleys and shining falls
Back me up against mirrored walls

Shattered mirrors fall apart from the walls
Muffled noises and drowned~out calls

Life around my sweet fingertips
So...

Read More

Divine Intervention


I was supposed to die. 
More than once.
In a car, driving too fast
or erratically.

It is my race car driver foot.
And my cavalier attitude.
My impatience and my devils-may-care-self.
I know this, and yet still I crash...

Read More

The child is a poet with innocent eyes
		And a bumpity A-B-C rhyme,
		A dancer whose feet with the rhythm of life
		Move in jubilant one-two-three time.

		The child is a doctor who heals with a kiss
		And treats with...

Read More

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...

Read More