Long Rehashing Poems

Each year in August the teams descend, cricket foe morphing quickly to friend,
Bonds are forged on a pitch unique, camped on the banks of Reedybrook creek. 
The grass is cut, the fields set out, the...

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I woke up this morning with this thought in my mind,
there must be a God somewhere.
In school, I was taught that there is no God
so, I never gave the subject much thought.
But I started to...

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on this stage
 as i face the struggle within
 setting the past aside
 i've grown used to my indecent hostilities
 transfixed by the sadness of poverty 

i tire of the disappearance of life
 doing things...

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The winter of 1621 in Plymouth was harsh as could be,
The Pilgrims were sick and sorry they'd come,
They missed their warm English beds and their tea.
The still ambulatory shivered and shuffled about,
As they grinched, and...

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I
Where, oh where is Virginia Dare*,
No one can find her anywhere.
Her disappearance is the very worst,
I guess that's what comes from being the first.

*Virginia Dare was born on Aug. 18, 1587 in Roanoke Colony, Virginia,...

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Santa Clauses were to be molten and reshaped into Holy Cross bunnies
		             on a mega 3D printer but then the app somehow went...

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We’re in the common room, Lisa and I. It’s Friday afternoon, about 2 - It’s partly-sunny and 45°f. outside. We’ve claimed the two squares of temporary rectangular sunlight like the Spanish conquistadors of old once...

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Well, here I am again, with my tales from the night before.
Just when you thought you heard it all, here I am with more.
Remember back in “one” of the tales I told to you,
Well please...

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"Too often we don't treasure the value of a moment 
  until it's becomes a memory."          ~ by poet


In a melancholy moment I painted a...

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When a poem speak in confidence

That is how I walked the street of Brooklyn
me, a poem of mystery,  a bite senility
 in my sensate world:
I know that my pride, can over shadow
Never ride ones...

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"Lizzie Borden took an ax
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one."

Whoever wrote this jump-rope song
About Lizzie Borden got it wrong.
Though she did give her stepmom ax...

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Dreaming

Dreams, like caterpillars – pupa to butterfly, butterflies in flight.
Dreams, like creation – become the world we chose to inhabit.
               ...

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Columbus was not the slightest bit offended
At King Ferdinand's dismissive sound
When he declared the world was round,
His was not a plan that very many comprehended.
Though the queen, Isabella, thought Chris a fine fella,
Her spouse wanted...

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i put on my face
a tooth filled grin
rehashing bashing
coming down hard
on others and myself
looking for fingers to point blame
and all the while
someday along this fork in the road
i'll feel that smile
and the ones in return
i...

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I don't understand why you still wait
Paste tense is a time I don't exist
I'm on to where I'm going
And I'm through with where I've been

You need to quit rehashing the past
And trying to draw me...

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After dad's Sunday softball games, 
us kids would run the bases.
Then we'd skip over to the River Inn Tavern.
Players would gather in small sweaty clumps.  
Guzzling life 
Playing pool
Devouring cold cuts
Rehashing the scent of...

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Giovanni didn't trust Michelangelo,
He'd heard that for guys he was hot.
But for minimum pay of a florin* a day,
He was willing to give it a shot.
As soon as they started the session,
Gio's senses said something...

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say what you will about mr. hope & change
as far as him being a politician & doing the
shady, scummy, dirty & bloody things that
politicians do,
say what you will about him doing all the dastardly deeds...

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Do deaf people hear their thoughts in words?

Do blind folks dream in color?

Do desert dwellers dream of rain

and Eskimos of Summer?

If they're no cobs, who makes their webs?

What keeps huge ships afloat?

And don't you find...

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Some may say we were born just to waste away,
Or that life is only about pursuing happiness,
  But that is not what I see.
It's about finding conversation with strangers,
  and keeping silent in...

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I caress the black
 leaning into its soft
 velvet hold, hoping
 to blind the agony

but,
 the reflection of my sadness
 overwhelms and sickens
 I swallow nails with each gulp
 food carries the stench of death

uncaring...

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With my majority years long spent
I oft look back at life searching out what if's;
The decisions made at life's critical moments;
What if I had left, instead of staying?
I think of those I pushed from my...

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I never heard a worst bunch of lies
I keep telling everyone there's hope
But there's no hope in my eyes
No hope in these lips
No sounds coming of promises
Cause truly I don't see 
If god has some...

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Your Gold Hair Hung Just Right On Your Shoulders

You enticed bright moonlight to shine brighter
upon your bare shoulders beaming so white.
I dreamed of love and held you much tighter
memory forever held in my sight.

Your gold...

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To hang your head in shame for past that feeds
the thoughts you cannot tame, rehashing deeds.
‘Look up! Look up!’ at blinding light;
His Grace: display of awful* might.
Relentless worldly worry brings you low.
Look up at blessings...

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