Christmas Love Hurts Poems

After witnessing a murder meant for me after surviving a car bomb igniting my skull crushed my face bruising my brain i received threatening calls...

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when distance cuts at love
           confounding closeness
we grumble at Skype connecting
    ...

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She hated him.
Could she tell that to the shrink?
She hated the ex-lover with all her heart.
How dared he jilt her for that bit of a...

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Misery was my food
Bitterness was my appetite
I was inserted into that relationship,
Where grieve and I had an affair.

She was all that I had
One that I...

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elegant slanted tall letters she scribed,
her quill dipped in red ink like was her blood mould,
with quivering lips her feelings she described!

tears! these tears sometimes...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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In comfort next to you mother,
fifteen Christmas I spent with you,
in time’s orchards fruits picked together,
those fruits now bitter without you!
Tears that run down my...

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Heaven Here

I stare at the photo, 
unbidden… tears fill my eyes. 
I can barely see. 
I hate that about me. 
You would laugh. 
You always...

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I Came By…
(to see you)

You don’t see me. 
I see you, everyday. 
I am afraid to say hello. 
You may say good-bye. 

I just want...

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The Mermaid Calls

You draw me close, 
and I can not swim. 
You lure me, 
tempt me, 
and tell me…
things.

Your beauty is beyond, 
all that I...

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Tricks in the Dark

Evil does not need to be, 
ever in the shadow. 
In fact, it likes to walk, 
among us… best. 

It hides and...

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Red Rover

You know the rules. 
You had your chance. 
You lost. 
Now…
My turn. 

I will tell her the sky dims when she smiles, 
As her...

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My Best Friend

Carries a great load around. 
I can see it in her eyes, her stance…
Sometimes I hear it just beyond the words, 
she speaks...

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1969 was a sad year for those aware of Viet Nam
We were seventeen and eighteen
It was in the news but what did it have to...

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Do you know you deserted a person who was totally blissfully in love with you?
Do you know that when you did not turn around and...

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