People Muse Poems

"The Relevance of Unspoken Poetry"


These are “my people”, are they not?
I spread my wings like a Cormorant 
and went deep diving deep deep deep 
full...

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"The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes"


“Well, where would you suggest I commence? Should we begin with the concept of pasteurize?”

This said to the earnest listener, who...

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Written: April 14, 2024

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Outside the...

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How Readers would Miss Me...

It has now been one year that he had died, 
What emptiness that he’s no more with us! 
Which, as days...

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At sixteen
People's Bible Church
sent me from rural Michigan farm lands
to Moody Bible Institute
in siren-screaming Chicago

Church fathers assumed,
despite curious evidence to the contrary,
that I was a...

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What he forgot 
while he was lying 
on the beach
wriggling his toes
in the warm sand
thinking it pliable 
with the sensual 
hand-in-hand,
was that given 
enough heat,...

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everyone’s a saint 
before they sin 
to get their own way

you could slide 
your arms around me
seductively
fluttering your quaint
poetry 
like angel feathers
up and down
my spine...

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“Pale Words Riding the Revolution”

it takes a woman
to bear the pain 
of a world ripping
wide open, apart

a part,

the child 
crowns crimson 
marked forehead
cheeks and lips,...

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"Some of us have secrets – William Tell." 

Some of us have secrets. 
Well, we all have secrets, William Tell. 
We sweep them under the...

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"The Book of Changes"

Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves

always seen to be 
swimming upstream 
against the current

thoughts … and feelings,
in the...

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Our friendship has always been my North Star 
The guide to everything out there 
And when we lost touch 
I lost my compass

I sealed the...

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relief is the highest thing to recognize 
to climb the height 
you gotta jump to the bright light 
or
Follow a heck of a line 
saw...

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Meow...

I owe you an apology. Many apologies. 
I'm sorry for blocking you. 
I'm sorry for not being there.
I'm sorry for not being ready.  
I'm...

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Hey Hey

I woke up with a story
Something lingering on my lips to be told.
I pondered on how to sound convincing talking about it;
Or, as in...

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‘Can I?’
Is such a simple question,
But it throws me off balance.
He’s asking my consent,
When he’s touched me before.

Not everyone takes
Without asking.
What a change
This moment is...

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