Narrative Poems

I was a bad girl this year. As bad as Zumba our kitty who licks her paws and ignores the rules. When Ma said we were going to the mall, I ran to get my purse and could not find...Read More

The Calloway’s mama was not unlike an octopus 
With tentacles in the PTA, the church, the A.A., 
She was involved in every aspect of whatever.
Her friends kept her abreast of what her six children were about.
When they were young, she...Read More

She started a screenplay but it got insanely boring,
So she flipped to a clean page and began a novel.
By page two she could not bear it. It was not making sense.
I will write a poem, she thought. 

Poems came easily....Read More

The wicked is calling the wicked 
wicked
Oh what a wicked
The wicked is calling the wicked
Wicked
Who is really wicked?
The wicked is calling the wicked 
Wicked
Can’t you see that something is wicked?
Wicked man,
 Wicked woman, 
Wicked boy,
 Wicked girl
Wicked church
Wicked preacher
Wicked teacher
Wicked...Read More

My Umbrella

It was the reason
for everything,
needed, 
that had any value. 

It started with rain, 
on a Sunday morning. 
It moved to the car,
that would not start. 
Then there was a man, 
a stranger,
an unexpected hero. 

He stopped when no one...Read More

Part 3 to – ‘The Dreamer video’

Cresting the waves of dismal greys
through a uncertainty that never ends
his howl of sorrow transcends a morrow
seeming lost in this quagmire of despair
that we all share, and still……
I Hope

Mesmerising tales of yore 
please not...Read More

When I Grow Up

It will be okay. 
I will be six foot 
and five inches.
I will be bigger than him. 
I will be as big as grandpa.

I will take him to the shed.
Instead of you. 
I will make him shake....Read More

Humanity has taken a chainsaw to the tree of life 
every tear came as a visitor as my eyes they drank 
from the well of the moon 
Somethings within memory last forever 
each thorn was love protecting the rose 
twilight...Read More

The Burden is Light

I go to your house, 
and make tea.
Talk to me. 

I clean your dishes. 
I mop the floor.
I start dinner. 
I am here. 

My life, 
it has things wrong.
Yet, it is you, 
you that is suffering. 

I...Read More

The Tank 

On empty, we drove on. 
There was no place to stop anyway. 
We got in the car before dawn, 
the kids in the back seat. 
the dog with them. 
“Good girl, good girl” stayed silent. 
She knew… 

Pocket...Read More

Ugly Face

The law,
says leave no trace, 

but the eyes. 
a hateful rag, 
that smells;
of unclean things,
of sour food, 
and drink, 
of his taste, 
and his smell, 
when he is…
done.

Cover yourself.
cover everything…
about you.
repulsion, 
resounds in the image, 
of reflection, 
uncivilized.

Cutting parts...Read More

Scam Alert

This letter below came in my in box (my Gmail as I answered the soup mail) at poetry soup, so I responded and said hi. I was sent a scam letter about Allah and tears and dying and sharing...Read More

My fiancée set the trifold pamphlet in front of me as he said, “Here, I want you to read this.”  The word DIVORCE  in giant orange letters  jumped out at me from the page. “Why in the...Read More

He Will

Be back soon. 
That is what he said. 

Don’t worry, it is just a phase. 
That is what his family chimed, 
nearly sang. 

He took the good car, 
He took all the money,
from every account. 
He took all of...Read More

Today is a global problem where murder is a place personified as corruption of anger, greed and pure sadism 

Today is the fear of the killing of a fellow human with weapons only known by the killer 

A murder of...Read More

Words that Hurt

…
Fill in the blank.
…
Keep writing.
…
Stop crying.
…
Pray.

See.
It worked.

Amen.
...Read More

Lawn Mower Facts

Briggs and Stratton is number one, 
Grandpa use to say…
They will last until the cows come home.
Then he dreamed a bit…

The Deere, Oh John, he plows forever, 
If you can afford one, that is. 

Fixing things that did...Read More

The Gun

On the wall above the fire place, 
Grandpa’s rifle still sits. 
I take it down now and then to clean, 
but put it back every time. 
That is where it belongs. 

Grandpa shot deer and elk, 
He even shot...Read More

Holy Night

My dearest friend, 
I know we believe in the same God. 
He loves you, and your family. 
He loves me and mine. 
Let us agree together,
That we love Him. 

Jesus born, a baby in a manger. 
A single man,...Read More

The Making of Cookies

The lost art of putting, 
flower, sugar, vanilla,
and cream together.
More than small cakes, 
a distance…
far past “home made”, 
to the sheer land of magic.

Recipes handed down, 
from grandmother, 
(and grandfather)
to mother, 
(and father)
to daughter,
and son, 
and again....Read More

It is now winter in my Canadian world,
the ground and trees draped in pure white;
and the wind is frigid cold-  howling a song,
yet, I bundle myself up for an ice-kissed walk.

Into the forest crisp and crackling I stroll,
to meander...Read More

I was minding our own ancient business,
making maple and brown sugar oatmeal
for my constantly
and instantly 
devouring daughter,
when GrandMother Moses
of Poetic Narrative
broke into my day:

frankly, I didn't even know She could speak

Racism and Patriarchalism
are the inside Angry
and outside Terrified voices
perpetuating retributive...Read More

Horny Toads

Grandpa knew everything, 
that was needed to be known, 
always. 

I stayed every summer, 
from the time before I remember, 
until the time I pray,
never to forget. 

We worked in the garden.
We dug holes, and planted seeds. 
Everything was...Read More

California Cold 

Rented cars…
every month the cost?
Bread and milk.
Why? 
To go get my kids. 
I had to. 
My own car was bad, 
unreliable, and dangerous. 

Custody, and Judges decided, 
the penalty I was to pay 
for making bad decisions, 
was...Read More

Across the street in front of my house
A wild dog always parades in front of a house.
A house which though has no fence
Flowering hedges cover this house
There live this angelic lovely lady I love
How do I tell her as she...Read More

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