Nearsighted Poems

In the Sun's Rosy Vicinity

...Little Arabella Miller lived in town, but far enough out in green country,
To watch the raspberry sun go down, and to climb a lavish, plum tree.

Arabella was seven-years-old, and had a th...

A Lesson Learned

...Charles Green was eight years old, and his father was a great teacher.
Yet, Charlie preferred playing to school; because he was a daydreamer.

The Greens lived in the town of Ivoria, where...

Weekend Warrior on a Bicycle

...I cycled to Hawthorne before the dawn,
Saw a deer on Taxter Road leading a fawn.
I reached a field of the kids little League.
Waited for the train, too pumped for fatigue.

The train passed by l...

Riveting Romeo

...I was a famous, American actress, who adored performing for live audiences,
In stage plays, both modern and classic, like velvet time, which often rushes.

Rose acclaim filled long, chaotic days, ...

Smiles I Remember

...I was an experienced family therapist, helping families maintain functionality,
As wandering, starlit seasons maintain all nature, being rooted in practicality.

I loved preserving healthy relatio...

Her Friendship Is Like the Perfect Quiet Place

...her friendship is like the perfect quiet place
her listening ears are like the perfect open mind
her words are like the 'X' that marks the spot where the gold is buried
her mind is like the welcom...

A Rose By Any Other Name

...As humans, I imagine, it is human nature when viewing the sights and sounds around us…to try and understand who we are and all the wonders that surround us.

To do this we attach labels to everythi...

Graffiti Traces On a Crumbling Wall

...My sister stopped to visit on her flight home from a tropic isle.
Are COVID mutants on last legs? (Most think their death’s long overdue!)
Trump’s naive crimes seem more passé though Putin dreams h...

Never Underestimate Your Dragon; He Might Become a Great Professor Someday

...An abandoned dragonling I did find,
I took him in and built a metal shed
for this dragonling to lay his head;
he grew to have a profound mind.

When dragonling was about four,
books ...

Fourth of July Already

...Fireworks went off on each side of the house
Waking up the hoot owl, the roaches, even the mouse.
Is it the Fourth of July already? An ill-informed hawk said.
I was surprised; I thought this fowl ...

Birth Is a Doorway

...We enter and exit
through the vision – 
what we see, and
what we deny; never
knowing what is there;
nearsighted and a-far – 
born unclear, our focus
a gradual ascent – eyes, not
a victory, bu...

Kindness

...Kindness

Your kindness Lord runs to greet me in generous petals of fragrant compassion floating into my stingy spirit, dances in the abyss of my selfishness, raises up my bankrupt soul, gives ligh...

Oz Redundant

...Transmit transpire anti social copious methods of blank balled fissures of disastrous mistruths on the border of hell raiser dispatch piss filled like rats on a stinking/sinking ship, inbred senate c...

You Have Loved My Horn Haiku

...You Have Loved My Horn Haiku

Horn Haiku Poems

we would see him walk
after having heard him squawk
must be seattle seahawk

Clerk Who Would Like to Smerk

always like to work
being a brig...

Rural Ceremony

...rural ceremonial 

open casket
his face was covered in a silk cloth
I removed it he looked grumpy
this was not the outcome he had wanted
I replaced the cloth
sat down thinking if it moved
it ...

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