Child No Regrets Poems

I was a woke shrink, I sadly write this verse.
My patients came in bad shape, ended up worse.

Today there was Cohen, who thought he was...

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I often yearn for just one day
that I will  
     dance 
       and sing...

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How many of us are guilty of this --- far too many, I'm sure.


My dad removed the training wheels and silly plastic tassels 
that made...

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My memories provide a time machine -
I shut my eyes, through time I quickly fly.
I'm taken back to when I was thirteen
to navigate the maze...

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Imagine what life would be like
If we lived it in reverse.
Family and friends eagerly await
As we enter this world in a hearse.

Imagine if we all...

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SHY WITH NO REGRETS

A Catholic uniform from age five.
My own silence - how do I survive?

My inner world is quiet, building bricks.
The oldest young paints,...

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Sometimes I sit and wonder why 
no ones allowed to turn back time?
No quarter given to right their wrongs, 
forgiveness for the things they've done;

Worked...

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In crystal seas, on shell strewn pristine beach
You stand demurely gazing; out of reach.
Backlit by deep persimmon in the gloaming
The waves around your ankles gently...

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Maybe one day,
A page will be found,
A song will be heard,
A stroke will be drawn
Filled with explanations.

Maybe one day,
The nuckawi and silapin, beautiful as a...

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My Mama she trips out in the moon light
when I’m safely tucked up in bed
she dresses to wow her audience
but I know not of her...

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Ah, had I been much wiser
and taken mom more seriously,
I wouldn't have called her a miserable whiner!


I shiver remembering my behavior so bizarre and childish,
and...

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Alas this morning brought such unforeseen sorrow

Break of dawn the light before the morrow

Call of the lark as skies change from black to blue

Dusk settled...

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