Prompted Poems

Ha ha ha gotcha!

...Ha...ha...ha... gotcha!

The imagined intimated response
linkedin to a swindler's
imagined thought bubble
silently spouting you ain't nothing
but a pluperfect sucker...
rendered penniless suff...

MY FATHER'S GENTLE HANDS

...MY FATHER'S GENTLE HANDS
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I remember my father’s hands as a plumber’s hands—fiercely strong, calloused, rough, knuckle-battered, and dirty after a long-da...

Knots will not Loosen to Let Go

...
Old sorrows return
years of re-runs still bruise me
ghosts I cannot hush
appear and glint in the dark
insignificant yet loud

I re-track to ask—
why did it unfold that way
what should I hav...

Mourning Reflection

...I picked up eclipse glasses, crumpled on the street
It caused the pause reflection brings when unlike minds should meet

With no regard we oft discard the fashion of the day
No cosmologic mirror,...

Naive Faith

...
I struggled in vain to conceal my shock at the sight of the lady in her thirties but looking much younger in flashing dress with a lot of makeup on – obviously dressed to kill. In her presence, I s...

Noctuary

...The absolute reign of night lasts forever
And throbs from wet drums within lengthen its royal reign.

Constellations stud the lashes with midnight views;
Salutations from the owls’ wing-flaps wel...

Interlude

...
Lying betwixt and between is a pause,
For breaths held, to pirouette with drawn claws.
Lines prompted between curtain call and fall,
With mantra hummed to become or befall.
Hoping the wait is w...

A magnet for tsuris

...A magnet for tsuris

Summation notation of achievements
wrought absolute zero
pridefulness to self -
a veritable highstrong yoyo
(lame at walking the dog)
a solitudinarian devoid of xoxo
meth...

July first two thousand and twenty five

...July first two thousand and twenty five...
signals the eighth year we lived
at our present location,
where fringe benefits (a plug) for perks
living at 2 highland manor drive.

Expanse of green...

Martha on the US Stamp

...My theme is, “Martha Washington – but why?”
First Lady – how the Big Man’s wife behaves
was fixed by her: so Jackie Kennedy

was shaped by Martha. Coming through the rye,
we learn that some are ...

Raven's Roost

...
That life is a struggle, there's no denying
when the distance between light and dark 
is just one misstep across the boundary line
Problematic for mankind since time began
Prompted by the remin...

The pathless path

...Someone asked us how we began,
in as what was our truth search plan
and the path to which we were drawn
to perform a consciousness scan?

We sleep when we’re prompted to yawn,
awaking to vibran...

F for final farewell and finish

...2025.4.14.

I have started writing diary since May last year.
Eventually, my diary's style, transformed to poem like.
After five months of losing friendship with BB,
By the end of the year,
I r...

April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

...April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad shy of 
fif...

The warning

...I went to the cop, in New Haven PD
I said I've got a crime story, but it's hard to believe
The cop said cheerfully, "let's hear, try me"
So I took a deep breath, tried a memory retrieve.

I said...

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