Segal Poems

Clerihew Segal

...American George Segal
made art fro live people-pals
Cast in plastic soaked gauze wrap
help to put hi. on the map...

Categories: segal, art, people,
Form: Clerihew

So Many Darlings

...Jack Segal (who wrote the lyrics for the song “Scarlet Ribbons”), whose songwriting workshop I attended way back in the 80's, used to say, “sometimes we have to murder our darlings”. What he meant by...

Categories: segal, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Unity On the Rocks

...The music is heard as I sit upon the rocks
Sounds of gulls, crashing waves, whirling winds

Oneness in itself, solidarity
separated from life’s tolls
freedom of imagination
fulfillment of unifi...

Categories: segal, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

What Is Love

...Shakespeare wrote that "Love is blind"

Lennon told us "Love is the flower you've got to let grow"

Proust believed "Love is space and time measured by the heart"

Segal said  "Love means never...

Categories: segal, humor, love,
Form: Free verse

Water (For My Friend, and Poet Simone Segal)

...Wherever you are I know, crickets swarm for richer spring
For the desert that strangles the wing of the eye
Marks the space where in the palm trees shade lions lie

For every drop upon the window...

Categories: segal, dedication, imagination, nature
Form: Sijo

I'Ve Made Love To (?) Here @ the Soup

...Amy Green, Poet Destroyer and Skitty S.K.A.T. Pooh.
Just a few of the Great Women I've made love to here at the soup.
Carolyn Devonshire and Sara Kendrick too
and Andrea Dietrich, you fire cracker...

Categories: segal, dedication, women, sweet, love,
Form: Rhyme

Our Thoughts

...Our Thoughts
Top 09/05/2010 16:12:54

What are you thinking?

    * Every thought we have creates the words we speak.
    * Every thought we have creates every action we take.
    * Every acti...

Categories: segal, inspirationalwork, life, work,
Form: Narrative

Our First Unification

...This morning I awoke in this wonderful place
I turned and viewed, the most beautiful of face
She was lying beside me naked as birth
Blond haired and tanned, being the first was worth

She opened...

Categories: segal, lovebeautiful, beautiful, eve, me,
Form: Quatrain

Be the Hero Or Heroine of Your Life

...BE YOUR HERO OR HEROINE OF YOUR LIFE



Be the hero or heroine of your life, what is stopping you from being proud of yourself? 
First you need to love yourself, no I mean really love yourself!
...

Categories: segal, inspirationalpeople, hero, life, love,
Form: I do not know?

Those Loving Eyes (A Collaboration/Simone Segal)

...T ime seems to stand still when looking deeply into your eyes
H ypnotizing me at will, taking me to paradise
O ceans of deep blue, riding the waves of your irises
S o stuck on you like the most co...

Categories: segal, love, passionme, me,
Form: Acrostic

"a Poet's By Choice"

...An awesome sacred relief
When we let the heart be chief 
In power of love beneath
The sacred faith in love belief

So let your sacred winds blow
Let the entire universe know
Let your special l...

Categories: segal, funnylove, universe,
Form: Light Verse

Plagiarism (Tag To Simone Segal)

..."I'm a poet. I know it. Hope I don't blow it"
Do you want to commit what many poets consider a mortal sin?
Do what I just did. Commit an act of plagiarism.
The above first verse isn't mine. It's M...

Categories: segal, children, world, work, children,
Form: Rhyme

Thank You Fellow Poets In Poetry Soup

...Thank you fellow poets  in poetry soup

For leaving all your kind thoughts and critiques

You have given me the inspiration to  continue on

And for that I am humbled and grateful

May twenty...

Categories: segal, thank youautumn,
Form: Free verse