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Swicker Turf

...Grueling Smiles
is a book about a couple
the woman had married a man who had been married Twelve times.
She had been married twice and would do anything to keep her current husband loyal to her an...

My Favorite Elementary School Teacher

...As the yellow-orange  sun  slowly rises
Memories of your class's  fun  flood my heart
Thoughts  run  to your teaching and enterprises

You brought those  tiny ...

Courage of the Heart

...
   How does a Wallenda fly on a trapeze
     How does ‘Houdini’ escape with such ease   

   How does a warrior rise from his sickbed
     Is it courage of the heart or that of the head

   H...

Graveyard Groupies

...Look out you might see them
scuttling down your street
patting the neighbour’s dog 
nodding to people they meet

They lurk on hospital corridors
wearing their black shiny shoes
then scour obit...

Looking Out My Window From My Sickbed

...Looking Out My Window From My Sickbed

Longdead treeshadow 
Creeps across the face of a nurse-white house

Immortalized in sunlight
A mantis
Stealthily

Touches the shattered eye;
A window ...

Tale of An Eager New Groom

...The new groom
  Loved his bride so
One day she took ill
  He took her in tow

I'll clean and I'll cook
  Set you up with a book
In a day, maybe two
  You'll be as good as new

To eat, what'...

Savior

...SAVIOR

Who is he who has regard for the weak,
restores the length and breadth of a sick man?
In bleak times, whose mercy does the flesh seek,
when troubled times divert you from canned plan?...

Saving the Gray

...Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
and not the broken spool...

The Evil I Enjoy

...Writing to you about the evil I enjoy.
More like knowing the hate I have for fever.
On this sick bed I curse fever.
For employing my body against me.
I sneezed a hundred last night.
Accompanied ...

A Slice of Life

...This rainy  morning you gave me a feel of your flower
Thank you I want to give you a poem in return
Soaked in  pleasant smell of the showers
I like your eyes going through these words from green f...

Psychic Remains

...see this happen
one night, a night
as white as a phosphorus star
left her (and all of us)
blind beggars with holes
in our clinking tin cups

an awful bluebeard
a redblooded villain
was to ch...

Care Package

...A stomach virus laid me out,
My husband down as well
And then we were surprised to hear
Somebody ring the bell.

Two bags delivered to our door
With Gatorade and soup,
Saltines and even Alka-S...

One Night Late In Autumn

...For the chrysanthemums in the back yard
Are overly dignified,
For the cosmos in the front yard
Are simply too tall…

When I alone looking at the troubled world outside
through the window, the C...

Gott Mit Uns

...lonely as a dried up hero
legend only to the past,
as a world moved on
from foolish children’s faith,
energy of generations
arrives at perigee,
blown out like flatulence
snuck into polite conversatio...

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