Nostalgia Spoken Word Poems

Tonight 

I rediscovered 

Boulevard of Broken 

Dreams on a jaunt through 

Glasgow’s October-lit streets. Rain 

drippin’ off chin. Momentarily wishing 

I was more like I...

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Land line is the first telephone
A fixed-line, and wireline telephone connection that uses metal wires 
Networked attachments by wires, poles
Done by public switched telephone networks...

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1.
Rose petals open
Blooming in my tall glass vase
Warm red in Winter.

Baby boy smiles wide
Bouncing happy in his crib
Joy beyond all bounds.

Cold November rain
Patters on the...

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you meet someone
  you haven't seen for decades
what do you talk about
  where do you start

right where you left off
  all those...

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THE DREAMS

Surely, one day

We will have to get to our way

Forgetting the bad past

Hoping for the good future really fast.



Working day and night

Whether under a...

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During the not-so-Great Depression
   FDR practiced self-suppression
'chatting with us' just once a week

During the current pandemic
   Press conferences are epidemic
Pols grabbing...

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Look at this throne 
Riddled with cracks
And covered in bone
It's time to drop the facts

I'm the best at verse
When writing spoken word
It erupts in a...

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i love the early morning rasp of his voice
the birthmarks and burn scars
midsummer skin
i love the sticky rash of lust
the way a heart ticks until...

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Who am I?
I am….
Creatively crafted canvas of creation.
Honorable handsome holistic human harmony
Real resilience
Independent intellectual individual
Successfully self-sufficient spirit striving strongly
Telling my truth throughout time
Efficiently and Effectively
Never...

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Give me that old skool love, a groovy throw back

kind of love that is black and white like the first TVs.

A tapered leg acid washed...

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Here’s to lights out, to pens down, 
To checking out.

Here's to Friday.

To the first pat on a back, kiss of a cheek
And clink of a...

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*Edited for Length and Content*

Remember that I loved you
while we went riding 
through the ‘burbs, 
looking at houses we couldn’t afford, 
caught up in your...

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I just came to see,
What was left, but there was nothing for me…to enjoy,
But the only cry of the old, nostalgic memories,
And bless once upon...

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Jab Meri Bechaini Mit Jayegi
Jab Mere Dilko Sukoon Mil Jayega
Yeh Khaalipan Mit Jayega

Do Pal Ki Chandni Ke Liye
Aj Bhi Zinda Hoon Main
Meri Khaamoshi Ke Ageh...

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The moon so bold seems cold
with a halo of midnight glow
I sit mesmerized as the night grows old.

I bleed still, even after all these years
and...

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