Steeping Poems

The Dangers of Mankind is Man

...Mara’s hair colour touched by time, her voice hedged—struggling to find its way to me
She had once tried to kill herself.
My flippant thought: Did you succeed?
She looked as she had.

An abandon...

Tea Talk

...Ten in the night. The porch light flickers on, like a lighthouse in rural darkness. Healing begins with a door left open. An old lady at 90 sets the kettle to boil, chamomile steeping in amber pools ...

Poisoned

...I am filled to the brim with negative energy
From head to toe, about to overflow

I try to pour it out into words but I seem to have no leak
On my tongue it lingers; it won’t leave my fingers

...

Homesick Quiescence

...When memories melt like sunset skies,
mirroring my thoughts,
slipping into the salt-dipped
skin of the deep, warm ocean,
I drink from the stardust chalice
of your unspoken sonnets,
r a i n i n ...

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock translations of German poems

...“To Edward Young”
by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
translation by Michael R. Burch

Die, aged prophet: your crowning work your fulcrum;
now tears of joy
tremble on angel-lids
as heaven extends ...

February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

I believed fortune cookie maxim 
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly 
a L...

Register Call

...A skeletal smirk at the school door -
the greeter-teacher; 50 years later,
I feel his gimlet eyes at my back,
that leer is now plugged with dirt,
yet it can still be traced in the brown water sta...

Addiction

...Manipulation
Procrastination
Isolation
No motivation

Bell rings
Kettle sings
Timer dings
Pendulum swings

Frenetic
Pathetic
No work ethic
Copacetic

Obsession
Possession
Depression
...

Steeping

...A nice cup of tea 
steeped to perfection to drink 
calming reflection...

Generational Tea Time

...Hear grandma’s tea-kettle whistle,
quaint-blessings…out-moded thistles.

Soak mighty generation soil,
leaves steeping…ancient toil.

Stir mind over matters Gen-Z,
while you and bestie, spill t...

Moon Water

...
News is there is water ice on the darkest side
of the moon, I wouldn’t drink it just yet,
A gray dirt snow cone is what we’ll get!  
Sustaining the cislunar economy, or 
linking the moon to the...

Tea Time

...
Written: January 16, 2024
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Strength of herbs oozes vivacity and harmony
Chamomile elixir elevates mood,
Innermost wassail drea...

IT IS TIME FOR TEA

...Suspense creeps in with tea and crumpets, dear,
And murder, mayhem, chaos, stirred right in
—Poet Stirring Up Suspense

IT IS TIME FOR TEA

It is time for tea, a giddy...

A Place To Be

...A Place to
 Be
		I hope that Sally is where
		there are cats that curl
		in sunspots on a floor
		and readers who peruse
		novels slowly from cover
		to cover through long
		Sunday afternoons...

Chamomile

...So sweet the smell of Chamomile
Kissed by the passing breeze above your shining smile
The light of your silent lyric lingers
While golden tones enhance our warm desire

Outside the sun-soaked wi...

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