Sitting Swaying In a Swing At the Park- Thinkin Bout Those Joys In Mine Life
...Father you whose am I HERE AM I
Sitting here in the park
in the light it's not dark
it's a new day on the park
Bench swing Swing it's crackling
exhaling
God's prayer as I l...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, appreciation, beautiful, deep, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Blossoms Cleared Out
...The Blossoms Cleared Out
When she was alive
She talked about the good days
Pineapples and sugarcane
Wild and feral
She worked in those fields long ago
As a native of Hawaii
And as...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, betrayal, life,
Form: Free verse
Pandemic
...Pandemic!
A pandemic is widespread and affects everything and everyone. No one is safe and there are no lives without risk. Pandemic’s once unleashed on unsuspecting, innocent people wreaks havoc. T...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, bereavement, confusion, daughter, death,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Pandemic
...Pandemic!
A pandemic is widespread and affects everything and everyone. No one is safe and there are no lives without risk. Pandemic’s once unleashed on unsuspecting, innocent people wreaks havoc. T...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, bereavement, confusion, daughter, death,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Beige, Brown, Cream, Tan -
...As I have walked pass or visited high-in rich subdivisions and gated communities, I have noticed all the homes are from the same color bracket. They are either beige, brown, cream, tan, camel, oatmea...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, change, color, environment, home,
Form: Narrative
Home
...he ancestral house seemed smaller, today seen with eye glasses
The pathway seemed shorter, the mangoes grow loftier
It was once open field across the hill
Mushrooming subdivisions had blossomed
T...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, allusion, beautiful, color,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
San Fernando
...A handsome hacienda down San Fernando way,
Whose curled sunburned tiles once gleamed from Apollo’s rays
Was home to gentle farmers who worked their crops each day;
And slept in peace while brown n...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, change, farm, food, girl,
Form: Rhyme
Capital Investment Problems
...A cold and calculating problem
I see
is finding resonantly warm motivation
for resilient employment
by following mere capital short-term acquisition norms
for sacred vocational gravitas,
and ma...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, appreciation, caregiving, community, engagement,
Form: Political Verse
Still Remains
...By Mark Miller © 02/19/2014
Compass of memories held loosely
Misdirection pointing in iota
Exquisitely anchored hangs an eminent noose
Minds of subdivisions wage illusion of wars in retribution
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, body, conflict, confusion,
Form: Blank verse
Rocking Under Starry Heavens - Deuxieme Jambe
...As others Rush out from Subdivisions
applying War Paint hiding Scars
All have Grand Designs, their own Missions
you feel as Nobody's Hero watching their fancy cars
What You're Doing more than ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, celebration, music,
Form: Quatrain
Plastic Paradise
...Blake’s world in a grain of sand
This plastic bottle in my hand
Welcome to the new Fantasy Island
Of plastic trash, a brave new land
This tropical island, it's perfect for me
Plasti...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, earth, humanity, ocean, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Home
...The ancestral house seemed smaller, today seen with eye glasses
The pathway seemed shorter, the mangoes grow loftier
It was once open field across the hill
Mushrooming subdivisions had blossomed
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, beauty, voice, weather, work,
Form: Pastoral
The Ocotillo Invasion
...Utah cringes as hacked Ocotillo turn carnivorous,
spitting psychoactive pollen into the atmosphere,
dusting entire subdivisions.
The victims wander,
searching eagerly for where sunlight is stro...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, crazy, dream, environment, future,
Form: Free verse
White Robes Black Nights
...Hypocrital as this may seem, amid no way shape or form do we
Condone sin and quite aware, of the devestating impact these sorrows
May impart upon another's life: dead zone mirrors waging war with th...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, baptism, love,
Form: I do not know?
Everything Changes
...Everything Changes
It is still winter and
roadside snow banks lead me.
I drive the pre-highway
backroads of another time, when
‘no dumping” warnings
lined the thick woods.
Now stand s...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
subdivisions, memory,
Form: Free verse
Related Poems