Troyer Poems - Poems about Troyer

...Your breath beside me. Willows beneath my boughs. Last night you cast love’s imposters out the door. Supine in your divinity, my thoughts tremble. Drunk in memories. I’m twenty-three in Pa......Read the rest...

...I see no evil in the Mortise and tenon and in the thin Red line Mao traced in a Thousand or more Platitudes still Posing deftly in old Wuhan. Just a while ago I did glimpse a Twinkl......Read the rest...

...“Cambodia is Cambodia but not really Cambodia.” That’s what some say As the years roll on Forty years or so since Pol Pot and his pals posted ‘Year 0”, Sent the whole thing to the wash, And......Read the rest...

...Where will I be? When your plane bursts the clouds On its way back home To your boys’ embrace and Asia Dissolves Like a forgotten stopover On another ticket to Destination Life. So where ......Read the rest...

...At the VFW Post in Buang, Philippines they know Macarthur Staggering off then Swaggering back onto These Philippines Islands and the Wail of Hirohito Drowning in chorus with the headsman’s gush......Read the rest...

...Promise Me When the misted hill Shivers first You will be my blanket Forever and Ever. That on the long walk Promise me still Your arm will join my elbow, Like Siamese twins, When day g......Read the rest...

...Not long ago yet an epoch away I lurched upright Morpheus interrupted by Mid night soul fuel running on Vapors Long since evaporated in the Still born heat of an Asian summer Wanting. ......Read the rest...

...I wish I had time for poetry and plays My mind allowed As I watched the same aged, bespectacled monk For about the fifteenth time this month Patter his bare feet Upon the pavement Of the dust......Read the rest...