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Vonnegut Poems

You Would Say Softly

...I wish I could hear
your voice 
one last time

“Hey”
you would say softly 
“I love you”

you would quote 
literature by heart
Tolstoy,
Steinbeck,
Vonnegut

and then 
you would 
quote ...

Categories: vonnegut, bereavement, death, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse

ON the ROAD TO ENLIGHTENMENT

...
I am 70 years old…I spent a good deal of my life teaching students with Autism
I like to think I’m as enlightened as I can be…
I work in a bookstore for goodness sake…
if anyone knows not to jud...

Categories: vonnegut, journey,
Form: Rhyme

I Shared a Kurt Vonnegut Lecture With My Students and They Beamed

...They call it the Sunday Scaries
They call it the Bubble Visualisation Exercise 

I felt the polished wood of my table 
The softness of my son's hair

My pencil snapped when I started my Gratitu...

Categories: vonnegut, happiness, heart,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Pledging Poetic Collaboration I Aim

...Equal copyrights we can both claim
renown impossible mission to envision
just the experience to become linkedin
with literary talents of another motive
couched within these lines I exclaim
no id...

Categories: vonnegut, adventure, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Beware the Banning of Books and Speech

...I’m not sure what’s happening in this country…sometimes I think it’s being overrun by fools…in some states they’re banning books…in my state, Florida, they’re banning talking about gender and sexuali...

Categories: vonnegut, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Pledging Poetic Collaboration

...Pledging poetic collaboration...
(alternatively titled: putting
iambic pentameter feet put in mouth)

(Spanning across internet)
analogous to accept marital vow
(after blind date contestants
m...

Categories: vonnegut, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Ambiguous Apprentice

...When does ambiguously free verse
also become emphatically political verbing verse?

I was emphatically reading pieces
ambiguously written 
about my sons,
to my oldest son's girlfriend.

The l...

Categories: vonnegut, art, humor, joy, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Entrepreneur

...In a sense everything is a seed of it's successor
The universe is change, life is judgement
Those aren't my words, they're a famous author
The rest of these are and what I think he meant
Before y...

Categories: vonnegut, books, change, culture, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme

Unstuck In Time

...From my younger days as a prisoner of war,
to my last days on the planet Tralfamadore,
with my traveling through time, I have no control.
Both good and bad episodes have taken their toll.

I am ...

Categories: vonnegut, adventure
Form: Rhyme

Autumn

...In this story the leaves are digressing,
In another, perhaps I shall too
With warm feelings and autumn shades tinting my view

We go along the path at a crisp clip
High heels and rubber soles
T...

Categories: vonnegut, seasonsautumn, autumn, , literature,
Form: Free verse

Of Broken Hearts and Dead Heroes- Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007

...Breakfasting with champions
Sound nutrition for a growing girl
Delicious, too.
Damn near perfection.

Cat in my cradle
sharp claws and foreboding meows
prophetically scratching out neural cana...

Categories: vonnegut, death, life, love, people,
Form: Elegy