Wadded Poems

LOVE REBORN

...(A Sequel To “Rough Draft”)
Verse 1:
In the library’s corner, tucked in the trash,
A wadded up paper, a forgotten ash.
But a few words exposed, a whisper of grace,
Caught her eye, and time slowe...

i love you

...your countless lies leave a sour taste on my tongue 
“i love you” you claim 
yet it’s muttered using all of the air in your lungs 
your breathing stops
and you have nothing left to give
yet i ca...

Folded Napkins

...
The napkins were cut and woven in her dad’s barn that he and his dad built from the broken oaks. 
Each clump of cotton piled up in front of her 
Leave and left
She thought
The warp was fixed on...

A Writer's Nightmare

...I have a storage unit full of wadded paper balls
what if I threw away a masterpiece I always thought
well here I am today searching through all the wadded paper balls
I have lost my muse and need ...

East Was West

...Yesterdays Care is forgotten
but somewhere else it shines
I walked the waters depths
and it plagued my mind
Peace was torn 
as the winds tore into two

East was west in the golden sun
as seve...

I Could

...I could sit here and choose not to feel this sorrow.
I could ignore it forget it and move on tomorrow. 
I could sit and bide my time til time is come and gone.
I could look at you in Innocense lik...

Horizon Winkling Cosmos

...wobbling
   earth
      Phoebus
          slipover
               &
            winkling
                horizon
                       mind thrums
                 cliffhanging
        ...

Simple Watery Freeze

...Eutectic water ice with a time-extending elixir,
Casting a trivial covering of aqueous freezing.
In the puncture spirits of an exquisite spritzer,
The Esophagus of a beat glass, sublim...

Waste

...Waste has worsened widespread. 
                                     World's oceans polluted. 
                                    Wonder throwaway mind 
                                      Wadd...

People of the Dawn

...(An Abenaki Legend)


Prologue...


After the reptile people had been devoured by fire, ice and flood, Kloskurbeh the ever creating Spirit, sighed, and thought about the worlds he had made ...

Dream Series: Apple Pie

...I dreamed I accidentally bought two expensive tickets to a musical play about Thomas Jefferson, then figured, what the hell, Rhonda and I might as well go. Then an ex showed up, someone I get along w...

The Offering Plate

...The Offering Plate

The offering plate 
started at row one
I was in row ten.

I reached in my pants
knowing I had a five
down there somewhere. 

I pulled a crumpled wad
 from my pocket.
A...

Moon Mad

...Dust clings to my suit caught
by wafts of imagined vapor,
until I drag, drag, down
the dunes and depressions.

The cold a new arm of guidance.
I’m supposed to be warm,
wadded in comfort lining...

Past Anger Issues

...The older I get the less that I fret 
With my panties wadded up in a tizzy 
As anyone could see I used to be
A mini-me of Dizzy Gillespie

I'd huff and I'd puff when I'd had enough
Like some Bi...

Paper Weight

...At times it gets hard to talk.
Instead of rambling about anything.
Most times I sit without saying a word.
Just sitting in thought.
Most times different conclusions are drawn.
This at all doesn'...

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