War Walk Poems

I couldn’t sleep last night
These times had me feeling not right
There were images swirling round 
And try as I might I couldn’t shake being down

So...

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The rain
furies out 
in a fight
against the wind.

Anger 
in search
of control
and dominance.

It falls 
with a purpose
of lashing out
at everyone and no one 
all at once.

They...

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I am taking a trip to an antique store,                ...

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I started out life as Anna Mae Bullock,                 ...

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I hear them say,                                          ...

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I often wonder where this world is headed,                 ...

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You can acknowledge the emptiness at the core of your being
or go crazy when the world goes crazy.
The numbers of us overwhelm, 
an impending tsunami,...

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World peace one cannot buy
Over the sky
Round the mountain's eye
Lands near~~far and high
Decades this has been the cry

 

People ask why
Everyone wants to say to...

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A walk around the block in my parents’ neighborhood at dawn
wearing mom’s sweater and pop's sneakers with a clown hole cut out for  
...

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I met Death today 
With tears within my eyes
No way forward and no way back
This life I now despise.

No. 
I didn’t wish to die today
But...

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to walk in early morning's still

to see the silence through the chill

to smell the rise of dawn from night

to hear the sky's unravelling light

to taste...

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A great old gal was she                   ...

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we heard in latest news
priest wore walk on water shoes
now can go on cruise

priest gave his sermon
prepared and said in german
we did determine

thank God have...

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As a child I had a big old red trunk,                               ...

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thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
  apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
  my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
  impatiently, she...

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