Memory Watch Poems

a procession

shadowed ravens watch 
depressive day turns
the winds bring Frost 

Skelton branches clutch 

Ghosts dance after the fall 
The procession crawls 
To the point of...

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As I walked on a lonely beach,
     I thought I spied a Mermaid--
But no, it couldn't be, I thought. 
Yet, drawing...

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I watch the storm gather in your eyes 
I hear the thunder echo in my mind 
The dark clouds gather around your hair 
Rain taps...

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wielded wooden spoon
laughing kids ran like crazy~
screen time reduction

Senryu on Mother 
Sponsor - Jenish Somadas...

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OLD UNCLE’S POCKET WATCH

It sticks in the memory now:
First the elapsing day,
Then weeks, months, years,
All shown in a second  then.
It stared not into the...

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A gold Bulova watch that grandpa owned was hidden
from everyone's eyes in a desktop drawer,
where daddy stored his coin collection;
it glittering brighter than the noon...

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tears;
the droplets of memories
both unwanted and loved,
they carry our strengths,
with glimpses of what we think we cannot do,
in a vision,
never tangible like the
bars we use...

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I sit above you
Below me watching me
Your green eye
Blue in childhood memory
Your silence
Where white tongue waves
Use to fence
My feet in sand. The graves
Silent in you
I...

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god im struggling, god im suffocating 
god im shattering, god im unraveling 
god don't let it stop......god, its better this way.

My chest is heavy 
but...

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We sat down at the kitchen table
Under an overhead light
And talked about my mother
My wife understood
I was the oldest, she said
Don’t wait for the others.

So...

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After all the scientific calculations, a cloud-bank 
obscures the heavens. No night breezes
could erase the silence of the dark.

But still the promise of the almanac...

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