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Weeknight Poems

Innocent No More

...17-year-old school-kid shoots and kills two
  What else is there on a weeknight to do
Cross the border into Wisconsin from Illinois
  Then commit an act, separates a man from a boy

Just an 'ord...

Categories: weeknight, age, america, innocence, motivation,
Form: Couplet

Fall Weeknight

...fall weeknight
sister practicing flute
i struggle with math



posted on June 30, 2018...

Categories: weeknight, home, homework, math, music,
Form: Haiku

Autumn Weeknight

...autumn weeknight
chef boyardee pizza
made from box kit



posted on June 6, 2018...

Categories: weeknight, family, food, home, irony,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Thoughts Strung Into Poetry

...I'm spending the time reminiscing, and wow. 
Everything in my life has lead to this EXACT MOMENT. 
I'm cooking pasta at 2 AM with a smile on my face and music in my ears
Warm pajamas and hot tea b...

Categories: weeknight, change, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy

...Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy
I live and die with these shows
Must now be classified as a senior citizen
Only old people watch them, you know

Pat, Vanna, and Alex Trebek
Are like membe...

Categories: weeknight, humor,
Form: Quatrain

Life On the Other Side

...there was life on the other
side of the wall (this s/he
knew for sure)…could feel
the bass pounding through,
could hear the laughs & 
the loud drunken profanity,
could sense the youth in the
air, the...

Categories: weeknight, life, life, time,
Form: Free verse

Wheel of Fortune

...Wheel of Fortune is still America's number 1 game show. The show has been around for 36
years: the daytime version from January 1975 to September 1991 on NBC and CBS, and the
syndicated version, wh...

Categories: weeknight, epicseptember,
Form: Epic

In the Sunshine of Our Life

...She’s out there in the cold
And I alone in her warm house
The moose is on the branch
She the owl, white as rice
I write of nature, because it is her nature that she play soccer
In 40 degree weat...

Categories: weeknight, life
Form: Free verse

Winter's Rain

...Go weeping clouds of the weeknight
How you fill our streets with assume fright
Washing down a flooding mess 
To some causing much duress 
Pinging down upon my glass 
With speeds of light hitting...

Categories: weeknight, nature, places, seasons,
Form: Light Verse