The green fields I see out the window always remind me of earlier travels It doesn’t matter that I have not seen them before I think the color is enough to spark the memory Farmlands punctuated by electrical towers always let me know where I…
Category: Half Marathon Poem
Five Minutes Friendship
The traffic halted, I sighed…another slow ride. Yawned and closed my eyes… Sparking fancy car Moving slowly side by side. Two sad brown eyes Peering through the glass window of a luxurious ride. He made silly faces but no happy sight. Our eyes met ……
5
All hail the almighty like ! Hold on to it for your dear life. No, really, be vigilant and watch your friends – who likes, who doesn’t, who pretends. A like can save you from tsunami, can gain you sales on origami, can save a…
Poem 5
Chapter 5: Promises A year exactly Gone I waited at the docks For him all yesterday. How, again, Are we standing in this river washing sheets? Sister and I, Never escaping this intricate knot Of time. When we were young Sister would…
Solitude
The sound of a small dog scratching her back and holding on to that old slipper at the same time keeps my mind temporarily occupied. That moment is broken by three chirping parakeets that are probably asking for their late dinner. The small dog howls…
One, Dos, Trois
I can count to ten in Latin and speak prose in French, I can debate in fluid Italian have people laugh at my Czech. I can curse in Romanian and grumble in Russian, I can sing to Japanese, cry to Chinese haiku, dance to Deutch,…
Breakfast with Curmudgeon
That guy got our table. I hate siting in the middle. Trade places with me. I don’t want to sit with my back to the door. Great! Right next to the family with the baby. It’s too loud in here. I hate it when…
Hour 5–Technology
I write a poem while a machine washes clothes I press Publish–Voila!
An ode to my phone (an iOde)
O screen of glass who bears many a touch Deliverer of knowledge and of laughs At times you have become a mental crutch You work for me more than an office staff Your curvature is straight though you are old For a device that is;…
How did I get here – Poem 3
The sun rises , yet the day has no light for me, I can hear the sound of life , yet I can not see, Blindness is foreign to me, I crave the light, I want to know when the darkness will bring the night….