Can you hear me? I said, can you HEAR me? No, can you hear ME? CAN you hear me? Can YOU hear me?   You complain that I get over-dramatic But you wouldn’t listen to me until I did They say to let out your…

Poem 7: Tongue in Cheek It’s really not the smoking Or the unhealthy eating The opening ‘just one bottle’ every night The random, careless sex The liberating drugs The wild driving The daredevil in you That’ll bring you down, my friend. It’s your all-consuming, nagging…

Do you take take time out to listen Or lend a helping hand Do you see what others are missing And try to give to them Do you only give the basics Or go much deeper than that Do you spend time well, not wasting…

For many years I walked the earth frail in comparison to many. Slender and sleek I thought I appeared and pleasant when I speak. But told by many how sick and empty of my frame and upkeep. Never beautiful or needed. My self esteem quivered…

This prompt is a little strange. The challenge is to write a poem about the angstrom that is not cliché. Now I don’t know why they’ve selected such an obscure word. I’ve got a bit of a bad feeling about this, but what can you do….

I remember the nights you use to love me without distraction The days you were relentless with your passion for us I remember the fairytale you planned out And I remember the day you tore it apart I blamed myself For the destruction of the…

Life keeps playing me Like a band from the 70’s Sometimes reckless and loose Other times soft and sweet With a rhythm all its own Beaten daily like a bongo drum When it comes to decibels It’s having too much fun With the picking of…

Ideas in your head. Dance in your feet. Navigate yourself. Any destination will do.

Refactor your code it is never truly done you can always do it better cleaner more elegant   there is always something nubile and fresh a new framework a new programming language a new device   Keep up! Object oriented programming (OOP) versus Functional programming (FP)…

Teacher Angst, Night Terrors Each year before school starts, I have horrible teacher        nightmares. These are images from just a few.   Too many students, not enough desks, Forgot to read instructions for a state test; Hard to teach when I didn’t plan a…