I do not know her anymore I once played cymbals in her honor I learned percussion to compensate for the beats she made me skip after eight months I loved her body although she was deficient in attendance I thought if I held it like…
Category: Marathon Poem
Dementia’s mind
Locked inside a strangers mind, they wait. In search of treasured memories, they wait. Speaking to loved ones they no longer recognize, they wait. Playing a lone game of seek and find, they wait. Scared the second control loses grip, they wait. Masking forgotten words with…
Midnight
Many Idiots Do Not Immortalize Great Healing Truths
Circles
Circle dance And circle round Then circle back again. Life is a circle Circles in Then circles out again. Two circles joined And crossing through The flower of life Begins.
My Child Poem 16
Got to thinking today If you had lived If I had carried you to term If we had finished what we started You would be about 14 now We’d be worried about sex Fighting over curfews And doing your chores I would be practiced at being a…
Smoke
Inhale Exhale Breathe in Breathe out Repeat Pounding smoke Into my lungs As if it’ll be the last thing I do And it burns I love it Repeat Scented sweetly Tastes of Mango Something I’m not too sure And It’s bitter I love it Repeat…
Disguise
Hour 15 – 9:00 PM Let me breath. Can’t catch a break. I’m a mess, on the near edge of greatness. Won’t rest till I conquer the latest. Achievements are blessing disguised in distress. – J.C. ©
My house
My house Grows in the trees With flowers and moss On the roof Chickens and geese Live so near I can hear them clucking And hooting In their dreams The wind sighs Through the branches Rough pine bark Is only a hands breadth Away Sap…
Martha Stewart and My Raw Chicken
I learned how to cut up a raw chicken 27 years ago by watching Martha Stewart on TV. I spread waxed paper on the table and grabbed a kitchen knife, The wrong kind, of course. How was I to know the difference between a butcher…
The answers to the questions
Cometh this day Together with the divine Fear not you will be led and directed to The place of the answers to the questions That you ask Fear not, trust these answers will Come at times when things fall from the sky as…