The Stars are Waiting Not a door closing but steps further away Not steps further away but in a different direction Not steps in a different direction but new steps, full of vigor carrying thirty years of children with me – their laughter, joy, and…
Category: Marathon Poem
Yellow
I’ve searched for so long to find that glimmering light in the sky and then I realized it’s you. You’re the yellow I’ve sought for eternity shining brighter than anyone’s imagination can perceive. You don’t have to reciprocate, no need for some convoluted facade…
Hour 1 (2021)
For so long I lived in the illusion of our happy ending. Until I learned that endings can be found in the middle too. It took me far too long to see that my happy was in our ending, which also became my beginning. 6/26/2021
“The Wait”
“The Wait” Poem #1 Zig, Zag. Zig, zag. Zig. Zag. Through the line I zig zag All the way up to the front. Waiting Just like everyone else Finally . . . I’ve arrived. The wait is over.
Oh, Dear
The world is turned on its side and visible through a single cracked eyelid perspiration coats the arms, the legs upper lip The culprit who stirred you is the little man who turns on your brain and waits for it to start warming up He…
The circle’s endings and beginnings (reverse poem)
Endings. Peace and quiet. They’re anything but, The raging storm that breaks through a ship. They’re the grand culmination that completes your journey. I would be lying if I ever dared to say to you that, I hate them with my whole heart. I adore…
Alone
POEM 01 My first apartment and me fifty years old with too much stuff for this tiny enclosure. My heart aches for the house, my house that I lavished years and money and love on. I miss its coziness. But sometimes comfort is so fleeting…
Care En(d)
Here’s to getting that last bit About how we were the better men Losing not to the dark swell Of hate and fear But to the shining goal of being right Even if we were wrong all along We were right in our persistent notion…
Hour 1 in 2021
Yay it’s a new year time for some new poems!! We will see how many I title XD Hour 1 Endings I heard it when they said “hello” Felt the goodbye waiting in each sound I tasted it in the tea I drank The…
Constellation
Constellation There are no stars to define me anymore.