As I travel through life On a ~twisting~churning~ ~Winding~road I remember… I remember love most of all. (Security) and ((Warmth)) I believe I’ve always been loved By almost everyone… I remember pain. For what childhood is without it? I remember being alone……
Category: Marathon Poem
Dear Angelica
Dear Angelica, If you’re reading this right now then you made it! Congratulations!!! I don’t have much to say Except what you already know Everything happens for a reason Just know you’ll learn to love yourself Your life is a journey And YOU are meant…
2019 – Eighteen – Prompt 22, Hour 18 – Letter to Me Before I Was a Poet
Do you recall, or not so much, when you could speak without rhythm? When all your words were simple and you were happy with ’em? They suited all your wants and needs and no one thought much of ’em. And you could speak, then go…
Dear Ca$h Money
We never had much as potato farmers in the poor man’s village But luck, your sibling, gave us a token to turn Lady Fortune’s wheel With assistance, we escaped poverty but landed in a dreadful world The middle class, where we all tread forward while…
Hour 18, Dear Jane
Dear Jane, How I wish you were here to have an afternoon tea, make sly commentary on the women surrounding us, their transparent wiles and winning ways: such a penetrating gaze you leveled at our small world. None were safe from your pithy review. Minutiae…
The Beginning (2019 Poem 16)
In darkness when we met You shine light upon my path Now I watch dawn glow See, I am my own light I am sun, moon, stars Plankton, planets, sun I am the centre
Too Brief
Too Brief Virginia Carraway Stark In the winter the days go by too quick And you miss the sun In the summer the night’s are too brief And you miss the dark The moon becomes a pale faced stranger Who whispers in the light The…
Dear Time
I need you now more than ever the sphere that spins below my feet is unforgiving The sun that awakens and sleeps travels faster each cycle And there’s never a moment when we‘re together where the leaves don’t evolve into another shade Take me in…
Dear Dad,
I hope this letter finds you at peace. I realize that you haven’t heard from me in a long time. In fact, I only realized a few days ago that you have been gone for thirty years now. Do you realize that’s in my life,…
Bang (2019 Poem 15)
Bang, universe explodes Time races, gas expands out to infinity Who set that time bomb off Did anyone mourn its passing Ocean of souls exists Outside of time and space Do you ebb as the oceans do Pulled by an invisible god moon Expansion slows…