Tell, how high can you soar standing so lofty and haughty above the mulberries and dwarf plants? Though your leaves strain against the skies, And receive the first showers of rain, Yet they bow before my ever-searching lips. Tempestuous flies test my temper even as…

My darling daughter, When I left the house that New Years Day, I ended up dying. Thought I was indestructible, but the highway got me in the end. We never said goodbye. I can only imagine how a loss so abrupt made its home inside…

After significant struggle, I finally have stable WiFi. Time to celebrate by posting the poems I finished so far! It is indeed a challenge to write and publish on the same day. Good luck to all!

Softly darkened room one lone candle in the center of the table a scene set for romance I didn’t expect to see you here tonight- It’s great seeing you But I’m meeting someone It’s ok- It’s been awhile since we’ve last talked to each other…

Bound Spring flowers surround marriage in June’s early heat bound together now

There was a bamboozled baboon Who ate all his fruit with a spoon The spoons were a set and thus hard to get especially when sold by a goon

    After You   I am one of Harvey’s hummingbirds. I know…it ridiculous to act like he owns me. But ya know he’s got some of the best sugar water around. And he doesn’t forget to refill it like his lazy neighbors.   So…

The disloyal dog Watches me leave aburptly I lost faith that day

Boxed wine and 7-up That’s the way she likes to fuck Up her memory of the day   “Wind down” she likes to say A clever disguise to hide Behind the truth which is   My mom’s an alcoholic

{From the 2021 Poetry Marathon Prompts Hour Eight Text Prompt Try and condense the plot of a book, any book, into a poem. It can be very direct and recognizable, or abstract and obscured.}   First there were Annie and Audrey. Then Abby came along…