24 Poem’s “The Dinner Party”     Chef’s Speech   Before we proceed to dessert I would like to say a few words And allow you a burp break I speak of course in self-effacing words   Thank you all so much for coming And…

Too much A lifetime of vows Sharing of unmatched feelings Emotions deeply attached to each other Things left unsaid Aaah! the sighs of longing The same-time-same-place partings Too much… Aren’t we, aren’t we the destiny? Hour 16 @varenyas

A chance encounter Not remotely expected But appreciated just the same We’ve known each other fifteen years or more never really spoke Never really noticed each other You came in it was late we started talking and it was like we connected I learned a…

A Poet’s Dilemma “How do you describe pen to paper?” Anne Coen A pen without inkis like an unloaded gun in a home invasion.It is a blender full of fruit without a lid,where your thoughts, ideas spill overand go missing.Because you don’t have the meansto…

Though it feels scripted like a well versed movie When it arrives you ask yourself thorny questions about whether it is real or deserving They say it should be the first language spoken to babies with coos, soft songs, warm blankets and warm milk. Everyone…

The circle of time, Is winding down Smart phones take their place No need for being smart. .No need for counting fives.  

Old and rusty Towering the bookshelf usually Once, writers can’t live without Now, won’t even be given a glance But this typewriter is to me A patriarch of our history A boss, a godfather a king of all who wrote of words, of poems, of…

CD paced walking is now digital streaming hung just to scare crows

My classroom clock, Stuck to the wall, Staring at me – Spinning endlessly, Forever. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock.   Time is eternal And will live Well past my days On this earth. My classroom clock just wishes It could move To swat the fly Crawling…

All of the times you tried your best to break me down to wear me down enough to throw in the towel Everytime that You whispered to me that I was nothing I’d never be anything I would never get anywhere in my life When…