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…
Category: Miscellaneous
A Poet’s Dilemma
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…
Prompt 16 There is this thing
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…
17 The Clock
The circle of time, Is winding down Smart phones take their place No need for being smart. .No need for counting fives.
Hats off Old and Rusty
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…
Hour 17, Obsolete
CD paced walking is now digital streaming hung just to scare crows
Tick, Tock.
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…
12am
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…
Catch up!
The unexpected message Which gets you out of the house And causes you to have your first hug in three months Followed by long conversation About family Gets you behind in your poetry marathon Catch up!
prompt 17 hour 17: how to talk about typewriters?
how to talk about typewriters? telling kids I learned to type on a typewriter is a great way to boost my mood – they never really know what that is and I never really know how to describe it: like a computer but not….