Metropolis The smell, the noise, the traffic is too much. Streets are dirty; people are rude. I am terrified. This is the heartless Metropolis of my imagination. Pushing, hurrying, throbbing. No rest. No peace. I have no place in this Metropolis. I cannot go there;…

“I’ve never been to heaven, but I’ve been to Oklahoma.” –Hoyt Axton No one I know has made the trip to heaven and come back to tell about it. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, and brought back photographs. Marco Polo came…

I want to stay away from the USA I know not all of it is fundamental religiosity But I have no burning curiosity to see A land happy in origin of its rejection of me Its symbols are crashing and being torn Down beneath banners…

I want to believe that there’s a place where when we leave we’ll see a face of someone else who we hold dear that was there first, maybe last year. I need some faith (we can’t be sure) that in that place there’s joys galore….

  On my garden’s calls   She’s a siren, that Garden Calling forever to preen All her troops in unison. Clematis, roses, fuscias, peppers Beans and penstemons nod in unison Herbs and cucumber sing a chorus Nurture us Talk to us Sing to us We’re…

aquamarine cool, brilliant orbs of ice wrap me and freeze my heart beat

I’d like to go to Tokyo, Where I could be lost in a crowd I’d like to order food by pointing to pictures And waking up early to try sushi in the fish market. I’d like to go to Tokyo, And have people stare at…

I followed fireflies down the damp olive tree corridor and into a cave where a wall opened at the back, in the recesses of mystery, and torches flickered and caught wind, extinguishing in a flash. Stone grated behind me with an echo, the outside lost…

As Snape snarl at my Hufflepuff robe An owl drops in mail And I witness The social interaction Of someone getting a howler From their mom Their grades have gone down What’s more Headless Nick laughs As I walk by The great hall illuminates to…

A poem made of emojis? Emojis?! Pictures are not words! How does one make a poem with emojis? Well I guess that I can try… It may not look pretty And it may not make sense, But here is a poem made of emojis. If…