Dear Charles Bukowski, You are my favorite drunk, poetic bastard You gambled with women and I heard your breath reeked of cigarettes and whiskey I am writing to you, you see Mr. Bukowski I used to write poetry to get into girls pants I settled…
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Gone.
Out of touch for years, Randy never made a class reunion couldn’t be located; only child, his mother dead father presumed so years before Randy never married, had no kids A few of us tried; mail, Christmas cards returned, undeliverable, no forwarding one day a…
Missing
I remember the cold dreary day in the begging of December when I was told you were gone. You left us. On your own accord. Just like that. you. were. gone. You left us. On your own accord. Just like that. On your own accord….
United by the Skies
As I lie under the canopy of the silver moon I gaze at its reflection across an ebony lake Knowing that you too see the same reflection across the ocean I am in awe of the glory that love creates When you are so far…
Sleeping at the lake
Summer nights at the lake frequently found me asking if I could go to bed early, thus confounding my elders who knew from others the battles waged getting visiting grandchildren in bed but we were studious viewers of the channel 7/12 news with special attention…
Hour 8 -Pantoum-Bloodshed in our Streets
Why every summer is there is bloodshed in the streets? We have to go on to our parties, weddings, and vacations. Another birthday to celebrate, as we hug our families extra tight. Just another day in the middle east, east coast, west coast fight. …
A Poet’s Nightmares
Snoring loud mouth of crumbly words, In a strange and twisted grammar and jagged phrases. With a slime letters weaved with saluva and drooling in a gelatinous stanza. Poets tossed and turned a Haiku into Tanka and in deep slumbered, Drowned in a free flowing…
Forgiveness…
Mewling wicked soul, echoing from black,white and brown race Puking bad words from their mouth and Stinging on kindred spirit. Denouncing illegal, immoral acts and publicly criticizing skin colors are blameworthy. Proclaiming religious beliefs are a curse,that causes human hostile. Homosexuality, transgenders or bisexual are…