A Poet’s Nightmares

Snoring loud mouth of crumbly words, In a strange and twisted grammar and jagged phrases of Slime letters, weaved with saliva and drooling in a gelatinous stanza. Poets tossed and turned a Haiku into Tanka, in deep slumbered, Drowned in a free flowing Sonata. In…

Congratulations Poetry Half Marathoners!

Congratulations Half Marathoners! I am so happy that you have completed 12 poems in 12 hours! That is wonderful. Thank you for joining us in this madness. If you completed the half marathon please send us an email in the next couple of days to…

Pink Moon

On that perfect drive in your silver Jeep We rode to the Lake With the pink Moon Lighting our way Glory beat from our chests As I awaited to be laying under the Canopy of stars with my head adhered to your Breastbone

Vagabonded

Fourteen-stories of hotel towered over downtown Minneapolis; the massive pine by our back drive stretched nearly to the tenth the bottom boughs canopied out, branches looping upward, forming a cozy, sweet-smelling cave we rented out rooms, not the tree still, guests were often staying  there…

An Ode to Old Odes and Poets We Owe

Keats was the guy our English teachers fawned all over ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ spellbound many a napping student, when not making their stomachs churn Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley all dutifully took their turns more recently was Neruda, in love with socks – a sartorial,…

sleepless

I had a dream about you last night and we were exactly how we should have been before the cheating the lies the ache the mess I was told if I was going to cheat, I should carry the burden with me, instead of being…

My stormy disposition

I am under the weather, a vicissitude of life. My mood, is in disagreeable with climate change. My warm and sunny personality has something to do with climatic condition And the planet atmospheric position. I have to weather my mood, when I have occasional showers…

Invisible

I am here but you can’t see me. I know you can’t If you could see me You’d see a mother child In need of love, true love And you would not leave me here, in the dark, without food, on the cold…hard…ground. You say…

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