Posts in category "Poetry"

Bubbles

posted 19 June 2010 in Poetry

Microscopic bubbles,
A fog upon the glass. [continue…]

Verse à la Burma-Shave

posted 16 April 2010 in Poetry

Several verses in the style of the old Burma-Shave roadside advertising signs. [continue…]

Simple Pleasure

posted 10 April 2010 in Poetry

Several haiku-adjacent verses about the simple things in my life.
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Final Respects

posted 01 March 2010 in Poetry

I sit alone by her hospital bed —
The others are gone, the prayers have been said —
And look for a time at her ancient face,
The lines writ by years; a facade of lace. [continue…]

Morning After A Rain

posted 13 December 2009 in Poetry

Brilliant blue in a half-cloud sky,
“Quiet air,” reflects the vane.
The world is lit by cleaner light
The morning after a rain. [continue…]

Ennui

posted 07 December 2009 in Poetry

Several haiku-adjacent verses about the simple things in my life. [continue…]

A Distant Friend

posted 08 November 2009 in Poetry

Our lives gain value by our friends
And what those friendships mean,
Our kith and kin are emblems of
Those bonds that stay unseen. [continue…]

My Desk

posted 30 October 2009 in Poetry

As I sit here at my desk,
Pushing papers to the side,
Think upon it’s mess grotesque,
Won’dring how it got shanghaied. [continue…]

First Love

posted 29 October 2009 in Poetry

So long ago I had a love,
My life, she played a part.
The woman was to me a dove,
Ere long she had my heart. [continue…]

For Pamela

posted 28 October 2009 in Poetry

O’er three years and fifteen, have you been mine.
Before this was darkness, empty all ’round.
You saved me from hell of my own design,
And soon to your side I chose to be bound. [continue…]