Thoughts I Had On An Evening Walk
In the sweat choked heat of mid-July, we journeyed down this road near your house, following each bend and curve. We didn’t always need to fill the silence…
Prom 2013
You and I sat on the curb outside our favorite diner, cheap cigars dangling from our lips as our hands became tangled up in one another. We took turns taking…
Not Commercialized
I have not the words. They have locked themselves deep within my throat in fear of bubbling forth in a heap of unrefined mass. I have not the gestures. My…
Finally found.
I loved you too. You never knew Because I was too shy. I couldn’t do What you wanted to And could not explain why. It took awhile I tried to smile And finally…
Getting a Grip
I was never much for romance. Love, that heady, all-encompassing sort of thing had mostly eluded me. After Katherine’s death I felt no remorse; she had made…
Expositum et Dolore
I am being eaten from the inside, oh what is this terrible beast. It seeks to reduce me to pieces, and for decades I have become its feast. I now sit exposed…
Affects From a Funeral
He felt tired, as if his age was catching up with him. Thomas Draker watched as the casket was lowered into the grave. Another person he had known, had died…
Citrus Kiss
you hate me though you wait up, lately, you wake up “what’s up?” you say “besides that thing jabbing my side” and we’re laughing simultaneously unraveling…
Ever Even Then?
you hate me though you wait up, lately, you wake up “what’s up...?” you say “besides that thing jabbing my side” and we’re laughing simultaneously unraveling…
Lost Inspiration
I could write something beautiful here. Something profound, something worth while. I could write something that comes from my heart. Something that’s poetic…
Jealousy
Jealousy is throbbing hurt in your chest, festering away, making you want to go out and hurt someone even worse because they have it better than you.
Not Supposed To Be This Way
No. It isn’t supposed to be this way. It never was supposed to end up this way. Reading all the poems I wrote you, I can still remember how happy I was. Now…
OK
You asked me how I was, and honestly, I didn’t know what to tell you. Should I have lied and said that I’m OK? Or should I have told the truth and said that I…
Verbal match
“I just didn’t feel like talking about it”,yelled Glen.”But it was you who keeps saying that one need not keep anything from each other.That is the basis of a…
A tangled mess
The sky is blue I want it to be mauve Thoughts are in a mess But I think they can be sorted The coffee is hot I want it to be cold The wind is cool I want it…
Feel good
Feel good inc................. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Midnight Wouldn't Be Enough
We talked until midnight Opened an empty bar We shared our lives Over a worn wooden table And pints. We talked, and shared And sat together in that empty bar…
Why...
Why... am I sad? ...am I mad? ...am I lonely? ... do I feel the way I do? ... do I really feel that way? ...do I wonder what other people think of me? ...am I…
Poem [poem]
I will plant a garden for you A place to show my love is true Where love, laughter and tears Will last and last for years Caring and sharing how lucky we are…