Saturday, May 20, 2023

Making The Best Of A Bad Situation

 
Come on, get with it
John, don’t just stand 
 
There, join the crowd, 
You know you can 
 
Write better than most any 
Tom, Dick or Harry 
 
Out there, all you have to do is 
Forget who you are.
 
 
 
 

 

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Tragicomic Poetic Victims

All our calling 
Wanted from us was 
To write as if 
 
Our lives depended 
On it and to never go 
Back on our word— 
 
“Get a life,” it said, 
And we believed it, willing 
Dead-pan supplicants 
 
Writing sad, 
True-life confessions 
To no end. 
 
 

 

Monday, May 8, 2023

Friday, May 5, 2023

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

 
It looks like 
One of us thinks 
 
He knows his better 
Half better than he knows 
 
Himself: Wanna flip a coin? 
 
 

 

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Seizing The Day, So To Speak

 
Dry, 
Brown, 
Lifeless 
 
Little leaf on my patio 
Table, I get more 
Out of watching you
 
Come alive and twitch 
This way and that 
In this fickle 
 
Wind than waiting 
For my next 
Poem to move me 
 
Who knows where. 
 
 
 
 

 

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