Month: August 2012
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TRAPPED
TRAPPED (Copyright Gordon Kuhn 2012 all rights reservedand included in Rabbit in a Box which can be found on Kindle, Amazon, & Barnes and Noble.) It is Chicago outside, At my nephews basement apartment. Ah, sweet Old Windy. I grew up here. But—— I am afraid. God, so afraid, So terribly afraid. Why do I […]
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FRIGHTENED
FRIGHTENED It’s nine in the morning. I don’t recall the year. Sometime seventies? Maybe eighties? Matters not the year. What matters is the fear! I came a visitor, Traveling past my nephews to share A moment with them for me to stop and see And stopped unexpectedly there Surprised them the night before To stay […]
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WHITE PONIES AGAINST THE BLUE
White ponies, Painted against the blue, Hooves lost in fading mists, Who knew that ponies flew? Dashing, prancing Against a pale hue Manes twisting, misting Who knew that ponies flew? White ponies Against the blue Hooves lost in fading mists. I knew that ponies flew! ****The above poem is among those in Rabbit […]
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AT THE CUTTING OF THE BARK
How like axes, spoken words are. The sharpened cleaving edge, Bright gleaming in the sun, Swung in a wide and sweeping arch, Strikes the wooden heart of silence, Strikes deep to reveal the hidden core, Kept safe, before, behind a wall of bark Before the honed edge did find its fatal mark, And striking thus […]
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THE WORDS ARE FLYING
The following poem is in RABBIT IN A BOX which can be found on Kindle, at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million and other fine stores. If you have Kindle on your PC you can purchase an ebook for $0.99. Your support for my poetry would be appreciated, and if you do buy please write a review for me. […]
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UNWANTED TRESPASSING
Unwanted Trespassing is a poem from the book Rabbit in a Box. On Kindle and Kindle for your PC 162 pages for $0.99. UNWANTED TRESPASSING Copyright 2012 Gordon Kuhn What is this place I’ve come to stumble on? Where others, hitherto my arrival by happenstance, left footprints of their passing; In dust where shadows lay thick […]
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Thanks again to all my wonderful readers and friends.
Lads and Ladies! Again, I bow to you for without you I would have no purpose in this blog. Like Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest my being here is predicated on your support which is shown most genuinely by your comments and your hitting the ‘like” button. Thanks to 400daystil40, 5things todotoday, bimodz, Coco J. Ginger, fouflobo, […]
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TWO BOOKS
Just a fast note. Both The Widow’s Cliff & Other Poems and the most-recent book Rabbit in a Box can be found on Kindle as an e-book at $0.99 each. They can be found in paperback at Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. I do have a simple request, and that is if you like […]
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THE WELL
THE WELL Copyright 2012 Gordon Kuhn Poet in the Rain Productions In the silence of life There is always the well That lingers beyond And which cannot tell Though a question arises From each lip casts a spell To calmly speak softly Or offend and just yell. August 17, 2012
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BOOKS
I’ve two books out now. The Widow’s Cliff and other Poems and the new one Rabbit in a Box which is 160 pages and is broken into like/kind areas so that, as an example, the section about working for a living has poems about cab drivers, cooks, waitresses as well as prostitutes. Both can be downloaded to a kindle […]
THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN 