Category: Writing
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TRANSLUCENT
Translucent It was five o’clock in the morning And there’s rain upon the roof It fell hard without any warning When it swept down the road Rushed up through the woods Caught the grassy fields by surprise The wind bent the bushes and the trees Then all was strangely gone And, for some reason, in […]
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AWAKENING
I woke this morning to a different world Everything had sudden changed overnight When the rains came, fell, and the grass uncurled Where I had walked during the heat of the day before And there was nothing for me to do There was nothing I could or would say The world changed when I turned […]
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A Secret Life: Memories from another life.
A friend from a past life told me of a love But sadly he said he doesn’t recall her name That is really such a shame For way back when he was just age 23 I knew him as we worked for the same company He met her in a restaurant where she waitressed Back […]
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BACKWASH
BACKWASH Walking backwards in my mind slowly thru time I find myself stranded, just another body standing in line A pathetic piece of flesh and bone Left alive to review all the scrapings my handmade in stone Until the carving knife broke from all the writing And I found that my life was not so […]
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A Long Time Ago in the Great Faraway
It was a long time ago in the great faraway When I came to the understanding that I could no longer stay We looked the other way as I stepped out from her front door Harsh words spoken, then silence, nothing left to say, so I guess we settled the score The tale had been […]
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NIGHTFALL, THE LOVERS’ DANCE TAKE TWO
NIGHTFALL, THE LOVERS’ DANCE 2 I recall the night when a hot summer rain came And settled in with a breeze bringing coolness to the room Where two lovers met and when they left never were the same In an old cheap apartment in downtown Sarasota Where they danced to a scratchy record It was […]
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THE VISITOR
The Visitor She came in the still dark of night Silent, gentle, and turned off the tabled light Leaving the apartment in a soft and low-level glow From the moon creeping in thru a blanketed cloud Peering thru grime swathed window panes allowed Casting shadows dancing on paint thirsty aged walls That overtime had seen […]
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Rain Drops
RAINDROPS Bumble Bee sized drops Falling with thunder sized hits Striking the broad leaves of green bent Beneath the sudden strikes from the sky sent Forcing them to bow before the growing deluge Lightning striking a short distance away The laughter of the rain as it slips and falls to the ground And I stand […]
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Yesterday’s Child
The following poem will be in Standoff. The book, Standoff is a group of poems and short stories Yesterday’s Child Yesterday’s child was born with a patchwork brain Filled with paintings that would never be brought to view For a painter, a drawer, he simply could not be Overrun with songs that would never […]
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I Recall Your Hand in Mine
It’s two o’clock in the morning And I recall you lying nearby me In the dark sweating there from lovemaking In the long ago in a town far from here It’s two o’clock in the morning And I can smell your hair As it was crushed up by my face And we laid there sweating […]
THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN 