NaPoWriMo 2023
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777 and counting…
Writing heals me. Writing gets my brain moving in the right direction. I FEEL BETTER when I write.
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Poetic License
But I learned – the very hard way – that if you never consider yourself, eventually you have nothing left with which to care for anyone else.
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xenophobes yawp zealously.
always, boldly choose diversity
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keyless entry?
With this utensil? Ne’er get far…
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Artichoked
“Keep Choking Hazards From Mouth”
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“You therefore must be perfect” just like God
“You therefore must be perfect” just like God / It’s there in letters red and hot as blood
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May Our Memories Be a Blessing
Poems are made by fools like me, / But God made the fools.
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People of The Books
a priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a bar…
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Oh, my muse
Thank you / For saving me.
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I felt
Are you okay / With him being gay?
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With Her In Her Sadness
my friend is sad
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certain somethingness
I feared a sonnet love-filled ne’er could be; / For though I’d felt it, words would not align.
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‘Murica
Where representation no longer matters.
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Naked Bouquet
I will mock the tomb… / Naked bouquet in hand.
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September, 1986
Matriculation – First day’s class
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Keenly Felt
Choice friendships deeply pierce the heart; / Both pain and pleasure keenly felt.
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stay right where you are and feel nothing.
Satan is silent as he destroys us, / then loudly runs away from us in broad daylight.
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mercury falling
outer cold / exceeds my inner heat; / I never know what shape to take.
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too damned many clouds
what’s that? a ray peeked through? / but any warmth is cooled / so quickly. oh. so. quickly
defying atrophy 