Category Archives: Poetry

The Gift

Tweet  Gray skies, gray heart. So gray she predicted there would be a heavy cloud Hovering over her home, Upon her return from chinese food, Just waiting, patiently, To empty itself on her. She watched the sky on the way home…nothing. She pulled onto her street…not a cloud in sight. Into the driveway…there it was. [...]

Miserabilia

TweetThis is the way the world ends: rain, pouring down, sitting in a McDonald’s reading the New Yorker eating chicken nuggets and wondering why you didn’t call your parents and wish them “Happy Anniversary.”

Book On the Mountain

TweetThough We The People try to struggle up The mount of mud, We leave an ugly trail behind Of tears, of sweat, of blood… We know that wrongs by those elected Are done both day and night, They care not for The People Disregarding every Right. And now Our plight is so much worse By [...]

Stopping The Storm

TweetFor one long moment more I gaze upon The wretched scene: One Nation at war, and at its sullied height The power machine From some great distance deep within A scream begins to build For all our lives we’ve breathed this storm We now are overfilled!

Others In The Storm

TweetThe storm has reached its highest peak My strength is at an end Although my light keeps me upright The fiber does not mend And now again my way is barred Not by stone walls before A soul now nearly numb beholds One Nation, all at war Among the masses Anger, grief, hate, fear, and [...]

Embracing the Storm

TweetLong have I retreated before The tempest’s mighty wrath No matter how I twist and turn, I stay centered in its path Maybe my time at last has come; I soon may hear the call For my way is barred By an endless, sky-high wall… Flight’s End before me Surely sounds of Death follow behind [...]