as you celebrate
your wrong religious beliefs
I'm happy with you
Happy Not-My-Own-Religion Holiday
"Haiku Greeting Cards For All Occasions"
as you celebrate
your wrong religious beliefs
I'm happy with you
as you celebrate
your wrong religious beliefs
I'm happy with you
No Visible Marks
poet
what made you a poet
what made you a poet
what made you pause
in the middle of an otherwise ordinary life
and made you stop
to smell the roses
and write it down
what terrible farce
of the frailties of human existence
did you witness
or did you play a forced role
no one could possibly imagine
so you recorded it
for humanity's sake
for your own sake
to assure yourself you were still grounded
and not swept up in the madness all around you
are your words
an unleashed warning
to the innocent
rhetorical questions
in poetry
in poetry
never require question marks
as you know
fellow poet
fellow poet
Not All Poems Have A Title
not all poems rhyme
not all haiku have a season word
not all smiles are returned
White and Black
I am white and when I see a person of
color
I notice that I'm not a person of color
I am instantly reminded
that there exists in our world
the human thought of racism
and I believe that racism is evil
The thought that evil exists is a painful
thought
I am white and when I see a person of
color
I notice that I'm not a person of color
and I feel pain
I
am white and when I see a person of color
I
notice that they are a person of color
I
am instantly reminded
that
there exists in our world
the
human thought of racism
and
I believe that racism is evil
and
I remember that the two co-exist
The
evil of racism / The thought that racism is evil
and
I believe that all evil things will end
The
thought that evil will end gives me great joy
I
am white and when I see a person of color
I
notice that they are a person of color
and
I feel joy
how to have a happy spouse
(haiku)
live in harmony
men, put the toilet seat down
women, shut up
(An alternate title for this poem is "The Ups and Downs of Marriage.")
live in harmony
men, put the toilet seat down
women, shut up
(An alternate title for this poem is "The Ups and Downs of Marriage.")
intimate connections
(inspired by "The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"
by Jerome K. Jerome, available free on Project Gutenberg)
(haiku)
the tiny coral
the tiny coral
laboring to build his house
joins two continents
Shared Decembers
(Inspired by a translation of Catullus’s famous funeral poem known as “Hail and Farewell”)
when I heard
my heart dropped, through the floor
I flew through airports, never seeing doors
hot tears swept visions from my head
our shared Decembers
not a shred left
visions from my head fled
when I arrived
to see your body stretched abed
I cried my final words, as well unsaid
for all the ears you've left for hearing
too‐late pleas for one last shred
of brother's pranks and drunken phone calls,
retorts of sound advice
brothers' love
visions in your head
echoes of my sound advice
calling twice
I love you, bro
I love you, too
a brother's love
and sound advice
calling twice
I love you, man
I love you, too
a brother's love
echoes of sound advice
our lives
they somehow came apart
untwined from days of bunk beds
game controllers
sets of Legos
Nerf Gun wars, broken vases
Texas Hold 'Em table, cards and chips
matching Spring Break surfboards
push‐ups
foreign trips
apart, yet brothers
shared excitement
fading quickly
frozen memories
one toboggan sled,
one ride, two grown-up men
sopping wet
from flooded brother's eyes
a brand‐new suit
a tie
a shirt you'd never buy
they've dressed you for your trip
to where, I cannot guess
I'll find out soon enough
tomorrow
soon enough
who cares!
we shared Decembers!
listening
to my echoed calls
our highs and lows
"What's up?"
"Take care, bro!"
we still say,
"See you later..."
"next year's wedding..."
"family funeral..."
"birthday party..."
shared Decembers
What's In This Poetry Blog?
Mourning Dove Dawn
Table of Contents
What Is Poetry?
poetry concepts defined
but not pinned down nor cornered nor tortured into conformity
Precision Warriors: A
Poet's Hall of Fame
sharing the human
connection with those who have also paid attention
Season Sushi
flowing through the
physical world on a time surfboard
Nature Struck
the awesome that happens
when you disconnect from all things electric and simply pay attention to what's
left after that
Haiku Collections
each bunch is a whirlwind
of poems rounded up and tied together with a pretty ribbon
A Parent Gives
on discovering a loved
one's implosion
Haibun (prose with
haiku)
created when a beloved haiku
poem-child of mine whispers to me begging permission to venture forth and seek
out its own further extrapolation
Image Poetry (poem/image)
a picture-poem partially
composed of its own correspondence with the universe
Haiga (haiku with image)
a story in which the
words argue with the picture and vice versa
Committing Poetry
on the act of placing
words adjacent to one another using a heart mirror
Shards of Discarded Soul
Mates
an archaeological dig
into what once had been deceived into believing it was able to master a willing
young soul
Global Heartwarming
baby steps toward the
idea of what humanity might be shopping for in building the utopia of its
dreams
Shorter Poems
it just is
Longer Poems
after diving headfirst
into the depths of an idea and finding oneself surfacing in the center of a word
conflagration
Poem Pastiche (all poems, titles)
distilled verbose thoughts
Order, Alphabetical (all poems, first lines)
first lines of poems in
this poetry collection
Blog Archive
titles of all entries in
this blog but not necessarily in the order in which they were written
Pi-ku
In honor of Pi Day, here is a radical of "pi-ku"
(eight-syllable poems in three lines, of 3, 1, and 4 syllables)
Pi Poem Piquant
key lime pie
melds
sweet and sour
Pi Poem Party
celebrate
"pi"
eat a "pi"zza
Pi Poem Puzzles
mathematics
solves
great mysteries
Pi Poem Passionate
skipping stones
laughs
skinny dipping
Pi Poem Pretend
carrot nose
scarf
coal eyes and mouth
Pi Poem Pasture
campfire songs
moon
whispering in tents
Pi Poem Pick
certainty
doubt
just one of these
Pi Poem Pre-Teens
my first kiss
lips
over braces
(eight-syllable poems in three lines, of 3, 1, and 4 syllables)
Pi Poem Piquant
key lime pie
melds
sweet and sour
Pi Poem Party
celebrate
"pi"
eat a "pi"zza
Pi Poem Puzzles
mathematics
solves
great mysteries
Pi Poem Passionate
skipping stones
laughs
skinny dipping
Pi Poem Pretend
carrot nose
scarf
coal eyes and mouth
Pi Poem Pasture
campfire songs
moon
whispering in tents
Pi Poem Pick
certainty
doubt
just one of these
Pi Poem Pre-Teens
my first kiss
lips
over braces
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