Category Archives: poetry

Thank you, Mr. Woods, for this…   Cold Pre-Winter Curtain So this is how the autumn comes: flooding my pasture, drenching the weeping corn stalks, floating pumpkins off protesting the injustice of too much rain and not a wink of … Continue reading →

Sing softly, Loud Mouth Lucy! No one loves fingernails on a blackboard Boys and girls Dressed in tablecloth kilts and White button downs singing Singing sweet hymns of childhood dreams Their little angel voices float Through the air ducts and … Continue reading →

an inflated pride creeps boldly consistently _________________________________ intimidation who are you your words steer straight _________________________________ strangled by pleasing silenced fear smothering words _________________________________ like complacent dogs changing word games lazy mutt _________________________________ sparingly loved by with distance incomparable _________________________________ … Continue reading →

The smocked painter sheds her shackles And dons the wings of the familiar brush She paints a poem of freedom With feet made famous by another Forgiven yet still paying the price                       of mistakes the faulty brush made On … Continue reading →

The day will come to embrace your seed To look into the face of what you                          could have become A chance to nurture and create art That transcends the reach of your hands Farther, higher, more succesful they will … Continue reading →

Wisdom gives birth to a specific lifestyle – it’s so easy to pick it out in a crowded street. Wisdom’s child has a certain color and smell about her. It’s a long way to sensory eutopia, but a short step … Continue reading →

Music Transient Communication Inspiring, Breathing, Expressing Harmonious Passion – Dissonant Lover Restricting, Forbidding, Condeming Creativity Confined War

Scarlett Haze Sifting through my dirt Startling my sensibilities to awaken Stroking my apathy to lucid momentum Saving me from myself Scarlett threads holding me together Like a rag doll