Everyone doesn’t “get” poetry. It’s okay that people don’t “get it.” There are things in their own lives I don’t understand.
About My Sister Not Understanding Poetry
Tag: poem
Poem To The Unconvinced
Poem about truth and lies and how they beg to differ.
Inferno’s Frozen Circle
This is a poem written to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante (2021).
The World is Broken
The increasing gun violence in America and the world. Teenagers with guns shooting other children.
Cut
My work is from a manuscript called “What the Sun Thought,” which I wrote several years ago.
Small Facts About A Barely Significant Love Story
He wedged a poem between the brickwork and the sill,
thought it would slow down ants.
The Retreat
The Retreat is about my time at Omega. I experienced powerful healing rituals after a difficult divorce and loss of my job.
The Infinite Chaos
People today In the hope of security Concentrate them into the small space, Limit infinite chaos, wider occupancy, and horizon.
Russia’s war invading Ukraine
Monstrous Putin, bloody Russian dictator, wading in blood
Vile creature isolated in ivory tower using murder and terror
Thoughts on Modernist poetry
The modernist poetry movement has radically changed the rules in form, style, stanza, and rhythm.
Political challenges in a selected section of ‘Insights and Poems’ (1975) by Huey Newton and Ericka Huggins
A review of insights and poems by Huey Newton as well as extensive political commentary on the overarching significance of the man.
Trees of the house
Women and trees interconnect, the nuance of support. They weep and write, create and cry. Trees create magic similarly.
The Finch’s Song
Someone who has made an eternal decision, to find that perhaps the outcome isn’t exactly what they expected.
Taps – The Final Salute
My brother’s military funeral in the pouring rain.
It Is Time To Come Home
Our existential home is found when and where the searching ends.
Nervously Again
A view of early morning existential dread.