Lost friends and comrades in Vietnam
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
PRISONER OF WAR
We were unable to help you
flesh torn barbed wire
scraping red your bare skin
like a lover's fingernails digging in
drawing you closer to her.
I, we, saw you running, muscles pumping.
Your heart filled our eyes with tears
both for...
We were unable to help you
flesh torn barbed wire
scraping red your bare skin
like a lover's fingernails digging in
drawing you closer to her.
I, we, saw you running, muscles pumping.
Your heart filled our eyes with tears
both for...
Letter Home From A Body Bag (Iraq war)
posted over 4 years ago | 2 comments
LETTER HOME FROM A BODY BAG
(Poets For Peace)
This is my last letter home,
just enough time to say goodbye
to dad and mom, all my friends,
roses in the hedge,
the street corner poet selling words,
the street corner church selling words,
the st...
(Poets For Peace)
This is my last letter home,
just enough time to say goodbye
to dad and mom, all my friends,
roses in the hedge,
the street corner poet selling words,
the street corner church selling words,
the st...
George Bush and IraQ
posted over 4 years ago | 2 comments
GEORGE!
Poets For Peace
What is it you saw or didn’t see
when you walked into that country,
blinded by glory
the ins and outs
lights and oil
sand and stone
burkha and bazooka.
What is it you saw or didn’t see
before dropping terror on that innoc...
Poets For Peace
What is it you saw or didn’t see
when you walked into that country,
blinded by glory
the ins and outs
lights and oil
sand and stone
burkha and bazooka.
What is it you saw or didn’t see
before dropping terror on that innoc...
Don't Blame The Stone
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
Don't Blame The Stone
Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Six-year-old Sarah fell on the hard gray sidewalk, scraping red her bare knee...
Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Six-year-old Sarah fell on the hard gray sidewalk, scraping red her bare knee...
Hoarfrost (an October poem 1993)
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
HOARFROST
Milkweed pods and golden rod, their
hoarfrost melted by the sunrise
along the gravel road that has seen
many a ravens midnight wing.
Just leeside of the frost and
as far as the eye can see at dawn,
the silhouette of a million pea seeds
...
Milkweed pods and golden rod, their
hoarfrost melted by the sunrise
along the gravel road that has seen
many a ravens midnight wing.
Just leeside of the frost and
as far as the eye can see at dawn,
the silhouette of a million pea seeds
...
The end of the affair, first.
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
My last two love poems
four o clock in the afternoon
and your shadow remained
after you walked out the door,
it paced up and down the aisles
checked out the darker corners
disappeared in the sunlit sections.
four o five in the afternoon
and your...
four o clock in the afternoon
and your shadow remained
after you walked out the door,
it paced up and down the aisles
checked out the darker corners
disappeared in the sunlit sections.
four o five in the afternoon
and your...
