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Poemology Sometimes I Struggle With Real People Sometimes the games that siblings play mimic the real-life situations and circumstances that comprise their childhood experiences Curious Little Circumstance Small-town inspiration Sky Buffet Homesickness illustrated via the observance of nature American Hyphen Indian Indian blood and European blood mixed together can form a toxic sentimentality in the heart Gnomes of Consciousness There's more than one definition for gnome. Division Hill During my college years, I observed the behaviors of college kids with high school kids and the similarities they shared beyond their educational landscape Chalk Walk Even a simple childhood game has rules, regulations, and defined boundaries that are hard to escape Lily Green Admiration for a one-time summer visitor to our backyard If Death Be By Night By softening the word "darkening" with an ampersand, the power of death is diminished by its inevitability Adrenal Carcinoma When one faces mortality, one searches for hope Pity Measure Inspired by those who want people to feel sorry for them Mason A poem inspired by my grandfather's lifelong career in carpentry/masonry, juxtaposed by those individuals who call themselves "masons." How The Dead Compose Love Songs Inspired by an ongoing day-fright where I observed these sorry creatures trying to write their final masterpieces Feed The Sock Elastic Thanks to Mom, Dad and my sister Laura for fostering my imagination Tonight I Thought We'd Talk It's amazing how women take the smallest incidents and blow them out-of-proportion A Walk Through A Graveyard Where else can you find pine trees as junkies and a crow trying to fly to Heaven on the wings of a marble angel? Only in a graveyard, of course. And naturally, punctuation can simulate the gaze of the eye Searching A found poem--small visual snippets of a writer's life Rome A kingdom in Oneida county Don't Inspired by my close, trusting friendship with D. Casket Man You get what you can afford Pretty Jar I think about this every time I buy a jar of Hellman's Not What Dickens Expected Random bits taken from Great Expections. Sorry, Charlie The Impulse Although every writer SAYS they want to know if their work contains typos, we cringe at editing something...AGAIN Found Rapt Another found poem Ntitled A play on the current shift in how we handle speech in technology [as well as a "shout out" to my hubby Robert embedded in the text] In Miss Laura's Shadow In the movie Imitation of Life starring Lana Turner, I felt a real connection with the black housekeeper Tatterdemalion An archaic view of how the rich view the poor [at least, that's what one of my poetry mentors said] Hypocrite! Every writer needs to confront the hypocrisy of their art Education Sometimes I wish for the smooth brick again-- Nature Symbols smothered in religious implications I Walk Parallel To Sidewalk I ignore Don't Walk on the Grass signs Sleeper Child For Vernon Jr. Morning Morning as an act of grief The Unexpected Visit Mrs. Teedermeier lived in my imagination for a long time before I gave her a place to live Structural Decay America's Weimar Republic Debut Clash of the classes The Plight of Being The rose "i" picked at 4-years-old (John 3:30) Veteran's Day I was thinking of my dead father on one particular Veterans Day [hence the apostrophe "s" in the word veterans] when I saw a news story on television proclaiming that Santa made an appearance at a local mall that afternoon The Remaining Blanks The suitcases still have the lingering odor of poverty and illness |
