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Miss Understanding – Poem: see what we want to see, think what we want to think

TweetMiss Understanding She thought He thought about her the way she thought he thought about her but he didn’t He thought She thought about him the way he wanted her to think about him but she didn’t tragedy in the making

Man and Wife – Poem: survival, loss, love, commitment

TweetMan and Wife His unwilling legs have felt such pain his eyes have seen such sorrow his worn down heart such loss his tears have no tomorrow for loves he can’t regain Three dead children haunt his nights their memories ghost his days his survival defies all sense courage shadows all his ways love his […]

A Loving Woman – Poem: loving, make love, generosity, failure

TweetA Loving Woman A loving woman is not one who lets a man make love to her whenever he wants A loving woman is one who makes a man still feel whole when he has failed to make love to her

If There Is No Eden – Afghanistan, Iraq and other madness

Tweet For those without religious belief who gave their lives and those who mourn them. If There Is No Eden If there is no Eden no paradise to be where shall rest the solace that sets our grieving free No hymns of praise console us still less serried bands the pomp and circumstance of mourning […]

And So My Son – Poem. son, sex, love, women, mystery, mystified

TweetAnd So My Son And so my son we have left the best and the worst to last You have asked me what I know of women and I wonder what to say How long have you got? for you will need nothing less than a lifetime and then some Of one thing I am […]

Love (2) – Poem

TweetLove (2) Never forget if you would see the healed bird soar then you must set her free

Tomorrow – Poem:

TweetTomorrow If I ever lose you let it be tomorrow If you ever leave let it be tomorrow too If I stop loving you it will be tomorrow today my love’s still strong strong as yesterday If you should love another let it be tomorrow then I’ll let you go but today is ever mine […]

Never Gone – Poem: for indians places are sacred – not time

TweetNative American – Indian – spiritual beliefs unlike say the Abrahamic religions, are spatial not temporal; communitarian not individualistic. This does not try to be an ‘Indian’ poem – that would be silly. But it does try to express a deep empathy towards the spirit of these ideas and the culture that struggles in the […]

Sea Glass – Poem: modest, etched by the world, and beautiful

TweetSea Glass A scrap of glass wave rolled salt etched opaqued by time ground down by the gravity of life Plain unpretty treasure Beer drunk brown unbanked green or common white clarity lost in priceless time Yet you are precious treasured a child’s memories hidden in a secret life locked drawer with other cherished things […]

Upon A Lifting Breeze – Poem: no death, only change

Tweet Upon a Lifting Breeze I will soar Upon a lifting breeze In sunset’s fading light I shall find my ease Do not weep for me Nor regret my passing day My love lives on in you You now will find my way My spirit lives Within the gentle rain That slakes the thirsty earth […]