The Muck of the Day
It’s easy to sink in the muck of the dayIt’s easy to think you are stuck in this placeIt’s easy to fall for the thoughts …
Category: MY POETRY
The Daily Grind
The daily grind when work is but a golden handcuffed checkCan numb the soul and set the news about the troubled neckThe easy habit, go …
Early Morning
I’m up early, it’s the mornThe quiet time when day is born,That silent space, that peaceful voidThat’s only mine, no calls, no noise,No pushing pulling …
Resolved
The year is new,You resolved and set,Now it’s day two and you lost the bet.The easy stepFor your brain to spitIs to drop the pep, …
A Poem a Day
A poem a dayhe clevered to sayIs the way we’ll turn up this year.Let’s proceed that we mayGrow/strengthen each dayAnd chop at this climate of …
Tilting at the Wall
The struggles in my brain they send me pushing at a chain of hopeful, newly dreamt domains that pulls at hours from my day in …
Season’s Greetings
I started this year with a poem of hope,A wish for some yesses and nary a nope,Not knowing how much we’d be called on to …
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Locked at home
The days roll on and over still, the nights slip up and sap the will, and will-less minds that seek a thrill in facebook posts …
I Thought Some Thoughts
I thought some thoughts and wrote a bit but didn’t say a thing. I hemmed and hawed and typed some words yet nothing seemed to …
Dreaming of Bacon
Part of a 30 Days of Bacon Poetry challenge I did The picture’s not mine, don’t know who to attribute.
Happy New Year
Time marches on, the old year is through.I hope that this new one is strong & it’s true.Those things that you’ve done that are working …
Tommy by Rudyard Kipling
In the British military, “Thomas Atkins” was used somewhat like “GI Joe” or “John Doe”. It was a generic placeholder used for a regular soldier. …