POETRY

Poems

THE QUESTION

Competition Entry

A BOOK

To encourage young people to read

THE GOD THAT ISN’T

The God that isn't is in the hospital following the gurney that's headed for the operating room. The God that isn't is under the car where the girl is pinned after the accident.

AGING

Getting old

LOVE'S CHILD

I speak to you from the womb where I've spent the last eight months. You've carried me around and I kicked as my being took shape. They call me love's child, alive yet unborn,

THE APPOINTMENT

Leaving this world

TAPESTRY

What fortune mine

THE MOTHER

What will happen to our children?

THEY

The hippies of yesterday
Cherry

IN TIME OF WAR

War is hell

HEY JOE!

War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!

YESTERDAY’S HERO

A logger's tale

I USED TO CARRY “I LOVE YOU”

I used to carry I love you in my childhood and blow it like soap bubles to my mother sitting on the bench in the playground I used to carry I love you on my belt like a toy gun in a holster

THE LIGHT OF YOUR BEING

In the cave behind your eyes there's a fire pit and wisdom rises like smoke from a smokestack at the top of your head. There, at the soft spot which was warm to the touch

THEY ARE OUT THERE

The boat is sinking

THE GENIE

You work too hard. You drink too much and the genie is still in the lamp. There are ripe berries on magic bushes and a tree out there you haven't climbed yet.