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Category: love
10 Second love story: “Tie-Dyed tomorrow”
Deep in a well called yesterday your love letters to me water damaged and smelling like the year before last are attached with twigs to the mossy stone wall attempting to dry while the fairy tale’s damp blue ink separates on the pages surrounding me with a tie-dyed tomorrow absent of us for now,…
10 second love story / “Somehow”
Somehow I spend a lot of time above a pen and before a keyboard, trying to let you know how I feel and what you mean to me, usually to no avail and causing greater confusion. I’d like to somehow write away the trail of devastation that you are now forced to walk in…
Book Trailer / “Self Inflicted Heart Shaped Wounds”
Please take a look at the trailer for my book of short love stories, “Self Inflicted Heart Shaped Wounds,” which is available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
Poetry / “Franklin’s Kite”
Like I suppose Columbus held while he sailed the ocean blue, I try to locate you with a brass compass. Like I’ve seen Gandhi wear, while nonviolently battling the Brits, I battle old photos through clear round gold frames Like I learned da Vinci designed, in between the helicopter and scuba gear, on…
Soundcloud Poetry / “Paperweight”
My poem – ‘Paperweight’ – nope appears on Soundcloud. Click over and have a listen!
Poetry / “Diner placemat love note”
I have become a front porch Bell jar wino looking for yesterday But all I want is to be a back alley junkie freebasing glimpses of tomorrow And on each day of your absence I’ve received a morphine drip of your perceived value While fearing the dark and squinting to find…
Poetry / “Gunpowder ghosts”
Gunpowder ghosts I am unsure that you still exist because my memories are grainy and out of focus like films of bigfoot lumbering across the landscape leaving footprints real or not Perhaps you’re still here and are held up by invisible strings like blurry pie plates in UFO films that we once watched…
Romance / “B is for Browne”
B is for Browne How will I know if we’re through, she asked half kidding, even though they’d only been together since the hot summer and now it was the crisp fall. He explained that being a fan of what he calls ‘suicide music’ that any dark period in his life, and…
Poetry / “Ain’t that a shame” by @nicolepasq
I love Nicole Marie’s blog, ‘Words & other things’ and am happy to have found this lovely poem titled “Ain’t that a shame” – enjoy!! https://wordsandotherthings.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/aint-that-a-shame/
