To become and create A leader, Someone who stirs a crowd And molds a group think To make waves in masses To do what they believe is right, It is not enough to simply be Passionate About something, To follow it is, But to lead a rebellion There must be more to a person. There […]
Category Archives: Poetry
A Dance of Strangers
This room is filled with chance encounters. Tonight we sip off our week’s adventures in order to dream of new beginnings and let slip false starts. We huddle together away from the night, but still sit with our fabricated shields. A mass of singular beings wishing fervently to connect. This room, filled with clanking ice […]
Ode to Beauty
Not as long as I can remember, but as long as anything has truly mattered, have I been enthralled in your presence. When I see you it is like a mainline prick that pulsates a warm wash over every pore. The initial slight pain that brings a melting selfish pleasure. Oh Beauty! I am your […]
My Wet Nurse
I see you, bottom of the bottle. Slowly climbing the walls coming ever closer, mocking me. You always show up when needed the least. But, sometimes, you never seem to appear. No matter how hard I hunt, you continue to stay miles away. I search for you like the lost answers on the tip of […]
WARm bed
Where were you last night? In a bed? Safe at home? Where were you last night? Pillow against your head? Dreaming of fields to roam? Where were you last night? In a chair? Reading a book? Where were you last night? In a blanket of care? Stayed up long as it took? Where were you […]
The Momentary Kiss
Immortalized in an eternal embrace While relaying relief for the end of rage. A sailor, Proud to be home And alive. A nurse That won’t have to scrub caked blood from her blouse anymore. All the smiles are locked and unflinching, Forever frozen, never changing. The ghosts of those that died instead of them Will […]
Cradle to the Grave
I was born anew and then I was done. Coming fresh into this place, Gasping and squinting to see what was won. All was new; I was their fresh sun, Too soon left for school with haste. I was born anew and then I was done. As a child all I wanted was fun. Lining […]
The Shoelace
The Shoelace, one of life’s most overlooked gifts of comfort. It comes in many sizes and many shapes; this is to fill all sorts of shoe needs and aesthetic personal pleasures. Some are round, like garden snakes, others are flat as a freshly cooked fettuccine noodle. Many colors to match, or specifically to not match, […]
We Who Follow Should be Happy
In the core of the earthen lake. In tadpole water they sit or stand on souls, where they finger a burnt lover waning. We may never learn but pray with pity: who can know his pain, or can understand the desolation? Now, now Don’t shed tear, for broken heart can condemn you wholly. Selflessly boughten, […]
What Men Can Do
It is cold down on the asphalt. The chalk figure sketched with disobedience, while men with golden shining shields circle silently. Shocked at the idea of what men can do. Her love bracelet still clung to her wrist, possibly a trifling concluding comfort. The sounds of terror and pain should have filled the air, But […]