The following are two poems from my newest unpublished book of poetry.
Hero
(Dec-03)
Everyone likes what the hero does
But no one likes the hero.
Everyone likes who the hero was
But no one wants him to dinner.
Category Archives: Poetry
“Corvettes and Tight Dresses”
The following is a poem from my newest unpublished book of poetry.
Corvettes and Tight Dresses Continue reading
“Bear Turds” and “Afraid to Be Out After Dark”
Two poems from my newest unpublished book of poetry.
Bear Turds
Bear turds the size of truck tires
dropped as a passing gift
next to what I thought
was secure food storage. Continue reading
“Men and Feelings”
The following is a poem from my newest unpublished book of poetry.
Men and feelings
So, you want your man to feel?
You want him to express emotion.
You want all of him?
To experience his soft underbelly,
you must be prepared to witness
the other side of his emotion.
The way a man finds his softness
is by going through his rage.
If you never want to see his anger
then you will never see his emotion.
If you shut him down
the first sign of trouble
he will never feel safe enough
to express himself to you.
Dec-03
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“The Living Wound”
Tough guy poetry from my published book of poems.
THE LIVING WOUND
Whether through serrated remarks
or the back of his hand,
we all live with wounds from the father.
If we found ourselves controlled
or abandoned to live on our own,
his ghost sits with his sons and daughters.
Was it simply that we loved the same woman,
our mother, his wife and ever-fading lover,
tearing us apart when we became men?
Did he survive or devour his competition,
or was it we that turned away,
rejecting the old,
tamping and trampling him
in our haste to be the future?
It’s taken too many years,
but our father is forgiven
for reacting with such vengeance,
taking so personally
the inevitable strikes and blows of the son.
10-02
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Copyright: November 2011 All rights reserved.