Poetry Archive

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Right Before

The wind among the trees, the birds flying leaving  and taking their shadows,  here and now trying to keep at […]

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I Can’t

I have been given a time, date stamp.No prophecy just the factsof circumstances abiding to theirconclusion. An indifference to what […]

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History Accessible

I have stood in front of mirrors  enough to make a history. To know who I see is not  who […]

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The Sermon of the Trees

Sometimes I hear the trees talking about that first tree of knowledge, the natural fruit it bore, that it’s not […]

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Freud on Freud

“Sigmund, when did you first know you wanted to kill your father  and take your mother as your lover? Try […]

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Reflection

I had some night crawlersto use up, a beer to drink.I got to the lake at early dusk,the sun just below […]

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Returning Home

Cool air, sky blue and white clouds, a hint of gray on their undersides. I have returned to grass to […]

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Sometime True

I see one sparkle of dew on the grass to greet me.  Some say a sign of rain when no […]

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The Only One

There are many things I would have preferred differently.  A lifelong marriage, happy endings to stories that could not end […]