Tag: poetry
group name: survivorsforum
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April 01, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
All I wish is just one day pain-free
When buttons, zippers and shoes don't bring a tear to me
I'm tired of giving up cooking so I can wash my hair
Gone is the day for both bathroom . . . more
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February 16, 2007 04:09 PM EST --
I thought I would be safe
when I told you;
I never dreamed
you would turn your back on me.
But you closed the door
on my fears and pain,
You closed the door
on my continuing shame.
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February 26, 2006 11:15 PM EST --
For Angela Zack
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
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April 05, 2006 05:12 PM EDT --
From a man who cannot see
A screwdriver or a key
A hammer or a saw
a wrench or pliers,
He would have to be a liar
If he should say he safely could light the . . . more
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June 11, 2006 11:35 AM EDT --
I.
Dead is as dead does.
Your love for me is dead love.
I can see it in your eyes.
Once love lived for you
But . . . more
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March 10, 2007 02:08 PM EST --
All winter long I've been so cold.
My feet nearly freeze since I got old.
I get bundled up and jump into bed.
But the sheets are so cold, it's something I dread.
My heating pad quit, so what . . . more
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March 28, 2006 09:35 PM EST --
for Laura, Robert, Abu, Edward, Will
and all my poet friends on the Path
This is how I would die
into the love I have for you
as pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight
la ilaha illa-llah, la ilaha . . . more
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May 02, 2006 11:34 PM EDT --
I feel like a puppet on a string;
Tell me the right words
And I'll do anything;
Touch me just so;
Promise me your heart;
I will be your little puppet;
From you I will never part;
Tell me your . . . more
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April 11, 2006 06:42 AM EDT --
For Edward Nudelman, whose bedrock faith is a living choice
I have often asked myself, 'What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it? Jared Diamond, in his . . . more
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April 09, 2006 05:03 PM EDT --
Don't be scared;
Don't be mad;
Don't cry those tears
When you feel sad.
For years and years
This is what I heard;
I never argued;
It was the final word.
I kept it inside; . . . more
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February 21, 2006 07:31 AM EST --
for C. Brian Maddox
The Caribbean palm just looked dead leaning against the squat green house.
The shadow it cast overwhelmed a crabgrass lawn thick with old newspapers.
I looked for the FOR RENT or . . . more
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May 01, 2006 09:00 AM EDT --
for Angela Claire and Andalucia Dotson
may·day [máy dày] noun. distress call: the internationally recognized communications distress call.
My friend draws bright discs in . . . more
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June 01, 2006 05:17 PM EDT --
for Hannah Dreyma, in experience and belief
Snails' trails led me in
over marble and gravel
stumbling and crashing--
lonely, loony, and lost.
Hands bled from a fence.
I wiped my face red,
tasted . . . more
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July 29, 2006 04:49 PM EDT --
Forty-Eight years ago today,
Dr. Reeves sent me on my way
To St. Vincents Infirmary in Little Rock,
Where they put me in a hospital frock.
We'd had our Christmas the night before,
Anticipating . . . more
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December 12, 2006 09:16 AM EST --
a brown-eyed little girl huddles in a corner
listening to the venom fly
between two who vow love,
and she cries.
years later
a young teenage girl lies in bed
as her mind leaves . . . more
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April 07, 2006 11:44 AM EDT --
for Isabel Cara Martin, with inspiration from Robert Browning
We are not a conquered people. We are not, and have never been a conquered people....We are however, today, a subjugated people. And this . . . more
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March 31, 2006 09:18 AM EST --
Dreams crashed
I stand on my suitcase to dream taller
Hopes dashed
I'd crawl inside if I were just a bit smaller
Memories faded
I open up my suitcase and moth flies out
Outlook jaded
Really I don't . . . more
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May 01, 2006 11:47 AM EDT --
You move me
You hold me
You shelter me
You mold me;
You take my brokenness
and make me whole;
You calm this storm that
rages in my soul;
Tenderly,
awesomely,
You draw me near; . . . more
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July 08, 2006 02:49 PM EDT --
36 years ago today, I knew my baby was on the way.
As I attended my baby shower, Melissa was being born that hour.
Got all these presents in the nick of time, and all the gifts were really prime.
Excitment . . . more
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June 20, 2006 09:13 AM EDT --
I want to stay in bed today
wrapped in my cotton sheet
Soft pillow tucked beneath my head
Enjoying slumber sweet
I want to stay right here in bed
Where I can keep you near
In dreams you're smiling, . . . more
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