List: FREE WRITES

• Redneck New Years Eve

  REDNECK NEW YEARS EVE
  We all gather at Lester’s house

  52 lines, 3 comments, on May 3 2:44 PM
• What the Angels Read

  I come upon the shores with my pale book of truth My judgement is like a rod of lightning.

  28 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 26 11:17 PM
• Bone Into My Words

  Here I am trying to find a bone in my words. Something firm that will stand.

  17 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 29 8:19 PM
• Thinking About the River Boat While Working for Nothing

  I often see the river boat at night
  Its myriad lights shimmering off

  38 lines, on Apr 29 8:33 PM
• Redneck New Years Eve

  REDNECK NEW YEARS EVE
  We all gather at Lester’s house

  52 lines, 3 comments, on May 3 2:44 PM
• Breaking the Egg

  Growth is the cracking of the egg shell It is the wind that blows the nest away

  37 lines, 1 comment, on May 3 2:57 PM
• The Dude Fire Payson Arizona 1990

  They lay side by side in the middle of a road The roar of the fire has came and gone

  75 lines, on May 2 9:33 PM
• A Night on the Town

  We walk down the concrete streets
  under all the neon signs listening

  11 lines, 2 comments, on May 3 2:44 AM
• From a Mental Ward Window

  I see you from the window talking to someone that we know.

  28 lines, on May 3 5:15 PM
• One Minute at a Time

  I will not sit here and waste any more moments
  there are no moor moments to waste.

  29 lines, on May 3 6:42 PM
• Something Important

  I’m riding high tonight! For the first time in a long time

  49 lines, 1 comment, on May 3 7:24 PM
• The Inner Friend

  It is a whisper within me. A small voice I converse with when alone

  42 lines, 3 comments, on May 3 10:13 PM
• The Blue Pigs

  Whenever I went to my grandmothers house I loved to look inside the blue pig
  It stood inside the window of her hutch crystal glass with a

  29 lines, 1 comment, on May 8 10:00 PM
• the Crap I Get Myself Into

  92 lines, on May 8 10:15 PM. In Adult
• At The Moment

  I open a book and look through the glass
  at an opaque expression.

  18 lines, on May 8 10:35 PM
• Sometimes God is Kind

  I am on the freeway headed East. Snow is falling heavy

  45 lines, 3 comments, on May 8 10:46 PM
• I Don’T Want to Die With a Few Scars

  I bear the scars of living life. A life that I’ve walked

  30 lines, 1 comment, on May 8 11:14 PM
• The Arrowhead

  In the sandy stream bed a pointed rock
  chiseled to perfection.

  65 lines, 4 comments, on May 8 11:31 PM
• To Make Magic

  52 lines, 1 comment, on May 8 11:43 PM. In Adult
• Skirting Across the Sea

  Across the wavering waters of the sea we sail slowly with a strong sirocco

  11 lines, 3 comments, on May 10 2:09 AM
• From the Window of a Home Bound Bird

  I remember watching Dorothy as she closed her eyes and

  37 lines, 5 comments, on May 10 7:26 PM
• The Black Before Light

  I remember the black
  the soundless black.

  41 lines, 2 comments, on May 16 8:03 AM
• Criticism

  Many never stop and behold

  21 lines, 2 comments, on May 16 9:41 PM
• The Born Loser

  I am a scandalous scatterbrain
  filling this small town with

  21 lines, 2 comments, on May 17 7:51 PM
• TEDRA my niece

  When you speak to her she smiles
  with big brown eyes that light up

  18 lines, 1 comment, on May 18 1:10 PM
• Ghosts In the House

  In my childhood home there were ghosts. I could see them moving in the shadows

  35 lines, 2 comments, on May 18 5:37 PM
• Tina Matson

  Tina Matson was my teenage dream
  two years older and beautiful.

  91 lines, 5 comments, on May 18 5:52 PM
• For Our Meager Subsistance

  Continued existence
  becomes thorny

  10 lines, 1 comment, on May 18 7:30 PM
• One Day While Stopping In a Small Town

  I never saw it coming It is the first day of July

  73 lines, 2 comments, on May 18 8:15 PM
• Shades of Red

  I have a desire for shades of red like the red that is upon your lips

  30 lines, 5 comments, on May 18 10:07 PM
• The Caribbean

  I want to lose myself upon Caribbean sands
  smoking gungy in ways that are cool and easy.

  13 lines, 5 comments, on May 18 10:22 PM
• 1968

  It was nineteen sixty eight and I was six years old.

  61 lines, 4 comments, on May 18 10:30 PM
• Compulsion

  From misty tarns the afflatus
  appears from mists.

  18 lines, on May 23 6:25 PM
• Near Elk Lake

  NEAR ELK LAKE
  We sit next to the campfire and share rot gut whiskey from a bottle

  44 lines, 2 comments, on May 23 8:13 PM
• The Angel's Touch

  Grasping for a light of hope she reaches out
  struggling with unknown weight on her chest.

  11 lines, 2 comments, on May 24 10:48 AM
• The Kiss Down Under

  4 lines, 5 comments, on May 24 11:31 PM. In Erotica
• This Moment

  I watch as the sun goes all the way down and the final rays shoot up in the western sky

  38 lines, 3 comments, on May 25 1:29 AM
• Embellished by Scars

  We are like sandstone that has the face into a barren hot wind

  38 lines, 2 comments, on May 25 2:20 AM
• Swinging at Leisure

  She swings slowly in the Summer air
  letting day dreams flow in the breeze.

  25 lines, 4 comments, on May 25 8:17 PM
• Veterans Cemetary

  Breathing freedom's air
  as flowers cover your grave.

  5 lines, 3 comments, on May 25 9:52 PM
• The Pity Pot

  40 lines, 1 comment, on May 31 12:11 AM. In Adult
• Looking Back

  Cold wisps of tumbled leaves
  just a frigid memory

  18 lines, 3 comments, on May 31 12:46 AM
• March First

  Parting clouds shows sunlight.

  9 lines, 1 comment, on May 31 2:11 AM
• The Inner Light

  Deep within the glitter of every set of eyes
  there is a lambent glow that is the life force

  22 lines, on May 31 10:43 AM
• Ocean Breeze

  To feel the salty breeze on my face
  and wet sand between my toes

  20 lines, 1 comment, on May 31 10:47 AM
• Play the Song

  Play the song bar room singer that penetrates the heart.

  29 lines, 2 comments, on May 31 11:06 AM
• To the Girl at the Check Out Stand

  Hey!
  I am talking to you.

  41 lines, 1 comment, on May 31 2:23 PM
• You Can’t Fix Stupid

  I’m walking across a frozen lake
  that no one has been on.

  37 lines, 2 comments, on May 31 3:16 PM
• Rattlesnake Red

  I sit out on my front porch taking in the view of the valley

  36 lines, 1 comment, on May 31 7:54 PM
• Behind Curtains

  Sitting behind curtains with tears flowing silently down other wise stolid cheeks.

  38 lines, 3 comments, on May 31 10:16 PM
• Limits

  There are limits we push though we are afraid to

  34 lines, 1 comment, on May 31 11:07 PM
• In the Ways of the Wind

  Shall we dance in the wild ways of the wind
  under a clear and warm spring sky

  27 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 6 11:30 PM
• In the Flicker of a Second

  On the high-wire
  walking the razor line.

  18 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 7 1:45 AM
• Along the Way

  From our nascent steps
  we walk in a world

  27 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 7 10:04 AM
• Time to Be Who I Am

  I don’t want to be tolerant anymore Referred to as a simple latitudinarian

  34 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 7 7:14 PM
• A Cross Road

  There are times when you meet somebody
  and you know they are special.

  75 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 7 8:52 PM
• Milo the Fisherman

  He used to sit at Newland's drug store

  37 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 7 9:05 PM
• Deep Ebony

  Deep ebony
  scintillations

  19 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 7 11:32 PM
• In Late July

  July will be
  a melting mirage

  20 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 7 11:38 PM
• Gehenna

  Eyes struggle through memories of narrow roads taken for the worse.

  11 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 13 3:59 AM
• Contemplations While on Heavy Pain Pills

  I think every one had a little megalomaniac in them At least until they learn the ropes of life

  26 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 13 3:50 PM
• Shelter

  I have felt raindrops, very hard raindrops and I've spent days when there was no cover

  29 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 20 10:26 PM
• All There is

  That’s all there is Life is little more

  28 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 21 9:08 AM
• When I Am Calm and Content

  When I am content I am like a limpid stream

  15 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 21 9:27 AM
• Gary

  His name was Gary. He was six years old.

  83 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 21 11:05 AM. In Abuse
• Moving Away

  It is the empty echo through the house that I sense the most. Stripped of furniture

  29 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 21 12:03 PM
• Looking Back

  There was yesterday and I live in fond memory of it. Those days of windy wonders when youth was endless

  39 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 21 1:40 PM
• One Night In a Strange Bar Deep In the Hinterland

  Here I am at one am sitting between two great big guys who are busy exchanging fetid farts and drinking beer.

  37 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 21 7:11 PM
• In a Lightning Storm

  A sudden bolt of lightning
  delineates the darkened mountains.

  40 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 21 10:52 PM
• Contretemps

  I have had my fair share of contretemps that I have had to inveigle my way out of.

  26 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 23 11:57 PM
• Early Summer Afternoon

  When the green hills are dappled by shadows in the late morning and the world exists between cool and warm

  24 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 24 8:29 PM
• A Contemplation

  I watch a small prairie dog rise from his hypogeal home
  and see the lanuginous underbelly of a hawk overhead

  26 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 24 8:33 PM
• the Stanley

  I have had the same thermos now for several years In fact I’ve had this thermos since I can remember

  27 lines, on Jun 24 8:50 PM
• The Habitual Fool

  I find myself caught up in balky bagatelle
  feeling like I have been duped into

  34 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 26 11:43 PM
• The Truth at This Bar

  Here we are at this bar
  modern day losers.

  36 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 26 11:59 PM
• Longing

  I look out into the stars Sometimes, that s all I do.

  39 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 27 12:33 AM
• Walking Down Canal Street

  The grass is a nascent green and the old anchorite

  62 lines, on Jun 27 12:57 AM
• The Train

  The cry of an afternoon train
  wails down the track.

  38 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 27 7:29 AM
• Candy Wrapper

  Tumbling in the cold

  20 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 28 6:34 AM
• Free Expression

  It is a great things, expression
  even greater when you put free in front of it.

  23 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 29 5:51 AM
• Wading In a Stream

  The first ting felt is cold as shinny minnow coruscate

  32 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 29 9:54 AM
• Rocks Worn Smooth

  I have seen them staring out across the waters

  37 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 1 11:48 PM
• The First Goodbye

  It is hard to imagine being deaf when you are not. She never heard a word that I said. Nothing

  43 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 2 12:11 AM
• Unforigven

  She thinks of the abortion she had
  every time she sees a baby

  48 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 2 3:36 PM
• My Simplicity

  Sometimes I want to write a poem but the words don’t come. The little birds in my head have flown away and have flocked

  28 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 2 7:55 PM
• Why

  There are those who live a world that is decided by guns pointed into the faces of those who don't agree

  53 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 4 4:55 PM
• In the Midst

  In the midst of my turmoil

  26 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 4 4:59 PM
• Invaluable Fool's Gold

  I keep them all, even the bad ones
  all locked away in a chest. Some

  12 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 4 5:31 PM
• the First

  This is the first Christmas you will not be here with us. I remember you always liked this time of year.

  54 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 4 9:10 PM
• Death of a Wild Land Fire Fighter

  He new he could not outrun the fire
  but he ran any ways.

  74 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 4 9:30 PM
• For Scraps of Brilliance

  I lie under the table
  waiting for the orts

  33 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 5 12:49 AM
• Racing the Hot Sun

  I am rolling across this desert eating up pavement as fast as I can.

  43 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 5 1:47 AM
• Boys Meet Girl

  She looks up wanting to join as they look down curiously

  24 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 5 2:38 AM
• This Desert I Go Through

  Dry winds sing their songs
  sifting the sounds and defacing

  42 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 5 7:23 PM
• Want

  I want a bottle of rattlesnake red and a front porch to watch a bright

  18 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 5 7:35 PM
• Charles

  You raise back up in my mind you old fossil spewing out your offal

  30 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 6 12:09 AM
• One

  It is late in the evening I am driving south on I-5

  58 lines, on Jul 6 12:17 AM
• Gushing

  It pours out of you like a river. Thoughts and expressions.

  32 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 6 12:18 AM
• Eye Candy

  We sit in a group on top of a roof.
  It was a hundred twenty degrees

  48 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 9 3:18 PM
• After a Close Call I Check to See If I’m Alive

  It was a close call as a boulder came rolling out of no where down the cliff.
  I watched it bounce down the gully straight at me.

  35 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 18 1:53 PM
• Remembering Tom

  I remember that day when we sat on top Red mountain and we watched lightning flash as the storm loomed.

  14 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 18 3:32 PM
• the Checks We Write When Young and Stupid

  I wake up in the morning with a head writhing in pain The whiskey still on my breath

  75 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 18 3:58 PM
• Waking Up With Your Mind Still Blown

  Almost lifeless I try to move slowly without an ache in my head.

  32 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 18 4:34 PM
• Rumors and Wild Fires

  SHH! There are secrets in small towns so listen carefully for the muffled breath.

  12 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 19 1:28 AM
• Little Birds

  Sometimes there are echoes in my head like countless birds fluttering above

  26 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 19 1:37 AM
• Choosing a Road

  Which road should I take today? The future spokes out like a wheel

  30 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 19 2:52 AM
• Sunset Strip

  There I was walking Sunset strip reading the names of movie stars

  30 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 19 3:22 AM
• Vegas Nights

  There are hot city streets that promise
  everything you ever wanted in the flash

  26 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 19 3:32 AM
• The Hive

  I can hear them in my head
  a bee hive of expressions

  26 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 19 11:29 AM
• The Reason for the Blank Page

  54 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 19 7:03 PM. In Adult
• When the Savior Runs Out

  I am driving and thinking about you
  about the umbrage within you I caused.

  36 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 20 12:26 AM
• An Old Animosity

  I am fishing next to the lake It is the first part of September.

  49 lines, on Jul 20 1:01 AM
• Watching Wild Horses

  I have watched wild horses running free as free as dust devils blowing in the wind.

  55 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 23 8:54 PM
• Late Autumn Orchard

  Dry leaves crackle
  as they tumble

  41 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 23 11:09 PM
• The Dim Lights We Follow

  We go on half blind
  trying to navigate

  49 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 26 8:58 AM
• Two Places at Once

  I see you in the waves of memories in and out of my sight in pictures

  59 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 26 12:22 PM
• Before the Picture

  What is never understood is the suddenness of death.

  72 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 26 1:15 PM
• The People I Like

  I love a sanguine person who gesticulates everything.
  They are better than someone phlegmatic.

  33 lines, on Jul 26 11:21 PM
• Nothing to Lose Except It All

  I watch the slot machine swallow the coins and then pull the lever.

  36 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 26 11:40 PM
• Morning Drive

  I see the yellow sun blazing over valleys igniting the world with color as birds

  17 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 27 3:13 AM
• Most People Don't Know I Write Poetry

  Most people don't know I write poetry and many more don't know I write about

  55 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 27 11:40 AM
• Untouchable Poems

  I felt the thought come inside me
  a wind that swirled up some leaves.

  46 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 27 11:59 AM
• Soon to Say Goodbye

  This old berg has not changed in years and the people who live here seem to

  30 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 27 10:26 PM
• Gazing Upon the City

  I feel the shine of the city swelling in my eyes and feel the burning desire of countless denizens

  22 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 27 10:51 PM
• An Old Blue Bottle

  I found an old blue bottle on my way home from school. Blued from the years of sun shinning into its core.

  22 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 28 5:51 PM
• Walking Home From School

  I am walking home from school with a fat lip. I can taste the blood on my tongue.

  55 lines, on Jul 28 5:54 PM
• Little Stones

  We live with lies in the closet and never let them out

  23 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 28 5:55 PM
• at This Bar

  We sit at this bar and listen to old songs between shots of whiskey and our beer

  34 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 28 5:57 PM
• The Blue Bottle

  I found a blued whiskey bottle
  one day coming home from school,

  31 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 2 4:15 PM
• The Tent City Where the River Bends

  I see them almost everyday
  Images of wasted lives.

  62 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 2 4:32 PM
• Choosing a Road

  Which road should I take today?
  The future spokes out like a wheel

  29 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 2 4:35 PM
• Larry Wriggle USMC 1968

  Larry talks about Vietnam
  when he has had a few or when

  36 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 2 6:12 PM
• A Moment In Spring Rain

  I sit underneath the branches of an old fur tree
  and watch the rain falling down

  30 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 2 7:15 PM
• Ginsberg is Crap? Say It Isn't So!

  I know people who tell me Ginsberg is crap
  and sometimes when I feel anti-gay I agree,

  12 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 2 9:59 PM
• Squats

  I love the pain of it.
  The rebel within

  27 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 2 10:33 PM
• A Wonderful Naughty

  3 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 2 10:51 PM. In Erotica
• A Thought About Goodness

  I wish there was someway to open myself up wider.
  To be able to store a mass amount of goodness.

  30 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 2 10:56 PM
• The Fire That Burns Until Regret

  It is a fire that burns
  throughout my soul

  31 lines, on Aug 2 11:32 PM
• A Red Neck Bar In a Rough and Tumble Town

  I have walked into the wrong bar more than once.
  One of those ran down places that smell of spilled beer

  41 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 2 11:47 PM
• To A Wounded Butterfly

  Clean the red from the wound
  to live is to be hurt,

  14 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 3 10:10 AM
• Black and White

  When I was a boy I went to church every Sunday
  until my teenage years.

  60 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 3 9:56 PM
• Arsonist

  I have been an arsonist since I was four years old.
  Even before I knew what the word meant.

  37 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 3 10:39 PM
• Two Am

  It is two in the morning and I'm driving through a summer rain.
  Somehow, that is enough for right now.

  22 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 3 10:45 PM
• Where to Find Peace

  Pull your soul inside.
  Evolve all your primal emotions.

  37 lines, on Aug 9 10:31 AM
• Every Step

  Every step
  we take

  14 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 9 10:49 AM
• The End of Day

  It is the end of a busy summer day and I let myself fall onto my chair
  on the front porch.

  38 lines, on Aug 9 10:58 AM
• A Walk

  Sometimes I like to go out and walk
  not fast or slow somewhere in-between

  32 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 9 11:12 AM
• A Poetic Oxymoron

  How can I be alone together with the one I love
  and if I’m not with the one I love can I act naturally?

  43 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 9 11:36 AM
• The Truth

  There are things in my past I would like to change,
  but I don't have a magic wand.

  72 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 9 11:50 AM
• Yesteryear

  There I was on the streets on a late Winter day
  walking on the gray sidewalks.

  47 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 9 2:19 PM
• Like a Caged Bird

  Caged in a prison
  full of barred windows.

  22 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 9 2:26 PM
• Within Ourselves

  Our worst enemy is within ourselves.
  It is the fear that controls

  35 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 9 2:44 PM
• Walking In the Park

  I was walking down the street
  when a whirl of wind brought me

  32 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 9 2:46 PM
• Stern Master

  I never knew a lot of things
  I should have known.

  30 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 9 3:05 PM
• the True Essence of Love

  Perhaps everything is meant to struggle in some way.
  For I have seen so many who suffer.

  37 lines, on Aug 9 7:32 PM
• Tin Can

  I am walking down a country road
  on an August day kicking tin cans.

  26 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 10 6:51 AM. In Life
• Keep the Good Dreams

  We look behind upon regrets
  finding them too late in our front

  36 lines, on Aug 16 12:54 PM
• Screwed blued and tattooed

  59 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 16 5:14 PM. In Adult
• Unsettling Dream

  44 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 16 5:17 PM. In Adult
• Beautiful People

  I look inside the factory
  at people churning and turning

  41 lines, on Aug 16 5:59 PM
• Rattle Snake Caught With Its Mouth Full

  Can you imagine the thought that goes through the tiny brain?
  being a predator and also being prayed. Upon?

  51 lines, on Aug 16 6:06 PM
• A Woman Sitting on a Fence

  I see a woman sitting on a fence.
  There are deep lines upon her face

  54 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 16 6:12 PM
• After Watching Freeway Drivers

  I watch people driving on the freeway in rush hour traffic.
  They cut each other off, honk their horns and flip the bird.

  20 lines, on Aug 16 6:13 PM
• Night Flowers

  It was not the fragrance of the flowers
  nor the large yellow petals opening

  36 lines, on Aug 16 6:50 PM
• Class a Personality

  They tell me I have
  a class A personality.

  36 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 16 6:51 PM
• Free Fall

  Swift wind
  in my face

  33 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 16 6:52 PM
• Letting Out the Tempest

  It is a deep dark night full of stillness
  I am thinking of yesterday when I was

  45 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 16 6:57 PM. In Life
• As We Know

  Every soul
  is a bottomless

  17 lines, on Aug 16 6:58 PM
• Coming to Terms

  Pleasured
  by reflections

  47 lines, on Aug 16 7:00 PM
• Let it Roll

  I watch my world
  roll off the top of my hand.

  31 lines, on Aug 16 7:08 PM
• After the Storm

  I stand here looking
  at what the wind left me.

  50 lines, on Aug 16 7:22 PM
• Rocks Worn Smooth

  I have seen them staring
  out across the waters

  30 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 16 9:15 PM. In Life
• Where to Get Off Poem

  39 lines, on Aug 16 10:31 PM. In Dark, Adult
• Conundrum

  Walk into the obscure of tomorrow
  with paper thin emotions wired tight.

  30 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 16 10:31 PM
• Contemplation Drive

  I am on a long contemplation drive
  and I don't know where it's going to

  25 lines, on Aug 16 10:36 PM
• Mirages

  Mirages have a bit of uncertainty about them
  as they waver down a distant road. Almost

  27 lines, on Aug 16 10:38 PM
• What I Am About

  I am about simple things.
  Black and white.

  44 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 21 9:47 PM
• Whatever

  Its one of those Sunday mornings in one of these
  churches that I go to on occasions

  39 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 21 9:55 PM
• Voice

  It is a whisper within me
  a pull.

  38 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 21 9:59 PM
• The Start of a New Day

  The door opens and the sunlight comes in
  with a rush of wind

  42 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 22 12:49 AM. In Life
• The Jerk !!!!!

  I look into the mirror at three in the morning
  there are red kiss marks on my white shirt.

  34 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 22 8:45 AM. In Life
• Pity Pot Poem

  I just got a call from my sister
  She is in Hawaii with her husband

  51 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 22 8:51 AM
• Reconciling

  Dear God
  This robe you gave me

  31 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 22 9:08 AM
• Truth

  You can tilt back the hard whiskey
  and for a while it will help you forget

  27 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 23 1:49 PM. In Life
• Rabble

  I tumble across streets,
  a plain wrapper.

  18 lines, on Aug 23 2:53 PM
• Within the Umber Bole

  The moon shines pale off the ocher of years
  outlining the twists this old tree has made

  16 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 23 3:12 PM
• The Choice is Yours

  I know what is to be thought of
  as a monster because of a gift

  80 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 23 5:23 PM. In Life
• Jana’S Journey

  104 lines, on Aug 23 11:07 PM. In Life, Adult
• Coming Back

  There is no one in the restaurant
  So she finds a table and sits

  65 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 23 11:36 PM. In Life
• Starting Over

  The easy part about starting over
  Is that you normally still have

  45 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 23 11:42 PM
• Two Boys In a Small Town

  They walk a rutted road
  In a world full of dust devils

  34 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 23 11:47 PM
• The Sting

  Contemplation
  turns to a mosquito

  36 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 24 12:05 AM
• Wild Land Firefighter Mentality

  I am hunger over from last nights drinking
  digging fire line under the hot August sun

  51 lines, on Aug 24 12:17 AM
• To the Kid In a Long Overcoat and Bad Hair

  I have been like you
  Out in the blue black cold.

  51 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 29 11:03 PM
• Main Drag

  I'm driving down the main drag.
  It's a hot Summer day.

  48 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 29 11:54 PM
• Sacrifice

  I have seen those eyes
  and the agony within them.

  54 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 30 8:46 AM. In Life
• on a Lovely Day Next to the Ocean

  The sun blends the green into the grass
  and the salt of the ocean wind wafts

  18 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 30 1:12 PM. In Other
• the Truth of It All

  Some people like it in this hell.
  They do not have to break out and take chances.

  21 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 30 1:28 PM. In Life
• Dinner at Trout Lake

  They curl as you bake them when they are fresh out of the lake.
  Three pound rainbows that lurk under the depths of Elk lake.

  28 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 30 5:34 PM
• Caged

  Caged
  Within a prison

  28 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 30 8:54 PM
• A Wall of Guns

  Now that calmer minds prevailed
  they find a home as a piece of history

  21 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 31 1:24 AM
• Country Songs

  There is something to be said for drinking whiskey
  while listening to old country songs.

  51 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 31 3:04 PM
• The Ugly Stick

  39 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 31 3:33 PM. In Life, Adult
• The Two Edge Sword Telling You to Listen

  I walk the cold city streets of gangland
  past houses that are dilapidating.

  46 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 31 3:57 PM
• Lover of Little Fire Starts

  I am a seeker of pandemonium
  a lover of the uproar and wild winds.

  22 lines, on Aug 31 7:16 PM. In Other
• AA Meeting

  At the AA meeting your hear tales
  told by people who walked over the edge

  56 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 31 9:27 PM
• A Shiver From a Dream

  All I know is one minute everything is fine
  and the next I was lifted as if in an elevator.

  38 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 31 9:34 PM
• Fishing Rights

  Night falls upon the Columbia
  and the moon comes out to shine

  68 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 3 5:37 PM. In Life
• Honduran Shirley Temple

  When we came to the cantina every afternoon she would come
  four years old and as bold as bold could be.

  50 lines, on Sep 3 10:29 PM. In Life
• Turn the Knob

  Take the key that I have given you
  put it into the lock and turn.

  38 lines, on Sep 4 12:59 AM. In Life, Love
• Exasperation

  It is like a fly that keeps
  landing on your nose.

  32 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 4 7:08 AM. In Life
• Autumn Rain

  It is another rainy Autumn day
  when the cold permeates through

  44 lines, 2 comments, 2 days ago
• Realizing It is September

  I walk in soft glow of cooler days
  amazed how fast Summer went by.

  26 lines, 2 comments, 2 days ago. In Life
• Woman on a Bar Stool

  She does not fool me
  Sitting alone on the stool

  26 lines, 1 comment, 1 day ago
• Carolina Morning With No Hangover

  I walk in the double row of trees down the center of a paved road
  Bordered by tall houses that are very old and very beautiful.

  39 lines, 1 day ago. In Life
• River Shore

  I’m sitting on this river shore
  Reading Bukowski for the first time.

  80 lines, 2 comments, 1 day ago
• Saudade For Tom

  I walk alone in the forest and I remember
  your lissome form gliding with ease.

  22 lines, 1 comment, 1 day ago
• Your Mother's Hand

  There are secrets behind closed doors
  that are not meant to be secret

  24 lines, 1 day ago. In Life, Love
• Reflections on the Edge of Two Small Utopias

  On the edge of slow shallows the mist of Autumn
  dances cold tingles across my face. Reflections

  27 lines, 1 comment, 8 hours ago
• At The Campfire

  We sit across a campfire and my eyes meet yours
  The flames flicker and we begin to speak

  52 lines, 1 comment, 7 hours ago. In Life
• A Balmy Noon Nap

  Gentle ghosts tease my eyes heavy
  and boulders roll me into the black

  15 lines, 1 comment, 5 hours ago
• The Viscera of a Civilization

  I see the viscera of homes gutted by fire bombs
  Bathtubs white with shock, pipes like entrails

  43 lines, 4 hours ago

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