Poems by E A Collins, by newest first

• Way with words

  I was at a large family gathering recently, watching a televised sporting event with my teen-aged nephew. This young man, who is mentally challenged but quite inquisitive, was asking about some of the weeks top news stories:

  by E A Collins 10 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 23 9:20 PM 2008. In Humor, Life, Society
• Brochure for a new business

  HAPPY ENDINGS TAKING AWAY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF AGING PET OWNERSHIP

  by E A Collins 70 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 20 7:09 AM 2007. In Society, Life, Humor
• My Satori

  The fog rolled in like Borkum Riff from a cheap straw pipe,

  by E A Collins 140 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 9 6:32 PM 2007. In Society, Sad, Love, Life, Thoughts
• Georgie's Band

  Hey there sinners Lets repent

  by E A Collins 55 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 7 5:53 AM 2007
• Marco Polo's Road

  Marco Polo’s Blind Searching for that perfect gift,

  by E A Collins 41 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 7 5:49 AM 2007
• Dervish

  Guttering, flickers wafting , laced with the oils of obsession , passion

  by E A Collins 43 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 6 5:46 AM 2007. In Life
• Clear

  As clear as the glass on this bottle of pain,
  broken neck, jagged, in dawns early light,

  by E A Collins 32 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 5 11:16 AM 2007
• Hour Glass

  One grain at a time falling through a tiny hole

  by E A Collins 15 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 21 2:20 PM 2007
• Spew

  Shards of bleached white and
  tufts of fluffy under-down

  by E A Collins 18 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 13 7:34 PM 2007. In Love, Sad, Weird
• Ride the smoke

  One crisp curl
  of twisting, ribbon-ed exhalation,

  by E A Collins 24 lines, on Nov 4 12:06 PM 2007. In Sad, Personal, Thoughts
• Straw man

  He stood watching the road,
  like in some forgotten way it had once belonged to him.

  by E A Collins 31 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 30 6:22 PM 2007. In Weird, Dark
• Swept

  I lay here, as if discarded,

  by E A Collins 44 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 29 5:19 AM 2007
• Speed of the turning

  Watch closely
  as the lanes blur

  by E A Collins 15 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 28 11:45 AM 2007
• The attack

  The shadow hovered closer,
  blade in hand,

  by E A Collins 26 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 26 3:21 PM 2007. In Humor, Weird
• Secretly

  by E A Collins 72 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 26 5:51 AM 2007. In Weird
• Inside view

  You haunt me. At every turn there is something about you,

  by E A Collins 37 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 25 5:38 PM 2007. In Personal, Sad, Thoughts
• Ebbing

  Change is the tide that pulls at our feet as we try in vain to stay rooted

  by E A Collins 33 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 23 5:03 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Thoughts
• Ode to my heart

  And as my days so slowly turn
  from golden sheen to edge of eve

  by E A Collins 19 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 16 5:52 AM 2007. In Personal, Love
• One less breath

  by E A Collins 15 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 7 2:48 PM 2007. In Adult, Thoughts
• More scenes from Logan

  The fog rolled in
  like borkim riff from a cheap straw pipe,

  by E A Collins 131 lines, 9 comments, on Oct 4 6:00 AM 2007. In Society
• Esoterica

  The wizard waved his magic wand and changed the Bogey-man under the bed.

  by E A Collins 30 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 30 7:39 PM 2007. In Society
• The temptation of Anibus

  The dancing girl sways to a rhythm of satin blindness

  by E A Collins 44 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 26 12:39 PM 2007
• Copper floats on diamond

  Contrast born of providence and despair,

  by E A Collins 30 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 25 4:20 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Thoughts, Contemporary
• Millet in bloom

  Vermilion red spreading vast

  by E A Collins 2 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 25 4:07 PM 2007
• Home

  At play in fields of ash and ember,
  no sun burned or birthed the fire of dawn.

  by E A Collins 4 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 25 5:11 AM 2007. In Society
• The effect of ice on clay

  She watched as I died, not quickly, like a hero in a movie,

  by E A Collins 24 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 21 2:59 PM 2007
• Blood in the cradle

  One world.
  One moment where we all survive.

  by E A Collins 34 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 20 4:54 PM 2007. In Society, Sad, Thoughts
• My Brothers Hand

  He took my hand
  and pulled me across the way

  by E A Collins 27 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 18 5:35 PM 2007. In Personal, Society, Spiritual
• Mortis ocularis

  And so I have swallowed
  the last drops of reality

  by E A Collins 31 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 13 4:29 PM 2007. In Personal, Thoughts
• [ There was a young lady from Flint ]

  by E A Collins 4 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 13 4:15 PM 2007
• Example?

  by E A Collins 4 lines, on Sep 13 4:09 PM 2007. In Humor, Thoughts
• Sun down

  Dipped in hot brew,
  half-baked and shimmering with the fat of the land,

  by E A Collins 27 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 30 5:03 PM 2007. In Society, Thoughts, Life
• Cold contact

  by E A Collins 25 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 4 10:49 AM 2007. In Adult, Life, Society
• Bliss ended

  by E A Collins 17 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 1 9:59 AM 2007. In Adult, Life, Humor
• Honor

  legs spread / arms up and out, / "assume the position". / Answer this quickly- / seven quick shots to the ego. / The fangs of the viper hur

  by E A Collins 23 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 26 8:11 AM 2007. In Thoughts, Society, Life

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