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New Poem Days
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Meditative bombast
What I have inflicted on life and its responsorials and reprisals on me have proven that regrets teach – if you do the homework things, events once inexplicable are simply lessons learned in an evolving matriculation; tuition deferred, knowledge incurred, … Continue reading
Posted in Introspection, Life, Philosophies, Uncategorized
Tagged growing older, philosophication, reflections on life, wisdom
Advancement
I eschew sex. Firmly entrenched in middle age I have found the act wanting, boring the physicality dull, unimaginative old hat Sex has lost its interest in me shunning sex, I have discovered making love It is the side effect … Continue reading
Posted in Introspection, Love and Romance, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged couples, growing older, love, maing love, middle age, relationships, sex, with age comes expereicne
To the east
Fresh sun drips from above low-hanging fruit; a new day awaits harvest from the sagging branch of an ancient black walnut yawning, stretching its limbs crackling, groaning arthritic objection in the breeze sitting in the shelter of dawn, I mimic … Continue reading
Posted in Introspection, Uncategorized
Tagged a new day, dawn, dawning, hope, hopefullness, morning, starting off, sunrise
Targeted
I was once a New Year’s resolution a young woman I worked with at a large hotel greeted me passionately, spontaneously, in the grand lobby flinging her arms unannounced around my neck, first kiss of a new year January first. … Continue reading
Prey
You cannot pursue your epiphany Elmer Fudd-like True, wascally revelation is cunning, coy, indiscriminate – charmingly droll, visceral with twinkling eye To hunt your trophy epiphany, to blindly stalk personal truth is just taking a walk. Truth – truth be … Continue reading
Posted in Introspection, Philosophies, Uncategorized
Tagged Elmer Fudd, ephiphany, finding truth, life, philosiphication, ponderable, seeking truth, truth
The package
My mom found the dead chipmunk I had brought home from the lake. It was the end of the summer I was ten; the stripe-tailed rodent had come home at peace in a blue and black JC Penney shoebox I … Continue reading
Fact
This may make you sing laugh dance or cry but the reality is you will always be dead much longer than you’ll ever be alive.
Posted in Introspection, Life, Uncategorized
Tagged death, life, life and death, philosophication, thinking about life
Refraction
Looking in the mirror I see the faces of a lifetime in midstream sometimes it’s a group photo – staged formality that doesn’t fit there are candid shot mornings and wide-angle shots that distort while others crowd everyone together but … Continue reading
Posted in Introspection, Uncategorized
Tagged aging, introspection, middle age, passages, passing of time, reflecting, slef awareness
Concubine
My mistress is verisimilitude a pliant robust and imminently sensual lover. Her knowledge of love,extensive, welll used on the likes of me and I have no complaints of how she treats me nor she of I. We talk we love, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Writers and Writing
Tagged good words, language, perspective, poems, poetry, poets, using words, words, writers, writing