He sighs bending down, pensively searching for leftovers nobody else wanted He ponders the future starting out at the old south side four flat He worries sbout paying his rent pensively searching the soil for a lucky penny He moves on rickety unsure legs down stone pocked slabs, toward the corner grocery And buys the […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “Bittersweet”
We lay asleep protected by the shroud of night The prelude to a frenzied life That precedes life’s frantic race To each new day. It was quiet there And we felt We could race each other To the moon. And as we slept, Protected by the shroud of night There in the east A hand-held […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “The Folk Singer”
The house lights dim He walks on stage— Applause turns into hush, In keen anticipation of His stories, rich and lush. He sings of places far away Of lost loves, and of home Of promises, of restlessness That make me want to roam. His tempo carries me away His words just what I feel I […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “Helping”
It’s funny how people stop Right here. Today. And say “HELP ME.” Any other place they’d Merely let it do And say “HELLO.” But when they get to thinking That they won’t be here tomorrow We reach out, and I say “OKAY.” I’ll see you through this dismal hell And yet, tomorrow, who can tell […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “The Choice”
We are, all of us wholly unto ourselves existing, as a thread somewhere between nothingness and eternity. The choice, as to the weaving of the thread, and its colour is ours.
Poetry Corner: Bud Light ” A Romance of the Mind”
A romance of the mind Ah, that’s the thing A fantasy in flight Like a bird on the wing. Free Of limitless scope Of extended potential An only chance To be something essential. Not existential. Of me, let it be said That I fell Attempting to get off The carousel Of time. And that my […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “A Lost Love”
Remember the time you lent me your car, and I dented the fender? I thought you’d kill me…But you didn’t…. Remember the time I spilled Coke on your new jacket? I honestly thought you’d shoot me…But you didn’t…. Or the time I forgot to tell you the dance was formal, and you wore jeans and […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “Dreamwatching”
You can’t pin dreams down Like murdered butterflies, Can’t put them in cages or corrals like trapped canaries or wild horses. If you should catch a dream and drop it into the glass jar of memory, it will flutter and hum around for a while, but soon falls lifeless. Sure, you can look at it […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “I Had This Dream”
Good morning to you, Venus, Or is it the moon? Anyway, I can’t sleep. So how are you at 4:30 a.m.? Formation time? The sergeant shouts a something or other, And I feel sick. What shall we talk about today? Dylan Thomas, Kafka, Byron, the latest strike… Or the flowers along the way On yesterday’s […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “The I’s of Man”
Involvement is a word game Echoed by many Participated in by few. Indecision may be an excuse For man’s inability to act. And, instinct. Ah, that’s Something else again. And, while the jungle beast pounces On his daily meal Man licks his chops, meditates, calculates his odds And does —- nothing.