I saw you standing There Waiting At the bus Station Should I Just drive On through Wave from My Heart We are through… Or Slow Down And Take In Your Face Your Way Of Standing Lost Slightly Askew In This World Abandoned By Anyone You Lent Faith To Your birthday Was the Same as mine […]
Poetry Corner: Peter Bray “Love Poem”
I thought about her beauty like a Bougainvillea with thorns. I thought about her beauty like a matador facing horns. I thought about her beauty and I’ll tell ya this: I’ll deal with all of that after one more kiss. Peter Bray is a member of the First Tuesday Poetry group. This poem was an […]
Poetry Corner: Bruce Moody “Love Song”
I hear other names for You – The Inviolable One, God, Allah, Wakantanka, Higher Power, The Ineffable. But why bother, when You call to me by no name at all and I come. Neither of us have a word for each other save Us. And even that is nobody’s business but Ours. So let’s forget […]
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.
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Last Night I Cried”
Last night I cried. Something had changed. I remembered their faces, but forgot their names. Young men old, all men brave. Tough and strong, old to the games. Gunner’s Mate “Gunny”. Boatswain’s Mate “Boats”. Corpsman called “Doc”. All hard core cases. Names are passing, but not scenes. Not sounds or smells. Dates, never places. The […]
Poetry Corner: Krandall Kraus “Lenten Love Song”
Like Lazarus I rise from deepest sleep And walk into your arms, wakened by a song That, could they hear, would make the Sirens weep. So I give in, and giving in, grow strong. Your hand upon my cheek, our limbs entwined, Seem like a dream I pray won’t fade with dawn. All night we […]
Poetry Corner: Lawrence DiCostanzo “I Married a Cro-Magnon Woman”
Even though you wear petite, I should have known. The way you hold your head, the focused movement, thrift in speech — All were clues. When you muscled the case of wine into the trunk while I was calling, “Wait! Wait!” When you dug up the whole garden with a rusty shovel. When you dragged […]
Poetry Corner: Charles McCauley “Grandma’s Vision”
She was blind In those long gone days of easy before I grew hard into my boots I would watch her stare as she creaked and hummed in the old country rocking chair at the warmth of the early morning sun Sometimes her index finger slowly moved across her lips like a metronome as we […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Two Hearts”
Glancing from preparing dinner she says, “I love you.” He says, “I love you. You’re my everything.” “You’re mine,” she replies. Hot flames of passion. Warm embers of love. Time, time, time. Changing, yet so the same. Golly, she was a cute kid. She’s cute still. The photo on the wall, Is of a younger […]
Poetry Corner: Sandra Anfang “Patching Holes”
I kneel at the edge of my partner’s longing a tub of Fix-all in one hand a spatula in the other. I move along the stairwell feeling for fissures in the drywall as a doctor palpates flesh, a squirrel searches out holes to ply with acorns. It’s easy to fill a lover’s vacuoles to spread […]