Poem: Machinations

The under current of electricity
Smell of rusty iron emanating
From the factory floor
Where human ingenuity merges
With the broken backs of human labor

Poem: Whole

all of our pieces broken and put back again can never make whole the gestalt can be greater than the sum total of parts This week’s experimental poem is a renga; I wrote the first 3 lines and a friend wrote the 2 line response. You can read more about this poetry form by clicking

Poem: Blizzard

a single snowflake
does not alone change weather
flurries make the storm
turning relentless blizzard
changing the entire landscape

Poem: Reflections in the Window

There’s a great many things changing
As the weather grows colder
In the PNW it grows wetter
With great stretching grey days
That seem to reach towards forever

Poem: Toy Soldiers

Wind them up watch them titter
All the clockwork soldiers
Marching in their rows
Left right left right
Salute

Poem: Abstract Song

Sitting in the bed she watches
Him move naked across the room
Smile on her lips and buzzing in her head
She picks up her blue guitar and strums
A melody coming before the words

Poem: Comfortable

We kicked our feet on swings
That protested more than we did
As they kept the motion perpetually
While we were running out of energy
An almost imperceptible drifting
Out of synch and in different directions

Poem: Temptation

She called him a devil
Not for the evil he had done
But for the temptation he offered
Sweet desires that dripped with lust

Poem: The Wishing Hour

The wishing hour Is those rare hours Between sunset And moonrise darkness Where wishing stars Can be seen The wishing hour Is when I found you Lonely in a field waiting But for what Was it for me The wishing hour She said to me Is when I feel hopeful Sending wishes To the heaven

Poem: Winter Sleepers

sleepers hang frozen
on icicle dreams melting
to snowy slumber