Category Archives: Poetry

What I Wrote After My Elementary School Reunion

My elementary school is penal colony called Australia though it’s located in the center of Canada but like England shipped their worst convicts to build Sydney my grade three memories are built on the bruises of brutes and bullies today … Continue reading

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Assassinating Stars

We’re assassinating the stars with our eyes these celestial bodies are disintegrating into ashes as seven billion sets of eyes draw awe from them like if you take my photo you steal my soul simply by seeing we are absorbing … Continue reading

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Hide and Seek Through Corn Fields

Flying through corn fields on six year old legs playing hide and seek and being on the side of hide only ten seconds ahead of the one who seeks zig zagging through the stalks of corn running as fast as … Continue reading

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Cutting Through Time With A Diamond Drill

Doing backstrokes down streams through the sewers of memory I see emeralds, rubies and diamonds I used to see as garbage along the banks of the Ganges through the smoky veil between life, death and burning flesh I wonder how … Continue reading

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A Light Lunch of Haiku

The surf weds the sand they love, then withdraw wet with memory. **** Your once bright spirit I drink like fire water from an empty glass. **** Light gives in to night they make love in the sunset then the … Continue reading

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Red, Yellow, Blue

How red, yellow and blue can make anything and everything they can make plaid, even rainbows all except black how the absence of color makes black how every atheist feels God just enough to declare that he doesn’t feel God … Continue reading

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Pen v Sword

The Writer squared off with The Swordsman The Writer came armed with a pen The Swordsman of course had his sword “The pen is mightier than the sword!” The Writer decreed and wrote a poem about it. The Swordsman laughed … Continue reading

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English Beer Goggles and Haiku’s Fourth Primary Color

A toast to English the only language I know so scandalously. **** We’re drunk on language English beer goggles: great, great everything is great. **** It’s cool to be sick today you want to be sick Sick is the new … Continue reading

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Trapped Under a Metal Sky

I’m watching a baseball game that has lasted fifteen innings the game shoulda ended six innings ago or over an hour ago in real time I love the determination of baseball you play till someone drops a fly ball or … Continue reading

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This Poem Placed Third In a Bad Poetry Contest

On a need to know basis no one who was born of jello molds needs to know what they don’t need to know until fiery whooping cranes came swooping in to parking spots usually reserved for the handicap or as … Continue reading

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