Poetry Index 11


Also see poems under Poetry Index I Collaborations  to see poetry, accompanied by the artwork of contemporary artists and photographers. Traditional Art accompanies most of the poems on this listing.

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My newer poems are mostly added to the bottom of the list, now on page two, but some newer ones are mixed in, higher in the list***

**I've archived many of my earlier poems from this list     My style has changed markedly since I began writing in 1999.  If you have the old URL you can still find a specific poem.


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UPHEAVAL

IN A FLASH

CRASH

FRAGMENTS

RELATIONSHIPS OF STATIC CONFUSION
(THREE POEMS)

LAST RITES

DRIFT

MIDNIGHT MADNESS

CATBOAT IN BLUE

PREACHER JOHN

POSTSCRIPT TO THE DEAD

A WORD WITH BUKOWSKI

LOOKING FOR ATLANTIS

UNTIL LILIES OVERPOWER

OUT OF THE WHALE'S BELLY

BEDTIME STORIES OF A DIFFERENT KIND

FALLEN ANGEL

PROMISES PROMISES

A CERTAIN REMEMBRANCE

DISCARDED CLIMAXES

WORDSpeak

THE DEFIANCE OF FLOWERS

NEVER-NEVER LAND

WHO'S THAT GIRL IN MY LIVING ROOM

DISCARDED CLIMAXES

Those WHOO HOO Jimmy Choo Shoes

SWAN

MIST

COUNTDOWN

SO MANY/NO TIME/TOO LATE NOW

ODE TO AN AGING LOVER

STRUT

A SUDDEN STILLNESS

Elephant 

UNREDEEMED SOULS

West wind

GETTING IT OUT

BELONGING

THE VOICES SAID...

SIRENS

PLYMOUTH (IN NOT YOUR BITCH series)

PROMISE

PROPER WIFE

THE CROWS TRILOGY(Chiron Review)

SUNDAY MEANS FORTY-SECOND STREET

UNTIL DARKNESS TAKES US

MEN OF THE CLOTH trilogy (in The Dead Mule)

CHINA SHOPS

Four poem: Dead Mule June 2011

MIA LOVER  (Chiron Review 2011)

My FIRST EX (Chiron Review 2011)

LET THEM EAT CAKE (Rusty Truck Dec 2011)

A BETTER FAIRY TALE (PoetsArtists Dec 2011)

LEAVE YOUR HAT ON (Outlaw Poetry 2012)

FIFTH AVENE (Interview Issue MiPo spring2012)

ENEMY LINES (Bicycle Review 2013)

MY FATHER'S MANY FUNERALS

HUNGER

SAVING GRACE

GUARDING THE EDGE

ILLUSIONS (ONE AND TWO)

BEACHES (takes extra load time)

UNINVITED GUEST

SONGS TO THE NILE

BAIT

BANANA

CONTEMPLATING MY OWN MORTALITY

LETTERS NOT SENT

LAST NIGHT

BUZZARD'S SONG

INDEPENDENCE REVISITED

REDEMPTION

A STONE'S THROW

ASH

HOURGLASS

STICKS AND STONES

A COLLECTION OF PARTS

DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE

CHRISTMAS CROSSED

NIGHT DIVINE

SNOW GLOBE

ONE HAND CLAPPING

YESTERDAY

HARD ON

FIREFLIES (LONGER LOADING TIME)

ILLUSIONS

SPEED OF LIGHT (for James Dean)

SONG OF THE WADI HITAN

AFTERBIRTH

ABLAZE

BAMBOO AND OAK

THE WAIT

CHANGELING

PRETTY BOY FLOYD

ORPHELIC RUMINATIONS

THE INVISIBLE FOREST

EDEN'S HERO

DRIFTING

FLIMFLAMMER

FIRST NIGHT

CHILD OF STONE

'ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH

TROMBONE ANGELS

 LONGING FOR ATLANTIS

THE GREAT ESCAPE

LITTLE GREEN MEN

OUT OF THE BIRDCAGE

CHICKEN FEATHER AND PARK BENCHES

HINDSIGHT AND DIMLY LIT NIGHTS

FADING

NEWPORT BLUES

DANGEROUS PLACES  

THOSE LOVESICK SWALLOWS

VIRGINS

The problem is...  (Rusty Truck)

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****Interview up June 2010 on the Oranges& Sardines blog. Click 'Interview' to read it.

Interview up in the Spring Issue of Poets/Artists 2012 HERE

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Click the archives to hear me read four poems at **** November 2009 interview in MiPo . Thank you, Didi Menendez!

 

***Some recently published haiga at Sketchbook Journal and Ink Sweat & Tears.



For my haiku, tanka, and other short  forms, click HERE

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