New Age Poems

    Nothing has changed though really
    Everything now is more centre stage
    Still we have all...

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Sykehus 

The old hospital in the town center 
stark and unpainted
Dotted about in the near vicinity 
Funeral homes look like pearls 
around an elderly lady's neck  
at every election cycle...

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Name-calling
We who live in the west 
do not see Israel as a colonial power
the last one in the Middle East
As many colonialists before Israel
this unlawful occupation...

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I was a competent, happy housewife, but that was before my husband died,
Leaving me to rear myriad children solo, as the lone star twinkles with...

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It's official 

It's official 
Officially, it is 
It's time for me to give 
Give myself 
Everything that's attached 
It's time to patch up the patch
Heal...

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I'm new to Pennsylvania as mentioned previously,
a native Marylander, originally.
I bought a small condo and right across the hall,
is one older owner struggling with memory...

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The second bloom

Life is an eternal ecstasy
Flowering as ripe old age 
Liabilities over, shorn of shackles
Confined to oneself  and free to peep...

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You don't seem to understand
The truth I clutch in my hands
I never wanted to hurt you
I just wanted to show my virtue
It's the only thing...

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snow
ice frost
icicle
January
teeth are chattering
February also
March has been called off this year
a new ice age in the Midwest
we will not be planting until June...

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Every family has them
These unsettling times these misunderstandings
Times when many things come into play
In most cases these wee spats are soon over and forgotten
But sometimes...

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Do I remember when...

Better breezes blew
Cleaner waters flowed
Teasing memory so... 

For I can hear them in quiet special times… can you?
Softly now, in your own...

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Kings Will Fall
In every kingdom a king will rule strong, some kingdoms they rule alone but are usualy strongest and more influential with a queen...

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And so it is that on this day,
I can loud and proudly say,
I’m one hundred!
I’m one hundred!

I still remember the dust bowl,
and now I’ve reached...

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Restless Regrets
This story unfolds with a young girl in her early years feeling the effects of love, in a quaint little town all rashenalty went...

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The universe swallowed my thoughts
In another instant of uncertainty
Truthfulness and doubt together were something
Morphed into a new creation of nothing 
As if my time itself...

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