Category Poems

Villanelle

She will not leave me aloneI tell her to go, “go.” as fear helps me with my coatShe whispers my future from the unknownLeaves from another time aged til oldThe heat is liquid gold melting down my throatShe will not…

Carmel

Carmel
I was born under a fire’s star next to a soft moon  A bit inland from where the ocean blooms And on an adventure with my tiny band  I found all that was right with me in my land  And…

A day dream

Light flooded through my window  Past the white wood panels holding nature’s glow out  I push the lever down to let more life in  to hear the crisp sounds of birds playing outside  There is a faint buzz of cars…

The Dark Side of Empathy

My family lost the civil war  After running from another war  I grew up learning arithmetic  And about human insanity  With unnecessary cruelty  And as I grew into a young adult  I painted canvases about pain  Mimicking Picasso’s Guernica Women…

Fruit Trees Remind Me

As soon as I could write  I remember writing poems  In little notebooks that were cute and shown  I would like the way they sound  And the way they rhymed  The way they looked  Short and concise.  And that I…