Poem: 2026

The same poem is presented again below larger, and with a more normal typeface.  I brought my cursive Olivetti to the Starbucks today and then retyped the poem again when I got home on my Royal Aristocrat.

It is a bit melancholy, unlike most bright and wildly optimistic New Years poems, but I think it is worth thinking about.

 

I think it often does a poem a disservice to explain it but I can at least explain where it came from.  Some of you may already know I collect ancient coins and objects.  This small glass bottle below was a Christmas present this year.  It is probably around 1700 years old, made in the Roman Empire.  Holding something like a coin or this bottle and thinking questions like: Who owned this?  What did they use it for?  Did they value it highly or was it casually discarded?  Would they be amazed and impressed or nonplussed to see that is exists today and is valued by me? are what lead to the thinking that brought forth this poem.  You begin to feel like you step out of time and see your place within all of time.

 

Poem: Lobby

When you stay in so many hotels, they all seem to blur together.

 

Coming Back To This

I know it's been a long time but I am back, hopefully back to something regular.  It has been a long time since I have been writing for myself.

 

Poem: Slinging

Poem: Glimmers

From December 2017, lost in my notes until now.

Poem: In The Woods be Witches

I'm still here, still writing, just haven't completed much lately.  I've been pretty preoccupied, exhausting myself sifting through all the lies and dross tossed at us each day.  I don't really want to post angry political poems so those mostly get thrown out.  I might still post one if I can do it like an allegory and it comes out all right.  I am trying to focus on other better things in life and get back into my old groove.  I miss street poetry.  This is an old poem I found on my ipod and realized I had not shared.  

Street Poems During COVID-19

My partners and I are offering a special poem service at this time, and you can get a poem from any one of us -you get to choose.  Here is the website.