The Poet

I was going for an artistic, contemplative look.

I don’t post many of my own poems here simply because many of them are being sent hither and yon in hopes that some editor will have a weak moment and accept one for publication.  Word on the street is that poems that can be found in Google searches are often considered “previously published.”  Sometimes I will post one that I am working on if I am looking for some feedback or wanting to gage and audience’s reaction. But I will take them down shortly after and hope that Google deletes them from their cache before they end up on a publisher’s desk for consideration.

I will however share a couple with you that were published in college journals some time back, like this one. You can read the old moon poem to which it refers by clicking here.

Overvision

I wrote a poem once
about my neighbors and the moon.
Each brief line dropped
into place as I let them break
at their will. The syntax
arranged itself just comfortably
so.            Years later

I came back with more
education and a better sense
of rhythm.         I thought
I could improve
it; make the lines
more powerful,

the innuendos more profound.
            But the new ink
was too dark for the old page,
and my good intentions discolored
the moon.  I’d awakened
      a befuddled old man
and his angry, fuzzy-
slippered wife (I’d forgotten
that my old neighbors had moved
away          long ago).

They wanted to know
what the hell was going
on? Who was I?  And
what had I done to the sky?
Too late almost to save
it, I took whiteout
to the street (the last
bottle on the shelf
at the all-night mini
mart on that same block),

dimmed     the stars
and ushered back to bed
the little man and his grumbling
wife.          That globe of blood

             still had a pulse
thank heaven, and I let it return
to where it had been;
on page one
of a college literary
magazine              simple
and perfect,
hanging low there
in that early night sky.

I will also include links to Poetry.org, national academy, http://www.whitmanarchive.org/ Etc…

Other blogs like Jude Goodwin and Rachel will go in the blogroll.