Warning — Corniness alert! Chamber of echoes,Moonshine melody,Multitude of poets,Mariners at sea.Close my eyes and wonder,At a child growing near,The future holds I know not what,But that child I’ll hold dear.Imagine tiny handReaching up to mineA high voice calling “Daddy,”Angels ne’er so divine.I cannot call her yet,I do not know her name,But already I love [...]
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Getting There
Posted in poetry, pregnancy on July 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Kathy, poetry on May 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If it rained every day, Languorous weather all the time,Our love would be as sunshine,Voluminous strands of lightEncircling us in the gloom. You work wonders on me,Offering a fresh springUndiluted by the rainwater.
Waiting
Posted in poetry on August 27, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Bags packed and computer docked,Dogs have been fed and walked,The windows and doors have all been locked,I sit ready. Both of us have showered,Breakfast has been devoured,Dishes have been scoured,I sit ready. She has more she needs to achieve,She’ll be done in a minute she believes,Still an hour before we have to leave,I sit ready.
Miscellaneous, Melancholy Musings and Mutterings
Posted in Life, poetry, reflection on July 19, 2005 | 5 Comments »
But first, a haiku: Awesome, glorious,Heartless, random, cruel, vicious,Beautiful Nature. Says a man who used artificial insemination to bring about pregnancy in the first place. Some people reach out to us and say kind and comforting things, others are at such a loss for words that their’ tongues might as well be cut off. We’ve [...]
Tennis Ball
Posted in poetry on May 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
1/6/94 At birth you are rushedTo a sterile and dry place,Leaving thousands of siblingsPackaged with but two.The nascent smell is overpowering,In such close and closed quarters,Your fuzzy sides gently touchingOn one side a brother,In every way your identicalAnd on the other your cageTrapped behind plastic walls. You lose your sense of identity,Surrounded by othersIn other [...]
National Poetry Month
Posted in poetry on April 9, 2005 | 2 Comments »
I don’t feel like I have much to say at the moment, but the six of you reading my blog deserve to see the page updated as much as possible. So in that vein, along with the premise that old stuff can become new again, and in honor of National Poetry Month, here are a [...]
