Your laugh, lilting like lines Flung from a fiddle fair, Sweeping sweetly o’er the shaded field Where once we were young Now echoes only in my mind, In memories, clouded- A Pine forest in the morning mist, A bridge fogged over Until there can be no certainty That there is another side- Only in this… Read More Poem of the Day 3/17/21- Something Like an Irish Verse
I want to be- As Ginsberg described Dylan- Transformed into a column of air, No longer substantial, but only movement. Then I could rage down 9th Street, The way the winds once did on cold winter mornings, Forcing us to pull up our coats up against that fury And roll our cigarettes inside sheltered pockets.… Read More Poem of the Day 3/3/21
Tired, heavy eyes Watching the sunrise breaking Over the highway
A red-tailed hawk circles Over the empty highway That snakes through the mountains
Beneath heavy clouds, The grey buildings of the city Play at being mountains
Black ink on paper, Small scratches, grouped together- The image of a tree.
Dustin Pedroia is my favorite baseball player. I suppose, now though, I should say Dustin Pedroia was my favorite baseball player. Yesterday the man who dubbed himself “Laser Show” called it a career. Pedey appeared in just nine games in the past three season as his failing knees wrecked comeback attempt after comeback attempt. It… Read More The Laser Show is Over: Boston Red Sox Star Dustin Pedroia Retires
The snow’s blinding white Is muted by morning’s dull grey- The wail of the wind
Sitting, like Rodgers Hornsby, looking Out the window at the bleak winter day Waiting- yes, for Spring- for the green grass And the heralding crack of bats, For Trout and Mookie and Thor, X-man and Judge, the Polar Bear, For days less full of nights, certainly But waiting, also for you and me, For that… Read More Poem of the Day 1/28/21
Against the fog The stanchions of the bridge Stand solitary, alone Rising from the void Of hazy white As if someone has just painted them there And left the canvas uncluttered With any notion of a destination ahead That we might journey into the yet unimagined __________________________________________________ MOST RECENT POEMS OF THE DAYJanuary 22, 2021January… Read More Poem of the Day 1/26/21
