For Sherrie (Haiku)

Her trip to England postponed indefinitely. Big Ben – a Yankee. All measurements did live up to her high standards Big Ben – The poet. On Sunday mornings she felt like her own grandma Big Ben – The lover. There is a wedding a light on the horizon. Big Ben – Will be there This [...]

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Cocks Cows And A Violinist

All my dreams are paintings Coloured memories and desires In my dream my future bride Was flying past a painted clock That had wings that made time fly And the musician playing the violin laughed As he played a wedding march And i cried tears of milk From a floating cow as the cock crowed [...]

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The Photograph Is Crying

The ghost haunts itself with its past life every night re-enacting not what was – but what could have…should have been but – was not. Anguished by such imaginings the ghost wanders in his wife’s dreams tormented by her soft crying in the endless empty hours of the early morning as she hushes her crying [...]

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Diamond Ring

Ring finger has finally been filled From a diamond ring I have bought I know I’m completely thrilled Now that it’s no longer just a thought It means so much to me I’m sure it does to you too Now everyone can finally see That our love is strong and true It’s like our little [...]

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Move on

Half my heart is breaking The other explodes with a “boom” I gathered my confidence as I enter the room To know you’re with another makes my heart bleed with dread When I saw the wedding ring I knew our love was dead As I pack my things I sing our song I guess there’s [...]

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white and beautiful

it’s all white and beautiful. your dress it’s lovely and your love is a hand full i can hold alot, but your love is all i’ve got. i love you. i’m dressed up nice. all in black i hope you love me to. it’s are wedding and i hope it’s that. This poem was written/submitted [...]

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Tapestry

In the needled clicking over mind she knits with wool soft thoughts of yesterday and weaves his wrinkled laughter through her broken brow slippered feet, rocker worn, retrace remembered Sunday seams into the sunstretched smooth of summers carpeted vows she nods, replacing fraying fears of loneliness with satin sounds of a wedding gown and dream [...]

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End Of October

At its apex of brilliancy On the final curtain call Each and every telluric tree Dazzles with colors of fall Nimble zephyr of Autumn chills Prompts cheeks and ears to redden Blowing leaves on streets and hills In a swirl of harvast wedding Come the rustic flight of splendour When the crops have cease to [...]

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What shapes a heart

You know hearts aren’t shaped with points Their actually shaped like pairs The color and the shapes all depend on the two. The two who pinky swear to be best friends for life The two who claim themselves blood brothers with a slit from a knife. The two who join together with a wedding Sure [...]

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He Often Thinks Of Rosie

He often thinks of Rosie where might she be today? Is she still back home in Derry from here long miles away For three years they were an item but for them things did not work out As often can happen in love affairs between one from a Northern Land and one from a Land [...]

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