The Past*

by | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry

The Past You can move You can hide You can move a thousand times You can change your address Tell everyone you died Change your name Change you soul But the past always knows your address MFM 08/07/02 10:11 AM Delray Beach It’s not home Sunday...

Mathematics of Love*

by | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry

Mathematics of Love How sad it is That not to take a chance On love Because it might hurt Like it has so many times before So foolish For perhaps, Just perhaps, this time it is real The big one The one the moonlight always remembers The one those long, empty nights...

Love’s Cemetery

by | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry

LOVE’S CEMETERY Love and love poems Words written on paper With tears at times Smiles at others And now and then with anger All the feeling I had For you Kept in a zippered notebook Alongside those Of lover’s past The living amongst the dead Like a walk...

Floating

by | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry

Floating I watched today As couples made their way From their cars to the beach Some holding hands Others allowing their shoulders To brush against one another Laughing now and then Sharing the moment Sharing a life It was no different at the mall Where I went To find...

I Couldn’t Call Him Johnny

by | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry

I Couldn’t Call Him Johnny Time heals all wounds They always say But you told me the words were a lie For when it came to the slightest thought Of him And that terrible night So many, many years ago It was always like it happened Only yesterday The pain just as...

TRACI SUZANNE

by | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry

TRACI SUZANNE There was a wild kid in the family Wild child Ever into everything Stirring every pot Pushing every button Trouble Double trouble on two legs Mischievous did not begin To describe this one A little monster At a young age A name given with a smile For the...

I Don’t Want to Stand Here

by | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry

I Don’t Want to Stand Here I don’t want to wake up some morning And find that I forgot To pass on those words To someone I care so much about. I don’t want to have to wish I told this one that And that one this. I don’t want to be awake in the...

One More Day

by | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry

      One More Day What would we do If we had one more day? Would we laugh As we told of all that’s happened Since then? Would we hug one another And breathe in those scents That are so strongly attached to memories? The ones whose slightest whiff...

Parting VI*

by | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry

Parting VI Being a naturally perceptive fellow, I always thought I’d know When it was time to go. It was a bit of a kick to find I was wrong. You and your droll sense of humor, Who else Could say “Hit the road” In five languages and “Haul...

Riding Into the Sunset

by | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry

             Riding Into the Sunset With a cloud of dust and a mighty “Hi Ho, Silver!” And so they are gone. All of them now that you took that last ride. It was not a good year for cowboys, The heroes of thousands of...