Tag: general poem

to Kim Stafford I like your poem on trees and us as kin;I found it in a damp brochure besideThe campus center. As I slowly…

Kelly, you and John are a delight.You make us happy individually;Together it is always better. SoIt’s only fitting to officializeThe thing and get your rings,…

“Arguably no other notable figure in history was so fantastically wrong about nearly every important thing he had to say.” – Todd Dufresne, LA Times,…

1.Oh, the wild noise of Madrid is louder, moreFull of life than any individual,No matter how frenetic. Streets all shake from carsAnd trucks, but most…

Carlos, we are truly brothers. DespiteThe lack of blood between us, despite the milesApart we lived for years and years, despiteThe different vanished fathers, other…

God and Job once had a talk.Actually, one talked and oneListened, as the other spunRound and round above his headIn a violent tempest. “Dead,”Job could…

for Will Shakespeare The statue of the queen has come to lifeBefore the king who stunned to silence standsIn awe, his withered hands outstretched. This…

for Ann Aunt Biddy, yes, we are all “lovely, limited creatures.”We have such strength together that we think we canAccomplish anything alone. We can’t. Yet…

I.I’m writing love songs to the world,Writing, writing everyday.It’s a process, sure, slow, and steady,Like love itself never is. Sure as the bond between brothersWho…