This week I drove by my lonesome from Colorado to California to visit friends. Totally worth it. Here’s what I wrote on the return trip:
Time lapsed but it’s like none has passed
A journey of forever for a story
With details already memorized
I’m not surprised –
These are the friendships that last. Continue reading “Friendship Pt. II – JG”
A broken street lamp
lies abandoned, a teaser
of that which remains.
Steve D
Is it the land or her people
that make a nation stand?
Are walls and borders
erected indomitable? Continue reading “Free Verse – America – SD”
Evasion and Excuse
Reckless racist rhetoric of a revolting ragemonger
Evolving from endless evasion and excuse
Dividing and disturbed Continue reading “July’s Theme – Alliterative America in Full Color – JG”
Silt and debris run
down from the countryside to
rinse and wash the land.
Steve D
If you died in this moment,
I would rejoice as the lights
Of the ambulance left my view. Continue reading “Misplaced Missive #27 – Like You”
Blue sky rushes by,
mirroring the river wide-
twin ribbon highways.
Steve D
As with much of the poetry I post here, I wrote this awhile ago and waited ’til the emotions that inspired it cooled down to calm to edit it. This piece and its few contemporaries work to never allow me to reach that calm however. *shrug* Every time I read this I’m brought back to how I felt in that moment and while I rather love that I also hate it in equal measure.
I’ve sat on this poem because I don’t like how intimately it reveals its author but, hey, why not, right? A little fear isn’t a good enough reason to hide, so here goes: Continue reading “Used To – JG”
The serene silence
of everyone else’s dreams
pairs well with bourbon.
Steve D
I have been on a lot of roadtrips this year. From Maryland to Colorado (2x), from CO to North Vegas, from MD to New York.
And I highly recommend it!
This poem was actually written as my first submission to Stevie in our poetry and music trade back when we worked together, but all this driving around made me want to share it with you, so here goes: Continue reading “Can’t Park ‘Til The CD Is Done – JG”
