A dull aching pain A tear tears across your face The tears tear a hole Through the middle […]
Category Archive: Formal Poetry
You don’t understand I can’t explain it to you You’re not in my head Don’t say you know […]
The river is never the same river, flowing around you changing as you step. Each moment changing, evolving; […]
I’m alone, by myself, in a crowd of people, anxiety, and suffering. 4/14-4/23/17 This poem started life as […]
Now is all that there is: The past is gone and the future will never quite arrive. 4/18/17 […]
The sun fades into night, its getting darker. Someone turned out the light, its getting darker. Facts become […]
Wish upon a star Blow your birthday candles out Nothing will happen. Act on your dreams; make them […]
Birds on a wire A murder of crows in flight Its getting darker 4/17/17 Poem #18 for National […]
Life begins in darkness, grows in the light: developing, evolving, flourishing. aging, decaying; systems breaking down. Life always […]
Here alone in a room full of people. Walls and chasms between their hearts and mine. 4/14/17 Poem […]
John W. Leys 