After Catullus V Let us live and let us love, My Lesbia, My Layla, My dark princess of […]
Love
Mad Pollyanna poetDepressedIn love with the night,Admirer of the stars,Constellations, and galaxies,The milky white wayAgainst the raven blackEchoes […]
Freckles and Curls In embryonic Eden Before the rains came: Seeds were planted, Hand in hand, Giving rise […]
The years go flying by Like shooting stars, A flash, A motion in the sky, And then they’re […]
For Justine All I want For Christmas Is a moment. That moment at the cabin With the cat […]
For Justine Do you remember When we went camping With Smokey and the Bandit, Johnny and June, And […]
The following poem is a translation of a poem written in Latin by the ancient Roman poet Gaius […]
Its so strange to think
That you’re not there
In that little house on Salem Avenue
Sitting on the couch
Quietly reading fantasy novels on your Kindle
While Dad watches NCIS,
As if you’d always been there
And always would,
While I sit here across the mountains
Hunched over a notebook
Writing til my hand cramps
Trying to make sense of it all.
What do you do When all your love’s in vain? Tell me, what do you do When […]
I’m sorry, Margaret I didn’t mean to hurt you. I just did what I thought was right But […]
John W. Leys 