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Neo-Romantic Indie Beat Poet
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Our Wedding Song

Tongue tied and stuttering Looking for the words to say To tell how much I love you Gotta […]

December 9, 2016 Poetry

All the World’s a Stage

The curtain begins to fall, Darkness is all you see, “But I haven’t completed five acts,” You protest, […]

December 8, 2016 Poetry

Dead Friends

I wrote this one over 20 years ago, inspired by a Pete Townshend quote. “Look at my life, […]

December 1, 2016 Poetry

Walk into the Night

Walking around the college campus For health and fresh air, Away from the welfare lines Contemplating the soul […]

November 28, 2016 Poetry

Exiles and Enlightenments (a sonnet)

A deserted beach, shipwreck on the shore, Desolate remains of a life once shared, Before it was clear […]

November 28, 2016 Formal Poetry, Poetry, Sonnet

The Revolution Grows

Its coming, you can smell it in the air, For working people the system isn’t fair, Angry voices […]

November 17, 2016 Poetry

Symphony

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  The Universe is a symphony, Each life is but a song. The people you see are notes; […]

November 5, 2016 Poetry

I Dreamed I Saw Old Socrates

I dreamed I saw old Socrates Walking Athens after dark. No people to harass, no questions to ask, […]

November 4, 2016 Poetry

Anguished Roaring

My God, my God, why have You abandoned me; why so far from delivering me and from my […]

November 2, 2016 Poetry

Masks

I look into the hollow pits That used to be your eyes, Somewhere within them I see a little […]

November 1, 2016 Poetry

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