After TS Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ And then I went All on my own […]
Rhyming
I wrote this poem way back in May of 1991 after reading that Dr. Seuss, a favorite author […]
Drifting down the docks at night In someone else’s clothes. The passers by look right through me As […]
Cold black blade Burning blood red runes Wisdom worms Burrowing into tombs The price of the blade Is […]
What do you do When all your love’s in vain? Tell me, what do you do When […]
Driving down the poison highway Through the nightmares of my youth: Saccharine poetry, suicidal thoughts; Disastrous experiments with […]
I’m sorry, Margaret I didn’t mean to hurt you. I just did what I thought was right But […]
We are the broken men We hold our broken hearts, We are the stupid men Chasing those stupid […]
The lunatic is in my room, I never thought he’d find me so soon The lunatic is in […]
This poem was written during my senior year in high school when I was 17 years old. Some […]
John W. Leys 