April is National Poetry Month

It’s National Poetry Month. So, I’ve decided to dust off the books and pull out some of the poems that I’ve had published over the years. Here are two that appeared in the book, Gift of Words:

“Fences”

Loneliness
Is a Rod
Iron
Fence looming
In shadowy
Silence…Ominous
Against
The boundary lines
Of human souls……


“Rackets”

Homo Sapiens like used
Gum cling
To leather soles…
And love
A cheap, plastic,
Disposable razor,
Lies with human hearts…..
Shatters and strewn
Like egg shells
Rotting in garbage….
Parents, once coffee filters,
Kept bitter grinds
From tender lips…
Once
Now children
Like racquet balls
Smash against
Walls….no parents,
Just rackets……

Author’s Note: Gift of Words was published in 1990 by Suwannee Poetry.