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Abandonment | Rp Verlaine - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Abandonment | Rp Verlaine

Uneasy with the thought that you have left
evidence of your return I am without
no calls or message at all, except
the echo silence makes with each new doubt.
A prison I might call these empty rooms
bereft of one who lived inside its doors
and left me prisoner under a pale moon
like us eclipsed by all that we ignored.
Ask anything and I will take to task
to undo or repair what made you leave.
I sit here with tears and an empty flask
not sure of what I have or truly need
The sadness of not knowing’s difficult
lack of parting words- the final insult.

Tommy Is the Man | Donal Mahoney - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Tommy Is the Man | Donal Mahoney

Tommy is the only man
for miles around who can knot a tie.
Old farmers come to town on Saturday
and wave from pickups with respect
when they see Tommy on the street
out for a walk in his black suit.
Tommy is the man they know
their families will call to knot
their ties and close their caskets.

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Ten Horror Haiku | Denny E. Marshall - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Ten Horror Haiku | Denny E. Marshall

fear engulfs
as shown new home
a pine box

locked inside coffin
escape only to find out
in bigger casket

new voice mail message
“dead & unavailable “
since grim reaper call

zombies
get
ahead

pointed at forehead
barrel just as terrifying
as the tank attached

spinning on a wheel
near death realize knife thrower
is an amateur

keep running down road
cornfields might be bad idea
as scarecrows chase you

zombie fast food place
list new item on menu
brain bowls with free drink

fear the corn farmer
as thrown into large grain bin
full of hungry rats

group escapes zombies
hide in large warm metal pond
cannibals add logs

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On Emigrating to Iceland after Iraq | Donal Mahoney - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

On Emigrating to Iceland after Iraq | Donal Mahoney

Consider first the Alabama heat,
consider next the toad
still as a turd on this rural bridge
rupture slung across a stream
where offal floats,
where clumps are belching.
Note the toad, the reeks
that genie up beside it.
Then remember Iceland
and the freshets of its Spring.
Iceland had no toads,
no reeks to genie up beside them.

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Wonder Lady | Ivan Jenson - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Wonder Lady | Ivan Jenson

Everybody seems so young
ever since you became
every age you ever were
in my memory…
aging sons and elderly
mothers share coffee
at Starbucks
shooting the breeze
killing time…
I never knew what to say
to you
and I admit
I grew tired of the fact
that you were mostly made
of long winded
shallow-breathed stories
and lore
and little more
and how life to you
was once one big communist
party
back when you stood up
to the man
and felt lucky
that your oldest son
my brother
was 4-F
and never
had to serve in Vietnam
I’m not sure if I can do this
without your left wing bravado
but who knows…
maybe I can

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Tell-All | Ivan Jenson - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Tell-All | Ivan Jenson

I confess that you
once made everything old
and beautiful
in an incensed church
or long nap on a rainy afternoon
sort of way
and the rusted brass rings
of this world
were no longer
worth reaching for
only the long stretching
past held interest
as you chained me to
the pillars of your yesteryear
and everything was about
ancient relics
tiny trinkets, rings, stones,
Bach Partitas or buckets
of wishes to live
elsewhere
no place in particular
just anywhere but in
the graveyard backyard
that living had become
for you…for us
and only Fred twirling Ginger
brought a sunken smile
to your once stunning
face that in it’s hey girl
hey day
made my father
give up his dream of writing
the great American novel
in exchange for marrying
his Latin American destiny
in all its tempestuous
disastrous glory

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Mom Incorporated | Ivan Jenson - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Mom Incorporated | Ivan Jenson

Let’s arrange
just one more
meeting of our hearts
and our minds
you choose the time
and the place
and I will promise to
be there
with one of those
insufferably
trendy gratitude lists
some flowers for the dead
and the blood red wine of Jesus
for good measure…
you will be Lady Lazarus
and I will speak for
the bunch of us
you left like penniless
homeless orphans
singing songs from Annie
on the street corner
for the living
begging for just one more minute
with the mother of all inventions
who had, with your low-tech precision
manufactured a limited edition
assembly line of love
made by a Costa Rican
in the USA

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