We met in the rain. I shivered and you offered me your coat, opening your arms so I could walk in your warmth. I embraced you. Huddled close under my meek umbrella you lifted for us, I held your hand to help steady it against the winds, and we tiptoed and slipped from puddled shore…
Category: Poetry
Yesterday was Father’s day [excerpt of a poem]
Though the high, impatient whine Of the eager aluminum beast Drowns out the sense of voices around me A few youthful pitches pierce the cloud Nestled about my head. She recalls it like a fisherman’s tale: He was standing on a deck They faced the perfect storm When he turned and walked away This was…
(I don’t sleep with the lights on) [a micro poem]
i carved out your heart and stamped it into flames still you looked at me and called me by my beauty as though it were my name
Shitting in the Dark [a poem]
The lights are out again And no one’s home to strike the match Roused from a half state of sleep I drag my feet through the dark halls with tepid steps, a traditional Sort of homage to the ritual – This path is too familiar for me to stumble upon. The borborygmus that woke me…
A Poem a Day (Pt. III)
So, it’s the eighth and this is part three – I’ll get caught up in some way. I’m still busy in Haiti and offer no apologies for that – I’m living! I came across a flash drive I used from 2005-2010 recently and quite by accident. This micropoem from sometime early in 2005 is today’s…
A Poem a Day, Pt. II
This throwback Thursday tosses backwards a little over two weeks to thank Unfold for publishing another one of my micropoems, (broken). If you haven’t much time but still an appetite for poetry, I, again, recommend checking them out for your dose of prose. In the meantime, the poem as published with them is featured below….
Happy National Poetry Month! (and a micropoem)
I simply had to find a way to pull myself from my Haitian paradise (of course I came back) in order to honour this month of poetry – particularly as I missed most of March and February’s honours (women and blacks, respectively). For today, a micropoem – and it is not for the foolish of…
worship [a poem]
Take your sins to the foot of my temple, Prepare an altar in darkness and Command your soul to pray well. Open your heart to the sermon of honesty; Bow your head before the eternal flame, The light of a spirit with insatiable yearning for truth and pain. Worship as humble king destined to the…
divine/ unclothe my mind [a poem]
I’m standing before you Almost entirely naked – Almost. … Waiting with this last shred… I’m asking you to unclothe my soul Let your fingers run delicately down my spine Tracing the dignity of a thousand ancestral goddesses before me That bore me; See that my eyes are not like stars But entire galaxies themselves…
see you as I [a micropoem]
We will be lost of each other In the next world If we don’t learn to recognize ourselves Beyond these bodies we visit. You’ve seen mine – Show you yours.
I am the water [a poem]
The site went down yesterday for the first time ever due to a fluke, so I make a peace offering with this poem I wrote last year and a brief introduction about it. I have always felt a rather deep, truly divine connection to water. Even that feels an understatement – it’s more accurate to…
as will you & I at dawn and dusk [a poem]
Maybe I was beautiful Once, behind the dust veil Lace dancing on the light Blessing the space our souls danced In the ballroom between our lips. I look over my shoulder at you, demure smile Mystery learned from your secret-keeping ways Will it hurt you to count the others that have waltzed here since you left…
Sharkey Speaks 