Category Archives: Poetry

Poetry Police

February 28, 2015 – 6:50 pm

My hillbilly girlfriend in the 70s was funny. Ann was even funnier drunk. Her limit was two drinks after which she was transformed from an ingenue actress into a white trash beauty. I wasn’t sure which I liked better. One night at CBGBs she launched into a tirade about the poetry police coming to arrest […]

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The Beat Lives On

February 5, 2015 – 12:19 pm

Beat icon Neal Cassady died on February 4, 1968. Walking home from at party in San Miguel de Allende Cassady fell asleep by train tracks. The night was cold and wet. The next morning his 3D body was discovered in a coma. This death from exposure launched the outlaw traveler from this 2D world into […]

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MY LIFE by Big Albert Harlow

November 10, 2014 – 8:53 pm

MY LIFE Sometimes I wonder what happened to my youth As I look in the mirror and see the truth My heart becomes heavy as I see the grey hair Time has marched on and it doesn’t seem fair It seemed like only yesterday I was young and life was free I had no idea […]

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Watchic Autumn by Regina Rutter

September 20, 2014 – 10:29 am

The end of the line for summer. Fall is ravenous for cool days, The crunch of brightly, colored leaves underfoot, The smoky sweetness of wood fires, And the sharp, crisp bite of fresh picked apples. The loon’s soul-filled cry at night mourns with me the passage of another season And the loss of the symphony […]

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dreaming of a tree – a poem

September 9, 2014 – 5:09 pm

dreaming of a tree a tree bigger than me I wish I were three Three of me Holding hands we hug the tree We three and a tree bigger than me.

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