Category Archives: Poetry

Warm Weather

April 11, 2013 – 8:37 pm

Warm weather bluffed the coming of Spring Cold winter rejected the season’s brief fling. Azaleas shivered under black lightning. Yellow jonquils fought off their floral fading. Today the gray clouds carried a day of foreboding. Tomorrow I pray for one thing, the sunshine. Same as everyone. I want warm. A POEM BY PETER NOLAN SMITH

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Auld Lang Syne

December 31, 2012 – 8:43 pm

2012 will come to an end this evening. 2013 has already dawned on my young family in Thailand. Seven hours remain in 2012 at the Fort Greene Observatory. Darkness lay heavy over the borough of Brooklyn and a bottle of Riesling stands on my desk as my passport to the new year. Tonight I will […]

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Born Into This Charles Bukowski

December 2, 2012 – 1:16 pm

Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break As political landscapes dissolve As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree As the oily fish spit out their oily prey As the sun is masked We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully […]

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RESUME Dorothy Parker

May 20, 2012 – 2:53 am

Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. Dorothy Parker Several years back I was in the same mood and my landlord AP recited this poem. He put me in my place and my place is with […]

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SCREAMS IN THE EARS Billy Fay

February 22, 2012 – 1:33 pm
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