Written for a grammar school friend in 2022
#birthday #tanka
When I was a kid in the 1970s When there were two types of gas a… Regular and Unleaded. The Unleaded kind cost more, So most people used Regular inste…
For nearly 20 years my family and… Visited the Outer Cape in Massac… Wellfleet, to be exact. And it relaxed me in a way that nothing else could ever do.
Since Jimmy Buffett passed away His New York Times obituary Has required three corrections, so… But his first musical offering Sold exactly 324 copies,
Your music hasn’t aged a bit, although the rest of us surely hav… Whenever we hear your songs playin… it’s as if 1984 has magically retu… and everything that’s happened sin…
Beto O’Rourke towers and Greg Abbott cowers as gun violence devours another 21 lives The gun lobby’s money
His football team wore gold and bl… For the city that makes our steel Success was the fruit of their lab… Four Super Bowl trophies are real
I shall dance no more with rhythmless guilty feet. The saxophone played. George Michael’s “Careless Whisp… Will haunt us all forever.
That the ear hears something but the eyes and the brain can’t sort it all out will forever be a problem for me.
Ron DeSantis governs a state That feeds on the Disney brand Disney World theme parks Are known throughout the land So when he attacks the company
Since April is National Poetry M… (#NationalPoetryMonth) perhaps this is the best time for writing Zip Odes to release my creative impulses.
An eerie silence has descended over the places where constant activity once reigned. Construction will no longer occur now that undocumented workers
Supporters of the former president who pack his rallies swallow his pronouncements whole and believe there was some “great”… that can be attained again
There is a great Czar of the Snow Alongside a Lady of Glencoe They share poems and verse Whether lengthy or terse Over Zoom is their method of flow…
In 1912, Jacob Wesley Wilbur who had made a fortune selling lan… bought hundreds of acres for himself and some others along the Atlantic Ocean
When I was there ten weeks ago Portugal seemed most charming. But today the fires raging there Are utterly alarming. Then I witnessed only blue
