Coffee Shop Sessions

Category: poem

  • We’ll Figure It Out

    – a pantoum“It’ll happen soon. We’ll figure it out.” I almost believe that.The guilt and stress induce paranoia–one step away from losing everything.I almost believe thatyou have to choose where you want to be.One step away from losing. Everythingprompts a shush, a pause, a “I gotta go” because we can’t be seen or heard.You have…

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  • Let Me Read You

    Let me readyour deepest secrets,the darkest partsof you combinedwith loving tenderness.Let me    feel you        from the inside.Each page turnedis another caress,another warm handembodying every word.I smile backas our hearts claspin this unionunspoken.

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  • If I Were A Cow

    then I’d be content to sit idly in the grass all day long to bask in the sun without sunscreen to lie under the tree not worrying about a thing to congregate with the others just eating our hay to not worry about making a living, just living to not worry about what to make…

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  • The Merciless Existence

    Waking every morning with blurred eyessuddenly turns to one day stopping to realizeparts of your body jiggle a little more than before.Your untrustworthy appliancethat’s kept from daylight slowly awakens as you step aboard.An unpleasant reading returns.A shake of the head follows a sigh of disbelief, moans and cringes of “How can this be?!” Daily exercises rapidly resume, anything to be…

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  • ‘Tis the Season

    You think it would be easier to bury your head,to bury your heart in the ground—to not have to deal with people around.Was our time here so vacant and unkind?We contribute only to the ills of mankind.We’re so good at falling from grace,but how could we escape and leave it all behind?I tell you, this…

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  • The Company You Keep

    I found higher ground to lie close to the clouds, where unfeigned life consists of watching the waves roll by in the blue sky. The weeks before, the weeks of laughing my head off out there with the others became too bright to stay in the middle of it all. I took the softer side,…

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  • Tangled Tenderness

    HE BRUSHES MY HAIR AND I BEGIN TO CRYbecause it’s like what you see in the movies:magnetic couples solidified over time,still in their prime of nurturing each other,still needing one another,still wanting to be there after the kids have gone,still holding on for the rest of the ride. In his simple act I am truly…

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  • Buttoned Up To My Chin

    The chill of a winter breeze nips my cheeks. I suck in and blow out little breath clouds as I stride across cobblestone streets bathed in light. My bare thighs above my knee-highs ache for your touch, your warmth. I clutch my collar and rise my red coat buttoned up to my chin, not letting…

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  • I Swear I Won’t Mourn You

    I swear I won’t mourn you I won’t miss the days Of snuggling up to you Of you kissing away my fears Of the long phone calls talking about our days They never happened anyway I won’t miss the time you visited And baked my favorite dish And watched the kids while I went for…

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  • Tokyo On The Radio

    You take flight with Tokyo in mind. Suddenly it’s Tokyo on the airwaves, Tokyo in your eyes. Red lights beam everywhere in the skies and I’m left wondering, where are you tonight? Does she have you captured in a spinning room inspiring all your ink to spill? There was a time when it was ……

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