by Paul Laurence Dunbar In a bizarre coincidence, I learned that my 100 year old Grandmother just passed away on the same day that I was making this. ERE sleep comes down to soothe the weary...

Mirror
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

It seems sometimes
when I look into a mirror
It’s a simple case of
mistaken identity.

I...

"We won't get lost." He says and I, "Or sink? Or drown?" I trust him. "Hey, we'll have some fun." ("And how did I get into this?" I think.) Our journey cross the river has begun. ("What...

As if we had been plundered we went room to room. "That's gone!" "Just look at that" "And there!" In time we all rebuilt. Yet we assume disaster will return, so we prepare with batteries...

Ancient Egyptians, plagued by plague, Still scribbled figures on papyrus. (Illnesses wear us down and yet Communication's ever tireless) Conquering eastward, was it war Or just a cold that...

Your daddy can do many things for you, Yet there is one he can't, it seems. Alone, alone, you must alone Go find the land of dreams. And I have taught you many things, but this May be the...

TEMPLES- My Human Light, the look in your eyes, when they seen mine, shined so much light into a happy sy, like the promise of God My Human Light, you took my heart, then...

I have to brush and floss and clip each nail, take aspirin, vitamins to ward off ills, clear gutters, flip the mattress, sort my mail. I can't forget to pay the rent and bills. It's time...

The woods grow smaller every year. My leaves Fall green and withered. Bitter water stings My shrinking roots. Yet I am Laurel still. I am the tree that one time was a maid, But that was long...

Go little poem. Go sneak into each ear and vellicate the lobe with vowels that chime or blow upon the drum to make them hear, not see (tug eyelids shut) the rising climb of consonants, the...