Risky: Poem A Day

For today’s prompt from Robert Lee Brewer of Writer’s Digest, I immediately thought of how even today, the neurostimulation and neuromodulation treatments that heal much of my brain injury, are still considered risky, unproven. They’ve only been around 40+ years, proven for 20 to heal brain damage. But, I guess, we love to watch science…

Tense: Poem A Day

TensePast tells a storyPresent lives a storyFuture pretends a story we want to live but never will. #PoemADay #BrainInjury #PTSD #grief Tense was the prompt for today’s poem for Writer’s Digest April poetry challenge. For today’s prompt, write a tense poem. It could be past tense, present tense, and/or future tense. Or it could be…

from where I’m sitting: A Poem

For Writer’s Digest Poem A Day, day two, I wrote in Bluesky in a couple of minutes: from where I’m sittingA glassScratched and etched from useA strawMetal, bent, and stainedA drinkCold, dark, liquid fuelA brewTo wake me up and greetThe storm. #PoemADay #Poem

The Worst of Times: A Poem

Robert Lee Brewer of Writer’s Digest has run a poem a day event during the month of April. I participated in it — and posted my poems here — eons ago. One poem so captivated my Pastor, he asked Old Testament scholars to comment on the thoughts behind it. Being scholars and me being not,…

Voyage

The bald eagles Launch from the bleached Pole trees and Soar up and up over The head of the photographer below. Sixteen in all. Click, click, click She captures them oblivious And smiles to see them free and together Before turning away for the long trek home oblivious To their sharp eyes on her watching…

Mirages

Life. Hills of disappointment. Mirages of fusion                happiness        good news.

Good Friday Sacrifice

It’s Good Friday When the hordes Demanded blood Not theirs but another’s For the sin of uttering words They didn’t want to hear For not uttering the words They wanted to hear Words that rang, that sang, that clanged In their heads Of a Reality that doesn’t exist. It’s Good Friday When the people Demanded…

Humans Did That

Wings of flowing air Amaze me As they roll with flair In the sky And fly Straight Past Their engines roaring, their blades turning Fast, oh so fast. Humans did that.