Category: Poems

  • Mrs. Butterworth by K Hoffman

    This is an ode to the gagged Mrs. Butterworth bottle I had in my bedroom back in the eighties. Mrs. Butterworth why won’t you talk? And why won’t you move or walk? I just want to converse Nothing odd or perverse You sit here on my table I am sure that you are able But…

  • Just Some Silliness….

     Voyeur  I go into the bathroom And I can’t see That the tidy bowl man Is watching me [not sure who the Ty-D Bowl Man is? He was a company mascot in the 70s.]     Nuclear Wrist Watch Watch wrist general use Is what the back said. I wore it every day And now…

  • Choices by Carla Weinhold

    CHOICES Black and white Against pale morning sky Everything in between Is gray area Where will you be Faded in a blurred crowd Or standing solely In what you believe Near the edge Strong

  • Missing You by Carla Weinhold

    MISSING YOU Salty tears sting my face Sundry emotions begin to race I miss you so Why did you have to go When my heart is wary I come to this quiet cemetery Standing beside your grave Trying to be strong and brave I touch your name engraved in stone Somehow I feel so alone…

  • Sunrise by Carla Weinhold

    SUNRISE MIRROR Sunrise blazes the morning sky Reflecting on a small pond nearby Still surface, liquid glass A mirror in the slumbering grass Lucent colors of first morning This sleepy pond is adorning Watching from my dewy lawn Absorbing pleasures of the dawn

  • Soul Gathering by Carla Weinhold

    SOUL GATHERING Blanched morning sky of blue Host gentle clouds with gray bases An easy wind is blowing The Heavens are gathering souls Will He call for her today Or lend breath to stay My soul is stirred by warm sunshine Gleaming thru the window Carrying me back to here

  • Embrace in the Garden by Carla Weinhold

    EMBRACE IN THE GARDEN I paused for a moment And there I did see This loving embrace At the root of a tree In the garden of love Each other holding tight Steadfast and true Through everyday and every night Upon the gentle earth Lovers the world around Long to hold each other And say…

  • Cold Gentleness by Carla Weinhold

    COLD GENTLENESS Powerful emotion in this stone Essence of her soul are shown Feel her cold gentleness Touching you with her tenderness Her compassion in contrast, due The very rock she is bound to She will remain timeless thru the ages Mystifying with her enchanted gazes

  • Mystical Full Moon by Carla Weinhold

    MYSTICAL FULL MOON Mystical full moon smiles at me Through naked, bent branches of an old tree Above the horizon situate high Laughing in the blue midnight sky Silent song the moon sings Lunar induced romance it brings Spilling silver beams of moonlight Robbing the black out of the night Surrounded by stars shimmering and…

  • You, Me & Death by K Hoffman

    Life what do I do When I can’t handle it? I go to a graveyard To be alone and sit Thinking yet not thinking Of death and about life Is it worth going through All this hardship and strife The day is soon coming When I will be here too Will I be like the…

  • Graveyards at Night by K Hoffman

    Graveyards at night. A place of solitude. A place of fright. Hidden behind a headstone Hidden from the world Just me, here alone. Alone with the people Lying here at rest. Looking at the church steeple I see the moon Looking back at me. A full moon To light my path. As I walk through…

  • Love’s last sustaining breath by K Hoffman

    Life’s last sustaining breath Was taken the day you left Love’s discerning grasp could not hold you But for that fleeting moment At that very moment My life let go To live alone is to die You left me there dying Unable to pick up the pieces of my heart Scattered all around me Lying…