Repeating History

A 2014 World AIDS Day Poem, written after the Salem, Massachusetts World AIDS Day Event on November 30.

Plague continues.
Many ignore the mounting
corpses and those lost. 

Some Truth

From a Facebook comment by Shari Lynne Denton

I

think people

just don't realize

our dispositions are sometimes

the result of what we've survived.

Only A Writer Could Relate

A found poem

Source: Chris Baty's Twitter Feed on 11/28/14

Just
wrote an emotional scene
where my 13-year-old protagonist
 gives some heartfelt
life advice to a pair
of sentient lichens.

Gratitude for

Remembering to breathe

Early dismissal

Long weekends

Late mornings

Buses that run on holidays

Restaurants open on Thanksgiving

Eating well cooked lamb

Pleasant wait staff

Technology that makes this transplant feel less faraway

Leftovers

Intellect Prevails

This article inspired me to write this haiku.

Institutional

bias condemned today in

England… I rejoice!

Ravenous

This alarming article inspired this haiku.

Choosing between books

and food leaves many scholars

requiring food aid.

Ferguson Haiku

White cop kills brown boy.

Gets acquitted. Some wonder

why we are marching.

This is My Town, part two

Place to crash while

Earnestly scouring

Apartment listings

Because hotel living is getting

Older by the

Day and I

Yearn for an oven and to hang my art on the wall.

This is My Town, part one

Superior bus service

Amazing restaurants with

Lots in rollable distance.

Eager to

Make new friends.