Category Archives: Poetry

Realization

Posted on May 28, 2024 by sputterpub

I often try imagining how youare sensing now, or what it is to besomebody else. But I don’t have a cluehow it feels to be clinically depressed.Although I can be low at times, or blue,my serotonin levels must be good.So … Continue reading →

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Marquise

Posted on May 27, 2024 by sputterpub

Describing what it’s feeling like to ageand watch my peers advancing by my side,I sense we’re all condensing. Like our gaugeis dialed back, and where it once was wideis narrowed and it’s concentrating traitsthat bloomed a quarter century from birth,that … Continue reading →

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Forcing Fallacy

Posted on May 26, 2024 by sputterpub

I have to lie, although that means I throwa game we said we’d honor till we die.The whining for “I’m sorry” makes me knowI have to lie. It’s not my fault she’s bothered. She won’t tryexamining herself as cause of … Continue reading →

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Emotion Quotient

Posted on May 25, 2024 by sputterpub

Her brain’s too old, her heart too apt to hurt.She’s nothing but emotion, truth be told.She feels her feelings tear, and ought to blurther brain’s too old. She looks to blame someone outside, to holdresponsible in words she doesn’t skirt,a … Continue reading →

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Loco-Motion

Posted on May 24, 2024 by sputterpub

A person acting crazy rode my trainlast week. I heard her on the platform first.She yelled into her phone enough to straina normal throat, fast-striding as she cursedand ranted, sounding mad and unrehearsed.She boarded and raved on. Now I suspectit … Continue reading →

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Adults are Kings

Posted on May 23, 2024 by sputterpub

Adults are kings at first – they have to be.At least until the offspring spread their wingsthe parents are omnipotent – kids seeadults are kings. From birth that keeps the children safe, for thingsare hazardous, the rules securityto guard against … Continue reading →

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Learning

Posted on May 22, 2024 by sputterpub

Obsessive language study lately fillsup time I used to put to poetry. If I have any bucket list, it wills me to acquire bilinguality. I’ve thrice attempted it half-heartedly — in class, through books, at home or restaurant — but … Continue reading →

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Solution

Posted on May 19, 2024 by sputterpub

I’d like to write today, but need to rest.A mystery of decades may relax,and offer up a pattern to suggesta pathway through a maze that’s paved with facts.A recent recollection has impressed,illuminating myriad attacks.I want to take a day to … Continue reading →

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Amputation

Posted on May 18, 2024 by sputterpub

Remembering a woman 40 yearsago, who birthed a daughter long-desired,and then confessed to me, voice choked with tears,she couldn’t love the baby as required…It wasn’t that she’d harm the child – no –but deep attachment didn’t fill her soul.Two years … Continue reading →

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Done

Posted on May 17, 2024 by sputterpub

Her misinterpretation is so gross,the cause could be stupidity or, worse,perhaps it’s really meanness and a doseof insecure amounting to a cursethat’s warped her view and obviated closerelationship. Love shuttered to reverse.The pearl devolved – became a grain of grit … Continue reading →

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