Tag Archives: poetry

Memories

Posted on September 18, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

I love you more than words running across the road moments I could not have stopped even if I knew how to I love you more than what I, my, me, mine combined to make a whole world of all … Continue reading →

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New Poem Out In Soliloquies Anthology 22.2

Posted on May 15, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

  New Poem In Soliloquies Anthology 22.2 Read my new poem “Burmese Way to Socialism 1989”  in Soliloquies Anthology 22.2. Flip through the virtual book. Mine is on Page 16.

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Show me

Posted on April 28, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

Before things get complicated and I not knowing how to navigate the waters rocking the boat. To say I have always known the ways will be a full blown lie. I get lost when the way is known by others. … Continue reading →

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of leaving

Posted on April 21, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

I am not supposed to mourn the loss of you.  There is no place in this culture where a parent is allowed to hold grief for a child’s leaving home: not this burning sorrow marring the skin. They say grow a … Continue reading →

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wandering

Posted on April 18, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

Reading your poem makes me want to read another poem about another room where i wandered from corner to corner then onto the next floor of this house some rich man gave to another rich man who then cried, Nothing … Continue reading →

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parenting aftermath

Posted on March 27, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

They leave and I stop baking  cupcakes cookies shortbread brownies muffins pancakes pies after pies: apple pumpkin blueberry summer tarts sweet breads with whipped butter. The trays stay clean crumb-less kitchen table hums a sorrow song  through its grains of … Continue reading →

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Monday Mourning

Posted on March 5, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

Some people left quietly into the night with soft footsteps tender closing of eyes as if decades of their breath & width on this earth did not matter. No sirens stopped at their doorstep No gates flung open with a … Continue reading →

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Friday Futuring

Posted on January 26, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver I don’t know about you, but maybe because we are at the onset of a new year, or maybe because I just turned a big … Continue reading →

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Current mood

Posted on January 21, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

  The color of crushed grapes planted in spring, five years ago. No one remembers the weather when the vines were born and their fruits squeezed into the oak barrels shipped from somewhere in France where I had walked alone … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Poem: The Dream

Posted on June 28, 2017 by makinglittlecircle

The Dream by DAVID SOLWAY I dreamed that you had ceased to love me— not that you had come from other beds back to mine, or gone from mine to others, just that something in your heart had stopped. I willed … Continue reading →

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