Greatest Poem of the World

I wanted to write a title that evoked narcissism. Am I a narcissist? Do you ever wake up and wonder that about yourself? I mean, you are always thinking about yourself, right? Don't you think about yourself all the time? I read a book once (a few times, it's a good book), The Untethered Soul, …

Some New Lyrics, or a Poem?

When I write lyrics or poetry it does depend a lot on the music I've written. Sometimes the lyrics come, and I make them fit into the music and figure out hooks and such as I write. But sometimes the music writes the lyrics. Since I haven't been able to get to my guitar, I …

Is It Friday? A Poem and Good Music

This week went by like a gust of wind. I honestly had to look at a calendar to remember what day. Now, that could be my problematic and deteriorating brain. I am about to turn 60. But I had a few poems I've been adding to my Intermission Poetry collection. Grace has been unfortunately, very …

A Long Poem – The Solitary Knock on the Door

This is a long form poem (735 words). I was trying to make it in an Edgar Allan Poe'esque type style. This came to me because recently I've been getting the smell of smoke in my apartment while I'm alone writing. There have also been odd knocks, winds howling through our apartment corridor, squeaks and …

A Poem – In God’s Merciless Design

I started to write this poem maybe more than a few weeks ago. I wanted to keep the timing even in it's unevenness? Does that make sense? It was also possibly a rap song. Haha If you can guess what it's regarding then major kudos to you. I wrote it with so, so many in …

Protected: Happy Birthday!

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Another Bit of Sunday Poetry – Moona?

I'm constantly adding another poem and once I've added enough I'm going to try and publish, Intermission Poetry: Thoughts While Taking a Break. What do you all think of the title? I had given myself a goal for the end of January, but then... life just kept happening. My original song is at the end …

Valentine’s Haikus

Okayu Haiku The snow falls outside Like lights, your singing breaks through This winter's Valentine. This picture is so cool. So rugged. Photo by Maria Orlova on Pexels.com This post was introduced by a Haiku I wrote for Okayu because she sang as a gift to her fans for Valentine's Day. It made me quite …

Searching For…

Anyway, here is the poem, also lyrics for the song I recently wrote on the ukulele (really getting into playing my uke, Schmidt - my guitar, Taka is slightly jealous).: It always takes two. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Searching For… One and Two Three and Four Just a little bit further Just a little …

Words and Thoughts – Shortest Poem

Words (From Intermission Poetry) Words they plague the thoughts From morning to night They plague you and bother you Stop speaking to me words Oh yes, they are words And they need to be heard This is kind'a cool, and scary. Where is this place? Someone? Anyone? Anyone know where this is? Is it Hong …