My Poetic Dream Exists In Georgia: Romantic Napkin Poem

I left for Georgia./
I took my writing with me./
She really exists!

She Blows Away My Angst: Romantic Napkin Haiku

Even when love blooms/
me, poet, still carries Angst./
She blows it away.

I Wish I Had A Vantage Point: Revolutionary IMprov Haiku

There are times, (mostly),
when any vantage point is/
much better than none.

On Inauguration Eve, No Fear: Revolutionary Napkin Rhyming Haiku

Some feared darkness may/
come down upon us. Then I /
heard me some harp blues.

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Short Poem (HOORAY!) For Jessica: Revolutionary IMprov Haiku

Your life and light shine./
You’ve already started to/
change the world. Keep on!

Missing A Poetess: Romantic ConTEXTing Rhyming Haiku Lament

I read where she’d sit/
if she’d come to it but she/
won’t. I feel like shit.

I Am Charlie: Revolutionary ImproVerse Free Verse Poem

Whether for cartoonists,
or cops,
or comics
or commentators,

or dancers,
or artists,
or poets,
or actors,
or journalists,
or designers,
or satirists,
or writers,

we stand,
free,
and dance,
free,
and paint,
free,
and create,
free,
and write,
free,
and speak,
freely,
free.

Can you hear
the people sing,
and speak,
and draw,
and write,
and dance,
and act,
and be?

Je suis
Charlie.

Je suis Ahmed.

What Gets Her Up? Revolutionary Napkin Haiku

What at last gets her/
up? It’s not peer pressure, for/
I am way too old.