Contrasts the malnutrition and starvation that plagues the poor in much of the world, especially among children.
How Much?
Category: Poetry
Schadenfreude
Depicts characters who glow at the sound of breaking glass, collecting fragments of misfortune as trophies.
Cityscape
Walks the line between urban downtown life and nature, the desire for more greenery, and some of the stress there.
The Truth About Money
A palindromic poem with mixed messages.
Genderless God
A poem to support voiceless transsexuals and transgenders in the BIPOC. It is written in tradition of the sonnet, but in iambic tetrametre.
Generic Plan B
In my landlocked city where the rivers meet seagulls
circle the sunrise to the slow crash of traffic.
In Search of Rare Earths
On the madness of certain rulers in their search for rare earths at gunpoint.
the cause of personal big bang conserved in a malformed dome
the cause of personal big bang conserved in a malformed dome
my head is reduced to a snow globe
Noon Day Demon
After is repeated because this is repeated over and over again in the US and elsewhere. Human life does not account for much. Sad but true.
My so called life
A description of how my daily fight through this life feels.
Return to My Asheville
Jeremy moved to Asheville less than 3 weeks before hurricane Helene hit. 9 months later, he leaves. In this poem he returns, 40 years later.
What Is Life?
I exist on earth after my birth, and I am constantly doing something to keep my life going; if I don’t, then it is no longer worth existing.
Silent Letters
A short diatribe against the English language.
Living out of a Van
Inspired by a van that is parked in a parking lot I have seen in different sections of my state and it intrigued me to write this poem.
Permission, slip
Leaving for winter break in Florida and seeing the environment there – though beautiful – was facing the same environmental devastation.
everything closes in
Examining the proliferation of information that separates us from the fundamentals of the time and space we occupy.
Wallflowers Get Together
The other guy had more tanks, more rifles.
And every flex of his muscle, cock of his head