I had the great pleasure of being able to interview the very prolific poet, Jude Neale, who is on the cusp of publishing And Now There Is Me.
Interview With Jude Neale
Tag: poem
The Making of a Poem
I can tell you what a poem is,
and what it is not
Balkan Women
On generational trauma.
Left Overs
I wrote this after washing dishes by hand one day.
Miracle Pill
A sarcastic description of a TV drug commercial.
Magic land
About addiction and how sometimes being young and reckless we make choices that have bigger consequences than we realize.
could have
i could have wished for wisdom beyond my years,
i could have been detached, amused…
How Much?
Contrasts the malnutrition and starvation that plagues the poor in much of the world, especially among children.
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.