Fast note. My book: The Widow’s Cliff and Other Poems is now on Kindle for 99 cents.
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Book is on Kindle
Posted in Poetry, Writers, Writing, tagged Depression, Emotions, Fantasy, Love, Poems, poetry, poets, Writers, Writing on August 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
THE GARBAGE TRUCK
Posted in Fantasy, Poems, Poetry, tagged Poems, poetry, poets on July 10, 2011| 1 Comment »
THE GARBAGE TRUCK
7/6/11
Copyright 2011 Gordon Kuhn “Poet in the Rain”
7/6/11
Copyright 2011 Gordon Kuhn “Poet in the Rain”
The bang and clang, a passing metal beast,
In search of an oddly flavored feast.
With rubber wheels, as booted feet,
This day trods upon our quiet street.
Lumbering , stumbling,
It lurches from side to side.
While loudly, to itself, complaints mumbling,
And taking great breaths in its stride
Great gulps of fresh clean air.
Then belches back in thick smoke,
Black and foul back out to share
From twin stacks exhaust to choke
Those of us who might come too close
Its mission we are to observe but not share
The agony of its life, this eater of the morose
But we can still for its life simply offer up our care.
What????
Posted in Fantasy, Poems, Poetry, Writers, Writing, tagged Poems, poetry, poets, Writers, Writing on June 4, 2011| 3 Comments »
I don’t understand. Eighteen people visited the site after I put out a comment that I was very frustrated because I cannot figure out how to put a picture on the blog. 18 people. That is more in one week than have been here all month
Frustrated
Posted in Poems, Poetry, Uncategorized, Writers, Writing, tagged Poems, poetry, poets, Writers, Writing on June 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
So, I have managed to add the picture to a post. Woo hoo….I wanted it separate. Cannot figure out how to do that.
Unwanted Trespassing
Posted in Depression, Poems, Poetry, tagged Depression, Fantasy, Fear, Poems, poetry, poets on May 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
UNWANTED TRESPASSING
5/3/2011
Copyright 2011 Gordon Kuhn
Poet in the Rain
What is this place I’ve come to stumble on?
Where others, hitherto my arrival by happenstance, left footprints of their passing;
In dust where shadows lay thick made of nonporous stone,
And, I feel I might, on some holy ground be, in some profound way: unwanted in my trespassing.
While a labeled, sealed bottle sits on life’s workbench and at me stares.
Light brown liquid silent peering out of clear cut glass at me.
It would be easy to make a slip, to simply take a single prolonged sip
To feel it burn, running river wide, down my throat——but then, my friend, nothing is free.
To forget the past, will not, in liquor, in permanence stand to last,
Neither will the pain be swept clear this night from yon-scarred table
Memories of lifelong stains come rushing at me all too fast
It is hard, so very hard at times like this to remain so composed and stable.
What is this place I’ve come to stumble on?
How came I to create such hell as this while through my life I’m passing?
Heavy burdens placed alive upon my heart,
And, in truth, I feel, I might, on some holy ground be, in some profound way:
unwanted in my trespassing.
Antique Thoughts
Posted in Depression, Emotions, Fantasy, Poems, Poetry, tagged Depression, Poems, poetry, poets on April 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »
ANTIQUE THOUGHTS
4/25/11
Copyright 2011 Gordon Kuhn
Poet in the Rain
T’was twilight’s gentle waking hour.
The day bird sought shelter in its leafy tower.
Came the scent of an approaching shower,
As light creatures sought safety each in their respective bower.
But antique thoughts did in shadows restless roam.
Beneath streetlights, they did seek an easy home,
And focused on a blooded painful zone,
Where they drove their poisoned daggers to the bone.
They circled, and moved in for the kill.
I felt the closeness of their lonely chill.
I walked alone, for from them I had no safe lane or home.
Antique thoughts on darkened wing did in shadows restless roam.
They walked, and flew so close to me,
Remembrances that haunt and chide. Those no one else can ever see.
The ghosts that stood watching near my side,
As antique thoughts upon the night wind did restless ride.
Tee Tyson Reads Poetry
Posted in Emotions, Fantasy, Love, Poems, Poetry, Writers, Writing, tagged Love, poetry, poets, Writers, Writing on April 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Tee Tyson does a fantastic job reading my poetry. And, at the very end she does a surprise reading of one her teenage poems that I think is incredible. She doesn’t really know the strength of her talent. Her poem is striking and her reading of both hers and mine is majestic and done far better than I could have done. Thanks Tee!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd-qQIBNetU&feature=share
Enjoy.
Gordon.
