Words from Inside My Head

thoughts coming from inside my head

humor

  • Reading About The Future of Me 

    There’s plenty of time, I think, as if I werea youngster of thirty or forty or fifty or sixty,to do whatever’s on my wish list: a visit abroad,work on my book of poems; take a vacation somewhereI haven’t been. Then I stumble across a poem someone’swritten about caring for their dear mom, the fragility,the frequent Read more

  • My ever changing heartbeat is nothing to be concerned with

    at least, according to my cardiologist, who I believe, despite his charming bedside manner,does not really know what to say to me,and so he pats me on the wrist and tells methat I’m doing fine, prescribes a little mobile EKGdevice, which I can use to reassure myself, when my heart starts all that thumping like Read more

  • Unpublished Poet’s unjustified Lament

    I’m afraid these are the best that I can do, unpublished, they aren’t good enough, so I can never claim to be a poet. Not true, but shared feeling among many poets. Read more

  • Doing the Prep Work…

    … imagining there’s no heaven After you’re done with some of the paperwork,the powers of attorney, the DNR, the will,and you’ve begun, if not finished, the other stuff;whittled down the belongings, purchased a burial plot,  maybe started your own obituary, along with some directionson what to do with the body – cremate it, put it Read more

  • I Used to Be Mistaken for a Tree…

    back then, in Spring as if newly budding leavessprouted from my branches; in Summer, happilybreezing and whispering about; then in Fallwearing unmuted colors to surprise the eyes.These days, when after my nap I awaken,fading hair frazzled and unruly, lookingmore like a Buckeye in Winter,hairless limps unwilfully gone wild,creaking against the ill winds,more often I’m mistakenfor Read more

  • My poetry is meant to be …

    stating that the views I shared don’t coincide with theirs, Read more

  • Talking About Others – in 3 poetry styles

    Freeverse with some semi-rhymes If you find yourself frequently talking to others about somebody else, about something they’ve often or recently said or done,   rolling your eyes as you describe how they overreact or are too sensitive, then go into detail as you tell of some incident that had happened between the two of you  as you Read more

  • a conversation with my dead father … a poem

    40 is younger than you think it is when you’re 40. Read more

  • Cartoon Connection

    I’d rather show you my cartoons than read my outloud poetry in the same room. If we could read our poetry to each other over the phone maybe my uncertainty wouldn’t  show. (you might suspect it in the waning of my voice, but I could always say it’s because we have a bad connection. Read more

  • Knitting While Driving in the Car

    I was feeling disconnected from this womanin the knitting group I had joined,she was telling us how often she had “knitted for hours in the car as she was driving”, most recently on a trip she’d made to Ann Arbor.  Now, knitting while you are driving was not something I was familiar with; I felt lost in my mind Read more