Join the Neopoet online poetry workshop and community to improve as a writer, meet fellow poets, and showcase your work. Sign up, submit your poetry, and get started.

Please note - this is a complete list of work. If this is your own work, you can view both published and unpublished (or deleted) work. All other members and guests can only see published work.

Dawn Hangs Low When Mist Abides

Posted:

Frenemies Forever

Posted:

If Clothes Could Speak (Edited)

Posted:

Watching Myself Write (Then and Now)

Posted:

To A Dead Poet

Posted:

A Pigeon Speaks @ Robert E. Lee Park

Posted:

The Colours of Kahlo

Posted:

Hi!

Posted:
Updated: 29 May, 2025

We hardly knew you, Alan

Posted:

The Man Who Fell To Earth

Posted:

My body is my cage

Posted:

But I could not touch you

Posted:

Goddam next poem

Posted:

one little woman

Posted:

Sagittarius

Posted:

War

Posted:

An Old Sycamore Goes Down in History

Posted:

Pulse points of Monet

Posted:

Breath

Posted:

Forbidden

Posted:

On a fault-finding misadvernture

Posted:

Though I'm a woman

Posted:

A violet does not shrink

Posted:

Kryptonite

Posted:

A couple of Mother's Day poems

Posted:

Forsythia

Posted:

La commedia è finita!

Posted:

Geisha Face

Posted:

Privatizing dreams outside the lines

Posted:

Gate Gate Paragate

Posted:

Like Sunlight

Posted:

Election Day, 2012

Posted:

Sleeping Beauties

Posted:

Strangers No More

Posted:

Salutation to the Sun

Posted:

September

Posted:

Collecting Scraps of Wealth

Posted:

Collecting Scraps of Wealth

Posted:

Only Love Has Its Way

Posted:

Until Nothing is Mine

Posted:

Reptilian Army Searches For Recruits

Posted:

The Sun is Always Rising, Red and Huge

Posted:

The Sun is Always Rising, Red and Huge

Posted:

A Love Poem For You ~ Petrichor 6

Posted:

The World Outside My Shoes

Posted:

Three Poems of 8/8/12

Posted:

Pleiades my Starship

Posted:

The Contortionist

Posted:

A Distant Longing

Posted:

All Mine

Posted:

Earth is Faith Redeemed

Posted:

We Were Swans Dreaming

Posted:

Salmon Hallelujah

Posted:

Communion

Posted:

I Looked at the Sky Today

Posted:

Following the Sun ~ for p

Posted:

And so the Jury Convenes

Posted:

Motes of Dust

Posted:

I Thought I'd Think Your Thought

Posted:

After the Kama Sutra

Posted:

A Greek Tragedy

Posted:

Not Even Light

Posted:

Sea Glass

Posted:

The Mystery Experience

Posted:

How so, Icarus?

Posted:

Strange Mobility

Posted:

Life That Leaves

Posted:

Perrenial Grasses

Posted:

Hmmmm. Found this on the net. Don't know to whom I owe recognition

Posted:
Updated: 18 May, 2012

All the Love Locked in Your Heart

Posted:

From Green Mansions

Posted:

His Paint Mixes with Your Tears

Posted:

Culling the Herd

Posted:

Chit Chat

Posted:

Grief, a Mysterious Stranger

Posted:

Crying Towel

Posted:

Well? If I were your muse....

Posted:

Providence is a city in Rhode Island

Posted:

Falling in Love

Posted:

I can't give you pristine white

Posted:

Messenger

Posted:

German Nobel laureate Gunter Grass' poem ~ WHAT MUST BE SAID

Posted:
Updated: 15 April, 2012

Solitude

Posted:

never to recognize Christ

Posted:

the arrogance of poetry

Posted:

there's nothing but love, my love

Posted:

three thumbs on two hands

Posted:

So you want to be a writer?

Posted:
Updated: 3 April, 2012

for Michael (4)

Posted:

Pardonez-moi, darling

Posted:

Cat-like on the prowl

Posted:

Breath

Posted:

why everything turns green

Posted:

lumbering silence in Bodnar's

Posted:

Buddha's Muse

Posted:

Titles and Opening Lines.

Posted:
Updated: 13 March, 2012

I didn't know of eternity until now

Posted:

there are no closet poets

Posted:

what would Bukowski say?

Posted:

the first sigh of morning

Posted:

for Hedy Epstein

Posted:

vortex

Posted:

the madness of being

Posted:

your nose is growing

Posted:

when the water lily speaks

Posted:

a fortnight in a summer's eve

Posted:

Abstraction, Algebra and Anger

Posted:

A Sadhana of Mahalo

Posted:

Desolation in the face of wealth

Posted:

Solomon splits in two

Posted:

Buddha on the road with Kerouac

Posted:

eschewing it all

Posted:

z

Posted:

Into the music I allowed

Posted:

The Atheist and the End of the World

Posted:

Stygian Witch

Posted:

To Whom It may Concern

Posted:
Updated: 3 February, 2012

the tipping point

Posted:

Trilogy

Posted:

Voyeur in the new Dark Ages

Posted:

the Goddess meme

Posted:

awakening into this

Posted:

crowd pleaser

Posted:

the visitation and the invitation

Posted:

bird-brained

Posted:

for Zhu Yufu

Posted:

MLK, MMXII

Posted:

You were the top of the mountain once

Posted:

afterwards

Posted:

why the camel isn't tethered

Posted:

Who knew of the heroic pansy?

Posted:

green mansions

Posted:

just passing through the snow, breathing

Posted:

Buddhas made of clay

Posted:

behind my eyes

Posted:

uprooted

Posted:

uprooted

Posted:

inside the winter light

Posted:

sacred

Posted:

the polygamy of poetry

Posted:

Pleiades

Posted:

for my children

Posted:

the remembering

Posted:

the true nature of shoes

Posted:

living dangerously and following the tail

Posted:

Angels Alligators and More Angels

Posted:

waiting at the Pieta

Posted:

tulip

Posted:

Munch's Dream of Snow White

Posted:

TED TALK: *Nurturing Creativity*

Posted:

it's official now

Posted:

abandoned

Posted:

entering into the silence

Posted:

shadows imprinted in memory

Posted:

another leaf falls

Posted:

sublinqual appetite

Posted:

I love you

Posted:

the scent of roses

Posted:

Poets on US stamps?

Posted:

Merwin's lion (workshop on The Nomad Fute

Posted:

this side of the music

Posted:

Tending the Garden

Posted:

the woman in the black burka

Posted:

Watering the Elephants

Posted:

Om Shanti Om

Posted:

Dali's moustache

Posted:

when the nights are long

Posted:

Tulips in November

Posted:

without you (poem by Barry)

Posted:

dying Asters (Barry's poem)

Posted:

Strangers

Posted:

Memorabilia

Posted:

The eyes of God cast no shadows

Posted:

Retired Husband

Posted:
Updated: 4 November, 2011

A Man's Job

Posted:

Green Tara

Posted:

14 Inspirational Poems from Youtube

Posted:

A Guest House ~ Rumi

Posted:

Unbroken

Posted:

Coming Home to Roost on Wallstreet

Posted:

Opening Doors

Posted:

Diwali 2011

Posted:

Panhala Poetry ~ Wendell Berry

Posted:

Declarations

Posted:

a Zen story

Posted:

Who did we think we are?

Posted:

Integrity

Posted:

World news

Posted:

Who has God joined?

Posted:

a labor of love watched by generations

Posted:

Never blame your own lack of love

Posted:

Tone on Tone

Posted:

Photosynthesis (Meter & Rhyme workshop)

Posted:

Tea Ceremony

Posted:

Eviction notice?

Posted:

6:36 in the morning

Posted:

Muse

Posted:

Basho

Posted:

the first misogynist

Posted:

Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil

Posted:
Updated: 11 October, 2011

I've never been oppressed by a rose

Posted:

The Skin We're In

Posted:

Wish-fulfilling Jewels

Posted:

The World vs. Wall Street

Posted:

Petrified Wood

Posted:

I've never herded oxen, have you?

Posted:

Nature's Namaste

Posted:

The Passion and the Soul of You

Posted:

faded light

Posted:

With his fingertips

Posted:

With her fingertips

Posted:

if it bleeds it leads

Posted:

what I heard when you eavesdropped

Posted:

Achilles loses the race

Posted:

Flames Entwined

Posted:

Siddhartha ventures out

Posted:

Andy Goldsworthy ~ Working With Time

Posted:

pity the pity Descartes found

Posted:

Click

Posted:

Do you know who Troy Davis was?

Posted:
Updated: 24 September, 2011

Falling Away

Posted:

Another Shade of Blue

Posted:

Possessed

Posted:

Benevolent Dictator

Posted:

only the sky is permanent

Posted:

A Working Man/rewritten for Meter Workshop

Posted:

Ground

Posted:

paper thin lions

Posted:

Mamool Cookies

Posted:

Your Brain on Politics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Liberals and Conservatives

Posted:
Updated: 26 September, 2011

Nomad

Posted:

Some thinkers on Forgiveness 9/11/11

Posted:
Updated: 14 September, 2011

much ado about nothing

Posted:

A working man

Posted:

Lunatic

Posted:

mnenomic Dali

Posted:

Metaphysician

Posted:

clouds

Posted:

passing through the music

Posted:

think on these things

Posted:

serendipity 2

Posted:

Planck's Legacy

Posted:

Saturday morning

Posted:

bubbles of insistence mocking Paradise

Posted:

Demeter & Bokonon

Posted:

in the needle's eye

Posted:

the blacksmith's anvil, the lovers' bed

Posted:

But I wanted fire in my eyes

Posted:

Religulous in the Barnyard

Posted:

Timely & Important Reading

Posted:

the politics of never learning Swahili

Posted:

Hurricane Irene

Posted:
Updated: 26 August, 2011

Poet

Posted:

morning sex during a thunderstorm

Posted:

If there is a God

Posted:

A little water washes away the salt

Posted:

The Repentance of Coming Home

Posted:

The Undead Dream Of Magnificent Things

Posted:

Samaritan Woman by the Well

Posted:

how to gild a lily

Posted:

Omo Harmonies

Posted:

The Insistence of Poetry

Posted:

Lazy Lizards Languishing

Posted:

Raga

Posted:

in homage

Posted:

Incommunicado

Posted:

No One Lives

Posted:

into the mystery

Posted:

Patti Smith reads Allen Ginsberg

Posted:

for Sam

Posted:

familial ties

Posted:

bound to emptiness

Posted:

The Ineffable In Poetry

Posted:

origami boats

Posted:

Monroe Street Cemetery

Posted:

the moon and i

Posted:

Petrichor 4

Posted:

mutual masturbation

Posted:

resurrection

Posted:

linger here

Posted:

the middle finger is the flag I wave

Posted:

requiem for a poem 2

Posted:

lemmings

Posted:

embrace me

Posted:

rain shadows/revised

Posted:

out of reach ~ (an Orphani poem)

Posted:

drops of you

Posted:

requiem for a poem

Posted:

caravan

Posted:

when the moon turns to gold

Posted:

do not read this poem!

Posted:

Membership: A Call for Action!

Posted:
Updated: 16 July, 2011

dervish

Posted:

When the Shoe Fits ~ Chuang Tzu

Posted:

holy ground

Posted:

Respect Is Not A Commandment!

Posted:
Updated: 15 July, 2011

salt doll, stone angel and love

Posted:

Take Me Back to the Sixties

Posted:

common dreams, alienations

Posted:

with a nod to T.S.

Posted:

The Genius of the Crowd ~ Charles Bukowski

Posted:
Updated: 11 July, 2011

corvus delicti

Posted:

Dear Dan, AEC, Founding Fathers & Membership

Posted:
Updated: 10 July, 2011

perception

Posted:

we can create laughter

Posted:

3D Printer

Posted:
Updated: 11 July, 2011

Cougar Sighting!

Posted:

wraith, forlorn and reborn

Posted:

finesse

Posted:

Titan Arum 3

Posted:

standing ovation, an Ode to Joy

Posted:

Paintings that Swirl

Posted:

A Middle Class Eulogy

Posted:

on the subject of roses

Posted:

here on earth

Posted:

Even the Rain

Posted:

Siren Song

Posted:

How to react to criticism

Posted:

Petrichor 3

Posted:

rain

Posted:

Intrepid (Cliché Workshop poem)

Posted:

inbetween two worlds

Posted:

battle weary

Posted:

Have fun!

Posted:

dueling churches?

Posted:

I found a love poem ~ elegy for a fanatical lover

Posted:

hollyhocks

Posted:

falling into love's cliché

Posted:

father's day

Posted:

Pundit Under Protest ~ David Brooks

Posted:

mindwalk

Posted:

my sins with Bukowski

Posted:

I want to

Posted:

my sins with Bukowski

Posted:

meditation

Posted:

Healing

Posted:

another poet is born

Posted:

Retirement Joke

Posted:
Updated: 14 June, 2011

sadhana

Posted:

i know a man

Posted:

The Meaning of Life

Posted:

what if?

Posted:

for you

Posted:

places we have yet to go

Posted:

because we have a song

Posted:

vanishing point

Posted:

the girl in the red dress

Posted:

the bed

Posted:

unconditional

Posted:

if Dorian could speak

Posted:

Lead ~~ Mary Oliver

Posted:
Updated: 19 April, 2019

All is Welcome Here ~ For *YOU*

Posted:

All is Welcome Here ~ For *YOU*

Posted:

is there a doctor for the soul?

Posted:

tempestuous affair

Posted:

the secret world of hearts

Posted:

rows

Posted:

The Difference between a Child and a Poem ~ Michael Blumenthal

Posted:
Updated: 30 May, 2011

Depersonalizing *Personal* Attacks ~ Part 2

Posted:
Updated: 30 May, 2011

haikuesque #22 & #23

Posted:

AFTER THE RAPTURE (My mouth hurts from smiling out loud! )

Posted:
Updated: 28 May, 2011

Depersonalizing *Personal* Attacks

Posted:
Updated: 29 May, 2011

go placidly

Posted:

if I were young

Posted:

being human

Posted:

creature, as we are

Posted:

Rain in the Night ~ Homero Aridjis

Posted:

kissing ecstasy goodbye

Posted:

cruel ~ (Explicit Content)

Posted:

acts of perfection

Posted:

mélange

Posted:

a handful of Lakewood sand

Posted:

hard words or dandelion tea?

Posted:

Rapture ~ Linda Hogan

Posted:

blue glass ceiling

Posted:

flowers for Antigone

Posted:

Pool

Posted:

Lao Tzu (570-490) B.C.

Posted:

Seed

Posted:

orange blossoms

Posted:

a poem by Deng Ming Dao

Posted:
Updated: 14 May, 2011

A little reminder of why I understand you ~ Paradigm Shift

Posted:
Updated: 13 May, 2011

melancholy

Posted:

Pussy cat bonds with dolphin

Posted:

already this

Posted:

she

Posted:

Maria Shriver interview with Poet Mary Oliver for O (Oprah Magazine)

Posted:

what's in a poem?

Posted:

blueberries

Posted:

when the white buffalo appears

Posted:

Hafiz, the sun and moon, and I

Posted:

Rumi says

Posted:

carried away

Posted:

To the Neopoet Community

Posted:
Updated: 19 March, 2011

From Blossoms ~ Li Young Lee

Posted:

for what stands in its way

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

Truth?

Posted:

Dali paints the sky an eggshell blue, swans reflect

Posted:

the morning sparrow

Posted:

sayonara

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

I Am The Perfection ~ Larry Epston (1982)

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

from the balcony

Posted:

CONGRATULATIONS ANN our NORDIC CLOUD

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

setting free the worms

Posted:

AEC ELECTIONS! GET INVOLVED!

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

the masquerade ball

Posted:

Letter From Theo

Posted:

lingering

Posted:

masks of perpetuity

Posted:

out of Africa

Posted:

The Basic Tenets of an Assertive Philosphy

Posted:
Updated: 10 March, 2011

love takes all

Posted:

Words in the Gallery of Time

Posted:
Updated: 18 March, 2011

milk flower

Posted:

what is a day in a life?

Posted:

resurrection Haiku

Posted:

Snowbird Haiku

Posted:

What is a Friend? ~ C. Raymond Beran

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

I didn't know what time it is

Posted:

cold in the light of day

Posted:

Workshop or a meeting place for friends?

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

light in the forest

Posted:

explanations are inexplicable, my Beloved

Posted:

i do not implore you

Posted:

in the time when clouds were things

Posted:

burning with the keys of heaven (for Sam)

Posted:

absolute nothings

Posted:

You want rhyme? It's in *Performance Poetry*

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

a kookaburra watches

Posted:

Dear Andrew, Paul, Rett

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Kahlil Gibran love poems ~

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

Mango

Posted:

Drinking Ligtning - Art, Creativity and Transformation - Written by Philip Rubinov Jacobson

Posted:

wasteland

Posted:

Dirge ~ Kenneth Fearing

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

What are people for? ~ Wendell Berry, Poet

Posted:

frozen moment

Posted:
Updated: 18 March, 2011

love amoung the ruins, a supplication poem/major editing

Posted:

life and death of a poem

Posted:

he wrote her down (with part ii added)

Posted:

You Say, I Say, We Speak

Posted:

The Rooster Who Thought It Was A Dog ~ Luis J. Rodriguez

Posted:

Cleveland Sun Haiku ~ 2/17/11

Posted:

pissing drunk on society or how many times can you die walking the long green mile?

Posted:
Updated: 18 March, 2011

Haiku

Posted:

Walt McDonald Essay on Poetry (A MUST READ!)

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

Leaving Neopoet?

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

last day

Posted:

Meditation on Living in the Desert ~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Posted:

yellow like a canary's song

Posted:

death is a blindfolded lover

Posted:

Nonduaity Highlights (Poems for Valentine Day)

Posted:

don't ever fall in love with a poet

Posted:
Updated: 18 March, 2011

Americans: Save NPR and PBS

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

if I gave this a title, you'd know what it was all about

Posted:

he is shirtless for his muse

Posted:

Poetry ~ Marianne Morre (reading by Spokenverse)

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

fantasy

Posted:

Mubarek Leaves Cairo

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

affliction

Posted:

Personality

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

emptiness

Posted:

everyday people

Posted:

Guilt Trip ~ David Lehman from *Antioch Review*

Posted:

the killing zone

Posted:

thomas jefferson dreams cleveland ~ Mark Kuhar

Posted:

No one is coming to save us from ourselves

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

Praise Song ~ Barbara Crooker

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

mutual masturbation

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

ankh

Posted:

stars

Posted:

from the end to the beginning

Posted:

All I want to say is they really don't care about us.

Posted:

I'm so bored of winter, I'm rhyming

Posted:

If I were the Sun ~ 2005

Posted:

Extrapolation

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

Millennium blessing ~ Stephen Levine

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

The Noise The Hairless Make

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

i write naked poems

Posted:

Prima Donna

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

We are the people! Egypt

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

it's all made of water

Posted:

Bone ~ Mary Oliver (From Panhala)

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

blocking, the how to's

Posted:
Updated: 18 March, 2011

The Other World ~~ Anna Kamienska

Posted:

to break the trust

Posted:

imagine a room

Posted:

Bad poem

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

an excerpt from the VELVETEEN RABBIT by Margery WIlliams

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

lime woman

Posted:

the tentmaker

Posted:

Eckhart Tolle ~ Dissolving the Pain Body

Posted:

Piano Stairs

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

randomly

Posted:

a bull in a china shop, lusting for tea

Posted:

A little Wabi-sabi

Posted:

two bookends on the shelf of life

Posted:

like a shadow

Posted:

Hell Explained (By a Chemistry Student)

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

sorry, I don't buy sorry anymore, Kali bought the store

Posted:

paper cuts

Posted:

there is death in the morning glory/Edited

Posted:

rare wood

Posted:

Apolgies, Decisions and Conclusions

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

Je ne sais pas

Posted:

Lineage ~ Jeffrey McDaniel

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

inside my breast

Posted:

Nature's Imagio 8/29/06

Posted:

MLK ~ 1/17/11

Posted:

mission bells

Posted:

sky burial

Posted:

sky burial

Posted:

On the Borderland: Poets, Master Poets, and What it Means

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

texting, time and bulldogs

Posted:

Despair ~ Billy Collins

Posted:

Re-entry to the *new* Neopoet *family*?

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

writing poems

Posted:

From Leaves of Grass ~ Walt Whitman

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

iconic or Love me, you schizoid asshole!

Posted:

home schooling

Posted:

silver snowmen

Posted:

hidden in hands that never opened

Posted:

Namaste

Posted:

Splash ~ Charles Bukowski

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

wild horses took my pen away

Posted:

wasteland

Posted:

Tyranny of Beauty

Posted:

In New Zealand

Posted:

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls ~ Rumi

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

if my pillow could talk

Posted:

when doors were open and windows gleamed

Posted:

Happy New Year ~ David Whyte

Posted:

everything that is killing you

Posted:

consider the lilies

Posted:

the village

Posted:

Tootin New Rear

Posted:

when words were hanging from trees

Posted:

Be Here Now

Posted:

when the light is dim

Posted:

pennies from heaven

Posted:

angry angry hippos

Posted:

Jaquar Woman

Posted:

an idiom I speak

Posted:

From Panhala

Posted:

Let's make this go viral...give peace a chance

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

fingers make some music please

Posted:

snow globe

Posted:

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

as if my marrow sadly sings/revised

Posted:

Orpheus' Muse

Posted:

I think I died

Posted:

and this is how it is created

Posted:

in the religion of waves

Posted:

Mystery

Posted:

title field is required

Posted:

Deck the Halls

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

Seasons of My Heart

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

they say

Posted:

poem

Posted:

the tipping point

Posted:

untitled

Posted:

you touch me with splendor

Posted:

Compassion

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

few of us live on air alone

Posted:

you leave in the dark

Posted:

an arm's length to touch the sun

Posted:

off the page, Kali dances

Posted:

mission statement

Posted:

taking care of business

Posted:

Haikuesque

Posted:

what were you buying, anyway?

Posted:

come to the neverending prayer

Posted:

nonsense in a toll both

Posted:

Barry's Poem ~ Disassembling

Posted:

light bearers/revised

Posted:

of voices, of surrender

Posted:

light bearers

Posted:

Proof

Posted:

The Light

Posted:

consider the audience

Posted:

as the stone is cast

Posted:

devour me before I can say no more

Posted:

Typography about Language ~ Taylor Mali

Posted:
Updated: 27 March, 2011

look right through me

Posted:

please forgive me

Posted:
Protected by Spam Master