by George | Sep 21, 2026 | Poems
How is it that we can safely manage a four-thousand-pound car traveling at 70 miles an hour, sometimes within a couple of feet of another moving at the same speed; with very little conscious thought? In fact, we are usually thinking about something else entirely, like...
by George | Sep 8, 2026 | Poems
This poem is not for people who do not like pie. It can be apple or blueberry, but the crust must be buttery and flakey and oozing with luscious, sweet fruit and, perhaps a scoop of French Vanilla. Like your grandmother made or anyone, it just has to be good, in...
by George | Aug 31, 2026 | Poems
When does want become need? Desire is quiet in the beginning, but persistent, and it grows, attaching itself to the me. “If I had this, if I was this, I would feel better, be better.” Then it becomes the need. Sometimes it works, for a while. Then like the young...
by George | Aug 24, 2026 | Poems
Anger always seems to come from nowhere, in a flash. Things are not going our way, people are not cooperating with our desires, we feel less than, diminished, unimportant. Very upsetting. We have been wronged, disrespected. We will express our unhappiness and say...
by George | Aug 17, 2026 | Poems
Such a tricky one, control. We yearn for it most of the time. Occasionally we have the illusion of it, like “I think I’ll have another beer’. But the big stuff eludes us. The breath is an excellent metaphor here. You can control your breath in many ways, you can...
