Poetrix

sort icon Title Views Replies
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Sales Pitch

Mad Mike is a businessman
with the devil’s grin.

“Have I got something...

1.164 Wed,31-Aug-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Flush

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir by Dick Chaney
Who says it...

1.724 Thu,01-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Wyld Chyld

This is the place.
This is where images, scenes and works of art are injected and...

1.404 Thu,01-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Hitting Home

I looked out across the marshes
of Hewlett Bay,
the New York skyline faded,...

2.628 Sat,10-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Guns R' US

You can get killed just for living in your American skin
    -...

3.361 Tue,07-May-2013
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Choreography

On the corner
of Post and Seymore,
dealers and buyers
perform
the...

2.224 Tue,27-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
The Street

At night the staccato of gunfire
and the whine of sirens
reverberate down the...

1.901 Tue,27-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Little Lambs

A flock of children parade
through the playground
on their way home from school....

1.735 Tue,27-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Play Ground

On the basketball court,
young boys talk
about taking the good shot
or...

1.195 Tue,27-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Outskirts

Below the street,
the subway station
echoes
with the haunting
wails...

1.550 Tue,27-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Reflections in a Puddle

After the hard rain, water
runoff from the street
fills a depression,
the...

1.209 Tue,27-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
One Exit

Dried blood stains
are framed
in a chalk silhouette,
a Rorshack test...

1.243 Tue,27-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Inner Circle

Trapped in the park at night,
between Seymore and Fenton Avenues
the homeboys, the...

1.418 Wed,28-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Danger: Deep Water

Do not go beyond this point!
There is an undertow.

Black frogmen leap
from...

2.176 Wed,28-Sep-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Summer Writing

Whiling away
the lazy days,
waxing the surfboard
of my mind,
ready...

1.327 Thu,06-Oct-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
The End of February

They stand defiant to wind
       and snow
with...

2.318 Thu,06-Oct-2011
poetpete
poetpete's picture
Bethel, NY 8/15/98

I sought higher ground
and settled next to the totem
of Jerry, Jimi, and Janis...

1.683 Thu,06-Oct-2011

Syndicate content