Mike Michaels : Writing

Legally Blind

Legally Blind

A Poem by Mike Michaels


What she saw, grainyBlurred at a distanceShorebirds, swampersLittle cackles, short callsA bird sitting, sunningIn a steel chair, divine.
Maura

Maura

A Poem by Mike Michaels


So small in that casketWould have wanted to shareLeft them years agoWalked into long deathIn the hospice tendingHer mornings nightsHer kids were there..
When Sue Rises

When Sue Rises

A Poem by Mike Michaels


When Sue risesThe beauty growsIn her morning gloryOpens to sun.
Grant Park

Grant Park

A Poem by Mike Michaels


Waits at breaksSlow walk to the edgeWashes rock and sandFeathers, glass shardsRounded struck by sunWandering downhill joinsGreat water and why.
Tumbler

Tumbler

A Poem by Mike Michaels


That glass of water in handCondensation, the beadingSo elemental, of the earthAnd rising to mouthTo take away, replace, sateGrace swallowed, end in us..
Steely

Steely

A Poem by Mike Michaels


Watching TubeLooking forInspirationDay afterVisuals trailingLike smokeDrifting offInto nothing.
Break the Bible

Break the Bible

A Poem by Mike Michaels


Plucking and strumming Sierra and MollyVerse away this plane, tinny and time wornLook the other way see Del in the hollowFarmers fields, tick, tick, t..
Stop It

Stop It

A Poem by Mike Michaels


City crushec like a parchment ballPulled apart, no symmetryThe terrible things young menVisit upon old men, womenChildren wail, lost, aloneThere is no..
Wallow in the Wash

Wallow in the Wash

A Poem by Mike Michaels


Nothing more than a sign the young ignoreOn the way towards bright lights andA path through decades obscured, lostMisadventures become a weight heavyB..
Rescue

Rescue

A Poem by Mike Michaels


Tossing the line downCoils flit and falterFall into outstretchedHands. It's like aReprieve, you climbUp and out of the holeYou've thrown yourselfinto...

First Page first
Previous Page prev
1