by jkylegregory | Mar 31, 2020 | Dan, Poetry
Wait Without Hope Wait Without Hope I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hopeFor hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faithBut the faith and the love and the hope are all in the...
by Ju | Mar 10, 2020 | Poetry, Robert
Pure Gravy Gravy No other word will do. For that’s what it was. Gravy.Gravy, these past ten years.Alive, sober, working, loving, andbeing loved by a good woman. Eleven yearsago he was told he had six months to liveat the rate he was going. And he was goingnowhere but...
by Ju | Feb 24, 2020 | Poetry, Robert
Late Fragment Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. Raymond Carver (From: A New Path To The Waterfall, by Raymond Carver. Copyright ©...
by jkylegregory | Feb 22, 2020 | Poetry
A Coronavirus Haiku A Coronavirus Haiku Boring vacationKitchen, living room, bedroomCoronavirus My wife teaches 3rd grade at an excellent international school, Western Academy in Beijing. Because of the ongoing virus situation all schools in China are currently...
by Ju | Feb 5, 2020 | Poetry, Robert
‘This Only’ (Czeslaw Milosz) This Only A valley and above it forests in autumn colors.A voyager arrives, a map leads him there.Or perhaps memory. Once long ago in the sun,When snow first fell, riding this wayHe felt joy, strong, without reason,Joy of the...
by Ju | Jan 16, 2020 | Poetry, Robert
‘My-ness’ My-ness “My parents, my husband, my brother, my sister.”Having breakfast in the cafeteria, I listen.Women’s voices rustle and fulfill themselvesIn a ritual we clearly need.Out of the corner of my eye I watch their moving lipsAnd feel such...
