• dry spell
• birdsmith
• reflect
• BRB
• surface
• Last light
• Share
• Billy
• Unhinged (a seasonal poem)
• legacy
• When poetry strikes
• Sung
• surrounded
• Drop
• whacked
• fuzzle
• clean sweep
• Where Is She?
• Pocket poem
• new growth
• the season of my muse
• In Good Taste
• Fall
• gravity
• cool
• rise
• Three from 1977
• In the Garden
• Otre vez
• A Month of Somedays – a virtual chapbook for 2013

These poems received the most Facebook Likes are:

• Rise
• legacy (new)
• Where is she?
• When poetry strikes (new)

Thank you for reading, for “liking,” rating, and commenting. peace, mjh

In 2011, I published my first virtual chapbook:

• blush
• My Virtual Chapbook
• waiting for the tide
• the cure
• up in the middle of the night
• Songdogs
• Seek Alternate Route
• this simple truth
• Wind Makes Crazy (a timely poem)
• Whispering, “Rain!”
• Graze
• Cold Lang Syne
• Merri!
• Blush
• Sharp
• going home
• choke
• some lesser poet
• Bask
• tuck
• flea
• Dickey
• The Heaven of Animals
• The Bright Side
• slumber
• Relentless
• Icarus
• at this very moment
• 101°
• Unhinged (a seasonal poem)

Themes (larger size indicates more poems):
age, dogs, misc, poetica, poets, unbooked

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A young woman rose.
She told of bitter-sweet adolescent love lost.
With kindness in his eyes,
Miguel shook his head.

The newcomer confidently quoted a trite ditty.
He beat hasty retreat
as if Miguel’s look could kill.

The town fool belched a limerick that won only a wan smile.

After some silence,
an old man stood straight and
spoke of youth as a gift
unappreciated until gone forever.
We stared into our cups, some sobbing.

Tossing the coin to the old man,
Miguel said, “Otre vez, por favor. Otre vez, Señor.”

———–

[Café Cervantes is on the plaza in Poetica. It's always open mike and most hours are happy.]

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In the glow to that lantern
this place was the Garden.

If I were Adam
you would be my Lilith and
I’d have no Eve.
We would stay content
knowing none would follow.

11-06-1998 – Herb Martyr CG, Chiricauhuas, AZ

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I’ve cried and I’ve laughed
I’ve loved and I’ve lost
and yearned for companionship,
whatever the cost.
And through all the learning
and loving and living,
I’ve wanted to balance
the taking and giving.

Fall 1977
- – - – -

October Fourth

I need to hold a pen all night.
I need to hold a lover.
I need to hold a friend all night.
I need to hold some other
some other one to comfort me
to cuddle and embrace
someone to be here next to me
and fill this empty space.

10/4/1977
- – - – -

Your scent has left my skin
following your warmth.
Your taste has left my tongue,
now dry in my mouth.
You’ve gone
and taken the things one can’t
leave behind for long.
Gone from my senses,
you remain in my thoughts,
my thoughts that tumble over each other
in search of ink
only to dry in my mind
before they reach the page.

05-25-1977

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I perform my ritual,
bowing my head over his bowl,
murmuring my prayer: “good boy.”

If you are troubled,
rise quietly before dawn.
A world growing brighter
will lift your heart. mjh

11-20-07

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I’d invite over friends
and breathe out a cool wet breath
drop ice in their drinks
and let them put their heads
to my heart to hear
the thunder of waterfalls.
And each in turn would look into my eyes
at the light from the top of the world.
Cool, they would say,
Que cool. mjh

06-10-03 in Colorado, of course

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06-24-1995 [same time as MERRI!]

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06-18-02 Coal Creek jacksite, CO

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2/14/1996

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path
several trees are a few leaves
shy of brilliant
others a few short
of bare

I wonder how this
became the season

of
my muse
a child of summer
grown into autumn
to fall
to leave
and should I worry
when my poems
turn to snow

and the dead of winter? mjh

10/26/2004

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