Narrative Poetry, Storytelling in Verse, Today

If you’re a book lover, you’ve probably encountered narrative poetry at some point. Maybe you read The Waste Land in high school and were perplexed by its structure. Or maybe you discovered Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken and loved…

We Are Still in Your Car – Poetry

by David Stone We are still in the car, pushing through heavy, drifted snow. We will always be in that car. It will always be snowing, and we’ll be on our way home. You were telling me something. But mostly…

Spiritual Irony Free Verse

Thinking Up You, a Universe In Mind

I create and recreate you.

When George died…

When George died is a short poem about a cat who changed my life… When George died,every cat in the universesstopped purring for precisely one second.The change in vibrations never reversed. More from a morning’s inspiration… When George died is…

When my brother died…

When my bother died, a poem… When my brother died, the warmth of the universe diminished perceptibly at every official measuring station and did not recover. Saturday morning shower of ideas… It started with my father. On a Saturday morning,…

When my father died…

When my father died, a wall that stood forever crumbled. Every room across the universes was forced to adjust. About When my father died… When my father died is a poem that came to me in the shower. A lot…

Life is a mystery…? A Poem About Figuring It Out

Life is a mystery, they say. Is it? There’s an answer in verse.

I Will See You Later

I will see you later was inspired by William Carlos Williams, an American poet I stumbled on as a teenager. I loved poetry and got turned on by verses that dodged cliches and said something simple and genuine. With a…

Omnibus 1965 Poem

Omnibus 1965 Poem Who could ever forget? Riding all night on that half-empty Greyhound, waking in the alone notime darkness of Nebraska waking to the smell of gristmill corn, being filled, mistaking, in half-sleep, the scent of being in love…