Category: Poetry

Run Away Home

A new poem. Just trying out something new. Lemme know how it works.

FDO

Run Away Home

You really wanted to keep running last summer, didn’t you?
Didn’t you wonder if things would somehow turn out right
Even if you did take a little vacation

Just an unannounced several day road trip
Out to the Michigan beaches
Or to a private spot just on the wrong side of the Mexican border
One you know Marcy would never have wanted to visit even if you’d offered to pay for you both

Is it hard to admit that you’re scared because the whole thing was a little easier than you’d feared
More interesting, denser
Did you decide that you liked eating out more than you thought you did
Or maybe you’ve realized that waking up warm is always better
And being in love is too

© Gayle Force Press 2007

Falling Grace


Since we’ve been inundated with rain (and worse) lately, I thought I should post this poem about rain and all of us.


Falling Grace

The rain crashes down from heaven
And today, the sinner and the saint
The righteous and the wicked
Will all give a moment’s thought to nature

The clouds pour their sustenance on all
In grace, not in judgment

© Gayle Force Press 2007

Dead Man Walking

In the meantime, here’s an oldie but a goodie…


Dead Man Walking

Yesterday I saw
For the first time I’m sure
A dead man

We were driving on a state highway
Out where the markers
Have only numbers
Or family names

And just as the houses began to bunch
There he was
On the side of the road
Head flung forward into the grass

I barely noticed as we passed
But then the image crystallized
The spread legs, knees grounded
And back bent in full prostration

It was half a mile before my foot registered
What my mind had seen
And forced the car to brake

I circled around in a driveway
Where a young tank topped man
Smiled in his confusion

I didn’t turn to look at him again
As I left the driveway
Having noticed the dead man
Now standing
Wiping the dirt from his jeans

© Gayle Force Press 2006