They got my last name wrong, but my poem Skater Boys appears in the latest issue of Madness Muse Magazine. http://www.madnessmusemagazine.com/2017/02/28/1-poem-ronald-j-huffman/
Tag: westmichiganpoetry
The Many Headed Reasoner
I hear the voices of words in juxtaposition I decipher with a creation of reasoning in ways which the impetus was never intended I fictionalize elements of theatrics in my head and feel my way about as though I have intention yet, when I wake up scattered from a dream, I feel I have got…
The Legislator Gives You a Dirty Look When You Make Eye Contact With Him While Shopping at the Supermarket
Stone splitter Alone and bitter Rapt in a daze Thinking words are Lumps of clay Like grave markers. You eyeball me from a stake, from a law room with chirping birds and squeaking questions that only beg for confessions Whence the frowning pain that chirps and hates? Where to escape the rain of flame that…
She Takes a Step
Just another one of a number of love ballads which I have been constructing for a possible music lp later in 2017. Nothing set in stone. RJH She takes a step and evening falls bringing me to my knees candles kiss one light is two on her breath is the spirit that makes me…
To Awaken Next to You
You said your love was everlasting Even as your spirit broke from you Ten years my mind has been grasping What my heart couldn’t give to you. Now the white dove doesn’t return to What your flame couldn’t burn through Witness the salt that I’ve turned to Your blood is stain on my innocence. Ashes…
Another Day
It’s morning, I see eyes, make up, and a shadow whispering, shaking bells of disbelief Breaking dreams, I hesitate because I do not want to give it up But the longer I wait I know there will not be a reason Tell me something I don’t know, what keeps us together breaking the seal before…
Broken Child
Broken child what kind of man have you become no one’s child you’re half the man you wanted to be Inspiration brings to you to the smoking gun tell me, what brings a person to kill a loved one is it because you can’t hide from who you are deep inside polarized, devil warring angel…
Sleeping
beyond the shadows weeping on the edge of a leafless meadow. You gather among your possessions pictures, timeless on a wall. Time began to fade before the calendar turned to watch you crawl. Conceding what your heart can’t seem to take Deliberately conceiving expression that hides all the fear you’ve kept inside. Before you knew…
