Please bring the wine cuz I’m flat broke,
I couldn’t even buy a can of Coke.
But once you smell my heart’s sweet rose,
you’ll only wish you were all nose.
Robert Klein Engler lives in Omaha, Nebraska. He is a writer and artist. His many publications are available in print or on the Internet. Robert holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana and the University of Chicago Divinity School. You may find his writing scattered over the Internet.
Poor Minnesota Normal people have an issue recreating Mogadishu, while destroying each iota of what once was Minnesota. Minnesota...
My father wore his sorrow like a hundred millstone weight. I seldom saw him angry and I never saw...
Thank you all for your kind words, and some to chew on. It is encouragement to press on.
Getting older makes us colder. Sweaters in summer are a bummer.
Very enjoyable snippets of advice C.B. My favorite is the first one about truth. Very difficult to get someone to…
Handing readers a mirror always multiplies reflections, Anna. Winning verses!
These are delightful verses and I enjoy reading them over and over. I feel like I should print these out…
This one was impudent but on point. I like a scandalous verse now and then. So much was not said, which says it all. I’ve heard that Latin is like that.
This is based on a longer Catullus poem (carmen 13), and gives an echo of only the last two or three lines. The “Coke” reference, of course, is a modern interpolation.