‘The Java Joe Machine’ and Other Poetry by Gigi Ryan
. The Java Joe Machine My jiffy Java Joe machineAllows me to make only oneCup of coffee when I please,Convenient...
Read moreDetails. The Java Joe Machine My jiffy Java Joe machineAllows me to make only oneCup of coffee when I please,Convenient...
Read moreDetails. Senior Village The ambulances come and go. Last night it was the man across The hall, whom I’d begun...
Read moreDetails. Not So Grand Poo-bah Middle brother with lesser brain, Descended from the killer Cain. More grasping man you never...
Read moreDetails. The Force of Dreams I dreamed of you last night. I dreamed and dreamed, Yet more, as if there...
Read moreDetails. Homage to Morton of Merrymount To you I pay this homage and devotion: Thomas Morton, Host of Merrymount— You,...
Read moreDetails. Contemporary Logic Tattoos were blanketing her skin, Pierced everywhere, objects put in, Eyelash extensions, purple-haired, “I love my body,”...
Read moreDetails. The Good Life What is the good life that God is providing? What is the good life He seeks...
Read moreDetails. S O S Keep the fleecy wolves from bleating. Hold the pack of jackals back. Seize the greedy grubbers...
Read moreDetails. The Mask Sin wears a Cherub’s mask And beams forth paradise. “Come in, recline, and bask.” Discerning eyes looks...
Read moreDetails. Look Up Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on a world split apart The prophet scorned the academic dress of those who had...
Read moreDetails. Skellig Michael a remote island off the Irish coast A whispered, whistled wind resounds the echo Of the circling...
Read moreDetails. The Night My Father Punched the Cow The night my father punched the cowWas dark and windy, late; and...
Read moreDetails. The Walk Whether you call it a walk or a run, some animals tread on the water for fun,...
Read moreDetails. Tattered I watched a butterfly today, grappling with the barbarous breeze. She was suspended and entrapped under a canopy...
Read moreDetails. Mother Government We modern people don’t believe that pointless rituals relieve the crushing angst felt deep within, that we...
Read moreDetails. The Waste Land: 2028 You said you loved her---everything about her---Her color, accents, laugh, that she was woke.Her joy...
Read moreDetails. Apologies at Antoninus Pius’s Table, 155 A.D. . I. Rome’s Glory “Arriving at this feast, how proud I stand...
Read moreDetails. To Melody, on Her Wedding Day And now the hour has come for you to fly, To leave your...
Read moreDetailsOld Chestnut I’m the spirited girl with the chestnut hair, Common countenance pale, smile occasionally stressed, High forehead and wide,...
Read moreDetails. Washington’s Armor Under a watchful sky, a thick, long snake Was slithering: red regulars and blue Virginians groaned while...
Read moreDetails. Sudan, 2005 ---on the death of Dr. John Garang, Liberation Fighter and Sudanese Vice President Garang is dead! An...
Read moreDetails. Three Death Musings . 1 One day the conqueror worm will conquer me And therewith render life the Joker's...
Read moreDetails. Westward, with Columbus The North Atlantic Ocean was awashwith monsters and leviathans, or sowe fearfully supposed, and thought it...
Read moreDetails. Their Principal Principle With their hideous lies and a gleam in their eyes They disable each new generation, For...
Read moreDetails. A Roman Noble on Constantine the Great Setting: A villa on the outskirts of Rome, ab urbe condita 1082...
Read moreDetails. Peter Pan’s Soliloquy In Never Land, each sunrise brings anew A day of play and laughter to pursue. I...
Read moreDetails. To the Autumn Birches The languid light of waning day Glares undiffused by any cloud, Still strong, defying its...
Read moreDetails. Odd One Out Moored to the screen, he barely gets involved In vapid, paltry things his workmates seem To...
Read moreDetails. It Must Be True In The Jungle Book Kipling describes the “Bandar-log”—the monkeys of the Seeonee Jungle—whose scatterbrained chatter...
Read moreDetails. Ghosts of the Watchtower The end-of-summer breeze gives hint with cool caress Of coming autumn gales and forecasts of...
Read moreDetails. The Meaning of Pearl Necklaces Most pearls are prized because the luster of Their loveliness lies held in shapely...
Read moreDetails. Consideration in Friendship In The Inferno Canto Twenty-Nine, When Dante pauses, looks with longing for His uncle’s son amid...
Read moreDetails. The Prestige of the Puppet-Master To be deceived must bring some satisfaction, For all are well aware of the...
Read moreDetails. Time For Some Gardening It was time for some gardening. He heard a train go by. Its distant airhorn...
Read moreDetails. Carcinoma The NHS, though poised and calm, Have so far done no hurt or harm, Towards this cancer on...
Read moreDetails. Consequences of Following Advice Advice can come in snappy lines __That have a fun refrain: “Let a smile be...
Read moreDetails. Political Musings . While bumbling Biden’s basking on the beach, The Donald’s dodging bullets in the breach. . Abortion...
Read moreDetails. Not the Same Thing Anymore Of most who go to school these days __It sadly must be stated, No longer can they...
Read moreDetails. Three Things Alexander Knew “What can you tell me that deserves such excitement, except perhaps that Homer has come...
Read moreDetails. Remnants of the Spring Lupine, Paintbrush, remnants of the spring Color summer’s browning meadows, splashing Renoir dots and drabbles...
Read moreDetailsMargaret, the poem subtly points out that seemingly clear images (such as the shadow of hills on a wall) in…
Thanks for explaining, Nancy. Now that I see what's going on, "wings" as a verb makes better sense. The juxtaposition…
Thank you, Roy, for your supportive comment.
Margaret, thank you so much for taking the time to parse that line. Changing the comma would also change 'wings'…
I am so glad that you felt the hope in this poem, despite all the ice and chill. Thank you.
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