Relationship Poems

Relationship poems are the cold heart and warm gut of poetry, for what is there to write about but our relations with others? Be they wives or lovers, fathers or clergymen, friends or enemies, pretty much everything but the family Buick is presonally oriented.

And sometimes the Buick as well . . .

• And She Swims
  He drowns in regret and she swims.
• Aussie Gone and Back
  When leaving doesn't solve anything but a different sunset.
• Brit Leaving
  Friends keep thinking it'll be different elsewhere.
• Conversation
  Distance doesn't keep us from conversing.
• Crying it Out
  Some things held back need to be cried out.
• The Damnedest Dream
  Strange stuff arrives in the night.
• Dancing to Womanhood
  A coming-of-age poem.
• Expecting Nothing
  Amazing that some people have so little to ask.
• Falling Through our Eyes
  In love with the city of Prague
• Flowered Fields
  Wanting the freedom to love until you have it . . . and then what?
• A Gift of Buttons
  A thin pocketbook and a full heart.
• Guardianship
  The love of the truly old.
• Here With Me
  Sharing life lessons as if they could be given like gifts.
• Hero
  Did you ever know that you're my hero?
• Jeremy is Back
  The lucky ones return to Prague.
• Lines
  The fine maps of faces.
• Metaphor
  Chances that were missed, the reasons all forgotten now.
• The Music Haunts My Mind
  Love is letting go and I've done that.
• Near as He Can Tell
  Thinking, hoping you've pretty much done the right things.
• No Contest
  The wars of love are not often evenly contested.
• No Trams to Kacerov
  Another of those solitary reflections on what might have been.
• Pattern
  Life as fabric---stay with me, this one's pretty good.
• Perhaps
  Looking back on Bogie and Bacall.
• Promised Liesure
  Ten thousand years ago in a smoky cave wasn't all that different.
• Return Address
  Was that letter really lost in the mail?
• Rewrite
  What pulls us close pulls away as well.
• Slippery
  The relationship to a dog can only be understood by other dog owners.
• Smile Fading
  Deeper feeling left to quiet eyes, smile fading, nothing left to prove.
• Snapshots Filed
  That stranger passing spent 25 years becoming a corner of my peripheral vision.
• Song Writer
  Climbing out of comfort to listen to a friend sing and play.
• Struggling for Definition
  In our heads, constantly in our heads and not recognizing one another.
• Thinking of Reeve
  I don't even know Christopher Reeve and yet think of him often.
• To India
  Contemplating a voyage with a friend.
• Together by Agreement
  Leaving neediness behind.
• Trust Me
  A favorite poem of mine.
• Tulsa
  How many ways do we map the images of love?
• Uncut Timber
  Dripping in metaphor, but a pretty good poem.
• Window Seat
  A tinge of anxiety on mt return.
• Without a Script
  How do we do it without better writers?