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Biography

Not the Trinity

I am not The Owner. I am not The Cook. I am not The Menu. I am just the waiter, serving you all. I am not The Light. I am not The Dark. I am not The Rainbow. I am just the

Michael Tomb 2016/12/052016/12/05 Biography, Poems No Comments Read more

On litmus tests of patriotism

There was a man I once knew who refused to salute the flag, take the pledge or sing the anthem. He was about 12 years old when the linked photo to the right was taken.  Like many of my relatives,

Michael Tomb 2016/10/012016/11/11 Biography No Comments Read more

Every Word is Brokenhearted

Every word is brokenhearted, As the style book is in mourning All the crafted prose now yields To random, blithering, noise. Every byline now is grieving, in honor of your passing, And so the words fell down, feeling no one’s

Michael Tomb 2016/06/012016/06/01 Biography, Poems 2 Comments Read more

To Lose You, My Friend

To Lose You, My Friend

For us, you solved the puzzle of life, which you composed as collage: of beauty, of music, of compassion, of laughter, of friendship, of love. The palette of choice was All your gardens, All your songs, All your art, All your Spirit, which

Michael Tomb 2016/04/132016/05/01 Biography, Poems 2 Comments Read more

Epiphany. A short movie.

Epiphany is a movie about energy and risk assessment.  It was inspired by a simple, personal moment of clarity that I experienced in 1976 while still a student in college.   My instant of awareness then served as both portend

Michael 2015/08/19 Biography, Movie No Comments Read more

With the former and of the latter

Unexpected to my life came our time where numbers in the canon of love of the people I knew far surpassed those of the people I know. Beyond the grace of melancholy, I am still possessed  by my personal union with the former

Michael Tomb 2015/07/312015/07/31 Biography, Poems No Comments Read more

Transitions of a Memory

“The day that any one of you can touch any one of my family is over.  The next time you try to injure one of us, this what is has now changed. I have grown up,  I am no longer

Michael 2014/09/112018/10/30 Biography, Fiction No Comments Read more

Prologue

At the end of the industrial age,  I stood between a chair and my office window , gazing at the Christmas shoppers fourteen stories below. I had just been asked a fairly technical question by my boss and mentor and

Michael 2013/11/222014/09/09 Biography 2 Comments Read more

Walk with Dogs to Trillium Grove

The one-eye Collie and the Manic Bird Dog, too, too excited passing Pasture Gate. Still cluttered with last year’s milkweeds. Too, too many box elders are taking root. Broken Dormer on the old well in the weeds, threatening, as remembered, to take

Michael 2013/04/132013/04/15 Biography, NaPoWriMo 2013 No Comments Read more

A Game of Briscola

You are always in the game, wherever I’ve played it. Forty cards in the deck, With a nickel always at risk, And your special “Oomph!” And swish of the wrist, Sending the taking three or ace to the table…are always,

Michael 2013/04/122013/04/14 Biography, NaPoWriMo 2013 No Comments Read more

The Alpha Diamond of Corona

When I found you your star, Alphecca to the Arabs, but Gemma, always from then to you and me, The Alpha Diamond of Corona, shining in the Crown of the North on those summer evenings. The back patio. To smell

Michael 2013/04/092018/04/04 Biography, NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems No Comments Read more

Still My hero

Not the final days, We’ll Talk About That Later, As I approach that age. But there was a time, yes, before mine, Where by your stories, You proved the world existed, long before I had my consciences. And it could

Michael 2013/04/072013/11/19 Biography, NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems 1 Comment Read more
The Alpha Diamond of Corona - A Poem

Recent Thoughts

  • Not the Trinity
  • Forty Four #HashTags Forming a Poem.
  • On litmus tests of patriotism
  • Every Word is Brokenhearted
  • To Lose You, My Friend
  • Epiphany. A short movie.
  • With the former and of the latter
  • Transitions of a Memory
  • Last Night I Finally Told Him
  • Improvising Gettysburg: A Movie and A Song
  • Prologue
  • “Remembering Frederick Douglass”: A Concert Review
  • List under Colorblind Opportunities
  • Lament for the Lost Birds
  • Marathons
  • Super Empowerable
  • Walk with Dogs to Trillium Grove
  • A Game of Briscola
  • Oh Tears!
  • While concocting a new poem each day

Index

Responses

  • Ben on Prologue
  • Max Hartshorne on Every Word is Brokenhearted
  • Elaine Gotham on Every Word is Brokenhearted
  • Michael Tomb on To Lose You, My Friend
  • Gabriel Sloane on To Lose You, My Friend

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