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My Online Poetry Sampler

It's really hard writing doggerel, much less good poetry. I'm somewhere in between, feeling that I write good doggerel. Ironically, poetry is probably the one form of writing that I'd like to be serious about, but that I can't entirely take seriously. Anyway, I've included a sampler of the ones that I don't mind sharing.

Table of Contents

• Alimony
• Ashes
• Autumn Evening on Starved Rock
• Banquo's Ghost Addresses Macbeth
• Bernardin
• Black Widow
• Bob's Reflections on the Spade-Toed Frog
• The Box
• Dusk
• Elegy for an Italian Restaurant
• Epiphany
• The Grass is Dying
• In the House of God
• Lincoln Park
• The Lonely Bulls
• Man O' War
• The Mariner's Lament
• Mjolnir
• North Branch
• Ode to a Cow
• Ode to Yet Another Barmaid
• Passion
• Playing Chicken
• A Poet's Salute to H.P. Lovecraft
• The Prayer of Tharkin
• Requiem for a Stratocaster
• Speaking in Tongues
• Still Life
• Sunday Afternoon on a Couch
• Televangelism
• The Troubador's Valentine
• Vanderdecken Rounds the Cape
• A Woman's Smile
• Worry Stone

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