Poetry Archives - Baltimore Post-Examiner

Walking

November 26, 2023 Sid Gold

Fortunately, you can go out walking. You expect very little, only dusk foreshadowing night, the murmur of animal life at

Len Shindel Poetry

Brown

November 17, 2023 Len Shindel

Leafless, grey, gnarled, they hibernate in the clays of the brown crag. Their red, yellow, orange gildings, two months

Len Shindel Poetry

Transitions

November 7, 2023 Len Shindel

My kitchen is blessed with fruity scents of Ethiopian Oromia, the welcoming traces of Chinatown Coffee Company, that quick but

Len Shindel Poetry

Small Town

November 3, 2023 Len Shindel

So you think our small town’s

so damn pretty

while you get on your soapbox

‘bout crime in the city.

Len Shindel Poetry

Words

October 19, 2023 Len Shindel

U.S. troops liberated death camps

in the decade before my birth.

My parents didn’t use the word fascism.

But I knew what it meant.

Only two years before my birth,

Israel was declared a state.

Anthony C. Hayes Poetry

She’s Almost Dorothy Parker

April 1, 2023April 1, 2023 Anthony C. Hayes

A Chesterfield fast upon her lips (She’s almost Dorothy Parker) A whiskey neat at her fingertips (She’s almost Dorothy Parker)

Poetry

Uncomfortable Truths

December 18, 2022 Earl Yarington

Maybe the perfect world we seek Is not meant to be; Maybe the bliss of heaven Becomes hell for eternity;

Poetry

My IED

November 5, 2022 Earl Yarington

Should I love my IED That goes off so suddenly Not hidden underneath, But for all to openly see?

Poetry

Dear My Favorite Miss

September 29, 2022 Earl Yarington

Failure has taught me this: Nothing else matters, That if I could have a wish, I would binge watch Netflix

Poetry

Little Salmon

September 25, 2022 Earl Yarington

Sweet little salmon, so fast and so swift; She keeps up with the others so big and so strong. Swims

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