esreVni - random adventures in iambic pentameter
Although I don’t really read poetry, for some reason, I seem to write a lot of it: birthday cards, Christmas poems, song lyrics, epics odes to…mostly rhyming couplets about whatever strikes my fancy at that moment. Here are a few — for the record. The selection is admittedly random; I just write what I’m told.
Unchained Fell-ony (2019) — a Wrenched Tale inspired by my latest near death experience
Boris the Spider - Part 2 (2019) — an unintentional tribute to The Who’s classic arachnid tune
An Inconvenient Muse — The Liner Notes (2019) — from the vanity unBulm of 12 songs that I wrote between 1994 and 2019. As my brother would say, “the songs are better than they sound.” Sigh. They said the same about Leonard Cohen. But perhaps the lyrics will stand the test of time.
Transpo-hemian Rhapsody — Take 2 (2019) — in which I mock Ottawa’s infamous “NO-Train”
#thataway (2014 - 2017) — the dizziness that comes from whirled-wide travels
Transpo-hemian Rhapsody - Take 1 — a protest song that went viral and global
Christmas in Kigali (1999) — Christmas in Rwanda, five years after the genocide
When We Are Old (1996) — a young man’s take on nostalgia
My Marriage Proposal to Tricia (1994) — possibly the most successful poem I’ve ever written
Hold Me In Your Arms (1991) — in which my heart broke in new places
Kalahari Dreaming. (1991) — my attempt at Beat Poetry while in Botswana.
Monet’s Glasses (1990) — my personal theory on the origins of French Impressionism
Elephant Shoes (1989) — in which my heart was broken for the first time.