Poems by riveralex, by newest first

• Return to Cliff Cottage

  I make my living from the market-place / Just as my fathers would; / I move between the avenues / Selling and

  by riveralex 206 words, 18 comments, on Sep 22 9:22 AM. In Nature, Personal, Society, Spiritual, Love, Inspirational, Friendship
• Gone (a new song lyric)

  / I've lived my life in coffee cups / since I was just a kid / Wake up and smell the coffee, child: / That is what i did / / My daddy gav

  by riveralex 364 words, 14 comments, on Apr 2 6:47 AM. In Lyrics Memory, Hope Life, Family, Death, Survival, Time, Spiritual, Age, Yout
• Still

  by riveralex 287 words, 15 comments, on Feb 22 10:55 AM. In Adult, Angst, Dark, Love, Lost love, loss, Raw, Family, Life, Pain
• The Message

  This beach is red / with sand from stones as old as Earth. / Our grey sea, long ago, / reduced the granite peaks to dunes / and today, /

  by riveralex 260 words, 29 comments, on Feb 12 12:50 PM. In Nature, Angst, Spiritual, Survive, Pain, Life, Depression, Sadness, Inspirati
• Global Warning

  It's only February, and I'm sitting / by the back door... / I look at the ruin / of what was left undone / when winter's darkness fell / and I gave up the dream / that I might help these reliable lovers / sleep comfortably; / / yesterd

  by riveralex 187 words, 17 comments, on Feb 8 5:34 AM
• I Was Going To

  I was trying to remember / what loving you was like... / one breath between us / star-drenched nights; / / Summer evenings at the cottage, / crickets and the moon / dinner and a glass of wine, / our candle-lit room; / / Small rustlin

  by riveralex 90 words, 18 comments, on Feb 5 3:17 PM. In Love, Sad, Life, Personal, Lost love, Loss
• You Need To Make Me Cry

  by riveralex 353 words, 10 comments, on Jan 21 11:09 AM. In Lyrics, Love, Personal, Contemporary, Dark, Adult, Abuse, Family, Pain
• Two Hundred Men

  Forgive me if I fail to celebrate the majesty of Everest; / The mountain doesn't need my praise, / Has lived, will live, long after we are

  by riveralex 94 words, 18 comments, on Jan 14 1:53 PM. In Dark, Contemporary, Nature, Spiritual, Death, Life, Thoughts, Other
• Crazy

  Before you / I didn't know what crazy was, / I thought it was short / for wild or cool / for someone with a spirit / too big for this world

  by riveralex 311 words, 25 comments, on Nov 12 2:47 PM 2007. In Dark, Madness, Pain, Raw, Other, Anguish, Addiction, Relationships, Society
• The Trouble with Beauty

  by riveralex 392 words, 11 comments, on Nov 2 9:51 AM 2007. In Adult, Contemporary, Dark, Society, political, Thoughts
• Blood Temperate

  You know, / I'm so very proud / of the achievements of my gender. / Of the scrapyard we left on the moon, / and all those cylinders / on Ev

  by riveralex 203 words, 14 comments, on Oct 28 6:32 AM 2007. In Angst, Contemporary, Rant, Society, Other, Anger, Rage, Abuse
• Once

  Just once I'd like to feel something unmixed, / Simple. / Clear again. Ambivalence is / Here again, / My most constant friend. / It's how

  by riveralex 222 words, 18 comments, on Oct 27 8:30 PM 2007. In Personal, Life, Loss, Struggle, Age, Youth, Dark
• What you did

  by riveralex 135 words, 7 comments, on Aug 31 3:53 PM 2007. In Adult, Angst, Hope, Love, Dark, Pain, Loss