Category Archives: Other poetry

Your Monday Blessing: the water

Posted on May 29, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

Let me tell you a story about myself. I came from the water – before I had this body, I mean, when I was all ambition and a few tendrils. I came from the water, and flopped up onto the … Continue reading →

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Juliette Gréco is singing Over the Rainbow

Posted on May 22, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

Juliette Gréco is singing Over the Rainbow as she walks home through Paris after her interrogation by the Gestapo. Judy Garland, full-throated, echoes off the Boulevards, decommissioning silence, adding a few notes to joy’s chapter in the book of life. … Continue reading →

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horseradish

Posted on May 15, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

While I am eating horseradish, it occurs to me there are at this very moment people who are trying to avert an international scandal that might affect one’s standing on the world’s stage, not to mention their investments in the … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 24, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

Your Monday blessing comes from a place dear to my heart. I’ve come to know the Warrington YMCA, as well as their affiliated night shelter, a little over the last two years. Twice a month or so, a few of … Continue reading →

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Flight Mode

Posted on March 13, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

The only things real are grief and joy. As seagulls try out wheelies in the sky between blacktops, my children earn their wings on toys that were a history lesson when I was young. I leave my cell on mute, … Continue reading →

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Signs of the Times

Posted on January 31, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

What is poetry? Only the poets ask themselves this; everyone knows. It’s rhymes and lines and lavender bows.   What is art? The new exhibit’s about this, but nobody goes. The world is too full of television shows.   What … Continue reading →

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Blessing for Beginnings

Posted on January 9, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

Blessing for Beginnings If you are well, If you are fit, and ready, and healthy, And energized, Then now is the time to begin. Begin the novel, begin the exercise regime, Begin the new you, begin the home improvement, Begin … Continue reading →

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After the Massacre: A Christmas Poem

Posted on December 13, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

  When it was accomplished, and Herod’s soldiers returned from Bethlehem, a silence settled over the land like frost. The odd wailing, like the purposeless wind. And it came to pass in those days that a mother, after her child … Continue reading →

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Yes, I have Sought Salvation

Posted on November 23, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

Yes, I have sought salvation from the window of the internet browser. Just one more click, and that ought to fix the need for one more click. It takes no effort just to check if happiness is at my fingertips, … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing: trust

Posted on November 7, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

Not in the rulers of nations, Not in the sale of the moment, Not in my team, not in my tribe, not in my demographic. Not in any theological formulation cleverly devised by man. Not in the shotgun barrels of … Continue reading →

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