Daniel Warren - Patterson Gap Poetry

Like a river flows

Like a river flows
I have tried not to stop
or spin like an eddy

For your kind

Hello, how are you?

I don't know your name
How'd you get here?
A surprise, for me.

Catitude

Everything is for the cat's convenience.

Fetch the cat bowl

fetch the food
the cat waits

with catitude

Georgia Douglas Johnson (September 10, 1880 – May 15, 1966), was a poet and playwright. She was one of the earliest female African-American playwrights, and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. More...

The boatman

Life is a continuum of correction and flow:

The boatman

strikes his pole

into the muddy bottom

Ernest Neal

Ernest Neal (1858–1943), was an American poet and educator. He was the 2nd Poet Laureate of Georgia. He lived in Dahlonega for some time, but Calhoun, Georgia was his home. More...

Like rain that fell

Maybe the unplanned life is worth living, open to whatever may come as long as it falls naturally:

Like rain that fell

where it fell

my life

too

An American musician, poet and author born in Macon, Georgia. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a professor of literature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. (from Wikipedia)

My moments

This poem is about those jarring times when life breaks out of its usual routine. Those times can be unwelcome, but even so, they provide markers to our lives:

My moments

parade

in a row

until