Michael Wise

poem by Michael Wise

Hummingbird, hummingbird what's your hurry? Darting quickly through the air I can scarcely see you coming In an instant you are there Of God's creatures on the wing in the day or dark of night None so perfectly maneuve... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Sitting and watching the clouds roll by scattered across a bright blue sky picturing how much fun it would be to walk on a cloud, flying free Standing atop that white fluffy mist drifting through heaven, by the sun kisse... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Two tiny dots on a vast landscape wandering aimlessly Ginger and John Man and his cat a long time together on buses and freight trains hither and yon Jobs here and there a few extra dollars some milk and a hamburger the... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

O, black and potent beverage each morning that I rise you give me greater leverage you make me strong and wise O, elixir of higher thought rejuvenate my mind I percolate you in my pot through dark beans that I grind ... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

It lies in wait to quickly strike, this predatory beast It binds you up in iron chains and on your life does feast Unmerciful, and so it gives no quarter to its prey Like being dead while y... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Looking around good people I see How did they end up with someone like me? My heart is divided both far and near Should I move on or stay right here? And if I should leave what about after? Will life be about tears or l... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

For you, my love, I'd gladly die for you I've shed some tears for you have often crossed my mind throughout these many years In my thoughts I've found myself inside your warm embrace but in my heart I know a tru... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Have I taken the best of what you had and made it all my own? Did your sweet life touch mine in vain? Or have I truly grown? Your heart still beats within my mind although you've gone to sleep I gaze upon your photograph... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Take me away, o rainy day as your gentle waters pass my way Sweetly kissed by foggy mist my troubled thoughts have fallen whist What soothing sound the droplets found as on my roof they dan... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

The face of a child is so full of joy an effortless smile on each girl and boy They live life so fully they dance and they sing so grateful am I for the laughter they bring I look in amazement their lack of conce... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

It came to me upon reflection Life is one great big collection Starting with a teddy bear and ending with a gasp of air The time between those points is rough accumulating all this stuff Books and knick knacks line ... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

I’ve picked it up a hundred times Yet dropped it just once more So I give up, the blasted thing Can lay there on the floor And stepping out onto the porch I hit the ice and slipped As I walked back into the house I stu... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

This man is an island uncharted in the sea and many are the shipwrecks that set their sails for me Down along the shoreline are remnants in decay and others sank beneath the waves while searching for a quay Peaceful waters... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

The power is out but rather than pout I'll sit down and write a few rhymes It makes me so happy to write something snappy when life throws me lemons or limes My eccentricity denied electricity comes out in the open to play... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Take care, for what you plant will later be your harvest sweet or bitter, it's your choice my friend Cast not forth seeds of anger nor bitterness nor fear the fruit of such is poison in the end Tread lightly as y... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Just how small can the smallest things be? Is there anything even smaller to see? Down where tiny particles are giants discovered, observed and studied by science Does the subatomic go in as far as the universe's most distant... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Was I once your cherished friend? Was it so until the end? While we shared so many miles did I ever make you smile? Did my friendship comfort you when your heart was broke in two? Was I equally elated any time you celebrated?... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

With red and purple sunset melting into blackened sky The hummingbirds have bedded down and shortly so shall I As crickets sing their lullaby into a dream I fall The things of night begin to stir at moonlight's beck and c... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Lost in the valley of indecision Forever caught between here and there My mind is divided, my soul is torn And monstrous phantoms are everywhere There's neither light, nor is there darkness Here in this barren oasis of grey Tr... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Like a beacon on a hill The white church steeple gleaming still For all the many years gone past It marks the path for home at last Up and down each tree-lined street Where childhood friends and neighbors meet In history and m... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Here's a toast to your good health and to multiply your wealth May God's blessings overwhelm you with delight Tell your worries and your debts and those lingering regrets to go take a running jump and fly a kite May yo... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

I watch a sunset that I'd love to share and nobody sees it but me I'm scratching my head in utter amazement that nobody cares much to see Things to accomplish things to get done a million things every... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

The lights at night have much to say a different story than the day They shine and glisten here and there in coolness of the evening air The street lamps glow to light the way as flashing neon colors play ... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

The old street lamps have lent a glow to foggy mists engulfing them the ground is wet with dots of color from each fallen leaf and stem This autumn night as I stroll past these nineteenth century homes of old like ghosts that ... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

I almost called you several times I know it's been a while I had the phone right in my hand but never got to dial Something kept distracting me every time I tried Babies crying, P.T.A., my son needing a rid... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Have you ever thrown a day away? There are many more, as you would say There's always been and long shall be tomorrows lining up for me What guarantee have you or I this very night we shall not die? Tomorrow comes bring... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

That funny smile that laugh so sweet those tiny precious hands and feet Just two years old and full of joy oh how I loved that little boy He stole my heart then went away I never will forget that day We waved goodbye... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

And I for one would like to sleep but I cannot, because I weep for lives and dreams and nations lost We never thought to count the cost So many are the pirouettes of running, flailing silhouettes as flames behind them flicker ... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

The circling silhouettes of birds as they fly while purples and yellows color the sky as I drink in all of this beauty I'm seeing I am one with the Earth in the joy of just being Everything's magic right now in this place as a ... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

When all the great songs have already been sung and every last bell has finally rung I pray it is then when our hope from above shall descend to the Earth like the gentlest dove When every last page has been written in p... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Where does laughter go when it's done? What becomes of joyful sounds that are spun? Do those waves fly off and tarry somewhere, to another dimension, or just hang in midair? Does that energy know when there's someone in n... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Exceptionally average on every known scale My life story’s such a nonsensical tale Striving for apathy with passionate zeal all of my flaws I boldly conceal I loudly proclaim my feelings to none and when there is troub... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Lovers are the men that every woman wants and that every man wants to be In the movies, he's the one who gets the girl and the rest are just men like me Loners are the guys who go their own way and solitude is their best friend... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

On cool rainy days I like to slow down to millions of droplets kissing the ground The dry thirsty Earth is quenched and relieved from the hot and dry season by which she was grieved The rhythmic raindrops massaging my ... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

When the trees are pink and white and the flowers are in bloom there can be no thoughts of darkness in my mind there is no gloom How can I think of death when surrounded by new life? There is harmony in nature not a ... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

All those memories you haunt seem to make you hurt the most yet you linger in the past like a sad and lonely ghost There is an eerie silence in your melancholy mood You've retreated to the darkness from the dreams you once pu... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

When you are in trouble and start seeing double you might as well have a good laugh Cause sorrow and crying and excessive sighing can shorten your lifespan by half If buried in debt why brood in regret ... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

Thinking all of this time that I stood next to giants 'til I realized those giants were mad But what brought me here was impulsive stupidity I see now that I have been had Why seek fame and glory when those who would give i... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

When a friendship dies no mourners come with last respects to pay There’s nothing but the silence where there once was much to say Old comforts feeling awkward on the chances that we meet We are strangers ... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

The symphony has started and the darkness does descend the world succumbs to quietude the day has reached its end The nighttime woods are glittering and offer up a show a dazzling performance by the fireflies, aglow Al... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

It never seems to end as you lose another friend when death comes grimly reaping and he leaves the mourners weeping How terrible the day when someone fades away and they join with those at last who populate y... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

In my ponderings of late I've been chuckling at fate Or perhaps more truthfully fate's been chuckling at me And I asked myself one day If I were to pass away Would my absence thus succeed where my presence failed ... Read more

poem by Michael Wise

When you and I were only five it was fun just being alive to smell the air and feel the sun with trails to walk and fields to run When you and I were just sixteen our new romance was so pristine That sudden unexpected ki... Read more