Troll's Poetry Corner

2010-09-21T20:03:00.001-04:00

When I was as a young manThings, most thingsWere aboutAdrenalin and testosteroneWhether it was sportOr getting ladiesIt was what it wasBut at my ageIt’s simplyAboutStayingAlive

2010-08-17T21:39:00.001-04:00

A good dayBut a weird daySeveral positive thingsAnd only oneNegativeBut I must admitThe negativeWhy is it?That the positivesAre freeBut theNegativesCost money

2010-08-17T21:25:00.001-04:00

I hate the fact that I need to buy a new computer. My present machine still runs but because it’s about 9 or 10 years old, is running the ME ops software and older browsers I’m being locked out of many online pages. I live by the adage that if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, however in this case it ain’t broke but unfortunately technology has pasted it by.

2010-07-18T11:32:00.001-04:00

I am atThe evening of lifeAs I lookTo the westThe sunHas not setBut it’s timeTo anticipateThat eventHave IAccomplishedWhat I may have wishedHave IAccomplishedWhat my skill set could haveProbably notTo be honestNot at allBut life isWhat lifeIs

2008-11-01T22:24:00.000-04:00

Life is what life is We do the best We can And history Law Government Society decides But what about Things that the above Minimalisms Is there something more? Is there a spiritual element? Is there a mystical/magically element?

2008-06-30T20:42:00.001-04:00

2008-06-24T23:17:00.001-04:00

There was a time Whether it was the best of times Or the worst of times Or just neutral… At least I was much younger… Age is the crucial factor… The worst of times When we are young Last a brief time Youth and quick recovery Are hand in hand Age, that is old age And topical

2008-06-09T22:41:00.000-04:00

Don’t expect light The world is full of darkness Light does exist But lately seems to be overwhelmed We must hold to the light we find Don’t expect light The world is full of darkness Light

2008-06-09T22:32:00.001-04:00

Allow me my place Show mw a modicum of Respect I am not you I am not the one who is not you I’m someone else You have never met someone like me You have never conceived of someone like me You probably fear that someone like me exists

2008-06-09T22:19:00.000-04:00

There once was a girl from Madrid Who bought a high quality lid The high was insane But the bucks where a drain But then she was just a wild kid

2008-05-02T00:42:00.000-04:00

Spring has sprung The lilac is blooming The spring flowers Have bloomed But I am still Stuck In the doldrums of winter My soul is still frozen Perhaps it’s Just old age Or maybe Just …

2008-04-03T00:21:00.001-04:00

The classic poem The road not taken Give me a brake Never that simple Just two choices Life is just Not that simple I am or might be At a cross roads And the options are More then I can understand

2008-03-30T01:49:00.000-04:00

As days reach into night Call me sick Call me whatever But I prefer night Strangely I prefer night The cancelled The less then revealed The partially secret That which is not known

2008-02-03T22:47:00.000-05:00

There once was a man from New York Who dined on barbecue pork Although he dressed well Fixed his hair with some gel He really was a big dork

2007-11-19T20:22:00.001-05:00

The cold of late fall Is upon me The dread of winter To follow

2007-11-02T01:21:00.001-04:00

The months and years pass Almost as fast as the leaves of fall Pass outside my window Some are a lovely gold Some a beautiful red And some a dismal brown Much like the years that have passed But with the years More are brown then gold or red

2007-09-06T23:13:00.001-04:00

Life ‘tis what it ‘tis We struggle against it We complain about it But the bottom line is We must accept it Because the alternatives Not stated here But you know what they are We’re all adults here Lead to ruin

2007-08-22T23:49:00.000-04:00

I am at low ebb The tide line is an infinite distance from the shore For what reason People protect me from what I should know ??????

2007-03-07T23:22:00.001-05:00

When It’s not there It’s not there When It is there It is there Today It wasn’t there Tomorrow it might be Life Is what it is Don’t try to understand

2007-03-03T21:45:00.001-05:00

I am more tired More in pain Then I ever would have though My body is dying Is in distress I falling apart as I speak But the spirit My soul That which defines me Is stronger Is more alive Then I have felt in 1000 years

2007-02-28T22:08:00.001-05:00

My weirdness is confirmed On many levels This should be One of a handful Of the worst Days Of my life And yet It may prove In the long run To be One Of the best

2007-01-25T23:32:00.001-05:00

Wait for it Wait for the drum roll Watch for the sound of the horns Woodwinds responding Will the strings respond? Will the conductor Wave his button Will it have meaning?

2006-12-16T17:54:00.001-05:00

Today This point in time Was not The best day Maybe not the worst But not the best A few incidents were nice Comforting Even special But by enlarge The day Well Sucked!

2006-12-07T23:40:00.000-05:00

‘Tis winter now The snow and cold Invade my bones Invade my soul I am a creature Of heat Of warmth Of fair weather But fate Chance And just plain Poor planning Has placed me In a spot A place A time Age And putting up with All the putting up with Has taught me to Disconnect If I had learned that Days/months/years ago I would not have Had to disconnect Now

2006-11-19T00:41:00.000-05:00

Life is what it is From the womb We have no promise of happiness From the womb We have no promise of wealth From the womb We have no promise of long life From the womb We are what we are

2006-11-12T19:01:00.000-05:00

A dank Dreary Damp Late fall day It bothers Me more As I get older Then it once did But all of the pain Is not Simply Physical I struggle With a pain That Seeks to overwhelm me It’s your loss not mine Your mistake Not mine If you fail to see that Then your fault Not mine But I forgive

2006-11-03T23:10:00.000-05:00

I sit here Waiting Waiting for the Purpose of why I’m here Why I exist To reveal Itself But I fear that It has Come and gone And I failed to Recognize The Event

2006-10-04T00:57:00.000-04:00

Allow me to be What I am If not then I will Hunt you down with dogs Accept me And I will accept you Reject me And watch your back

2006-10-03T00:45:00.000-04:00

So anyways just Why? Why am I what I Am? And why does what happen to me Happen? Life is what it is Why? I have many questions And few

2006-09-22T23:33:00.000-04:00

A limerick I’ve tried to write But can’t get it down or tight As much as I try It’s week and dry I give up, try as I might

2006-09-21T23:59:00.000-04:00

I stand in the shower My head against the wall 15” below the showerhead Allowing the water That could boil a lobster To do it’s healing work On my traps and back That have been punished by Way too much seat time On the forklift This week And hours to come On the ‘morrow But

2006-09-20T23:53:00.000-04:00

Time is both Ethereal And Real The passing of time is Both Real and Unreal It is at the Same time Mundane And philosophical And I am way to tired Way to spent Mentally, spiritual And emotionally Though thru the darkest hour There is still hope When everything is black and hopeless There is still a ray of light Call me a fool And you’re probably are right

2006-09-07T00:16:00.000-04:00

Why Oh why Is it? When I am at my lowest Physically It seems that my muses Are At their highest level It seems that when strength evades me My mind and the spiritual Are at their Apex

2006-09-05T00:28:00.000-04:00

I will continue To be Who I am I really have No choice Change is Relative Even if I do Make Major changes In reality I remain Who I’

2006-09-05T00:14:00.000-04:00

In the days of my discontent In the days of my disbelief In the days of my sorrow Misery, and pain Still a sliver of light A brief glance of hope The smallest hint that Better days are coming Whether truth or fiction I do not know But

2006-09-01T21:48:00.000-04:00

I sit At my computer A fine glass Of bourbon Just inches from My left hand But my Mood is Less then Good It should be All is well Right now But the crappy Workday Change that Crappy workdays Intrudes (pause) Before you deem Yourself an expert In me Walk a few steps in my

2006-08-30T00:44:00.000-04:00

What is life? Really Despite the fact That I’ve been In what we call life For many years What is it? Really

2006-08-28T23:57:00.000-04:00

The true curse of being human 0f being human Is being smarter then everyone You Deal with Or simple being more Arrogant From my stand point It’s the first And from every one Else’s it’s the Second

2006-08-25T01:03:00.000-04:00

Tis late Tis a day when I Would have Forgotten Dismissed And moved on to the Next day If that was an option Not the day Yesterday was That was A very nasty Day Physically Today was A neutral day I really hate Neutral Days

2006-08-17T01:13:00.000-04:00

Love me, or hate me For what I am Leave me or Be my best friend Hold me tenderly Or throw me out But don’t expect me To be what I am not

2006-08-13T23:00:00.000-04:00

I have been Reminded It has been Reinforced That the more things Change The more they actually remain The same Peeps I haven’t seen in Decades Are older and grayer but The same So much For the concept Of Maturity

2006-08-03T22:17:00.000-04:00

I have retreated to a small place tonight Back to time when responsibility was something That was what my parents took care off But wasn’t something I understood… Sometimes it is necessary for us To step out of what Society demands of us And return to the gentler times

2006-07-06T23:52:00.000-04:00

I am in one of the crazy moods One of those moods that I can’t remove My body is ready for sleep, repose But my mind will not accept the fact

2006-07-06T23:45:00.000-04:00

If you look At the world Through your own eyes You see What you want To see But if you can Step aside For a brief moment And look through The eyes of another A friend or a foe You

2006-06-17T20:42:00.000-04:00

I must accept What age What diminished Abilities Has left me WHY?

2006-06-06T23:19:00.000-04:00

I should be headed to bed To sleep To rest To dream But the stress The worries The pain of the day Even the joy of the day Prevent…

2006-04-22T01:26:00.000-04:00

It’s late A little Tchaik 5 On the CD player I’m tired Or am I The body Is ready for Sleep For repose For the unconscious Rest Which we Call Sleep But is the rest of me Ready for The weird dreams For the stiffness That the Sleep of An old man Brings Winter here is by rote Cold…very cold With snow plied as high as the eye can see But this winter… Not a winter but an Extended fall And my life…

2005-12-23T22:33:00.000-05:00

‘Twas the night before The night before Christmas And all through the house Several creatures were stirring And all of them cats I had wished that the stirring Was a well-shaped blond But then again At my age I couldn’t respond

2005-12-06T00:06:00.000-05:00

It is insane Crazy Down right stupid And dumb Despite all my problems Despite the fact That Physically I feel Like I’ve been drug through a knothole Backwards I feel Fine Better than fine I feel Normal Of course Normal For Me Is weird

2005-10-21T00:10:00.000-04:00

It’s late It’s way past the time for repose But my mind whirls As my body decays You’d think That Body, mind And spirit Would act as One But the truth is And always will be That one Fights Incessantly Against Only a fool believes That he Is In control of his fate And I Am such A fool

2005-09-17T21:12:00.000-04:00

The mind restlessly searches The body fears the search As it has grow far Too old to Follow the minds desires And yet while it acknowledges The body’s limitations The mind Continues it's relentless pursuit I am as it were Two people who inhabit the same body The physical,

2005-09-04T23:51:00.000-04:00

I am a private man A solitary man By choice As well as by fate I both Chose And not chose To live alone A paradox probably But None the less True But everyone Seems To assume that I’m fine with that When I'm not But I have no power No magic spell No secret potion The ball is in some one else’s court I loved them once Or at least was in lust I

2005-08-27T00:04:00.000-04:00

I think that cats are the prefect animals They do no work They sleep Purr And eat And yet so-called intelligent animals like me Let them get away with it Even care for them and love them

2005-08-26T23:01:00.000-04:00

I would seek the place of quiet I would seek the place of peace My soul My inner being Would seek it gladly If it only Truly Inherently Knew where to look

2005-08-26T22:58:00.000-04:00

I search for the silence I search for the place of peace and Quiet My soul requires it Demands it Seeks it with every waking breath But it is the one place Despite my best efforts I cannot find

2005-08-26T22:49:00.000-04:00

I wander though the experience called life I have no map No real plan No real understanding of the path I should take I make my choices on the basis of Whim Chance And sexual attraction Life is a journey they say But for me Life is an endless Series of choices Poetry Probably not But it’s My blog My

2005-06-26T22:54:00.000-04:00

MistakesI'm prone to themI am after all humandespite my best attempts to denythat factI amirritated by my humanityI amirritated by my faultsdespite the factthat that isthe very proofthat I am alivethat I recognizemy weaknessthat I recognizemy need to growto matureto developand despite all thatI resent itI truly do

2005-05-08T07:20:00.000-04:00

a new sheet of papera blank sheeta fresh pagewaitingfor a poema storyeven a grocery listahif only lifewas as simple

2005-01-29T21:08:00.000-05:00

the mind struggles to make sense of what should be obvious maybe it's old age maybe it it's disbelief as is this can't be happening to me or maybe it isn't obvious or maybe there is no rhyme or reason a random unexplainable event yet the logic of the mind cannot accept even if it does leave me and it (that is the mind) off the proverbial hook

2005-01-28T21:45:00.000-05:00

winter is upon us cold invades the body chilling us even to the very roots of our being the soul seeks a glimmer of light of heat of warmth of anything that is not frozen the mind knows winters time is limited but the soul feels IT will last f o r e v e r

2005-01-27T20:25:00.000-05:00

in the darkness he waits watches seen yet unseen known yet not known expected but not understood longed for but never found yet someday sometime somewhere he will be made know cross my path and be understood but for now fate waits

2004-10-02T21:27:00.000-04:00

exhaustion the world intercedes to much stress overwhelms the strength of spirit emotions overflow my limits distress abounds like rivers of water hope exists but is quite small relief will come it must, it always has new love is both wished for and abhorred

2004-08-23T15:49:00.000-04:00

i know you're my friend i know you want to help but you can't i don't really understand it myself so how can i explain it to you i try very hard but i can't just leave me be i'm almost well but every time, i'm forced to repeat it i relive it again i sink back into the blackness if you are my friend please leave me alone this is something i must do alone...............

2004-08-23T15:41:00.000-04:00

so please don't ask i probably know less then you yes it's happening to me but i'd really rather forget i've gone over it a hundred times and it never makes sense and i doubt it ever will so please don't ask

2004-08-22T23:24:00.000-04:00

i'm tired dead on my feet but sleep won't come like the ghosts of charles d my thoughts of past mistakes present problems future worries parade thru my mind i try to avoid them but like machines of fate they roll on unabated too noisy to ignore too relentless to avoid but calm will come and with it sleep it must

2004-06-03T15:47:00.000-04:00

tears should be falling but stoically i refuse but why, no response

2004-06-03T15:43:00.000-04:00

downtime waiting i hate it things to do places frozen i sit waiting for someone something are they coming will they ever come waiting like a kid on a trip are we there yet time both flies stands still downtime waiting i hate it

2004-05-10T11:14:00.000-04:00

this post isn't really poetic it done to test something out so if you expect a limerick just go somewhere and just pout

2004-05-01T21:24:00.000-04:00

it's evening and it's raining a noisy rain big drops hitting the sidewalk the neighbors garbage can an annoying rain i've heard the same sounds with joy with laughter or just ignored it but tonight i'm annoyed my mood is bleak enough it does not need to be accompanied especially by sounds that remind of better times

2004-03-10T15:35:00.000-05:00

Gone, but forgotten? Mind. body, heart in disagreement Gone. relief or pain

2003-11-13T21:50:00.000-05:00

I wait silently I listen for the music But the mind is mute I must hear it Inside of me Before it can be voiced But all I hear is silent As if my mind is stuck Stuck inside A grand pause But I am never with out my music for long It will return It always has It must return For I And my music Are one

2003-09-19T15:04:00.000-04:00

The winds howl and swirl No longer full force But bad enough Many did not survive it But it's main fury spent It still trudges on We see only a taste A shadow of it's power But that is enough Position is everything in life In this case It is life

2003-07-16T13:32:00.000-04:00

Stationary I sit Body totally at rest Mind moves aimlessly _ _ _ _ Attention lacking I focus on nothingness Much is now reveled _ _ _ _ Unsettled my way But my course never wavers But to what ending

2003-06-25T13:24:00.000-04:00

The past Fades into nothingness Meaninglessness The years Clouded by time And fading memory What's remembered Is distant An unrelated jumble A piece of this A flash of that But real or imagined An incomplete An inaccurate picture Of what was I forget What I should Remember And remember What I fight so hard To forget

2003-06-25T11:29:00.000-04:00

There once was a boy name of Flynn Who went to town for to sin To him she looked great So he went on a date But his eyesight was clouded by gin

2003-06-25T11:22:00.000-04:00

Fatigue surrounds me It pervades my inner self Body and soul together

2003-06-24T15:45:00.000-04:00

summer has arrived warming both body and soul light renews within

2003-05-30T13:02:00.000-04:00

There once was a girl name of June the boys clapped when she sang them a tune she was an old slut with a cute little butt and that made the little boys swoon (yah i know, but i can't do serious forever.....sooner or later the lymerick must return)

2003-05-28T15:11:00.000-04:00

aimless wanderings life is an uncharted maze hiding what must be

2003-05-25T09:15:00.000-04:00

Memorial day weekend A time of remembrance? But do we Remember? In my youth A day Not as now A weekend But a day Of parades Of taps At a graveyard Of the reciting Of Lincoln Of prayers For the fallen But now A Monday holiday A 3 day weekend But do we remember?

2003-05-22T08:02:00.000-04:00

thick clouds hang over me dark clouds encompass my soul depression resides

2003-05-21T15:41:00.000-04:00

Time borrowed today Saved for another tomorrow Set aside, reserved ___________________________ A moment just now Time seemed to stand quietly Now marching loudly

2003-05-20T10:05:00.000-04:00

blossoms fall like snow filling the air with their scent my soul fills with peace ____________________ joy comes with the spring sorrow is for the winter inevitably

2003-05-20T09:13:00.000-04:00

staring at the screen writing on a paper scrap thoughts yet unspoken

2003-05-19T23:01:00.000-04:00

as day becomes night the wind is but a whisper the trees remain calm (old start different ending) a new sound i hear music i have never known the sound envades me

2003-05-19T22:30:00.000-04:00

note: for some reason i have never considered the poetic form of haiku, but a random event has placed this in my way and i have given it some thought.....and will play with them from time to time a moment in time gone never to return..but a new one arrives a new sound i hear music i have never known the sound fills my mind (althought the current theory as put forth by some, leaves the standard

2003-05-16T15:22:00.000-04:00

An eclipse they say Darkened the moon Last night Towards the end of the day I could not see Clouds in the way So was it Real or unreal I tend to believe What I see with the eye What I touch What I hear What I smell I tend to ignore What I can't Understand When I can't See the sum Or the end The future is there But real or surreal Will know Someday At the end But I keep Moving on To the

2003-05-16T09:10:00.000-04:00

I woke up this morning Stiff Sore Depressed I woke up this morning Feeling Every year Day And second Of my life I woke up this morning Grumpy Remembering Regretting BUT I woke up this morning

2003-05-12T09:52:00.000-04:00

My soul Reflects the weather Not always But today Dreariness Surrounds And invades Both My soul and The world Around me One It seems That at least today The obvious interconnect Is real and sure Not always But today

2003-04-15T15:11:00.000-04:00

Spring has sprung Maybe I should dance with joy But I resist Old man winter May still be lurking Like a grinch To steal my spring __________________ There one was a girl at the lake Oh what a rack goodness sake Took one more look I'm gonna' make book And bet that those boobies are fake ____________________________

2003-03-22T08:56:00.000-05:00

a girl from old erin's isle said to the troll with a smile come fill my glass and call me your lass and rest 'tween my breasts for a while

2003-03-22T08:42:00.000-05:00

the war invades my thoughts this morning even though i will it not to... i try to play the ostrich but cannot i try to place my thoughts on the positive on the mundane but cannot i listen to lovely music i think on beautiful things i try to focus on anything else but i cannot but i must i cannot allow myself to be sucked in to the maelstrom i cannot i must not i will not