by Robert Prince | General, Poetry
Growing up I had this love/hate relationship with poetry. I wanted to like it, and I tried to read it many times, but most times it felt as if I was reading a foreign language…a bunch of words jumbled together in all the wrong order with no punctuations. It might as...
by Robert Prince | Poetry
I drafted this poem one evening after seeing the movie, Here Today, with Billy Crystal. Although the movie’s major theme is about the unlikely yet touching friendship formed between two very different characters, a veteran comedy writer – Charley Burnz, and a singer –...
by Robert Prince | Poetry
Did you see me winking at you this morning, before I sent the sun over the horizon?Did you know it was me, or did you just see stars covered in clouds? Did you see the depth of my sky this morning, the beautiful pinks, oranges, reds and blues, and the white puffs of...
by Robert Prince | Poetry
Thine eyes have not been upon you. My thoughts wander, my soul searches for distractions it always seems to find. I think of you but only to wonder, “is what I’m doing displeasing you?”I’m not aiming to please, but fearful of not. My thoughts – so often unwholesome,...
by Robert Prince | Poetry
I wrote this poem after an disagreement with my wife one day. It wasn’t a bad disagreement, but we were both tired and we were short with each other, not willing to listen to the other person’s side in the moment. We walked away from the situation without...
by Robert Prince | Poetry
Seeds of hope flitter here and therefrom words spoken one to another. We know the joy it brings,gathering with others,communing,yet we fight the desire. (Feeling weak – Needing others) It takes so muchto get out of our denial,to inch our way forwardto real connection....
