If It Rains Pancakes: Haiku and Lantern Poems by Brian P. Cleary, illustrated by Andy Rowland, is a book that explains and celebrates two t...

I watch the world go by Swiftly passing my eye The fast fades away And I try to forget today. Tomorrow is a fresh start I hold that ho...

Mess Revolving cycle Clean and calm then Chaotic clutter. Straightening Seems only to encourage Greater destruction. This time I w...

An old poem of mine about trying to break out of a controlling relationship and be myself. Paper Doll I may be little and cute But I ca...

Courage It is not in the slaying of dragons Nor brazen chances for harm It is in the daily motions That fill your life with charm. It...

I seek only love, time and caring Not sparkles and bangles Not flowers and staring. I do not crave a big demonstration Of what you thin...

Fluent in wonder You refuse to give in To be sucked under The waves of sin. You take each moment Each opportunity To take what is sent And s...

Alchemy I bend and shape the very world to my will. Making it fit my needs and desires moving forward. Lead into gold is not my aim b...

Dimness reigns Covering all in it's cloak. I shut my eyes, Knowing that I miss nothing. There is nothing left to see. I hear you move, K...

I always said, never When pigs fly But some must have Sprouted wings and Taken to the sky. I said it would happen When hell freezes over So ...

Red The color of shoes, nails and blood The color of both rising and setting sun. The color of fear, pain and anger. It colors my world fill...

Why? Why? Why not? Why couldn't I? Why not simply enjoy One single moment for me? Why? Why change? Why do something? Why make myself hap...

Restart That button glow blue Iridescent, beckoning me. How easy to hit that circle And restart my work. If only it were so easy To restart ...

I sit and stare, half asleep Wishing you were sleeping I see a speck, a mark On the kitchen floor Small and black it mocks me. I sit and roc...

Till I Sleep Till I sleep I’m going to lie here And think of what I want to dream All about our last kiss What might come next It is all abo...

The Flower She opens her petals and faces the sun Turning as it walks across the sky As a woman watches the man she loves When it is out of ...

Different I thought today might be different I though today you might care I thought today might be the day That you show me what you say I ...

My Wall I once hid within a wall Safe, secure but lonely The he broke down All of my defenses And slowly stripped me Of all I was and believ...

Weight My heart is a weight in my chest Solid, still, unmoving I hold my breath Hoping to feel. In the ocean of friendships I sink to the bo...

Our World The world was made for us Sacrifice and pain secured it But day by day we destroy it Forgetting the gift we were given We kill wit...