Please bring the wine cuz I’m flat broke,
I couldn’t even buy a can of Coke.
But once you smell my heart’s sweet rose,
you’ll only wish you were all nose.
Robert Klein Engler lives in Omaha, Nebraska. He is a writer and artist. His many publications are available in print or on the Internet. Robert holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana and the University of Chicago Divinity School. You may find his writing scattered over the Internet.
Although Sign Wars is comic, its timing does give pause for thought. As for Stray Boy, even the title clues…
This is just beautiful -- such a lovely picture you've painted with these words, and so many marvelous phrases! "Moments…
"Sign Wars" is such a timely and interesting subject for a sonnet!
This poem is truly mesmerizing, demanding careful re-reading. I love the imagery you've used to describe these fleeting, fading encounters:…
Brian, I intended to reply to your comment here two days ago, but I got distracted and it slipped my…
This one was impudent but on point. I like a scandalous verse now and then. So much was not said, which says it all. I’ve heard that Latin is like that.
This is based on a longer Catullus poem (carmen 13), and gives an echo of only the last two or three lines. The “Coke” reference, of course, is a modern interpolation.