The Bye-and-Bye Epitaph of an American

0 Comments

Tags:
  • Truth
    • ,
  • Realization
    • ,
  • Death
    • ,
  • Thought Provoking
    • hippideeth
    • Hey guys! I recently published a poetry chapbook in memory of my mammaw. It's available on amazon.com and createspace e store. It's titled If I Settle Down... by Charles Cross.

    The Bye-and-Bye Epitaph of an American

    I tried to be stoic,
    but I was too much of a romantic.
    I tried to be a romantic,
    but they cut off my head.
    I tried to make it as a circus freak,
    but they said, "You can't juggle with one head."
    Here, they say, "There's nothing you can't be,"
    yet I failed at all three.

    Poem Comments

    (0)

    Please login or register

    You must be logged in or register a new account in order to
    leave comments/feedback and rate this poem.

    Login or Register

    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

    hippideeth’s Poems (37)

    Title Comments Submitted
    Title Comments Submitted
    If I Settle Down... 0 07/22/2015
    Tuesday Morning 0 07/22/2015
    If Christ Had a Face Like Ingrid Bergman... 1 04/16/2014
    To Our Teachers 1 08/15/2013
    Loving Contemplation 0 12/12/2012
    Cats on the Corner 0 09/02/2012
    Sal the Snail's Simple Confession 2 05/17/2012
    The Bye-and-Bye Epitaph of an American 0 10/16/2011
    Goat Song 3 01/08/2011
    The Right Hand 2 10/20/2010
    A Promise in Soap 6 04/26/2010
    Isaac Brock 0 04/26/2010
    Free Talker 1 03/23/2010
    Dirty Windshield 1 03/23/2010
    City Underground: Badland Chronicles Chapter II 7 01/30/2010
    Hills of Nirvana 5 09/15/2009
    20 Prescriptions For My Dear Aunt Sally 2 09/15/2009
    City Underground: The Badland Chronicles 2 09/21/2009
    When I Call Mom... 4 06/19/2009
    Piers of Passion 4 07/01/2009
    Pop-tart Education 4 11/25/2009
    Fucking the Hero 4 07/01/2009
    Two Second Spirit 1 06/06/2009
    Around the Block 0 06/06/2009
    Society is a Whore 1 09/16/2009
    College 0 06/06/2009
    Watchman's Rattle 1 06/06/2009
    Still 0 06/05/2009
    Healthy Children 0 06/05/2009
    Passionate Nights 1 06/05/2009
    1999 1 06/05/2009
    A Walk With Sister 2 06/05/2009
    A Hollow Howls Before the Mountain Storm... 1 06/04/2009
    Sitting on the Crapper 1 06/03/2009
    Irezumi Doctor 1 06/03/2009
    Tuva Street Song to America 3 07/01/2009
    Incense 1 05/31/2009
    Top of Page