Category Archives: Poems of a Young Man

Early poetic ventures, written before 1986, when I was a green Pollyanna

Poems of a Young Man: “BIRTHDAY TIDINGS TO MYSELF” (by KPKeelan)

Posted on October 16, 2021 by KPKeelan

 REPOSTING, ON MY 65th BIRTHDAY . Congratulations Kevin! You’ve survived the impossible demands of the twentieth century to be 22! Survival sometimes seems no frivolous feat. With the luxury of reflection, my decades seem one non-stop roller coaster ride running … Continue reading →

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Poems of a Young Man: “RETT’S ABSURD FACIAL GYMNASTICS” (a poem for Everett Joseph Zero, by KPKeelan)

Posted on September 29, 2021 by KPKeelan

. As was by now familiar custom (yet still bizarre enough to raise eyebrows) Rett Zero behaved bizarrely. I shouldn’t have been surprised. This was not in the least unusual. In fact, it was something I could count on -at … Continue reading →

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Poems of a Young Man: “SUNBURNT IN THE SHADE” (a hypothetical song by KPKeelan)

Posted on September 28, 2021 by KPKeelan

. So you want to be a winner and you long to be a drifter? And you hunger after eating and you thirst more after drinking? So you turn and ask me if you’re all I think you should be, … Continue reading →

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Poems of a Young Man: “TWICE REAL” (a poem for Shannon & Stuart Vance, by KPKeelan)

Posted on September 27, 2021 by KPKeelan

. What an honor it is for me to accept your gift. I have been twice blessed. Once, to have you two, twice to have you give so wholly. There are no streetlights in these eyes. (Look and see.) My … Continue reading →

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Poems of a Young Man: “BEGINNING TO DEAL WITH MY VISIONS” (by KPKeelan)

Posted on September 26, 2021 by KPKeelan

. I’m frightened but calm. I don’t understand. I want to but don’t want to know. I don’t want to think about it. I don’t want to think. But I have to. My thoughts won’t go away, delivering me into … Continue reading →

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Poems of a Young Man: “DRENCHED IN DARK” (by KPKeelan)

Posted on July 4, 2021 by KPKeelan

. On the light side of midnight I pause to taste the fruits of my labors and rejoice in my intricate role of mediator interpreter inspector- looking towards the other side but not concentrating on it, not consecrating it. But … Continue reading →

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Poems of a Young Man: “INFATUATION AND POST-INFATUATION” (by KPKeelan)

Posted on June 23, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Fascination- Let GO! Release, you clutching fingers these relics of a life turned to stone by passing. Pass me through this incarnation! Hear my incantation! Slip me past these fears. Send me through these years teetering as walls ever … Continue reading →

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Poems of a Young Man: “DOUGLAS AND JENNIFER AT 4 AND 6” (by KPKeelan)

Posted on June 1, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Tipsy again and with good reason! I stand, composing this verse gazing peacefully down upon the sleeping faces of my gorgeous young cousins, loving them and thinking about family. Bleary, from the evening’s revelry but still hyped by the … Continue reading →

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Poems of a Young Man: “PROPHECY OF PARADOX” (by KPKeelan)

Posted on May 5, 2021 by KPKeelan

. My skin is pierced once again. Some of the inside leeks out.  Visions are flowing now with freeflight abandon, unrestrained. I look about me and I can’t help but notice that everything possible is manifesting and (shit!)  there’s just … Continue reading →

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Poems of a Young Man: “A MIDNIGHT TELEPHONE AFFIRMATION FROM KATE” (by KPKeelan)

Posted on April 3, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Bravo!  Encore! I remember that. Where has it been? There was a time I remember so clearly, when we could talk, wasn’t there? I was beginning to turn cynical. I was beginning to think those old love poems were … Continue reading →

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