Poems from Ian Mccleary
Poetry is important to my life because it gives me a way of saying things I never imagined were in me. My poems deal with all kinds of subjects, my attitude on today's culture, art, corporations, nature, etc. But these aren't the only things that I write about in my poetry. I don't have a favorite poet, but probably Michael McClure is the poet I have learned the most from, from his readings on YouTube.
Wage labor holds the missing creativity
of this world.
They are dulled by the regulated
movements of their routine
Their imagination was a...
My fiancee bought a tiny lavender plant
Which I have started to water when she's not home
to take care of it.
That I give another living...
I know what it felt like to be without work
And to be without a girlfriend, to befriend
people I shouldn't have befriended , done things I...
Institutions are a model train set
of the politicians and their supporters.
The only thing that seems right to me
is to follow the golden...
The Cathedral is beautiful when it's empty
without priests or layperson's to give mass
It becomes a part of nature, the perch for a...