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.
By unloading the burden of carrying the weight of myself Iam closer to the way God made me
I wish at times things stopped accelerating and stopped moving, the hundreds of Babel's being raised to the sky.
The global economy shut...
People are looking for meaning in their life
They are looking to reconnect with themselves in
some way that reminds them of who they are...
Yesterday, a gray catbird
I spotted with wild picked berries
in it's beak, mewing above my head
like our neighbors housecat, An
Eastern...
The institutions take on the shape of whatever political ideology is relevant at the time. They are like the chameleon that changes to the...