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.
Men who are open with themselves
about who they are.
Not leaving one detail out.
Not hiding under a face of
fear or aggression.
Able to...
Insecurity came with me from the earliest days of my childhood. My mother would threaten to leave us for our misbehavior. We remember the...
The manicured lawn is human management, trying to recreate the hanging gardens of Babylon on smaller scale
But every animal but us, knows...
None of the phenomena can compare with the flicker of fireflies in the evening. Fireworks are dwarfed in size to them, even a parade.
They...
I remember the poet who read last time his poem/short story, The Sins of Man. This is a response to the Sins of Man poem he had written. It...