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Weather Retorts

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Early May 2025 Lenox, MA in the Berkshires; Dave Read photo.
Early May 2025 Lenox, MA in the Berkshires; Dave Read photo.

Use of Verse
After Dallas
Let There Be Life
Partisan Scourge and Poetry Prize
Most Foul Murder
Big Sister Watches Ewes
Mutual of Idaho’s Ivory Tower Power Hour
MAGA 1 – Truth 0
Big Beautiful Bombs
Birdsong at Dawn
Anti-social Media
No Virginia, there is no Santa Clause
Google’s Trumpian Gulp
Social media makes bank, not community
Dogs, Cats, Birds, and Breeze
Let MAGA Quake, the West’s Awake
Semiquincentennial dirge/hymn
Spring, alas
Whiff of Lilac
Savage Matter
Vernal Homily
New Church
Rook’s Remorse
A Biblical portion
Ode to books
Fringe of lunacy
Live Rock
Dopler vision
Woke
The Second Falling, Jan. 20, 2025
Say Cheese
Manhattan Bridge, Edward Hopper, 1928
Prayer for the Fallen
New England October
Pivot of Fall
Al fresco
Overheard at VerseFest
February Souvenir
October in a Poem
Real Weather
Wintertime Blues
Look Up
Rain Delay
Let Them Linger
Pivot of Spring
Big Apple Byte
Peeskawso Peak
Love Rocks
Natural world monetized
Judging April
Visionaries need not apply
Advice for the Novice, now on the Cape
Cape Cod Camp Haiku
Living Will
Verbose Haiku
Vernal Metaphysics
Fall Vespers and Winter Reverie
Vowels of bright desire
Third Degree
Before Winter
We Fined God
Weight of January
What’s bracing about spring
September
We Know Breeze
Paean to an Eminence
Buoys and Gales
Sustenance of Memory
Overture, with Locomotive
Portrait of a Pebble

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