by Ron Sokol | Apr 11, 2020 | Poems
So you are going to hurt me? You are going to make me really sick? Is that right? Maybe – Maybe even die? Oh yeah? I don’t think so (we all said) Not a chance (we all shouted) Ladies and gentlemen, in the light corner the Almighty, full of benevolence and...
by Ron Sokol | Apr 6, 2020 | Poems
Have you noticed how opening the window shade some times if it is bright outside you blink — Some like to push their face out of the car window into the sunlight —- It splashes from so very far away and incredibly without sound How far the light travels and how much...
by Ron Sokol | Apr 3, 2020 | Poems
There is quite a lot to sitting at a window sill First the morning greets you with announcement of inexplicable mystery Sometimes I have a very hard time pulling myself away And yet part of the fun is imagining getting lost out there Or to see children walking toward...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 26, 2020 | Poems
I got nothing was bluffing next thing you know I might just bet my clothes! If I have to play naked folks just turn up the heater a bit ok? All right, I see you, in fact I call, I call! Three of a kind, oh, damn, are you kidding me? Man bad cards tonight bad Best to...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 22, 2020 | Poems
I’m scared and I admit it Not only not only may I die but I may go through hell before then, they are saying So many locked up at home “It’s for your own good peoples!” One fellow (just one) so weathered but saintly wandered into the middle of the street Raised...
by Ron Sokol | Mar 13, 2020 | Poems
I could not tell Could not That she cried tears in the rain She told me: “I am not the only one crying today” And she looked up but I saw nothing Only sky some clouds “You know” she said “you know, angels cry a lot when they watch what is...
