richard ilnicki Poems

When they put my wife summarily
into a psychiatric ward
for her own good
and for the good of others
...

below where humility stands

below where humility stands
handcuffed behind the hands of eternity
...

I can hear a pin dropp in China

when i am alone,
quarantined off limts and forbidden
...

the celestial embrace of the bridegroom

the celestial embrace of the bridegroom
is eternal.
...

how does a man grow?

how does a man grow
as he gets older?
...

today
we plan to do
something different;
we will be celebrating
...

My love for you
has never been tempered
by the cold water of logic or reason.
No frigid analytical left-brained actuarial
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Somewhere a poem resides hidden
beneath a coat of many colors, rainbow's pot of gold
on either end.
It is complete, lacking nothing
...

The sound barrier of her silence
shattered the hemisphere.
Her decibels cracked the sky
like a machete the coconut,
...

She me
Her I
We
belong together.
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