Robert Sheridan Poems

In 1864 we took a little trip
Along with General Sherman near the mighty Mississippi
We took a little hardtack and we took a lotta beans
And we caught the Confederacy in Savannah – there were a lot of screams.
...

Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
Occupants rock-sheltered
Famine & clearances the latter
Depleted populace no census
...

Its rudder runs through the morning grass
In its wake, the dew a sea of tranquility;
Its early gray aura taps at window panes
As to Morse code a waking message;
...

Set himself up
to be vulnerable
over & over again
kept letting another
...

Around the world in circles turning
Earning what we can
Take a chance to light another’s day
Before their lives are blotted out
...

American physician/hung in Pentonville Prison –
London, England on November 23rd, year 1910
for the murder of his un-beloved, & lovely wife
She mysteriously disappeared in January of that
...

“If I don’t stand for something,
I’ll fall for everything” – no
substitutes, no exchanging;
Tired of being a giver – will
...

Stacked on grocery shelves – kids view
Hallucinatory quality of a milk dream
Oddly shaped sizes floating in the bowl
Don’t want the breakfast of champions –
...

But damned close
Medical science has predetermined
Maybe a flu, maybe an infection
Paragon of salutary well-being
...

The light we once had has
now turned into the darkest
shade of gray - has painted
a picture that would envy
...