https://poems.culturing.net/ Poems by culturing, newest first. https://poems.culturing.net/ en-us Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:17:38 GMT https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/the-whole-story/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/the-whole-story/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT My mother didn't hug me enough (or did she hug me too much?) and now I must face the consequences. Still she appears a fine woman, to those unaffected, and… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/storm-still-raging/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/storm-still-raging/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT You've entered a storm still raging, set foot on shifting shores, and asked the way home. I do not know myself, but this tome gathers facts and feelings… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/in-search-of-the-face/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/in-search-of-the-face/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT We set sail for Troy still in search of the face that can launch our ships, embarking on the most human voyage toward ourselves and our greatest potential.… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/the-fragrance-of-love/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/the-fragrance-of-love/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The mind goes blank, losing all forms, like an etch-a-sketch given a solid shake. She steps into that emptiness, and illumines it with flowers and the… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/predicament/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/predicament/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a predicament, women in slacks and men in dresses, and Anima stuck in a factory somewhere working herself to the bone. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/self-and-stars/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/self-and-stars/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The mother grips her son with a love laced with fear, holds on, and demands in return his whole being, the total surrender of all he would like to be. He… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/so-wrong/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/so-wrong/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT She still sings to me (out there, somewhere) her beautiful song and although I have listened too long, I'll keep listening...is that so wrong? https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/machines-and-their-servants/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/machines-and-their-servants/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A man in white answers the call to emasculate himself and all others with whom he comes into contact. What for? To sustain the institution? But the… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/act-of-worship/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/act-of-worship/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every orgasm is an act of worship, and we cannot escape this no matter how hard we try. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/the-answer/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/the-answer/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT She is the answer, the clarion call, the deciphering voice... She is the one who matters. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/perfect-timing/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/perfect-timing/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Being crazy about a woman like that is always the right thing to do. The Last Picture Show Be gracious you woman-maddening bull-god. Homer, Hymn to… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/mad-dog/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/mad-dog/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The mad dog lunges through the ego. Two become one. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/madness-of-stars/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/madness-of-stars/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sophia, your madness shimmers now out of the ether, in song made lovely by chaos brought into form. I can hear you even now, and I don't know how, but you… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/devourer/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/devourer/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Vines shoot out from her heart, clutching all who are near, demanding stasis, forbidding movement. Her roiling vat of shadows devours her prey. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/toward-sunset/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/toward-sunset/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT He walks over sand, past cacti and buzzards picking bones, through the desert heat and cold, toward sunset, the only thing on the horizon. He hears a slow… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/ritual/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/ritual/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT He walks in silence, and into the mystical chamber, where sunlight touches the dial, letting loose the embers of hope and the shadows that so often flutter… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/penelopes-bed/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/29/penelopes-bed/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Odysseus arrives after too much wandering. At first she does not believe him, although he has passed over two immortal goddesses who offered him endless… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/dry-no-more-real-enough/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/dry-no-more-real-enough/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I have been to the desert places. I found myself parched and denied any access to water, or the healing power of love. But I kept walking through. Near the… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/a-culminating-of-destiny/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/a-culminating-of-destiny/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I call to her still. What strange resonance, what strange ennui in the face of mysterious connection, the ties that bind two hearts across space and… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/a-possible-salve/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/a-possible-salve/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a strange silence now nestles within and without, in the absence of any found love...but the love took to bed its own folly, and drowned the old… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/still-human-beings/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/still-human-beings/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Believe it or not, we are still human beings, knee-deep in shit, but gazing at the stars. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/for-eternity/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/for-eternity/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I see you, even now. I feel your warmth but it is never mine. You came and went. But did you ever leave? And did you ever come? I have awakened now to what… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/the-right-person/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/the-right-person/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Maybe I just need to hop on a unicorn and ride into the land of make-believe. That's where I'll find her. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/saint-teresa/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/saint-teresa/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT When the faithful discover eros it ravishes body and mind. They must learn a devotion less than total. They must learn how to love and yet hold back some… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/we-have-to-believe/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/we-have-to-believe/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Even in the midst of egregious pain, we have to believe in ourselves, truth be damned. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/the-missing-piece/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/the-missing-piece/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ariadne, the stars shall welcome you after your journey is done. You have played your part in the eternal myth. You have shaped my heart with strength and… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/other-skies/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/other-skies/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I take off my hat and put on the mystical veil, and walk in secrets, down streets of time, where spirits arise, combine, and fly off into other skies. It… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/in-the-kitchen/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/in-the-kitchen/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT He sits in the kitchen, wondering how his mother became a demon, how terror and love can coexist in the female body. Where does this rage originate? What… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/the-habit-of-silence/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/the-habit-of-silence/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The pain answers its own question. It has no remorse. In the course of forsaken time, one flows on, while another gets stuck in the shallows and struggles… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/the-end-of-it/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/the-end-of-it/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT This is the end of it, this is the point of the journey where love becomes possible. This is the last hope made manifest, the final answer to the question… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/heavens-feigned-bliss/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/heavens-feigned-bliss/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shall I flutter off again, into some unseen sky, the forbidden reaches of heaven's feigned bliss? There are many children there, not accepting life's… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/nothing-says-i-love-you/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/nothing-says-i-love-you/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nothing says "I love you" like an angry letter, sent in despair. It proves the feeling, even as it dies. It shows that one was not joking. It burns what… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/flying-lessons-ii/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/flying-lessons-ii/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bird big and bird small fly out of view. The lessons are over. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/under-the-sweetest-desire/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/under-the-sweetest-desire/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Just between us, did the love affair maim you too? Taylor Swift, All Too Well Not maimed, just bruised, and bruises heal. It's a wonder that so much pain… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/if-not-hers/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/if-not-hers/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Her darkness drew me, and there I found an image of me, a version of me that had not been welcome. But was she this or some other? Why was she the perfect… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/seeds-of-a-dying-rose/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/seeds-of-a-dying-rose/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I take these seeds and replant them in soil now fertilized by decay. I wish you sweet progress as you move towards light of day. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/sweet-sophia/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/sweet-sophia/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT How many songs shall I write for you! Muse of the stars, knowing all that we are, sweet Sophia or manifest grace, you are flowing above, over, through all… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/into-mortals/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/into-mortals/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The mad goddess descends in luxurious robe. The poet rises to meet her, atop the stair. They embrace there, and both are transformed into mortals. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/rainbow/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/rainbow/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A rainbow reminds of that other storm so long ago, when the sky was torn open and man washed away, and now time with its sweet embrace decides nothing, and… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/i-dont-want-to-let-go/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/i-dont-want-to-let-go/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I don't want to let go, because love is more real than all other distractions, and nothing else satisfies, nothing else answers the call or fills in the… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/think/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/think/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT There's a madness to my method, but I think I know what I'm doing. Yes, I think I can find my way. You know I have come to remind you that time keeps on… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/i-met-the-goddess/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/10/i-met-the-goddess/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I met the goddess and learned her name. She touched me with her flame, and promised pain. I said yes anyway. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/adagio-romance/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/adagio-romance/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT She wonders. He waits. The call comes from above and underneath. It would be an adagio romance, in the key of seeing and being seen. Is it magic? Or are… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/searching-for-you/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/searching-for-you/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Time swirls, over and under, through space and mind, into self made new, where the gravity calling all dreamers awaits to enliven and make something true.… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/not-out-of-the-woods/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/not-out-of-the-woods/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I am not out of the woods. I have only begun to explore the many paths that expose the inner sanctums of nature. https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/jesus-calls/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/jesus-calls/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Jesus calls, out of some dream, walking proudly down an impossible road 'til he veers into wildness, the madness of Bacchus and the children of nature...… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/forbidden-fruit/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/forbidden-fruit/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Something comes again to grip my mind with the fingers of flowing time, an uncovered uncertainty, lingering here in the garden. What fruit waits to ripen… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/another-me/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/another-me/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I arrive again at the strangest place, the strange vista wherefrom I detect in the distance another me, coming with certainty, ready to live here, now. But… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/the-canyon-of-life-and-death/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/the-canyon-of-life-and-death/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I did not know I was coming, did not know that I would appear and arrive in the most sudden adventure, the deepest and widest ravine not being enough to… https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/finding-herself/ https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/03/finding-herself/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT She sets out in search of passion and meaning but finds instead the forbidden fruit, the knowledge of what people do to each other. If only she could put…