DJGillert
Joined: Jan 2022

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DJGillert
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I see the world through the lens of time.

Submitted Poems 9 total

This Settling House

This is the journey of my soul.
Random recordings fill me
With memories and sorrows
And yes, joys.

A woman’s loving voice
Pleads with me, Listen!
Strings thrummed lightly
Fill the void.

Eighteen again, it sometimes
Seems to creep up...

by Douglas Gillert

added by DJGillert
3 months ago

Hither and Yon

There was an old man
Who adopted two cats
And named them
Hither and Yon.

He ushered his cats
Outdoors to play
And they scampered
This and that way.

He looked to call
Them back to him
As they gamboled,
Hither and Yon.

But which...

by Douglas Gillert

added by DJGillert
4 months ago

Escaping Youth

Oftentimes as I grow old
My thoughts return to times ago.
Familiar faces reappear, recognized places
Rise up from the overstuffed closets
Of my cavernous mind, so densely packed
And pitch-dark if I could and sometimes yes!
See within clearly.
...

by Douglas Gillert

added by DJGillert
8 months ago

Book Review

I think I will have to set it aside,
This book of new poems by a writer
I read a favorable review of and then
The single short ode to her own life
Revealing her wisdom and her sadness.

Her words and phrasing and meter
Are also the ones I...

by Douglas J. Gillert

added by DJGillert
9 months ago

Book Review

I think I will have to set it aside,
This book of new poems by a writer
I read a favorable review of and then
The single short ode to her own life
Revealing her wisdom and her sadness.

Her words and phrasing and meter
Are also the ones I...

by Douglas J. Gillert

added by DJGillert
9 months ago

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