Hard Landing: Poems 3

Poetry is about experience, and has the power to transmit that experience to readers. Here I give you fify-seven unique, sometimes scary, experiences. This selection of poems is not for children, nor is it for squeamish adults. This collection probes unique personal problems of different lives in difficult situations. You may recognize yourself, or a friend, or an enemy in these pieces. You may come to a different view of what it means to be in one of these unfortunate realities. There are also some normal relationship pieces, and some pieces written just for fun. Ten salacious limericks are also included. You will find rhymed irregular, rhymed regular, blank verse, a villanelle, a mirror, distorted mirrors, cinquains, limkericks, one prose poem, one sonnet, and one rondeau. As always, ambiguity may be present and is deliberate. Some poems will benefit from second and third readings. You'll figure this out, as these poems were written for us, and that includes you.