Don Schaeffer's Poems

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Showing posts from 2008

December 31, 2008

Latest List

December 29, 2008

Male Menopause

December 29, 2008

The Hope Laughter Dynamic

December 27, 2008

Human Urgency

December 24, 2008

Jackie the Emissary of Zeller's Cafe

December 21, 2008

The Homecoming of Cinderella

December 16, 2008

Reunion

December 15, 2008

The Saturday Visit

December 13, 2008

Warning

December 12, 2008

Early Valentine

December 10, 2008

Ride Home at -30

December 05, 2008

Good Faery

December 05, 2008

Metaphysics

November 29, 2008

Consolation Prizes

November 29, 2008

Best Wishes

November 27, 2008

Breech Birth Poem

November 19, 2008

Jeanne Heather

November 18, 2008

What I Do With Sadness

November 13, 2008

More About Poems

November 08, 2008

Social Instruction

November 07, 2008

November 6

November 03, 2008

Zero Sum Games: After Seeing Blair Witch

October 30, 2008

The History of Poetry: Sarah the Waitress' Poem

October 28, 2008

Two Dialogs with Someone a Third My Age

October 26, 2008

When Something is Wrong with the Furnace

October 24, 2008

A Moment of Terror

October 23, 2008

Woman I Wish I Could Have Photographed

October 20, 2008

Woman I Wish I Could Have Photographed

October 18, 2008

Dream after Seeing "Schindler's List"

October 18, 2008

Art Moses

October 14, 2008

The Population

October 07, 2008

Advice from outside the Righteous Church

October 04, 2008

Conversation about Heaven

October 03, 2008

The Incipient Novelist

September 30, 2008

Charlotte

September 29, 2008

Rosh Hashana Dream after Seeing "Schindler's List"

September 24, 2008

A Last try

September 23, 2008

A New Lady

September 16, 2008

The Last Few days of Summer

September 13, 2008

Diane Recapitulated

September 09, 2008

The Binding

September 09, 2008

On Reading a good Poet

September 06, 2008

The Critic

August 31, 2008

A Dangerous Friend

August 28, 2008

The Tissue Ripper

August 25, 2008

Report card After two Semesters

August 22, 2008

August 20, 2008

Live Jazz

August 12, 2008

Intrigues

August 11, 2008

Jane Austen Book Club

August 10, 2008

On Seeing "Field of Dreams"

August 08, 2008

To an Australian Woman

August 08, 2008

How Dreams Use Up Wishes

August 07, 2008

A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

August 06, 2008

Why I can't succeed In the Arts

August 05, 2008

The Goodbye Hug Conspiracy

August 02, 2008

Morning Chat (Carolyn's Poem)

Personal Declaration of Love

The Fringe Festival

Modern Dialogue

Rainbow's Poem

The Great Last Wish: Liana's Poem

Porgy and Bess

Breaking Out of Taboo

The Quiet Refuge of the Vain

My Railroad Dream

Secret Message

A Film About Japan

Washroom Miracle: A True Story

Good Afternoon

On Being Rejected by a Baby

Annotated Letter

The Continuing Humanity of Ghosts

A Denial of What Jiminy Cricket Said

Poetry Writing Dream

A Lapse of Art

The Wedding in July

An Afternoon of Baby Sitting

Habits of Courtship

First Lines of an Unwritten Novel

Outburst

The Stroller Cadillac

Kathleen Turner

A Mr. Holland Rant

Twelve Monkeys

Sensory Overload

Three AM

Where Is the Center?

Religious Civil Law

Personal Mythology of Birth

Hannah's First Solid Food

Mornings Alone in the Bungalow

Beach Volley Ball

Beatitude of Six Months Hannah

Hem and Haw (written 2004)

The Stretch of My Arm in the Morning (on Buying a New Camera)

Statement to a Shadow

A Most Embarrassing Confession

Amy25

Parasite

It Is A Comfort

What's Left of Delores

Don Quixote Comes to Himself

Two Poems About Perversity

Jurassic Park

Dementia

The Mind of An Old Woman

Darwinism

Biography

Friends on the Carpet Bowling Team

An Unreliable Ally

The Secret Hisory of Babies

February 28, 2008

Anastasia

February 24, 2008

After the Tea Party

February 22, 2008

Meditation on the Movie, "Wit"

February 22, 2008

The Ghost in the Machine

February 21, 2008

The Soul Competiton

February 14, 2008

Love and Sales

February 14, 2008

Tree Stumps with Mysterious Messages

February 12, 2008

Birthday Card to Myself

February 10, 2008

Effect of Silent Days

February 09, 2008

Act Three

February 06, 2008

Wonderland

February 04, 2008

Mary Allison Samuels

January 30, 2008

Remembering A City I Never Knew*

January 29, 2008

What Good is the Cold?

January 27, 2008

A Fish

January 23, 2008

Face Prophet at Three Months

January 21, 2008

The Archives

January 19, 2008

Not Knowing Your Cause

January 19, 2008

Poetry

January 16, 2008

Confession of a Female Journalist

January 14, 2008

Samina Malik

January 12, 2008

On Hearing Holly Cole

January 09, 2008

Hannah and the Light Machine

January 06, 2008

Eureka!

January 06, 2008

Standing on the Pier

January 01, 2008

Hannah the Face Prophet