Don Schaeffer's Poems

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December 29, 2020

A Last Ditch Effort to Save the Day

December 26, 2020

Note to the Love of My Life

December 24, 2020

A Point on the Journey

December 23, 2020

Conversation about an Opera

December 23, 2020

La Boheme

December 12, 2020

This Poem is Suicide

December 10, 2020

Takita-Maluma

December 07, 2020

Hope

December 01, 2020

The Wonderland Dream of Death

November 28, 2020

The Boss Needs Love

November 25, 2020

267

November 15, 2020

Magic World at the Edge

November 13, 2020

Six Short Poems

November 12, 2020

Autobiographical Insight

November 12, 2020

Stopping Place

November 10, 2020

Occurrences of Death

November 10, 2020

Temporary Pass

November 05, 2020

The Microbe

October 30, 2020

On Hearing the Noise

October 30, 2020

Where Have We Arrived?

October 22, 2020

The Limits of the Earth

October 21, 2020

The Slow Passing of Time

October 17, 2020

Another Unpleasant Insight

October 09, 2020

Cactus Flower

October 08, 2020

What a Busy Slide!

October 08, 2020

Diana Krall and the World of Love

October 07, 2020

Yeast Cell City

October 06, 2020

Microbes Bubbles and Biofilm

October 05, 2020

Tomato Skin

October 05, 2020

The Skin of a Tomato Stem

October 05, 2020

Needing You

October 04, 2020

A Salt Water Environment

October 02, 2020

From the Edge of the World

October 02, 2020

Two Ring Ciliate Circus

October 02, 2020

What I Dreamed This Morning

October 01, 2020

The Plains of Crabapple

October 01, 2020

From Human to Beast

September 26, 2020

Unseen Dangers

September 26, 2020

Having Fun When Creatures Think of You as Food

September 24, 2020

Jokers

September 20, 2020

Journey Down Carrot Top River

September 19, 2020

Specimen Ethics

September 17, 2020

Encounter with a Rotifer

September 17, 2020

Touring the Palaces of Ghosts

September 15, 2020

The Child of Chance

September 14, 2020

September Raspberry

September 13, 2020

Toxification of the Grass Biome

September 12, 2020

The Pea and Its Pod

September 11, 2020

September 11

September 09, 2020

Ode to the Elm

September 07, 2020

Big Heavy Things

September 03, 2020

Ancient Temples on a Leaf

September 03, 2020

An Ancient Temple on a Leaf

August 29, 2020

The Mighty Cucumber

August 27, 2020

The Secrets of the Small Green Pine Cone

August 26, 2020

Miniature Strawberry

August 26, 2020

The Firmament

August 21, 2020

The Fingers of the Unknown

August 20, 2020

A March Before Dawn

August 16, 2020

Consequence of the Pandemic

August 16, 2020

Timor Mortis

August 11, 2020

The Ice Fruits

August 10, 2020

The Black in Black-Eyed Susan

August 09, 2020

Two Different Garden Flowers

August 08, 2020

Transitional and Quasi States

August 05, 2020

Novel Gifts

August 05, 2020

An American Movie

August 04, 2020

Beneath the Surface: Rhubarb

August 04, 2020

The Tomato Blossom

August 03, 2020

Inside a Wild Grain Seed

August 01, 2020

The Cucumber's Defensive Bloom

A Tiny Flower and Its Leaf

Home Repair Memories

Up Very Close to a Tiny Flower

The Bodies of Tiny Flowers

A New Book

What I Said to Her

Paul Klee's Nightmare

Paul Klee's Nightmare

Trapped in Mold

Trapped in Mold

On The Creation of My Cyst

In the Middle of the World

After Eating a Burger at Big Boys

A Rant against Creation

Hair Mat

Organiz Isms

Organ-ization-isms

Active Cysts In Green Algae Land

Tiny Lacey Lawnflower

Microscopist's Ode to the Lily That Guilds Itself

My Page in the Summer edition of the Taj Mahal Review

The Green Nightmare

Phenomenological Poems

Phenomenological Poems

Sentiment Burp

The Cryin' Game

Only Relatively Faded: the Reading

Only Relatively Faded

Hearing Aid Batteries

Abstract Real Real Abstract

Mere Recollection

You Make Me Recall Ann Clark

The Grass/Tree Biome

The Wall of the Future

Talking to an Alien

Time is Big (YouTube Reading)

Citizenship Interview

A Decoded Message

The Killer

Theory of Relativity

Dust

Sleep with Nothing to Do

An Unexplainable Paroxysm of Crying

What's in the Yogurt Container?

Love Spectrum

Explorer's New Acquaintance

"Dust" Now in press

Time the Spread-Outer

The Hearing Aid

The Virus

The Texture on a Fly's Thigh

Unable to get off

Cactus Cells

Corona

Event Horizon

Dawn

Music and Dreams

Parentheses Dream

The Conquered Addiction

Give Peace a Chance: the History of the Orchestra

Ameoba's Wakefulness

You Tube

The Ant Hill

Hanna

February 26, 2020

Fantasy & Jokes: New YouTube Video

February 25, 2020

Tuesday of a Hard Week

February 17, 2020

Sensuous Embarrassment

February 15, 2020

To a Sad Friend

February 15, 2020

Fun

February 12, 2020

Waiting for Jim at the Bookstore

February 08, 2020

A Winter's Tale

February 07, 2020

A Sibelius Tone Poem

February 06, 2020

Public Library Request

February 04, 2020

Frozen

February 04, 2020

Don Schaeffer: Review of the Poetry and Art by Alex Nodopaka, BA, MFA

February 03, 2020

Creaks

February 01, 2020

The Birthday of the Trees

January 31, 2020

New YouTube Video

January 30, 2020

The Hermits

January 26, 2020

Passover

January 23, 2020

Three Discussions of Mystery

January 23, 2020

Question for the Rabbi

January 20, 2020

The Sin of Indulging the Voice

January 20, 2020

New Book

January 15, 2020

Birthday Week

January 05, 2020

Little Bedtime Prayer of Three Questions