I DARE YOU

My Complete Carl Sandburg Photo/Poetry Series Now Available on Amazon

So tell me (if you dare)

Is my poetry too

Copious to comprehend

Fraught with hidden humor

An occasional sin

Perhaps leaving you with

A tear or a giggle

Or perhaps it floats your inner soul

Colleagues call it

“Life-long treasures

Embedded in rhythmic lines”

While tickling the mind

bringing solace to the soul

Slow down Read it slow with emphases

don’t be in a rush

Poetry requires one’s attention to detail

Every comma, shape

Every misssplelled word are important

Give me a hint below

Now and then

Should you actually understand

My

Zen

Ummm

I double dog dare you

Look beyond my rhyme and verse

Let my poetry

Sink in

For you and i come by here

But once.

tom tenbrunsel

Awarded Carl Sandburg Poet 2023

Also: Thank you! My Author’s Notes are quite unique. No other poet does that. My readers applaud my Author's Notes. Perhaps glance at them, and reread the poem👍🏻

My daughter wrote in My Memoirs:  my wrinkle in time: “Tom will unravel a moment for you. Left with a tear or a giggle, you may find yourself making a mental note of the life lesson treasures embedded in his rhythmic lines, highlighter not included, but get comfy, and be ready to be entertained

And she writes, “Indeed he is in his winter and after dad passes, we will sit around and ask ‘Did he really write that?’ Yes he did!” Yep me and Van Gogh have that in common😉

*A special shout out to Daniel Flynn, artist and philosopher, for permission to use his original paintings for my book covers and throughout my Sandburg Series. Thank you Daniel. we make a great team. Have a wonderful day😊