by Lawrence Cooper | Mar 28, 2021 | Newsletter, Poetry Presentations
A raw brutality, disguised by disillusioned honesty, sheltering shame, blame, and unbridled hate, so that lessons could not be learned because they lay untouched within the fire that consumed me. This brutality came from within without compassion, reserved by me, just...
by Lawrence Cooper | Dec 19, 2020 | Newsletter, Poetry Presentations
(from my new book, The Magic of Love, soon to be published) A Dream The sky reflects the mood. Blue yields to fifty shades of gray. Great wet raindrops splatter on my eastern window like tears spilled for the lost and lonely. They fall from a sky so low that the dark...