Living only on Wednesday

Living only on Wednesday,
living only on this bench
outside the library
below the grey clouds


-Jim DuBois
May 22, 2013

Going Well

The day is going well...

...arghh! It's my worst nightmare.

-Jim DuBois

May 9,  2012

40 Short Poems - eBook

I have collected my best short poems into an eBook.

Here it is on iTunes.

Here it is for the Nook.

There is also a printed version.

Meeting an old friend

Meeting an old friend
is
being myself again.


-Jim DuBois
June 28, 2013

Love Note

Your heart
      was made
                to love me

Don't deny it
      the chance


-Jim DuBois
Jan 23, 2013

Sometimes - eBook

I have a new poetry book in eBook format, available on the iTunes Bookstore for $2.99.

It is a collection of early poems by me, featuring themes of love, loneliness, space travel and spirituality.

Many of the poems have not appeared on this blog.



Get a copy.

Or view my all my books, eBook and print, as well.

Like it Should be

Crunch, crunch, crunch,
the snow is crunchy,
like it should be in winter.


-Jim DuBois
Jan 18, 2013

Para la Vida

Un momento
de tiempo

para el sol
para el corazón
para la vida


-Jim DuBois
Oct 17, 2012

Phantoms

Phantoms of the past
Loom large on cloudy days
Speak loudly in lonely rooms
Distort the day with dirty lenses


-Jim DuBois
March 19, 2005

"Instant Jim Classic"

I guess the bullfrogs
don't care
if it's raining.


-Jim DuBois
July 15, 2012

Wet Squirrel

Wet squirrel
hopping across the lawn in a thunderstorm,
do you get lonely too?


-Jim DuBois
June 3, 2012

Defiance

One day
Death will come looking for me
and I'll tell him
Fuck off,
I'm not done


-Jim DuBois

Already

The time
          is already
                wasted

The dream
          is already
                gone


-Jim DuBois
2001?

A Veces

A veces,
solamente
la luz del corazón


-Jim DuBois
Sep 11, 2011

I like jars

I like jars
I'm 36
I'm your secret boyfriend

Do you want
to see my antlers?


-Jim DuBois
Jan 14, 2006

Early Morning

Early morning is like
    a foreign country,
populated mainly
    by birds
      and
      empty soda cans



-Jim DuBois
April 26,1999

wtf #2

crumble jacket oxygen salt oil abduction
summer blast maple smudge battery bombast
strict chalk vine bungle brake return


-Jim DuBois
April 15 2005

essential rhythm fish

Blind wet candy wax
worry dog window cake
translucent thing think
essential rhythm fish


- Jim DuBois
c 1999

A Chance

Sometimes,
a chance
is all you need.


-Jim DuBois
March 30, 2011

My Church

My church
is the sun
and the dirt
and now.


-Jim