Good write Glenn, but poetry rarely is soothing for me. The juices start to flow when words find my ears.

Overloaded but an overcomer! Toss that rag and pen some more lines like the first two. Are you taking requests? *giggle* (They were my favorite in this) Very enjoyable.

I'm afraid I'm with George, I can hardly contain the urges to write even anticipating reading...but I do, and Neruda is soothing to me. Collins is smooth, like Kooser, their poems are like little pools of quietness. I like the "turn" your fourth strophe engages here. Nice write. Thanks.

Really a wonderful flow to this. I enjoy the scene with the cat which ties in with your newspaper reading. Overloaded - a fine title, and I salute your solution!

...ohhh, glenn, you had the nerve to read the paper. sheeesh! what guts, what stamina...now the collins pomes are a delight. ahhhh.

This is a very fun...bubbly...jazzy read Glenn. It has a freshness to it that shouts contemporary, and yet I still feel a tremendous yet comfortable connectedness with the past in reading it. Touché old man!

Fun reading Glenn...CharMin

Thanks for the comment Glenn....CharMin

I have Collins on top of my Hutch at Work, love that angle dancing on the tip of pin, nice work and yes put that paper down unless you want to try blackout poetry where you blackout the words except for the ones that make up your poem, now that is an interesting way to look for inspiration. smh

I mean angel or course.

Perfect meter and flow...to go! Isn't Billy Collins the one that wrote "The Names" I read in our local newspaper (when I still lived in America) after 9/11?