New Poems 2020

By David Tinling

David Tinling writes a poem everyday and these poems are selected from the last ten years of his daily poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664124219

David Tinling

David Tinling is a mind-body physician who graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine and was on the faculty of the University of Rochester Medical School. He lives in Vermont, where he writes fiction and poetry and makes conceptual art.

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Rev. date: 08/12/2020

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CONTENTS

Complexity

Infamy

Delay

Discovery

Ambiguity

Maurice

Memory

Missing

She Is

So Tired

Pre-K

Ryder

This Old Brain

You Know

Downgraded

Char

Champagne

Letting Go

Stand Tall

Flight

Not Doing

Chatter

Blizzard

A Year

Editors

Bill Of Rights

Geriatric Sex

Catholic Funeral Mass

PC DC

In Fifty Years

Sense Nonsense

Science

Last One

Before

Declarative

Point Of View

Writing

Visit

Once

Coastal Storm

Where

Fox Sisters

Sandy

The Joke’s On Me

Mountain Wind

Haunted

Wall Street

Away

The Big Picture

Country Roads

Names

Why Is It

Post Concussion

Heart Sounds

Ovid

If You Don’t Understand

Constraints

The Balcony

Reading Marianne Moore

Shrinks Without Borders

Pendelton

Smoke

Birthday Poem

Where?

Elgin

Who Are

Corned Beef

Tragedy

Dreams

We Talk

Daughter/Mother

Crimes

Finis

Somewhere

Treaties

Martini

High Winds

In Your Body

November

Understand

The Problem

How Long

Vital Parts

Getting It

Why Is It

Status Quo

Entrainment

Scanning

Mom And Dad

House Guests

Now

Angry

Way Way Down

Back

Waves

Messages

Reading

Platform

Today

American Politics 2019

Like Frogs

Look At This

Ludwig

Good News

Every Branch

That Moment

Borders And Bridges

Impeach

First

Agonal Autumn

Backasswards

Most Alive

The Noose

Numerology

Menninger

Century

Life Factors

Watching Lear

Earthlings

Memory II

COMPLEXITY

11/22/11

The simplicity beckoned

While ambiguity lingered

In the shadows of appearances

We were all dressed alike

Nothing could shake our certainty

Even a solar eclipse

We knew would pass

How we loved to lay in the sun

Sand water sky

When was it we woke up

INFAMY

12/7/11

Seven years old

                  Seventy years ago

                                    At my Father’s knee

The old Zenith