Poetry by Jamie McKenzie

These poems and songs were written
by Jamie McKenzie.
For more information about the poet,
read this brief sketch.

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Dreams can come true
You and me, Baby
The Lufthansa Kitty Cat Blues
Bareback Rider
Come be a child
Days and Nights without Words Hold me tightly
Mr. Balloon Man
Now and Then
Now and then a Puppet

The Puzzle Song

The Wonder Bread Song

Recent Poems

November 2024
A very sad day

February 2024
My daughter's prison break

A slippery slope

November 2023
No news is good news

August 2023
The accused

July 2023
The not so simple truth

June 2023
Ode to the working stiff

October 2022
Putin unhinged

September 2022
Late in life
Story time

August 2022
Maybe
In my dreams (2)

June 2022
The price of war

April 2022
Bystanders
Simply adore you

March 2022
Putin the Hun
The four demons of the Apocalypse

February 2022
Putin's damnation








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Standing Tall
A poem in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King

Love and Joy
City Life
 Aging, Cancer & COVID
The Lufthansa Disaster
Accident
An Urban Myth
Butt
Floor Plan
Friday Night Special
Headless Snowman
Home for the Holidays
Hoping
Where?

At the bar
Benched
Cassette
Checkout Counter
Coming unmasked
COVID - the Killer
Dying for a kiss
From afar
Not yet
The Final Lap
The Gauntlet
It's the people, stupid!
Old Men
Our first date
The Lockdown Blues
The year of Corona
The running of the bulls
Tending Cellar
The scofflaw
This ain't no hoax!
This too shall pass
Twilight
Twilight 2
Who is that masked man?
Would it matter?
Wrinkles
And Kafka smirked
Bad Business
Contraband
A tale of two kitties
Waiting for Lufthansa

Love and Loss
Country Life
Grab Bag
 Nantucket Poems
A passing fancy
Acceptance
Askew
Cookie Roll
Cornered
Dumbstruck
Evening
Figure Skaters
Forgotten
Hitting Bottom
Into the shredder
Liar
Lottery
Melting away
No trace
Nonfiction
Once again
On hold
See no evil
Sour Grapes
The Disappeared
Too good
Too good to be true
Your lies
Your silence struck me
Organic Garden Pruning
The Bargain
A feeder of cats
A plague upon your restaurant
Child's Play
Cloud Catcher
Death takes its time
Feline Matters
Flight of Fancy
Gaggle
Glories
Neither here nor there
Remembering
Run for your life
Tending Cellar
The sun does not rise
Wishes
Fickle
Green with Storm
Rose Bud
Silver Lining
Writing and Imagining
Luck and Fortune
Courage
Politics
And Then . . .
Awakening
Finding Space
The dry spell
Wishes
Be a lady tonight
Happenstance
Out and Out
The Good Times

Where?
As Justice wept
A very poor loser
Boys will be boys
Hopeless
In slavery times
Monkey business
Never Ending
Only in the Panhandle
Some regimes need changing
The distant roll of drums
The mute button
The Unthinkable
The vultures circle once again
When innocents die
© by Jamie McKenzie

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