Poems

Seeing Rio on My 73rd Birthday — October 9, 2022

Happy 100th Birthday, Mom — April 30, 2020

Until the Day I Die–January 27, 2020

For Bernie, Jane, Levi and Raine’s Children, Mother and Family — October 9, 2019

Only Nine Miles to Go — September 9, 2019

Geese Above the Catskills — February 28, 2018

99 Years Tomorrow — April 29, 2019

New Year’s Poem, Early 2018 — January 3, 2018

I’m Not Thatwhiteman, by Herb Lowrey

13 Days on Water Only for Leonard Peltier, January, 2017

Abby and Califf, December 22, 2016

Sheepdog Molly, November 13, 2016

Mussels, Barnacles and Snails, October 1, 2016

No More Climate Rides, September 19, 2016

My suffering shoulder, August 22, 2016
Hey Dad, June 19, 2016
The Smile, March 11, 2016
Missing Piano Playing, January 24, 2016
Crescent Moon and Venus, January 9, 2016
Esperando Para Lucia, December 17, 2015
This Winter’s First Below-Freezing Ride, November 24, 2015
What Happened?, May 12th, 2015
Early Morning Biking, May 4th, 2015
Thin Moon Rising, April 15th, 2015
Why I Missed the Climate March, September 21, 2014
It’s OK to Walk, May 22, 2012
Climate Ride 2012, NYC-DC, May 24, 2012
For Rachel Carson, March 17, 2012
How Great Thou Art, January 9, 2012
Wanting Food, Day 82, November, 2007
The Ladders, Then and Now, and Abby and Ellie, October, 2006
The Flags Are Down, June, 2002
Memories of Katahdin, July, 1997
Our Awesome Task, May, 1997
For Mom and Dad, from Your Lucky Children, Spring, 1986
Tears Came Easily, March, 1981
For the Vietnamese, May 4, 1975
Goodbye to All That, 1973/74
Wounded Knee Uprising, March, 1973

Two Personal Poems, 1972/1973
Missing Sarah, October, 1971
Between Brothers, August 9, 1971
Freedom in the Hole, August 6, 1971
Two Days Before, August, 1971
One Free Man, July 17, 1971
Courage, June, 1971
Christmas Eve in Ashland, Ky, 1970
Written at the Top of a Stairwell, February 1970
Nothingness, January, 1969
Christmas 1968
Lonely Wanderer, July, 1968
Changes, March, 1968