Pete's Poetry

Being me

Posted by Peter Liptak in A little Burst o Truth

What’s that you say?
“Courage today?”
I’ll stick to my insolent self-assuredness,
infuriating, unfriendly and full of fight…

Apr.24

Valediction

Posted by Peter Liptak in Love's Loss, Poems

is it so easy to leave love
to rush off without a word
to run away spurred by anger
for what occurred

is it not absurd…

Mar.15

Moments

Posted by Peter Liptak in Letters, Poetic Inspiration

Remember that battered piano room at the Student Union at ASU. The notes always a welcome lesson to the tune of the day. The moments seemed to linger like in no other place, in a darkened comfort from the desert sun they hung – musky in the air. Full and soft.

Mar.14

The Poetry of Theft

Feb.16

Yosu

Posted by Peter Liptak in The East

What dwell amid the rows of cement collars,
astride the mounted hills stepped with sustaining grass
and winding from the Seoul of late descent
came by morning of early trained mass?…

Nov.30