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Robert Feldman: a collection of my poetry, paintings, photographs, sculptural jewelry, plays, and short stories
Contents
Poetry Autobiography
Poetry
poetry autobiography
Recent Softcover Publications
Hineni
Foreward
and then I saw the angles (malachim)
bus rider
HaifaHolyLandBreakBreadHouse
Leonardo da Vinci Airport
love's last dance
Mr. Will and Mr. Way
orange and Bermuda wine passage
Patty's Tsror
no sunlight, no healing
siphorot (spirit)
so what conflict separates
Tanta Tsfat
Tel Aviv (a love poem?)
The Haunting
the very best among us
tsaddik
Tsror
Sunflowers, Sutras, Wheatfields, and other Art Poems
Foreward
Candle
Classical Serenades
Easter in Birdland
folds in the same garment
no timer on the hill
painting in a jar
rap rap
some Trane
Sunflowers, Sutras, Wheatfields (for Erik Satie)
sweetening the sweet sky
to be or not to bop (too)
The First Jazz Musician
The Muse: shining portal on the cusp of a deadend street
The Pianist
The Silence Inside The Noise
Foreward
a prediction after losing time back:
Acadian Dreaming
as another cycle begins
before this, there was nothing more than this
Bisbee Rain Collage
Christmas Eve in India
damaged
Dream 23 (again)
ensconced
Nyx
Paradise
signature of surrender
Song of My Soul
The Silence Inside The Noise
We Are Connected
...what comes around...
White Buffalo Woman's Long Climb
wishing I were here
Dancing Through Doorways
Foreward
a backbeat of discord
an unresolved Paterson expedition
Brown Nihilismus
Bulletproof
dancing through doorways
dream 1014; no exit
Far Rockaway Revisited
final solution
HoRsE
image and the images
July Mercy On Broadway
mouse's back
nails and wood
Pound for Pound
preTend
signature Of surrender
The Fires in Our Hearts
to Be or not to Bop (too)
Toasting Passion on a Supposed Ferry
upon a time in manhattan
who is Stranger
NYC Collected Poems
a backbeat of discord
an unresolved Paterson expedition
Brown Nihilismus
BULLETPROOF
Dancing Through Doorways
Day of The Panthers
dream 1014
Easter Morning 72st Boat Basin
Far Rockaway Revisited
For friends…call 692-1500, and ask for Neil or Doris
I want October fires
image and the images
July Mercy on Broadway
Knives Between Trees
memories are transparent love affairs
mouse's back
nails and wood
No need driving on my day off
Pound for Pound
pretend
signature of surrender
The Fires in Our Hearts
to be or not to bop
Toast for Passion on a Supposed Ferry
up against the wall brothers and sisters
upon a time in manhattan
who Is Stranger?
2022-2025
bardic whisperers
Constellation of Joy
Dancing Through Doorways
Desert Wind
ensconced
Her Lips My Loadstone
Inspiration
la fuerza de la Nahua
Not So Brilliant, So Brilliant
Stars Inside This Sea
these rivers that run so deep…
The Hopeful New Yorker
the silence inside the noise
Tikkun Olam
Treasure
2019-2021
a prediction after losing time back:
Acadian dreaming
another legacy patches these skies…
as another cycle begins…
before this, there was nothing more than this
Bisbee Rain Collage
calls for camouflage
Dream 23 (again)
from the back of a western pickup
Nyx
paradise
someplace where…
song of my soul
state of the union
the artist (for Yves Klein)
to be or not to bop (for Dizzy Gillespie)
transformation
Treasure the Fool (signature of surrender)
Walter deYoung’s Farm (don’t mind workin on Walter’s Farm no more…)
…what comes around…
White Buffalo Woman’s Long Climb
wishing I were here
why the poet writes poems
2016-2018
a time when
adventure lives
after their gold rush
Billy's Bench
Calm and Joy
Candle
Death by Suicide
Easter in Birdland
fallen angels
folds in the same garment
impostor
mojado
Moloch Revealed
Poseidon’s Revenge
the muse: shining portal on the cusp of a dead end street
the sentinel
Uncle John Wayne
weed wacked
why I write poems…
Woodstock or Saudi Arabia
The Hebraic Trilogy
and then I saw the angels (malach)
Patty's Tsror
siphorot
the very best among us
tsaddik
tsror
The Israel Poems
bus rider
HaifaHolyLandBreakBreakHouse
Leonardo de Vinci Airport
love's last dance
Mr. Will and Mr. Way
no sunlight, no healing
orange and Bermuda wine passage
so what conflict separates?
tanta Tsfat
“Tel Aviv” (a love poem?)
The Haunting
bus rider
2010-2015
a most peculiar man
Alphabet City
America the Phoenix
another ghastly holiday season
backs against the tide
Beowulf and Thorina
blizzard possibilities
Courage
Cousin Alan
Daylight Neha
Dr. Zero: A Prophetic Fantasy
empty sky
epoch
eternity
Francine’s Epiphany
from the back of a pickup
ghost
glacier
HOURGLASS
Japanese Wooden Ships
mouse's back
On Broadway
Ophelia
our apartment of profound Poetry
patchouli never wanes
Poem for 3 Graduating Seniors
Prolific fingers
Rainberry Dog Park
Shanibird
shining on brightly
some Trane
Sunflowers, Sutras, Wheatfields (for Erik Satie)
sweetening the sweet sky
The Natural
The Nazi Boys
The Pianist
“to bring love to a single being is of much use”
two recollections
Tsunami
you’re not the only one
what comes around
without a God
Writers Workshop goes pop
1990-2009
because I’ve never been there
bent heads
cactusflower
Chorus of Horns, Brahma of Om
Christmas Eve in India
Geoff and Susan’s Farm
How to Write a Poem
L’Chaim
Louisiana Green Louisa
ocotillos form this forward path
on first seeing the Taj Mahal
Profound
rap rap
risk it
So I appreciate, so I am grateful…
solitary in her room
Sum
The Great Circus
triangular exchange
“You're my enemy!” (revised)
vibes
visions
we are connected
The 1980's
After The Fruit
All of My Friends Are BackEast
Bad Teeth and Smelly Feet
Barefoot BoBByBaBy
Betrayal
blood
Bluecity, Rivercity
Bluefeet
Blues
Classical Serenades
Completion
Coney Island Family
crosswind
Dance!
Dream 23
dream 1013: you and me
dream 1014: no exit
FISHERWOMAN
FLYING
frozen moon
HoRsE
howdy type
i ching wisdom: “Ascending”
i ching wisdom: “Melting of the Ego”
i ching wisdom: “Modesty”
I Want October Fires
image and the images
in place of Eros
inside a ring
Island of Roses
IT IS INSPIRATION
Knives between Trees
last chance for choosing
Lost and Old Rivers
memories are transparent love affairs
muddy road
multi-bug universe
Music of the Swings
Nails and Wood
Oblong Ice Gestures
Ode to a Beaten Church
Oporto Suppertime
Paradise Cemetery
parallel lines
Pound for Pound
pretend
rereading the Anarchist Cookbook
Señor Blind Coyote
signature of surrender
Sky Falling
slow pitch wiffleball
Survival
tantric circle
The Fires in Our Hearts
The Gate
The Last Antiwar Poem
THIRD WORLD
Those Demons Again
Toast for Passion on a Supposed Ferry
truckstop in sight
up against the wall brothers and sisters
upon a Time in Manhattan
Waiting and Fasting
Yucca, why?
The 1970's
23 Directions
28 miles from MagicTown
a bus runs through bisbee (for pam)
A Most Special Room in Krause Cabin
a sky above
abandoned
after reading Bashō
Albion Moonlight
Allopathic Nursery
an unbeatable force
an unresolved paterson expedition
another empty exhibition game
another gas pump-stop
Apollo Counter Mission
astrology reading
Bad Buffalos Never Had A Chance
BAT & FROGGY ARE AT THE DOOR
Birthday in Albuquerque
Black & White Reflections
Blind Bird Looking For A Home
blueberry pie
blueberry ships
borrowed time
Breakdown Across The Board
Bridge of Sighs
China Syndrome
Circle in a Circle
CIRCLING PINES
Composed May 4, 1970
Coyote Spakes
Day of The Panthers
Denver
deuces up on the scoreboard
dining on elation
dissent
Dirt Street Cafe: Desserts and Beverages
Dirt Street Cafe: Lunch Specials
Dirt Street Cafe: Morning Specials
Dirt Street Café Poem
Dizzy
down by the ol kitchen sink blues
Drowning
dualities of the mind
Earth Mother Bernice
Earth Shuttles
Easter Morning 72st Boat Basin
Edith
Every Fool Loves Sunsets
exercise in exposing John Wayne’s jail
Far Rockaway
Father Flying Home
flush
for Bob Dylan
For friends…call 692-1500, and ask for Neil or Doris
For Laurie, and Her Runaway Hitchhiker Hat
for my cat, Albion Moonlight
for the poets of North Beach
Fresno Hotel, NorthBeach
from Fred’s letter…
from the Distant Past,
Funk Grove Sold Out”…realized but continued
GAS HERE NOW
Goddess
great colosseum
Had More To Show In Missouri
Happy Birthday Magictown
Hard–on Blues
Harry Haller
have it yr way…
Have You Seen Her?
Hearing Those Voices Again
Hey, spend the night with me on Mill St.
Highway Rule Games
hitching a ride…
Home Thru The West
horses are smarter
How Late Does Ya’ll Go Till
in warm dream
Inertia From The Woods
inside and outside the box
Insomnia Backyard Movement
Instant Drunk…
Intuition
Is It The Time Yet?
Jerboa
Jigsaw Puzzle
Just Another Knight On Straight Street
Kansas Calling Midnight
Kansas Epitaph
KEEP YOUR FINGERS OUT OF YOUR MIND WHILE WAITING FOR THE UNDERTAKER
KPOO
Lake Hopatcong love poem
Lakeside
Landscape
LEAVING NEW YORK TENDERBERRY
Leo’s Gig
Let There Be Love
lets call this: you set the alarm clock for 11 and ill set it
Liberty Bell
Like Courage Written in Chalk
Long Train
love poem 7308
LSD Waterfall
memory of a runaway son (Kansas calling Midnight)
Milford, PA
MILK GOAT- a child’s small horse…
Money Wont Change You
MONUMENT
Mother and Child Reunion
Mt Tam
mystery to me
Needles and Points
Nest in a Tree
never again!
New Paltz Woods
nighTrain
Night with Sunny at Howie’s Place
No Exit
No need driving on a day off
No Sense Contributions
no timer on the hill
No Trips Without A Tripper!
North Country Come Down
NORTHBEACH MIRACLE
NOT LATE ENOUGH TO LEAVE
Oakland Raiders
oakland-haiku
OCEAN FLOW
OCEANS OF SAND
Ode to Chandler and Price
off the wall
OMSHANTIOM
On This Day
on visiting with a guy
Package Boxes
painting in a jar
Pancho Villa (composed in Spanish)
paper tossed into fire
Paperback Disaster
Passions That Grow Fewer Empty The Heart of Blindness
Past a Blue Note, Inside
Peepin Down A Periscope
Pennant Fever
Phantasmagoria in Mexico
PITTSBURGH PICK-UP
plans
Poem for a Unicorn Lady
Poem for Salt Lake Billy
polite silence
process of elimination…
pumpkin pie
rats are the only true revolutionaries
Rebuilt Sandwiches
reinventing my shadow
ride this old road as far as Liberty
rocks…
San Francisco Bop
San Francisco Rundown---
Satori in Oregon!
SAY Whaa--
Selling Wax Soap
Shadow Poem
Shivah
Smitty’s New York
so predictions come true
Song of St. Louis
Song of The Silent Now
Spirit of the Poet
STILL NOT LATE ENOUGH TO LEAVE
Stop The World
Sunday Desert Pilgrimage
sweet and sour Mexico
Tea with Henry Miller
The First Jazz Musician
that’s almost calling it
the name of this verse will be duplicated
the very holy snowflakes
The Well
This Stop Home St. Louis
Tigerland
to peel away in courage
To The Poets From Yonkers
toast
transformation
Travlin Snows
Tuner
unresolved expedition
Untitled
Up Brewery Gulch
velocity sacrifice
Wakefield Mine Jam Session
Wakefield Mine Poem #19
Warm Snow
WaterBrother on Grant St.
WATERWASH
What to Call This Child
When Holder Becomes Gatherer
when’s it gonna come down?
Who Is Stranger?
without you
WORKINGMAN’S INTEREST
Zen of Chopping Wood
Early Poems
A Bible Written By Traitors
a child’s busride around Teaneck ( a dream recalled)
a hitchhiker’s guide to the muse
Another Sister
as strangers often do
Asthma
Beaver College Physical
BLUES IMPROVISATION
Broken Horn
Crevasse Reflections
Eat In Or Carry Out (a cut up)
For Friends (killed in Vietnam)...
free love
I am 17 again and I dream of you
im a spy
Ist Reading (for Kenneth Patchen)
It’ll Come to Something
it’s been a while
lines composed a few short hours from home
magic and moves
My Very First Poem
New
Night Before The Sky
NOW
oh Plato
One Hour of Sleep by Any Means Necessary
Passion Drinker
Pleasure Is A Lonely Thing
Poets Never Die- they only lose their sunglasses
predestination
Ravellsfix
REDWOODS TALK TO ME
Reincarnation
REPETITION
Runnin Out’v Words
smile to the ebb tide
Sunday desert pilgrimage
TERMINATION OF BIG BROTHER
TRANSMUTATION THROUGH OPPOSITES
upon notice
Warm Snow
What Ocean You Talkin bout?
whatever you do in your head bears the prerecorded pattern of your head
when the wind stops blowing
The Ocean of Winter
Friends' Books of Poetry
"The Fox" by Bill Roberts
"Cantata" by Carmen Megeath
bardic whisperers
Haikus
A Stay At Home Saturday Night
after reading Bashō
CIRCLING PINES
DOG BREATH
hard-on-blues
im a spy
inside a ring
man is a political animal
Monk and Picasso
more to show in Missouri
Oakland Haiku
oblong ice gestures
Prayer
Prism
Rotating Silvery Spokes
Satori in Oregon
Satori in Oregon 2
Sneakers
Sunday Desert Pilgrimage
unbroken horn
Wakefield Mine Haiku
Zen of Chopping Wood
Plays and Short Stories
"I Want You"
Art and Pleasure
Crime Without Punishment: A One-Person Play
Dr. Zero: A prophetic fantasy
Dream from 2.23.76
Elegy for John Lennon
Eternity
evolved human beings?
FOOD & PENS ( a Zen Koan play)
Go Piss In A Phonebooth!
KBDY: Clothesline Radio (“if wishes were fishes we’d all cast nets”)
lines composed a few short hours from home
on loving too much
The Black Snake
The Progressive Hand of Anarchy
the unraveling of one James Douglas Morrison
unification of “I” and “me”
up to no good
“Inside”- a dramatic play
Artist Biography
Paintings
Photographs
Antelope Canyon
Bisbee
Chiricahuas & Gila Mts
Europe March/April 2025
Florida
India
Israel
Paintings
Louie Louie
Nature
Nebraska Flatwaters
NY & NJ
Seattle
Travels with Shaaz
Sonoita
Storm King Art Center
Sunsets
Southern Utah
Memories and Friends Decades Past
Sculptural Jewelry
Reviews
Contact
Robert Feldman: a collection of my poetry, paintings, photographs, sculptural jewelry, plays, and short stories
For Friends
(killed in Vietnam)
…who died so uncomfortably close to the earth:
it is now I must swallow more endless questions,
reflex the anger,
as today I am sure
idiot winds will endlessly whisper those tragic human voices,
forever and again
11/24/69
Paterson
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