ROD MARTIN'S POETIC MADNESS: POETRY FOR A NEW WORLD AND ALL EARTH'S CHILDREN

Rod Martin’s

Poetic Madness

Poetry for a New World and all Earth’s Children

Copyright © 2024 by

Rod Martin

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This book is for all the people I love and love to write poems for and about: Jane, my wife, Emily and Julia, my grand-daughters, and all my friends who are kind enough to read this madness.

Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank my high school English teacher for being so complimentary of my writing abilities. She made me want to continue being a writer.

Also, I must thank Bob Hackett for being the first person I ever met who kept a journal and encouraging me to do the same. He was a cool guy and made writing seem like a worthwhile endeavor.

Song lyrics are a form of poetry I have come to love, so I’d also like to thank all my buddies who wrote songs with me: Pierre Grill of Rendezvous Studios, Jerry Steelfox, John Morris, Gyula Schrieber, Jim Erhart, Gabe Preis, Jojo Russell, Rabbit Mackay, Chris Woods, Barba Rosa, Antonio Azevedo, and Davo.

And finally, I’d like to thank my loving wife, Jane Smith-Martin for thirty-seven wonderful years of marriage, for being supportive of my writing and telling me I could spend some more money to publish this, my second book of poetry madness. I hope you enjoy this collection and may it inspire you to write some.

Table of Contents

With Me Always

Just A Look

January 21, 2006

A Cheerful Heart

Through Baby’s Eyes

Wishin’

Your first ultrasound

Can’t Beat the Beatles

Strictly Prose

This Mystery

Texter’s Lament

My Marvelous Mother

Find Joy

EMILY’S SENIOR PROM POEM

That Benson Boy

Where Hatred Starts

Sabbaths

Two Words

For Jane

I Fall Hard

Jonesin’ for Janie

I Can Never Hear That Too Much

Poem Waiting

The Secret

Six Deer

Someday

Surrounded

Ray-shaw-flay

Looking For Answers

A Singing Soul

Smoker’s Lament

Reaching For Stars

For You Honey

I’m Yours

City Sights

A Home Poem

New Vows

Journaling With Jesus

Covid Commentary

Marijahoojie

No Filter

The 1921 Tulsa Massacre

A Mind Of Its Own

Got a Letter

The Church of Inquiring Christians

This Race With Time

So Many Ways to Love You

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Ema-lita-bita (Emily)

This Memorial Day

The Importance of Love

I Wanna Love You

Thanks Don

January 6th Capital Insurrection

Dear Deer

Scars

Staying Connected With Love

My Favorite Drug

Requiem for Tim

No Filter

If Only Rod Was Here

Things I Don’t Want, and Do

Irony

In Memory of Win Lampert, Poet

Come Fill Me

For Mom Martin

Questions for Education

Two P-R-I-S-O-N Poems

I Was Made For Poetry

And the Poet Sang….

Thanks

God’s Party

Our Love Poem Together

I Talked to God

Curious

Olympics

MysFyt’s Lament

You Can Rhyme

Senior Moments

My Mind

Where Freedom Starts

Love a Dove

New Ways to Be

Trouble in the Woods

Deceptively Addictive

Passion and Play

Prepare a Place

Hypotheticals

Written for Jane

Cheers

That Amazing Julia

It Has To Be

NYC

L-O-V-E

Inspired by Ginsberg’s HOWL

Atta Boy Honest Abe

Ode To Freedom

It’s Only a Question of When

Let Alone My Heart

My Life’s Wine

Hunting

Visiterds

My Better Half

Haven’t Written a Poem

Can’t Beat the Beatles

Mambo Mamma

Strictly Prose

How I Wonder

Fifty-eight

January 1st 2013

Mistakes

Christmas Just Past

Creatively Crazy

2018

Bench Warmer

A Prayerful Poem

Literary Edification?

Heaven and Hell

Long Lasting Love

Join Me In Some Words

Rain

Find a Way

Too Early?

Transhumanism

Unstuck

For Uncle Ira

Refrain From the Mundane

Joy

Life’s been good to me

Still Goin’

How I Think, I Think

Sand in Your Mouth

Heck-no-logic, Techno-logic

V-Ball

Braggin’

AMERICA’S DIVERSITY

Nice Advice

Happy B-day JC

For Janie

God Has a Plan

The Need for Excess

The Most Amazing Dream

Gods/gods

As It Was…

Heaven Awaits

Any Questions?

Dad’s Advice

Quite a Thrill

Seven Ways to Look at an Eagle

Both Within and Without

She’s the Love

AnyWho Lived

A Day for Dana

My Salvation Situation

Nothing Better

Confined to a Void

I Put the Dumb in Wisdom

Mosquito Photo

Poem Waiting

Three Squares and a Bed

With Me Always

If ever you feel discouraged

Or find yourself the least bit forlorn

Remember that I have loved you

Even before you were born

And I will always love you

Even when we’re apart

I’ll carry you with me always

Safe, right here in my heart.

Just A Look

You inspire me

Never tire me

Give me giggles

Bounce my knee

Little Ms. Wiggles

Don’t you see?

The joy you bring

Comes back to you

In songs I sing

And every time you look my way

You brighten up my cloudy day

I should write this in a book

You lighten my heart with just a look

January 21, 2006

Emily Jade is just four months old

and in this brief span of time on earth

has acquired quite a few names; truth be told:

There’s Sugar Plum, Baby Boo, We are so in love with you.

Hugger Buns, Sweetie Pie, You’re the apple of our eyes.