Creative Writing
A Man Reaches Toward the Sky
The man looks towards the gray sky.
Reaching his hand out towards…
Money, connection, hope, help?
But all he grasps is
The nothingness…
And as he holds it tightly
it starts to squirm…
The Fragility of the Human Condition
by D. Shapiro
SEEING, FEARING, FEELING “ABYSS”? Poems
5 Poems:
- INNOCENT WHITENESS
- RECEDING HANDS
- DARKENING LAVENDER SKIES
- FAITH?
- UNSURE GAIT
- UNTITLED
Touchstone (2005)
by D Shapiro with comments by J Shapiro
Under a football scoreboard, a weekly stretching of legs, waist high,
before and after jogging.
A shoe touches one scratched broken ½” scarred indent, of a steel pole.
No one knows our connection, and one day all that will be left is
A scarred indent that the sole no longer touches.
J: (2018) This poem about your sole on the pole is pretty poignant. Oh, sad! I wonder, will your pole miss your sole?:-)
A Temporary Respite
by D Shapiro with comments by J Shapiro (10/22/18)
Brown pine needles , tree
Aging….five crows land on limbs…
Still provides respite
Death Haiku and Linked Verse
my death poem:
breathing in…thank you
letting go now….breathing out
one final thank you
Jan 2000
J’s (A Novel)
by Deane H. Shapiro, Jr., Ph.D.
A personal/existential journey, a love story, a life affirming message.
From a Review:
“An endlessly fascinating exploration of the human psyche, a bildungsroman of a young man’s intensely subjective first person narrative… J’s is a novel of ideas, a love story, a sharing of wisdom teachings from different spiritual and philosophical traditions.”