Carl's Poetry
"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
–F. Scott Fitzgerald
- As The World Lay Fast Asleep
- Bad Advice
- The Beatitudes
- Belief - A Journey in Faith
- The Birthday Poem
- A Bitter Pill
- The Dawn
- Give That Fan a Contract - Ode to Rex Barney
- Heartbreak Run
- Hon. Judge John Hathorne
- Immigrant - A Cold War Tale
- Impression
- Leaky Roof
- Let The Games Begin
- Love
- A Masterpiece of Love
- Peaceful Elements
- Perspective
- Powerless
- Psalm to the Sea
- The Rain Band
- Reality
- Reflections Upon Watching a Burning Candle
- Sea
- Sea Song
- St. Michaels, Maryland
- The Storm Chaser - An Ode to My Dad
- Strength in Numbers
- 'Til Death Do We Part
- To Be Spoken at My Funeral
- To Hannah - A Father's Lament
- To Marie
- Voleur
Immigrant
My soul has been divided, like heaven
And Hell. A wall
Built high -- trapping me in,
Keeping me out. I try
To climb over my past. It
Builds higher the wall,
Keeping East from West -- Brother from
Brother. My soul has been divided,
Like my homeland --
Germany.
