Offering some of my poems and a place for discussions on the direction and content of poetry as it (hopefully) moves away from the last century’s emphasis on postmodern and victim-centric works.
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Black tree trunks stand like stately sentinels, before high-up dormer eyes, staring across well-turned lawns, undulating and silent. Glossy leaves of ivy and cropped shrubs skirt the grand house. Cloaking around the foundation, up to tendrils splayed, grasping over white wood toward the eaves. Snug in a feigned union of nature and permanence, sitting lordly…
Wind Tripper is Neal Ostmar’s first collection of poetry. The poems present evocative images by using palpable language and lucid metaphors. Poems like “The Nord Sea” and “Faraway” place you in the vast loneliness of the ocean. They convey how the drudgery of work and missing a loved one comes to hang about your shoulders….