Brian’sPoems

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A book by Brian J. Mueller

Tomorrow Could Be Wonderful

365 pieces · in calendar order

January

  1. 1The New Year Begins Again
  2. 2Buck Up!
  3. 3The Mailman
  4. 4The Funeral
  5. 5Tree of Sentimentality
  6. 6The Syrian
  7. 7Wisdom Tooth
  8. 8Boredom
  9. 9My Emotions
  10. 10Uncertain Times
  11. 11Don't Hold Your Breath
  12. 12Push Me, Pull Me
  13. 13Spirit in the Sky
  14. 14Bon Voyage!
  15. 15Your Precious Love
  16. 16In the Name of Love
  17. 17The Secret to Life
  18. 18Easy Does It
  19. 19Any Color You Want
  20. 20Love is Your Yoke
  21. 21First Contact
  22. 22Fulfillment
  23. 23Truth is Truth
  24. 24Gravity
  25. 25Young Man
  26. 26Sit Here
  27. 27Childhood Friend
  28. 28Guiltless
  29. 29Spinning
  30. 30Morning
  31. 31Crazy in the Night

February

  1. 1Love is the Sticky-Icky
  2. 2God is Closer (Than You Think)
  3. 3Friday Poem
  4. 4What You Find Out When You Say More Than Hi
  5. 5Grounded in Love
  6. 6Say Yes
  7. 7Meditation
  8. 8First Date
  9. 9Wisdom and Wet Feet
  10. 10Fixers
  11. 11A Sip of Self-Knowledge
  12. 12Stardate 10191.5
  13. 13A Want to Give
  14. 14My Valentine (for Melissa)
  15. 15A Great Wisdom
  16. 16The Apps on My Phone
  17. 17So What's the Story Today?
  18. 18Tension
  19. 19Alligator PSA
  20. 20False Labor
  21. 21Boomers
  22. 22Cold and Clear
  23. 23Show You My Palms (A Prayer)
  24. 24Her name was Sally Ride.
  25. 25A Man's Only Job
  26. 26Chinaski
  27. 27Field Theory
  28. 28Movies

March

  1. 1Hallelujah Money
  2. 2Thursday Poem
  3. 3She Says to Me
  4. 4The Hermit
  5. 5Emily
  6. 6Be Gentle with Yourself
  7. 7We Were Among the Young and Sexy
  8. 8Belonging
  9. 9Tomorrow Could Be Wonderful
  10. 10Alive
  11. 11Your Hug
  12. 12This Same Love
  13. 13A Plea for Love
  14. 14Love Some More
  15. 15Wednesday Poem
  16. 16The Dance of Love
  17. 17The Green Guinness Within Us
  18. 18Don't Tighten the Screws
  19. 19That Kind of Day
  20. 20Go in Love
  21. 21Fingerprints
  22. 22Landfill
  23. 23Everywhere
  24. 24Back to My Life
  25. 25For Those She Loves
  26. 26The Circle
  27. 27Ode to Joy
  28. 28Here I am!
  29. 29A Speck of Truth
  30. 30Desert Pilgrim
  31. 31The More You Take

April

  1. 1Handful of Poems
  2. 2The Flowing
  3. 3Hope Rising
  4. 4Deliver Me the Ocean
  5. 5Amazement
  6. 6Men and Their Feelings
  7. 7The Spring Rains Gush
  8. 8Put Aside Your Expectations
  9. 9Soften
  10. 10Monday Prayer
  11. 11The World of Man
  12. 12Red Moon
  13. 13Taken
  14. 14Trinity
  15. 15A Place to Sleep
  16. 16This is Becoming
  17. 17Sacred Hour
  18. 18God's Gentle Kiss
  19. 19Forgotten Truth
  20. 20The Past
  21. 21Spit it Out
  22. 22Embrace this World
  23. 23Swallow the Ocean
  24. 24Steady
  25. 25Fundamental "Ness"
  26. 26Cross-eyed Tired
  27. 27White Man
  28. 28Joe
  29. 29Black Dog
  30. 30The Pint Glass

May

  1. 1Before the Wars
  2. 2The Morning Wind
  3. 3Everything Will Be Okay
  4. 4Deliver Us to Normalcy
  5. 5To Detach with Love
  6. 6The Empress
  7. 7Rainbow Connection
  8. 8Life's Imperative
  9. 9The Poets Dream in Verse
  10. 10Perception
  11. 11Tumble
  12. 12A Promise to Come Back
  13. 13Essential Mystery
  14. 14Gloria Steinem Kissed Me
  15. 15Drenched
  16. 16We Talked About Death
  17. 17Your Bones
  18. 18A Love Much Bigger
  19. 19Face Your Fears
  20. 20Pulling on the Roots of Injustice
  21. 21To the Graduate
  22. 22Harsh Witness
  23. 23Still Water
  24. 24Watcha Gotta Do
  25. 25Zombies
  26. 26Go in Search
  27. 27Spiritual Practices
  28. 28Death Song
  29. 29My Addiction
  30. 30Thirst for More
  31. 31Stealing My Keys

June

  1. 1Change
  2. 2I Wonder
  3. 3A Poem Can Help
  4. 4Another Poem About Poetry
  5. 5Who Is It That Speaks to You?
  6. 6Our Tribe
  7. 7A World with No Poetry
  8. 8Let Yourself Be Overwhelmed
  9. 9Cats
  10. 10Why Must I Go to the Gym Today?
  11. 11Sunday
  12. 12The Wise Tell Me
  13. 13Full of It
  14. 14Everything Belongs
  15. 15Not Too Much Praise
  16. 16When the Levee Breaks
  17. 17Memories Are the Ghosts
  18. 18Neoliberalism
  19. 19Obviously
  20. 20Devoured Together
  21. 21Technology
  22. 22The Timeless Wheel
  23. 23Less Is Always More
  24. 24Love Must Be the Assurance
  25. 25Connecting Questions
  26. 26The Mutability of Everything
  27. 27Faith
  28. 28How Strange It Is
  29. 29Now I Know Better
  30. 30The Way of Love

July

  1. 1Grace Gets All Over
  2. 2A Good Night's Sleep
  3. 3Something to Say
  4. 4Dark Mountain
  5. 5Cosmic Demolition Derby
  6. 6Still Is Still Moving
  7. 7The Fore
  8. 8Speak Viscerally
  9. 9I Can Handle It
  10. 10Expectations
  11. 11Where to Begin
  12. 12Ownership
  13. 13Consumed
  14. 14Way of The Cross
  15. 15Morning Sky
  16. 16Between Extremes
  17. 17A Poet's Death
  18. 18For a Moment
  19. 19Being Alright
  20. 20Dear God
  21. 21Tiny Seed
  22. 22Carpe Diem
  23. 23Sensors
  24. 24Techadores
  25. 25The Voice
  26. 26Intentionality
  27. 27Too Hot
  28. 28Living in Relationship
  29. 29Let it go whispers the wind...
  30. 30Amusement Park
  31. 31Scoop yourself up.

August

  1. 1Back to Work
  2. 2The Love You Bring
  3. 3This House
  4. 4Men's Rites of Passage
  5. 5Parthenon
  6. 6A. Robinson
  7. 7A Prayer
  8. 8Gothic Love
  9. 9Pieces
  10. 10Evelyn
  11. 11The Time
  12. 12Don
  13. 13Rhyming Exercise
  14. 14Words
  15. 15Roads
  16. 16The Flow
  17. 17All Shall Be Well
  18. 18Fall is Coming
  19. 19Jazz
  20. 20Yeses and Noes
  21. 21Beechwood Ave.
  22. 22No Country for Old Men
  23. 23New Day
  24. 24No Hearts to Break
  25. 25A Matter of Perspective
  26. 26Step Four
  27. 27Newlyweds
  28. 28New is the Wind
  29. 29Simon & Griffin
  30. 30Something Else to Wear
  31. 31Journey of the Radical

September

  1. 1Haunted by the Ghost
  2. 2Good Enough
  3. 3Silence
  4. 4Leave the Door Open
  5. 5Labor Day
  6. 6Sonnet Blue
  7. 7Trading Hardware for Software
  8. 8That Old Man Over There
  9. 9A Good Poem
  10. 10Collapsing
  11. 11Rapture
  12. 12Humility (and Grace)
  13. 13Birthday Wish
  14. 14Acceptance
  15. 15Don't Go Back to Sleep
  16. 16God's Pocket
  17. 17Love is Growing
  18. 18Ever Becoming
  19. 19What I Want to Be
  20. 20Field Theory
  21. 21Finish a Life
  22. 22When I Sweep
  23. 23A Poet's Invocation
  24. 24Signs
  25. 25A Beginner's Prayer
  26. 26On the Road
  27. 27Coffee Shop
  28. 28Maine
  29. 29Lazy Fall Days
  30. 30Dust and Ash

October

  1. 1Forever Spring
  2. 2As Only Love Can
  3. 3Document3
  4. 4I am Poetry
  5. 5Forever
  6. 6How?
  7. 7Dammit Man!
  8. 8Transformation
  9. 9When Your Heart is Broken
  10. 10My Phone
  11. 11High School Reunion
  12. 12The Internet
  13. 13Melancholia
  14. 14My Love
  15. 15Death
  16. 16Knowing
  17. 17Candy
  18. 18Keep Moving
  19. 19Old Boat
  20. 20Please Come Down
  21. 21The Quiet
  22. 22Skip a Night
  23. 23Toward Pain
  24. 24Forever Reaching
  25. 25A Song to Big Bend
  26. 26If She Sings
  27. 27Davis Mountains
  28. 28Ohio Valley Fall
  29. 29Dogs Say It Better
  30. 30Falling in Love ~ for Melissa
  31. 31The Gods Must Be Crazy

November

  1. 1November (Part 1)
  2. 2November (Part 2)
  3. 3I Can Still Hear the Drums
  4. 4The Rose Knows
  5. 5God is the love you see everywhere - always.
  6. 6Gratitude Prayer
  7. 7Golden Rules
  8. 8Dear America (My Home)
  9. 9Night Turned Day
  10. 10Climb the Mountain
  11. 11Happy Veterans Day
  12. 12In the Mirror
  13. 13Silence is a Valid Offering
  14. 14What Looks Like Water Burns
  15. 15Make Love
  16. 16Old Ben
  17. 17Shoulder Surgery
  18. 18Remember My Brothers
  19. 19Showtime!
  20. 20Truth & Love
  21. 21I am a filter.
  22. 22Fine Pottery
  23. 23Boundless Love
  24. 24A Thanksgiving Prayer
  25. 25God Spill
  26. 26Insomnia
  27. 27Forgiving Myself
  28. 28Nature
  29. 29Full Moon
  30. 30Yahweh

December

  1. 1The Battlefields
  2. 2Longevity
  3. 3The Gas, The Light, The Heat
  4. 41972
  5. 5Din of Everyday Life
  6. 6Do Less
  7. 7My Part
  8. 8In His Eyes
  9. 9Do Not Harden
  10. 10Spinning
  11. 11Spirits 365
  12. 12A Prayer for the Imperfect
  13. 13Tippler
  14. 14Action & Contemplation
  15. 15Let the Mystery Be
  16. 16A Place for Us to Go
  17. 17Awakening to My Gift
  18. 18Silver Dollar
  19. 19The Good News
  20. 20Blippity-Bop
  21. 21The Weight
  22. 22To Kill a Watt
  23. 23Lessons in a Good Week
  24. 24Our Task is Hard Enough
  25. 25Merry Canine Christmas!
  26. 26The Time for Sleep is Over
  27. 27Joe Wise
  28. 28Big Bend
  29. 29The Dark Mystery
  30. 30The Crone on the Train
  31. 31This Poem