I Trip on My Poems by Michael Lee Johnson

In the night when poems

are born, I search for the hidden words,

secrets stretch inside my metaphors 

Even near my tender moments

when the images blossom into rain flowers

I trip on stems cut my way loose to nowhere.

I go there to see what I can find.

Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era. He is a Canadian and USA citizen. Today he is a poet, editor, publisher, freelance writer, amateur photographer, small business owner in Itasca, Illinois.  He has been published in more than 915 small press magazines in 27 countries, and he edits 10 poetry sites.  Author's website http://poetryman.mysite.com/.  Michael is the author of The Lost American:  From Exile to Freedom (136 page book) ISBN:  978-0-595-46091-5, several chapbooks of poetry, including From Which Place the Morning Rises and Challenge of Night and Day, and Chicago Poems.