Allan Grohe's Poetry

This page brings together the poems from my thesis, Migration Patterns, as well as the "new" poems I've written since April 1996, and the various "Door Poems" that I've written since 1997 or so.

This page is a bit of an experiment/work in progress, since I'm trying to create a unified book or two by taking the best from the various "sets" of poems, so that I can sell it to a publisher. Of course, simply publishing them myself is always an option as well (in book form: the web's nice, but poetry demands physicality and form, which is best provided in a book).

Migration Patterns consists of the first three sections of poems listed below, while I have created a few more since first organizing my thesis (including the section entitled Migration Patterns, just to further confuse the issue). If you look closely you'll notice that some poems appear in multiple sections--that's because, depending on which organization scheme I choose, a given poem could appear in various sections.

In case this wasn't obvious, all the poems are copyright (c) 1995 - 2001 by Allan T. Grohe, Jr., all rights are reserved, and the poems cannot be reproduced without my prior permission (save for review excerpts).

If you have any thoughts, suggestions, and/or criticisms, please feel free to email me with them. Thanks!

The Flood of Night

The Flood

The Closer Side of Night

solitaire with orange slices

lost among the novembers

wintering

Lawrence 5th and Michigan

Whitman's Winter

Dreamscapes

Dreamscape

Crucible and Prism

balloons, bridges, and non-euclidean geometry

Chiaroscuro

Adrift

fear

II.

italian tarot nightmare

Mother And Son

Waiting for the Oak King

Stark and Gloomy Souls

III.

Heartstone

IV.

The Ferryman

Dragonsight

Seekings

Twilight's Allure

Zorpsday

Paris Morning

Domestic Recipes

Sky and Ocean

Sandpipers

Painting the Ben Franklin

The Wall

Perceptions and Memory

Migration Patterns

Door Poems

This is basically a whole seperate category of semi-poems, so I created a new page for them. Door Poems were created under the influence of magnets, so to speak, whether from Magnetic Poetry Kits or online versions of the same.

Forks

These poems were all inspired by images shot by my good and dear friend Doug Hesse, of black dog imageworks. We have planned a small-press book of images and poems, but haven't worked on it for awhile. Hopefully it won't go the way of The Belly Button Book (which, alas, went the way of the stegosaurus . . . ).

an untitled forks poem
The Fork Hegemony
Confinements
Mother Grendel
The Roots of Forks

Fog Poems

I was captivated by fogs for awhile: morning fogs en route to work, fogs at night along the lake, fogs in Chile, etc. I wrote several fog poems as a result, mostly throughout 1996 and 1997. In many ways, they're about me searching for how to deal with the confusion caused by the end of my marriage, though that's not the case across the board.

Here they are: Allan Grohe's Fog Poem Greatest Hits:

Chilean Fog
The Many Colours of Fog
my world of fogs
Jovian Fog
Another Fog
Summer Morning Fog
In a Fog

Voices

I realized that I've been writing verses all about voices lately: voices of friends, voices I admire, voices that move me.

For Sarah McLachlan
Listen to the Sea
Her Voice (for Meredith)
Emily's Song (for Emily Dickinson)
The Drake

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