Poems of Bill Cattey -- Poetnerd
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22 Year Olds of All Ages
7 July 2000
Accidental Tryst
22 July 2002
Addiction
1 March 2000
Afterglow
22 October 2000 revised 25 March 2002
Aftershocks
3 February 2003
Age
14 February 2000 revised 13 March 2000
Aged Like...
24 August 2017
Alone
6 March 1979
The Alpha and Omega of Stubbornness
26 September 2004
Altered States
22 August 2015
Always Carry a Pen
c. January 1990
And Now a Word From Our Sponsor
5 February 2003
Another Point of Departure
26 October 2002
Another victim of reality
17 February 2015
Are you being used?
26 August 2021
Art For Health's Sake
23 March 2003
Asymmetry Anxiety
25 August 2001
At the Disco
23 March 1996
Attachment
24 August 2001
Auntie Jean has ALS
24 October 2002
Autobiography -- A Work in Progress
22 January 2000 revised 24 January 2001
B. To Me And Back Again
13 December 2004
Bad Match
c. April 2000 (unfinished)
Barbara Cattey
10 November 2022
Beautiful Surprise
3 December 1998
The Bells! The Bells!
12 December 2004
The Best Self
7 January 2003
Bill Casey: Elegy. Epiphany.
27 January 2022
Blindsided
20 August 2000
Blindsided II
13 January 2002
Blue Denim Boy
28 September 2003
Blues Cruise
18 February 2002
Blur
19 August 2003
Brain Damage
19 July 2010
Breaking the Habit
of Feeling Bad About Myself
23 January 2002
The Burden of Worry
15 December 2000
Call Back Soon
6 June 2000
Capitalism
4 May 2019 (unfinished)
Celebrating a Life
4 November 2022
Cell-free Cafe
7 July 2002
The Chemistry of Commitment
12 May 2002
Choosing Your Own Adventure
17 November 2013
Cleanup time?
26 October 2002
Community
26 August 2002
Confession
14 January 2003
Consumed
28 February 2002
Country Dancer
20 August 2000
Courage
3 November 2000 revised 2 August 2002
Craving Communion
20 January 2002
A Crucial Matter of Identity
c. 2006
Cultivating Serenity
27 August 2004
A Culture of Reality Distortion
4 November 2015
Dangerous Beliefs
16 November 2013 revised 29 August 2015 (unfinished)
David
3 December 1998 revised 16 February 2000
Default
6 July 2014 (unfinished) Rewrite 28 May 2023
Design for Loving
4 May 2002
Desire
21 August 2002
Desire II
10 November 2002
Disappointment
22 July 2002
Discretionary Poetry
21 August 2019
Displaced Sadness
28 May 2021
Divestiture
12 December 2004
Dreams of Workplace Harassment
27 September 2000
Duh!
24 February 2002
Ecology Viewed From Afar
30 July 2013
The Elephant in the Room
6 April 2021
Emancipation
12 May 2002
Empty my mind for sleep
23 March 2003
En Route to Niagara Falls
25 December 2001
Epistemological-Enigma
1 February 2010
Everything Sings
19 August 1970 (unfinished)
Evolution
20 July 2004
The Ex That Wouldn't Leave
30 December 2000
Extemporaneous Poetry
On the subject of Xopher
7 December 1998
Falling Towards Self Knowledge
23 September 2010
Fandom Renunciate
28 October 2000 (unfinished) revised 20 August 2006
A Flash of Lust
5 July 2011
Flashback Attack
15 April 2002
Flower in the Wild
14 April 2002
Four Needs
1 June 2000 (unfinished)
Fully Charged
22 August 2018
The GALA 2004 Festival
20 July 2004
Generations
25 December 2001
Genesis -- Corrected Translation
15 March 2015
Getting Over It
19 March 2000
The Gift of Dementia
17 March 2023
The Gift of Stenosis
22 August 2022
Giving Cuz It Hurts
4 November 2022
A Glass of Wine with Breakfast?
21 July 2004
Goodbye Mom
4 November 2022
Grace
8 July 2002
Handle With Care
24 August 2000
Happy Anniversary
28 August 2008
He gave me pause
20 August 2003
He is
9 February 2000
He's Not From Around Here
26 August 2006
Helping Hand
24 August 2000
Holidays are S'posed to be Special
17 February 2004
Home
27 October 1982
Homemade Pornography
21 August 2002
Hope and Affirmation
26 August 2009
How Do I Become The Fun One?
20 June 2021
How Do They Do That?
24 July 2001
I Choose
5 July 2014
I Just Called...
21 August 2019
I Like Working With People
5 August 2011
I Need Your Help
6 June 2000
I like the one-liners -- they're short.
5 July 2014
If You Look For Reasons
23 September 2020
Impact
5 March 2023
In the Laundromat
26 March 1984
Inconvenient Truth
22 August 2018
Insight
9 October 2003
Interlude
c. May 1976
Invitation
30 July 2000
Is There a(nother) Poet in the House?
26 October 2002
Is it soup yet?
14 December 2004
Judgment
24 July 2001
Lacking Mystique
8 October 2003
Leave Taking
13 January 2002
Lilies
3 December 1998
Listening
19 December 2004
A Little Loss of Balance
7 January 2001
Loneliness
6 June 2000
Looking at the world through wine bottle lenses:
23 August 2018
Loss
5 November 2022 (unfinished)
Love Drug
13 October 2000 (unfinished)
The Luck of the Draw #1 -- The Birth Lottery
30 July 2018 (unfinished)
Magick or Illusion
22 August 2002
Majority Rule
22 August 2019
A Man To Avoid
12 December 2004
Manners
29 October 2000
Marketing to an Engineer
27 July 2011
Mason Alexander Park
4 November 2022
The Measure of a Man
20 January 2016
Meditation for Personal Evolution
7 July 2013
Memorial Disservice
16 December 2010
Microcosmic Regret
23 August 2002
Mischief or Mayhem
23 September 2020
Misplaced Attention
17 February 2015
Moon 44
15 February 2000
The Morning After
10 November 2000 revised 31 July 2002
Moving on from unmet expectations:
10 November 2022
Muse -- Reprise
12 September 2000
Muse
3 February 2000
Music
23 February 1979
Music is the Elixir of Life
4 March 2015
My 1986 Pet Shop Boy
14 October 2000 revised 25 December 2001
My Clique
12 December 2004
My Return
25 June 1995
Naturism Stress Test
28 May 2022
Necessity Is The Mother of Comprehension
6 August 2013
Nerd Consciousness
6 January 2014
Nerd or Geek
19 July 2010
New Boss
30 January 2004
New Depths of Self Acceptance
4 April 2005
New Management Theory
21 August 2019
No Longer Living in my Living Room
23 August 2001
Not Good or Bad, Different.
21 August 2018
Observer Observed
26 October 2002
Often / Often
3 February 2000 revised 13 October 2000
The Oldest Profession
5 January 2002
On Truth, Faith,
and the Cycle of Interpretation
23 January 2002
One Minute Vacations
4 February 2000
Optimism
28 August 2015
The Other One
20 February 2004
Outwrite Background
26 October 2002
Outwrite Cutie
26 October 2002
Outwrite Departure
26 October 2002
Outwrite Introduction
26 October 2002
Outwrite Sofa
26 October 2002
Overcoming Performance Anxiety
27 August 2015
Papercut
6 July 2014
Paradise
20 August 2003
Parallel Lines
7 March 2000
Part of Me From You
c. March 1984
Phases
5 March 1979
Platonica
22 October 2000 revised 25 March 2002
Pleaser Consciousness
6 January 2014
Poem Out of Reach
25 August 2001
The Poem That Got Away
19 March 2000
The Poems of Mark Doty
19 August 2003
Poetry Hiatus
25 August 2001
Points on a Line
27 June 2009
Prayer
13 October 2000
Prioritization Paradox
2 June 2011
Qualities
31 January 2000
A Question of Hope
17 October 2000
Questions About Friends
25 February 2001
Quiet Comes as a Welcome Change
3 February 2004
A Quiet Party Fantasy
30 March 1984
The REAL source of success
27 October 2009
Raison d'etre
6 March 1979
Rational Fears
26 August 2006
Rave Restaurant Review
17 November 2006
Re-Upholstering-My-Mind-in-Paisley
25 August 2015
Reading at Stone Soup
12 January 2001
Reality Check
28 August 2002
Realization
27 August 2004
Recapturing Fun I -- Writing
21 July 2011
Recapturing Fun II -- Computers
21 July 2011
Recovering From Burnout
24 August 2001
Reset
18 February 2002
Revelation
10 August 2002
Revenge
9 September 2003
Revenge II
8 October 2003
Ring Zero
19 July 2010
The Rules
14 January 2003
Sam Brinton
22 August 2018
San Francisco Has Been Poisoned
28 May 2021
Satisfaction
12 September 2000
The Scent of Distraction
6 June 2000
Scents and Decorum
12 October 2003
Secret Admirations
20 September 2000 revised 26 December 2000
The Shaman's Lament
1 Jan 2000
Singing Into The Past
23 December 2022
Sisters
14 October 2000 (unfinished)
Solace in a Cup of Tea
25 August 2001
Star Dance Evolution
5 July 2014 revised 22 August 2019 (unfinished)
Steer clear this time.
22 August 2019
Still not King
6 April 2021
Stopping Time
18 January 2000 revised 20 August 2000
The Story of B.
22 January 2000 revised 14 February 2000
Strength
26 September 2000
Stress -- Or not
7 July 2000 Revised 4 February 2002
Tai Chi Driving
13 April 2002
The Tao of Practice
24 August 2017
Textile Comfort
20 August 2002
That Demon Desperation
3 November 2000 revised 31 July 2002
That Old House
12 August 2023 (unfinished)
To Be Believed
12 August 2018
To Reuben
3 August 2021
To V.
8 November 2000
The Top Ten Things
Twinkies Cannot be Trusted With
23 November 1995
Trifle
24 Feb 2000
Trusting
22 August 2018
Try Softer
20 August 2013
Turtle
c. March 1969
Two Kinds of Trust
29 December 2000
Unemployment
16 May 2011 revised 6 August 2014
The Universe Hiccups
26 October 2002
Unpacking a Lifetime of Overload
28 May 2021
Useless Advice for Under-Achievers
23 September 2020
Vos Pantalons
26 October 2002
The Waiter
28 July 2009
A Walk on the Beach
20 July 2001
Wannabe
24 August 2002
The Way
4 March 2002
Weather Control
27 August 2009
What Am I Feeling?
c. March 1984
What Does He Have That I Want?
21 July 2004
What is happening to me?
23 February 1979
When
26 December 2000 (unfinished)
When I Dance
23 August 2001
When I Sing
c. June 1978
Who
1 Jan 2000
Who Is He?
24 September 1995
Why I Like Rainy Days
25 July 2004
Why Naked?
6 August 2014
Words of Love
1 January 2001
Xanadu
4 April 2005
Yahweh -- The Great 'I Am'
14 March 2005
You Are a Good Example
25 March 1984
Your Calling
16 October 2010
Youth
3 September 2001
The Zen of Big Bird
25 October 1992