In 1971 I wrote 134 poems.

I began the year writing a comic "epic" about friendship. At the end of the year (I turned 18) I'd written about nearly every emotion I felt. I made it a practice to sit down and churn out poem after poem. Now as I look back upon my hopes and fears after living a little life, I find many poems very nearly prophetic. In "Depression IV" I wrote, "I have felt all the feelings without living all the life." It was true. Even now I find I only repeat my themes from this period. I think I shall never be as productive as I was in 1971- even before I entered life from the "sanctity of highschool."
MFN from the 1980 introduction

Michael F. Nyiri
poet

The List

Ode to the Bush 1971
Premonition 1971
Thoughts in the Cubicle 1971
Like Ships That Pass Etc. 1971
Martyred 1971
Amore Prope 1971
Escape 1971
Put the Card in the Slot and Push the Button 1971
Aphrodite Forgotten 1971
Meditations from the Dejected Individual 1971
Meditations I 1971
Learning Is the Process 1971
Birds Do It 1971
The Poignant Ballad of the Roving Hippie 1971
Bread and Hot Butter 1971
Long Road Home 1971
Failing to Bridge the Gap 1971
The Beauty Again 1971
After the Curtain Call 1971
Rushing On By 1971
Linear Projection 1971
Depression I 1971
Depression II 1971
Song For Kathy 1971
Poem 55 (Arnold Wants a Friend) 1971
Ask Me If I Care 1971
Mississippi Delta Rock*a*Bayou Blues 1971
The BlackandBrownAndYellow Conspiracy 1971
Trip Out Sound 1971
Junk 1971
Smith 1971
Just Can't Get It Back 1971
Hello Sunshine Hello Rain 1971
Evaluation of The Sacrifice
(Dance to the rhythm of the never-ending drum ) 1971
Cameras Shut Off 1971
Highway 99 1971
Screw 'Em All 1971
Song About A Man I Know 1971
Foreboding Disenchantment 1971
91770 Express 1971 posted 01/06/06
Mary Plus Somebody 1971
Wells Of Misconception 1971
Trepidation 1971
Reflections From the Other Side 1971
To School 1971newly posted 05/20/07
I Want to Make This Perfectly Clear 1971newly posted 05/20/07
Janus 1971 newly posted 05/20/07
Summertime Romance 1971 newly posted 05/20/07
The Virtues (Life, Love, Honor, Revenge) 1971
Depression III 1971
Wings of Dust 1971
Meditations II 1971
Meditations III 1971
Rosencrantz is Battling the Dusk 1971
18 Today 1971
Depression IV 1971
Those Subtle Hints 1971
Once and Now 1971newly posted 05/20/07
Nothing Here But a Slight Desire for the Guy 1971 newly posted 05/20/07
Trust 1971

Yellow Clustered Zircons and a Bunch of Green Bananas 1971
Epilogue on the Death of Love 1971
Meditations IV 1971
Meditations V 1971
Winnie the Pooh 1971
Sonnet V 1971
Impetus 1971
Poem 100 1971
The Blessed are They Who Mourn Song and Let This Be a Lesson to You 1971
Ninety Miles Per Hour 1971
Untitled 1971
Joe Cool and the Importance of Being 1971
Revelation 1971
The Book of Love 1971
Brother Bertrams Book of Verse (spontaneous poetry)
June 2, 1971
Repeat: One More Time 1971
Meditations VI 1971
Meditations VII Matthew 7:1-2 1971 newly posted 05/20/07
Meditations VIII 1971
Inspired by the Upcoming Annual Day 1971
Malignant-cy 1971
Peace, Give Me a 1971
No. Two in a Series 1971
Song for a Rose 1971
Martyr 1971
Changing 1971
On Gazing at Gravestones 1971
Failure 1971
Air is Running Out of the Balloon 1971
Fell Something Twice 1971
Prepossessing Intuition 1971
The Undedicated Dedication (To you-because you love me) 1971
Irony 1971
I'm Noticed 1971
Class of '71 1971
Reunion 1971
Foster Child 1971
Untitled II 1971
Ballad of a Razor Blade 1971
End of Summer 1971
Last Summer 1971
I love Her 1971
The Frenzied American Sugar Plum Rebellion 1971
2:00 Thursday Morning 1971
Hope's Rocking Revival Show 1971
He Placed His Stylus to the Clay And 1971
Satan's Call 1971
Unprinted Books 1971
The Cane But Touches the Cement 1971
Malajustment 1971
Portrait of the Majorette 1971
Little Boy Nothing Come Blow Your Horn, The Sheep's Dead in Pasture But It's You Whom We'll Mourn 1971
Moving Day 1971
Meditations XII 1971
The World- A Painting 1971
Untitled III 1971newly posted 05/20/07
The Hello Syndrome 1971
Lament 1971
And the Birds, They Flutter 1971
Christmas Card I 1971
Christmas Card II 1971
Christmas Card III 1971
Christmas Card IV 1971

You Kiss Just Like a Pt. 2 1971
Trippy the Hippie 1971
The First 91770 Express 1971
Little Cube of Sugar 1971
Tell 'Em Where to Go 1971
Meditations IX 1971
Meditations X 1971
Shirley Ave. 1971