Poetry

Bill Lederer’s poetry has been published in various literary magazines. He has also read his poetry at poetry readings in the Chicago metropolitan area. Lederer has written over 1,000 poems and continues to write poetry and is available for readings. Here is a sample of some his poems.

Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

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One can also read select poems by William L. Lederer on the Illinois State Poetry Society website.

Poems: Copyright © 2024 William L. Lederer 

Poems: Winter Edition 2024

Your Smile is Questionable

Visiting the Desert

Hop

A Myth for All Ages

Deadly Seven

Count Down Count Up

One Fine Day     

Expect Nothing

Too Much to Eat

Foreign Student

My Flowering Crab Tree

Giddy YapYap

Thank You For Now

Our Rights

Poems: Fall Edition 2024

Is That It?

Why?

Inclusion

Doubled Up Laughter

Our Fantastic Dinner

Revolving

After Working So Hard

Look Through

Finally

Your Future

Shame on Blame

Here Comes…

Poems: Summer Edition 2024

The Stage We’re In

Find Me Some Beam

What Do You Know!

The Hard Way

Hurry On

Tripping Along the Road

Way It Is

United

Impatience

Slumber Away

Our Knot

Toward the End

Trees Can be Collapsible

Qualifications

Poems: Spring Edition 2024

Instantiation

Timing

Be Stream

Hiatus

Sharing the Sense

Watch Out for Predicaments

Swifty

All is Chances or Who is Heather?

Go Forth

Move On

Don’t Forget Our Lady

My Bill

It

Matter of Size

Too Much For Little Old Me

Poems: Winter Edition 2023

Reflecting

Arrest and Pen

Ambition

Purgate

For the White-Haired One

Mmm

Just

A Lover’s Quarrel with the Philosophers

Bx

Essentially

Have a Good One 

After All

I Saw A Ghost Last Night 

Some Judge

He’s Still my Neighbor

Tips on Making Me Creative

Poems: Fall Edition 2023

After the Life and Death of Something or Other

Plentitude

Believe It or Not

Questionable

Amtrak

The Worst of It

Contradictions

Our Class

I’m King of the Animals

No More Judgement Needed

Fragments of that Day

Advice to the Suspiring

Poems: Summer Edition 2023

Packaged

It’s It

Naturally

Disconnect

I Create

Where to Go

You’re Counter-productive

Close Calling

AI is Responsible

O

Ding a Thing       

A Bird on the Wing

Taste Is All That Matters

Ages Past

Poems: Spring Edition 2023

Creatures Can’t Create

3 Seats

So be that!

Sit

Close Calling

Futurize This Malcontent

Eclipse

Our Turn

Even

Teeter Taut

I Want Answers

Till Now

Poems: Winter Edition 2022

See?

Done

Ages Past

My Rainbow Cone

Retired

Paper Hat Float!

What’s This #2?

Buzz

A Cosmographer is Loose!

My Goodness!

Sure enough

The Sensation of Migration

Generations In Hock

Current Madness

Poems: Fall Edition 2022

Before the Whale

Some Tips

Three

Go Now

Sorry

In Decent Repose

Past Past

Dummerdank

Purple Heart

Who Knows

Dimensions

The Debate Goes On

Poems: Summer Edition 2022

You Ask Me?

Wonder about Your Guilt

Satisfaction

Extraordinary Fetes

Preparing for a Date

News

Parade with US

Umf!

Stature

I Want Answers

Sound Off!

Master the New

She made the Difference

So Far

Deeper Streetcars

Rockinghorse

Master

Poems: Spring Edition 2022

Let Us Gather to Drink

Unlimited Limitations

Predilection

Nonie

Artificial Intelligence, You’re Too Late

Why Do I Sorta Love You?

An..d

Wayward

DaDa

Singularity

Time to Go Home

Dance!

Which

Poems: Winter Edition 2021

Enchantment

Do and Don’t Ask Questions

My Role?

Cannibal

How Much Am I Worth?

Be Missing History

Care To Be Here

Last Election

Get Real!

Creativity

No More Worming

Listen Here!

Tech Goes

88

The Creative Act

Wishing True

Poems: Fall Edition 2021

Hoping

Achoo!

Somewhere

Grand Proof

At Last

Two Ideals

You Started It

The Powers To Be

Fun

Let’s Party!

Where’s It At

My my!

Poems: Summer Edition 2021

Sing

Battling

Gratefully Yours

In Memoriam

Flung Art

Take it

Some Day

We Saw Each Other

A Gift

Greeting

I Am Not A Stick!

Ladder Leader

Poems: Spring Edition 2021

Amphibious with You

An Awfully Right Thing to Do

Certain Fact

Challenging

Clarity

Cross-eyed

First Steps

Flowers of Good

Lasting Thoughts

May Be

Me

My Science

Past Past

Predicament

Tell You What

What Deserves to be Eternal?

Worm’s Way

Poems: Winter Edition 2020

A Part’s Whole

Be Calm

Before the Mirror

Fear Not

From the Ending

Here and How!

In the Fall

Modernity

Politics Forever

The Bare Necessities

Wow!

PREVIOUS WORK

A Door Ajar

Another Remoteness

Advancements

Consumption

Emergence

Galloping Bull

I Am the Center of the Universe

If

Infinity

It

Lasting Geometries

Master

Of

Opus O

Remote

Soul

Sensationalist, Get It Right

Thought