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POEM: Empty Page

The best criteria that I have come across for keeping a poem is whether it improves upon silence. Here is a poem on that theme. Feel free to read it silently… Empty Page The messenger delivered I am Caught short … Continue reading

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POEM: An Other – Language

Some have noted that you need to speak a different language to understand my poetry. Here is a poem on that theme: An Other: Language He tolled it Like it is With respect to my write mined You knead to … Continue reading

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POEM: I’d Give My Write Arm for the Sound of You

I wrote this poem for the Toledo Museum of Art poetry contest this year. I didn’t win, so my status as an amateur poet is intact. This poem is a love poem beyond the grave, mourning a lost lover. This … Continue reading

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POEM: I a Door

Here is a simple poem reflecting on my deinstitutionalization from church about a dozen years a go. I a Door I don’t go to church anymore Church comes to me Of course, I do find myself In church on rare … Continue reading

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POEM: Showing Up

We are each a bit of magic forming the future, a collective world that much better. Showing Up I am Just A walking and talking Peace of meet Know magic To see Hear Awe those who have years Here Show … Continue reading

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POEM: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season

Here is a Halloween poem. This poem is an eerie, haunting meditation on imminent death, specifically, at the hands of a deathly force. For some time, I have had this image of someone taking my life and my last words … Continue reading

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POEM: Wiled Fires

Wild fire smoke plumes are still messing up our air quality. Unfortunately, with asthma, I pay a lot of attention to such things. Check out the air quality yourself at: https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Toledo&state=OH&country=USA (set for Toledo). Of course, I have a poem … Continue reading

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POEM: Love Birds

Back to nature. Forward to nature. Love Birds His life peered As an empty field Soully a tree Stray flowers A pair of birds Blades of grasses Up on closer inspection Colonies of bugs A myriad of life On the … Continue reading

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POEM: Unfrock The World

With this poem, I inaugurate won of my many titles: “The most write irreverend.” Unfrock The World I slammed it Hearty har hard In fool reveres Being soully in titled The most write irreverend Fore awe Who will hear The … Continue reading

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POEM: A Bit Touched

Some people claim that people who are a bit disturbed are more creative. This may be true. Surly, I am a bit touched…as this poem would have it. A Bit Touched I was a bit down Taking me To the … Continue reading

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POEM: Jackson Pollack Heart Work

This poem was inspired by the image of my heart exploding and the splatter creating an unfathomable work of heart on any walls closing in on me. Jackson Pollack Heart Work I was cornered Awe round me I temped too … Continue reading

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POEM: A Man of Promise

A poem of what is owed, what is the present, and what is yet to come… A Man of Promise “What is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, love mercy, and to walk … Continue reading

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POEM: A Salt & Battery

This poem is a meditation on that sense of being positively negative. There is something electric between positivity and negativity. I am a salt of the earth kind of guy, a dude abiding, and yet some people don’t take kindly … Continue reading

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POEM: Knows Helled

Yesterday I was able to protest the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza outside the DNC in Chicago for four hours with thousands of other. Here is a poem to the “conventional” compromised political take that genocide is a necessary evil for … Continue reading

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POEM: Down With Shutting Up

Getting ready to protest the U.S.-Israeli genocide at the Chicago Democratic National Convention this week. Never be silent about genocide! Down With Shutting Up Are you down With genocide in Gaza Only Abel to ax What’s up In The hell … Continue reading

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POEM: Wanting to Say My Peace

Today, at a Kamala Harris rally, her speech was interrupted by protesters chanting, “Kamala, Kamala you can’t hide! We won’t vote for genocide.” As they persisted, and would not be silenced, candidate Harris said: “You know what? If you want … Continue reading

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POEM: Owed to Muhammad Ali

I wrote this poem after watching, again, my favorite documentary of all time: When We Were Kings. This film is about the leadup and spectacle that is known as the “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire, the heavyweight boxing title … Continue reading

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POEM: A Wake Sleepy Aheads

This poem goes out to all nonviolent activists, particularly those who struggle with whether they make a difference or not. This poem is also a tip of the hat to this great quote: “If you think you are too small … Continue reading

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POEM: Snugly Lodged

In case you were wondering why anxiety and fear sometimes seem to creep up on us humans… Snugly Lodged I was wresting Quiet comfortably In my nice warm bed Pondering the seeming conundrum Of why wee humans are So offed … Continue reading

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POEM: The Beat of Exclusive Clubs

Other than for hardcore atheism, my spiritual beliefs ran the gamut, something for everyone. I am a spiritual mutt. Probably the most apt description would be “unorthodox.” I detest fundamentalism. I was raised Christian and spent most of my life … Continue reading

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