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Short Poems, Funny Poems, Epic Poems

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: Suicidal?

This poem goes out to all of those whose recognition of climate existential crises is met with denial and minimalizing: Suicidal? Why due you Home in On Mother Earth And existential cry seas Passably reckoning sow You know weigh too … Continue reading

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POEM: Author Author

Do you no who you are? I have found that art helps me resolve this question. Author Author The author of authors In formed me Right what you no The story of you’re life O pen You’re art

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POEM: Clenched

I have found that one of the enemies of life is being clenched. Life needs space to flow. Forcing solutions often leads to a somewhat constipated life. Of course, this may be one of the most difficult things in the … Continue reading

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POEM: A Veritable Zoo

I have found great freedom in being de-institutionalized from a “regular” job, religion, and overly organized endeavors of all sorts. I see institutionalization as a process and infrastructure that routinely trades our highest humanity for stacks of lowest common denominations. … Continue reading

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POEM: That Infinite See Waving

Each moment begs our attention. That Infinite See Waving Here ye Here ye The present calls That infinite see Waving Just For you Sounding hi and lo As awe hail breaks loose And life surfs The whirled over Anchored in … Continue reading

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POEM: Realty Pushing Back

A cautionary poem for those who think that they can write history writ large: Realty Pushing Back No won Had Taken Boulder action Than Sisyphus himself Every won Must be Stoned

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POEM: Trafficking

A poem for those stuck in traffic: Trafficking You are stuck In traffic Never quiet realizing You Aaaaargh Traffic

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POEM: Poetry

A six word poem on what poetry is: Poetry Words Word Know words No words

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POEM: Normal Eyes

I have never been a big fan of normal. “Getting back to normal” strikes me as a somewhat low bar. Every “new” normal seems eerily similar to previous uninspiring states of normal. This sense of mine is similar to the … Continue reading

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POEM: Efficient Love

Efficiency is highly overrated. The abundant life is not well defined by ultra-precise engineering. Efficient Love An award no one yearned for: Most efficient love Weather child or mate Strikingly spare That scant do attitude Eager for meager Barren awe … Continue reading

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POEM: To Arms

I have had this awareness that any direction we run, we run into the arms of God. Off course, the staggeringly long run peers quite vexing. To Arms I was annoyed By an atheist And his militancy Of inept God … Continue reading

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POEM: The Problem with Violence

Violence begets violence. Violence begs violence. Violence gets violence. The Problem with Violence To every axing There is an equal And opposite axing It only takes A wile

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POEM: In Sighting a Right

When light and dark clash… In Sighting a Right The light shone on Their misdeeds ON fool display OFF to the razes Tripping and flipping That awe im-potent switch Tempting too turn off Soully to be disconnected In their desperation … 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: Awe is Not Lost

Are you tapped? There is an inexhaustible reservoir of awe. Awe is Not Lost Awe is not lost Awe is the soul compass Of true-hearted folks The antidote To narrow mined view points Teeming with succors of all kinds And … Continue reading

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POEM: Unentitle Fight

Today is another good day to end the U.S.-Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. This poem goes out to the Palestinian people. Unentitle Fight U.S.-Israeli genocide Round nein! The bell He of the beast Verses people of awe … 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: Arose

This morning as I left the house, on a grungy fall day, I almost forgot my usual survey of my beautiful front yard, albeit with denuded trees and a carpet of wet leaves. As I walked away, I remembered, turned … Continue reading

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