Category Archives: Poems

Short Poems, Funny Poems, Epic Poems

POEM: Gee I’m a Tree, More or Less

A little soul geometry for the journey… Gee I’m a Tree, More or Less Twenty questions begin with three Mineral? Plant? Animal? Or fore Bigger than a bred box? Sow what Is the point Just two points is a lyin’ … Continue reading

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POEM: Death Throws

Death throws its ugly efface in hour direction with unending chaos, violence and destruction. People of good will, lovers of life, let’s not fall for the barrage of sucker punches… Death Throws It looks as if It’s just Equal Opposite … Continue reading

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POEM: Defying Any Yarn of This Knit Wit

The spirit is elusive…delightfully elusive… Defying Any Yarn of This Knit Wit My relationship with God Closer than kin be Defies any yarn of this knit wit Seaming beyond owed fashion And awe ways wanting amor Is clothes enough And … Continue reading

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POEM: Right What You No

Right What You No I rebel There for I am Author in life More than won in many As biographic all To be penned At the hand of some Wholly ghostwriter As if Roughly drafted To be Seeking only that … Continue reading

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POEM: Bright Red Lyin’

Suppression of first amendment rights is marching on domestically, while the middle east is racing to war, cheered on by Donald Trump. Bright Red Lyin’ There is blue There is red Partisans of many stripes Yet agin There is a … Continue reading

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POEM: Rights in LA LA Land

A poem about the “riots” in LA. Rights in LA LA Land If you give Rights to won group Soon you have to give Rights to everyone Propagating like weeds And right now There are rights in LA Not sow … Continue reading

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POEM: Marriage of a Saint

Below is an ekphratic poem (a poem written about a piece of art) of one of my favorite  funny/ironic paintings at the Toledo Museum of Art. The painting is titled, “The Marriage of a Saint.” It looks like a shotgun … Continue reading

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POEM: Escalator

Stuff is going down. Things are heating up. The big grift is escalating its violence in La La Land. Escalator Little did we no When he came down the escalator The escalator soully went down Even when things heat up … Continue reading

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POEM: Leather Bound

For me, writing poetry is a fearless and irreverent process, ever recognizing that irreverence can be the highest form of reverence. The words left on a page are mere soul droppings. A collection of such droppings of skewered sacred cows … Continue reading

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POEM: Stumbling Up On

Stumbling Up On I stumbled Up on What the Gravest gravity Could not keep Down!

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POEM: Guise With Guns

Guns don’t kill people; bullets ripping through organs, flesh, and bones do. GUN VIOLENCE = MEANNESS X FEAR Guise With Guns It hit me in a flash Seeing through Guise with guns They are more frayed Than I am In … Continue reading

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POEM: On the Order of 126 Lost Poems

A while back, I discovered that I had “misplaced,” lost track of 126 poems in my 500-page working poem file that is filled with unfinished poems, “uncollected poems” that I haven’t yet published in my annual-ish printed collection for my … Continue reading

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POEM: Medical Free Dumb

We have officially crossed the Rubicon, hereafter known simply as “con,” regarding health and public health. We are wholesale throwing away $billions$ for what makes little cents. The net we are trapped in is a profound net loss. Health has … Continue reading

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POEM: Rendered

Here is a short poem about the increasing virtualization of our lives, meme-ification of our minds, and shallow aspiration of becoming “influencers” in pop culture. NOTE: The poem is shorter than this description! Rendered What might be The end of … Continue reading

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POEM: Guilty As

Neutrality and wishy-washiness can be evil. I suspect most evil in this world is under the guise of: “I’m just doing my job” or “That’s not my job.” Guilty As “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor … Continue reading

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POEM: It’s Awe in the Shoulder

I love the John Lennon lyric, “Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.” I find that awe the best comes to me when I don’t expect it. Expect to be surprised! This poem expresses … Continue reading

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POEM: Udder Simplicity

Here is a poem about voluntary simplicity. Poverty is brutal. None the less, seriously leaning into “more for less” can unleash deeper “values.” I have learned to relish having “more time than money” and shedding less satisfying consumer-oriented impulses. I … Continue reading

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POEM: Dwelling on This Earth

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools” –Martin Luther King, Jr. Dwelling on This Earth I reflect up On awe the violence In this whirled And what peers before me As a sore lack … Continue reading

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POEM: Whys Guise

It seems that at some point each of us ask, “Why me?” How often have you asked yourself, “Why not me?” Whys Guise Who no’s the troubles I have scene Is it just A madder of time As I find … Continue reading

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POEM: Box-ers

Box-ers There are box-ers Who are liable Round After round After round Too box you up Don’t swallow that red punch No madder The jeers and cheers Vacate their premises Having Gotten Through won’s head Privy to the inestimable can … Continue reading

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