Category Archives: Poems

There is an inescapable Yin and Yang in life. Our personal strengths and weaknesses are a powerful example of this… Strengthen Weakness It’s awe Greek to me That beautiful Symmetry My greatest strength Is my grate-est weakness And vice verse … Continue reading →

John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, decided early in life how much he needed to live on, and for the rest of his life gave away anything more than that. I see this as one of his most practical manifestations … Continue reading →

There is more than one way to be dead, or mortified by dread, especially if you don’t see your own deadness, dreadness… Sick Sense “I see dead people.” — from the movie, Sixth Sense She was diagnosed As pre-morbid Fixated … Continue reading →

Power and hubris live in the same hood… Peek Blindness He was at the peek Of his power Curtains Blowing in the wind Pain no tension To that behind Ass you were Get wile You can Throne his hat In … Continue reading →

After being slapped up for a wile buy the “free market,” many realize that the “free” market is far from free, and closer to accostly… The Free Market Who has the means Too afford The free market Wanting won’s sweat … Continue reading →

Light heartedness in efface of death… Amor Tell Life He couldn’t keep A straight efface A terrible bluff Amor tell life Soully a butte Assents of humor

Between two thieves… Bank on It The thieves of daze gone buy Brandish their blunt motive For robbing banks “Because that’s where the money is.” Peaceable resisters of a Christian persuasion Exemplify their venerable inspiration For going to jail “That’s … Continue reading →

This poem is an origin story for mortality… Free Will In the prequel to life That staging ground Fore a lonely planet There seamed to be What peered to be An endless lyin’ stretching As wend round blind coroners Ending … Continue reading →

Playing the long game takes patience; and I sow long for patience… First Not Lasting “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together” — African proverb “…and the first will be last.” … Continue reading →

We are each responsible for maintaining our own values and norms. I find the best step to personal and social responsibility is to stop blaming others for my actions… A Self-Maid Man? He meticulously maid His own behavior A bout … Continue reading →

I suspect that the emotional lure of beating our political enemies at their own warped games, in a raze to the bottom, is often more than enough to overwhelm whatever maturity and enlightened views helled by our respective clans. The … Continue reading →