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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: Divine Die-alogue
This poem plays with notion of God sitting next to me my whole life, and that presence involves no literal speaking. Then, upon my death God turns to me… Divine Die-alogue I am Dumb to talk about it Such profound … Continue reading
POEM: Owed Habits
Weather bad habits or good habits, habits form much of our life. Choose your habits wisely. Owed Habits If you were wandering What happens next Look to that long lineup That recurring guessed Long a go And mirrorly yesterday As … Continue reading
POEM: Calling Awe Siblings
Awe those who stand in awesome awe are my siblings. This poem is a call for awe of us to join together as one family. Calling Awe Siblings There is family Close as kin And stronger than blood Knits beyond … Continue reading
POEM: Watery Grave
This is a poem about overwhelming gratitude in a world of constant change and great loss. Gratitude is perhaps the best antidote to resentments. Still, even if one lets go of resentments, one often needs to say goodbye to whatever … Continue reading
POEM: Over Shadowing Evolution
This poem is an invitation to live beyond mere Darwinism, survival of the fittest, which is typically viewed as competition and inevitable violence. I vote for cooperation and beautiful ambitions far exceeding won more f-ing generation. We do not live … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Beautiful, Competition, Cooperation, Evolution, Violence
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POEM: Indecency Wee Re-side — Owed To Propriety Owner Us
This is another anti-capitalist poem, scorning profits over people, the vain whining of grievance politics, and the lethal short-sightedness of just us. Indecency Wee Re-side — Owed To Propriety Owner Us They miss judged As the profits for tolled Propriety … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Efficiency, Humanity, Kindness, Mourning, Play, Politics, Privilege, Propriety, Respect, skin in the game, Virtue, Wisdom
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POEM: Karma Cat -28,000 Poems
This poem toys with the notion of karma and reincarnation as a vehicle for moral evolution and sum sort of cosmic justice. This poem employs as a metaphor the relationship between a karmic cat living thousands of lives encountering uncounted … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Balance, Crude, Cruelty, Culture, Evolution, Forgiveness, Genius, Hate, Holy, Hope, Jesus, Justice, Karma, Life, Loss, Luck, Meaning, Mind, Moral, Mourning, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Skepticism, Society, Transcendent
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POEM: A Singular Err, Over, And Over
This short poem plays with the notion that merely existing is an awesome win, and being a grump after this singular win is a singular err. A Singular Err, Over, And Over In spite Of halving one The existence lottery … Continue reading
POEM: Consigned
This short poem plays with the theme of living fully in a divided world of bought and souled. Consigned Creation calls To you collect Consigning you To oblivion Leaving Only one question Do you buy it? One life fully lived … Continue reading
POEM: The Hallowed Rupture
This poem portrays an explosive end to the ravenous aggrieved politicos who fill our body politic with shit and who, in the end, cannot escape the poor or the police at their door. The Hallowed Rupture Aggrievious whoreds And those … Continue reading
POEM: Mine Your Own Busyness
Here is a poem about the sacred and profane journey toward presence of mind: Atop a mountain of undertakings He overlooked his guru Desperately wanting to be A little slower With deaf-defying pleas As the guru came fourth With quiet … Continue reading
POEM: Made Passable
1984 may be voted the most likely to be a “Groundhog Year,” repeated over and over and over. The book, 1984, by George Orwell, written in the aftermath of World War II, is a stark warning about authoritarianism that holds … Continue reading
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Tagged Cautionary Tale, Conscience, God, Queer, Rules, Soul, Surreal, Time, War
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POEM: Cat and Mouse Game
There are many ways to view God, or not. This poem plays with deferent weighs to see God. The title, Cat and Mouse Game, refers specifically to a very clever and brave mouse who hides in the cat’s ear to … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Incarnation, Job, Life, Love
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POEM: Like Night and Day
I am both a known provocateur, which can be a little challenging to others around me, and an insatiably curious observer and commenter on life, meaning no harm what sow ever. This poem plays with the inevitable misunderstandings that arise … Continue reading
POEM: Sure Fire Means and Ends
This poem is a reflection on the inextricable link between means and ends, and the devastatingly common mistake of de-linking means ands ends producing an endless array of “means” and “ends”. The short game often shorts us; though I recognize … Continue reading
POEM: The Flimsiest of Throngs
This short poem critique on monarchy and aristocracy, as well as the mental and moral gymnastics that the nameless rabble often go through to justify such an unjust spectacle. The Flimsiest of Throngs A mist A throng of onlookers A … Continue reading
POEM: Awe for One, and Won For All
This poem is a reflection on the proposition of “you don’t have to live like a refugee” and living simply so others may simply live. May no one have to live like a refugee. Awe for One, and Won For … Continue reading