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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: Net Zeroed
A little Monty Python for a Monday mourning… Net Zeroed “We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing — In the end what have we lost? Nothing!” ― Monty Python I was down As a madder of fact … Continue reading
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
POEM: Taking, Their Q
Election day — so it begins. One last, hopefully last, poem about Trump, his lies and conspiracy rants, and his self-fulfilling profits. Taking, Their Q They took their Q From a toxic waste dump Of conspiracy theories Truth bastardized and … Continue reading
POEM: King of the Hill
I wanted to post this before the election was complete — however long that may be. The reference to Biden reveals how long ago I wrote this poem. Still, I am cursed with timely and timeless themes, so…this could apply … 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
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
POEM: Progress
If continuing consumerism is our notion of progress, then carrion and on… Progress Progress is An allusion To something ails Bought ensouled Re: store As you whir
POEM: Fratricide
In case you didn’t no, fratricide is the killing of one’s brother, or sister, or any member of won’s own, such as children of God. O Israel, do not bring a bout a hollowed future echoing with grief. Fratricide We … Continue reading
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POEM: Relieved of the Magic of Cynicism
Most people are skeptical of something coming out of nowhere — no surprise there. However, many people overlook the commonly cynical view that much of what we do disappears into nothing, makes no difference. Perhaps dispelling this cynical magic would … Continue reading
POEM: Owner Us
Lots of great stuff in the lost and found, though sometimes we don’t even check it out… Owner Us Lost: One humanity Return to Owner Us
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POEM: In Summer-y
A poem for a summer-y Fall day… In Summer-y The springs are increasingly summer-y The falls are increasingly summer-y And long last the summers are Increasingly summer-y In summer-y We’ve been warmed
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POEM: Re fooling
As climate chaos ravages our one and only home, many are still mostly worried about gas prices and refueling… Re fooling Gaming on Saving the planet was Up to US And he was speeding down The high way Rushing to … Continue reading
POEM: Monkey Business
Letting go and getting on with the good life, that bye the weigh which is not hanging on to wealth, power, and status. Monkey Business “To trap a monkey relies on its clenched fist, unwilling to let go.” It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Dreams, Evolution, Life, Power, Status, Wealth
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POEM: A Poet’s Currency
Poet versus economist: A Poet’s Currency ARE YOU A CAPITALIST? no i am more a kin to that econ amissed e e cummings In case you didn’t know, E. E. Cummings was a poet who often broke the rules of … Continue reading
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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Tagged Awe, Death, Heaven, Holy, Life, Love, Nature
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POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late
Israel has embraced 1984 doublespeak with it’s “de-escalation through escalation.” Our addiction to violence as the only response to violence spawns absurd levels of destruction. We need to inject nonviolence into confrontations, or be drug to war. Needle-less to Say: … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Culture, Israel, Nonviolence, Violence, War
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POEM: Oddly, Never Out of Whack
The warring mob bosses speak with murderous necessity about “my enemy made me do it.” A ledged human freedom is disappeared. An even more assure bet is that the mob bosses are, oddly, never out of whack. So, if you … Continue reading
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Tagged Enemies, Freedom, Sleep
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POEM: Brand Knew
Every war starts with something to the effect of: “This is a new kind of war, a new kind of enemy that we have never seen before.” Spoiler alert: war is the same owed shit recycled. Anew kind, of war, … Continue reading
POEM: Fort Knox Elementary
JD Vance at the Vice Presidential debate became the latest exemplar of the hollow response to school shootings, offering thoughts and preyers, and fortresses, and nothing else in between — except offering up our children to gun terror. This poem … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, God, Guns, Kids, Silence
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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