Category Archives: Poems

I love rooting for the underdogs. Under Dogs So over seers Whom do you root for Beholden such peeps Abiding with Dumps falling down And revolting reign What too doo And urine it Don’t count out Number one Number two … Continue reading →

Sometimes siblings don’t get along well. I suppose sometimes that it’s a matter of loving our siblings rather than just liking them. Parently, it’s the same with God. Behave as a Child I am A beloved child of God As … Continue reading →

This poem is a reflection on the deference between standing in awe of the Creator as posed to the created. Unfathomable Know One Understands me And then sum That image of God As some kind Of fact simile Or some … Continue reading →

The breath of life . . . and death . . . Breathtaking Awe through life Heed taken Millions of breaths Beyond thoughtful In perfect order In Out In Out Awe ways Knowing what Too due Depending On what Did … Continue reading →

Demonizing and blaming those less powerful than yourself is the lowest forum of politics. Rule Won Rule won It’s all weighs Somebody else’s fault Weather trying To win an earthquake And after math A thousand shakedowns The fault lyin’ Like … Continue reading →

Our choices matter. Sometimes they madder more than others. The Hows Always Wins As luck would halve it I don’t believe in gambling Or even “random” for that madder The hows always wins Regardless of the whys Though we can … Continue reading →

Artist play an important role in the resistance. This is why authoritarian regimes go after the artists and intellectuals. Also, artists make lousy slaves. Arts on Fire Buy hell or high water The powers that be Possess A scorched earth … Continue reading →

There is enough pain and suffering in the world. I strongly suspect that punishing is a poor strategy for a promising future. Love is awe we knead. The Palpable Need of De-Crying One mourning Wondering round In the town square … Continue reading →

Who in this whirled is taking a dump on Trump’s efface? Off Putting Lip Schtick on a Chauvinist Pig They made an epic play For a bomb A nation In its berth Facing black and white Make up! Make up! … Continue reading →

I find laughter a beautifully open space for awe good things to emerge. Pastoral Posture I stumbled up On God Laughing in a field And before long Found ourselves In strange plays A staggering experience Solidly grounded As couldn’t help … Continue reading →

Think bigger, in large life… Thinking Outside, The Box Know matter How hard They had knot The wear with awe To fashion a box big enough To whole my soul Thankfully, an ever expanding universe By enlarge Suits me Deeply … Continue reading →

This poem emerged from a dream that I had. The dream was of a herd of lemmings racing toward a cliff. A single lemming froze in place like a single frame in a movie.  The other lemmings continued largely like … Continue reading →

One way that folks avoid deeper awakenings is by settling for “good enough.” I suspect that the disturbing nature of seeking higher goods, by their claim on paying a cost for our “values,” is one major reason that we lean … Continue reading →

In post truth social media, we must be vigilante, my friends! Relax, Into Propaganda Red in Their sacred texts ALL CAPS know less For whom much is give in Much is re-choired In His image maid Such hollowed ground As … Continue reading →

There is overwhelming public support for increasing taxes on the richest Americans. This stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s proposed second round of huge tax cuts for the richest, mostly paid for by borrowing, that is increasing the debt, and … Continue reading →

One of my pet peeves is illustrated by the phrase, “throwing the baby out with the bathwater.” We seem to be in a reign of babies as severe critiques of a problem are adopted and the labor of birthing a … Continue reading →

The rubes are lining up for the bounce back… Rubber Ball Welcome To the rubber ball What Bounces Off me Sticks to you Words will knot Hurt you But the stoned will Using Conned ‘em Screwing