Category Archives: Poems

Short Poems, Funny Poems, Epic Poems

POEM: This Poet’s Prayer

This poem reflects my basic spirituality of ever moving toward One’s vision of the good, even as my view is a dim reflection. The One thing that I can judge my progress on is my commitment to this path yearning … Continue reading

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POEM: Gypsy Mother E

Mother Earth has treated us well. Let’s treat her as our one and only. Gypsy Mother E We had A Gypsy mother Who lived As 93 million miles from the light of her life Who loved Her wayward children More … Continue reading

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POEM: Heir Droppings

This poem goes out to the five Palestinian kids killed when an American airdrop of food crushed them after the parachute failed. This over the top “Operation Breadcrumb” does nothing to stop Israel’s illegal blocking of humanitarian aid by ground … Continue reading

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POEM: Optimism — A Buy Product of Hope

There is a difference between optimism and hope. Optimism is about the inertia and trajectory of facts on the ground, while hope is a metaphysical reality that seeps into life of awe kinds amidst a dizzying array of means. Hope … Continue reading

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POEM: Of Yores and Mind — Owed to Buffalo State Asylum for the Mentally Insane

Last summer, while visiting Buffalo, which was a serendipitously pleasant visit (except for the bedbugs, see bed bug poem), the highlight of the visit was stumbling upon this grand architectural complex. We were staying in a cool, urban farm Airbnb … Continue reading

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POEM: Untouchable

This poem reflects on the divide between masculine and feminine ways of being in the world. One of the most stark examples is “incels” who are involuntarily celibate, often because they have a palpable misogyny that women find unattractive. The … Continue reading

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POEM: Redeeming Coup on Pharaohs

God has a sense of humor. Sometimes pompous, hypocritical religionists get their religion handed to them on a plate by the disenfranchised who have a gift of accessing truth in strange places, redeeming that worthless scrip of others. The lords … Continue reading

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POEM: What Superpower

Here is a poem about the invisibility of people who are unhoused and living on the streets. What Superpower Early on His invisibility Would come and go Until anon Involuntarily taken For a ride For granted Fully That feudal wish … Continue reading

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POEM: An Eve with Netanyahu

As President Biden campaigns on a pro-democracy platform against the corrupt Donald Trump, he is tag teaming genocide in Gaza with his long-time friend, the corrupt Israeli PM Netanyahu, the “Bibi” brain and heart of the military onslaught and deadly … Continue reading

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POEM: Compassion Sidelined

A poem for our collective denial of our responsibility to prevent genocide. Free Palestine! No one is free until all are free. Compassion Sidelined An aye for an aye And a no for a know A tooth for a tooth … Continue reading

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POEM: A Confession — For the Birds

I don’t have a lot of regrets in life. Still, one of the stupidest and cruelest things I ever did was as a kid when I shot dead with a BB gun a bunch of birds hanging out in a … Continue reading

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POEM: Let Them Eat Bullets

Flour power, not bombs. Are we fed-up with forced mass starvation yet? Let Them Eat Bullets From ashes to ashes And dust to dust Famine sweeps Gaza And the prison guards feel threatened By the unherd Starving fore a tension … Continue reading

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POEM: Genocide Joe

Monday mourning. Last week President Joe Biden spoke of being hopeful about a ceasefire deal in Gaza. I must confess, I scheduled posting this last week, expecting the likely outcome of genocide unabated and genocide Joe abidin’ his time. I … Continue reading

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POEM: Following A Higher Doody

Unfortunately, Christianity is too oft weaponized against our very own siblings of God. Following A Higher Doody Their those Christians Who go to church They’re those Christians Who go Too church

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POEM: Winning’s Everything

We live in an era where everything is divided . . . into winning and losing, souled to the highest bitter. The “losers” of this world will rise up, the great unwatched — the revolution will not be televised. Winning’s … Continue reading

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POEM: I Am Not the Dictater

I often write about difficult madders. This poem makes a simple plea: don’t kill the messenger. I Am Not the Dictater Good knews Bad news I just Due what I am Told In shorthand Write from wrong And weather you … Continue reading

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POEM: Get Over It

We are a far cry from Patrick Henry’s infamous cry, “Give me liberty or give me death,” which highlights one’s ultimate willingness to put all of your skin in the game. Today’s cry is more of a whine, “Give me … Continue reading

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POEM: On Fire and Ice — Owed to Aaron Bushnell

Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty U.S. air force senior airman, committed self-immolation by fire to protest the U.S. sponsored Israeli genocide of Gaza. His final cry was “Free Palestine.” On Fire and Ice: Owed to Aaron Bushnell Fire and Ice, by … Continue reading

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POEM: Dis Quieting Genocide

Talking about US complicit in genocide may be uncomfortable, even a bit traumatic. Still, such discussions have miniscule chances of approximating the horrors of genocide itself. Dis Quieting Genocide It was a bad day for propriety A revolting day for … Continue reading

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Stick, A Fork in It

This poem is about the tendency toward escalation and overkilling built into lethal conflicts such as war or genocide. When we feel threatened and have the capacity to inflict massive death, we come to a fork in the road, which … Continue reading

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