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- POEM: Cistern and Brethren as One
- POEM: American AI Still Tops in Gaming Systems
- POEM: Trifecta Untaut
- POEM: The Hole-y Body Politic
- POEM: Smoking Our Enemies
- POEM: A Tax on Canada – Owed to Smoke ‘em If You Got ‘em
- POEM: Multitudes of Choice
- POEM: Infrastructure Weak
- POEM: Certifiable Sabbath
- POEM: Free, of Conspiring
- POEM: Owed to Uncivil Service
- POEM: Burning Peacemakers Unflaggingly a Cross America
- POEM: Leaves Waving
- POEM: Taken Literally
- POEM: The Drop on Me
- POEM: The Gravity of Centeredness
- POEM: Wading to Ex-hell
- POEM: Sow Lame He Cant Get an Election – Owed to Straight Up Lies
- POEM: Bard from Speaking — Owed to a Passing Grade (If Sow Inclined)
- POEM: Blanche Effacing – Owed to De-nomination of Todd Blanche
- POEM: De-nuding Shame
- POEM: Knot Computing
- POEM: Fit for Doody
- POEM: The Catch
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Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings
POEM: Post, Post, Post Modern
This poem deals with the theme of our increasingly virtual lives and the increasing challenge of what is close enough to reality to pass as a humane reality. Post, Post, Post Modern They had Graduated from that small, small world … Continue reading
POEM: Overdid
I try to err on the side of hope. Please pardon my enthusiasm. Overdid YES That is true In sum regards I overdid it I certainly hope Sow
POEM: Making Note
Often it takes time in life for things to sort out. I love being surprised with 20/20 hindsight and insights that make melodic sense after the fact. Like Kierkegaard infamously stated: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must … Continue reading
POEM: May Fly
Keep your eyes open. I may fly… May Fly It may Knot be A generation Beached It may Be just A day A serendipitous flap Look in the skies Look before your eyes I may fly
POEM: Roll…er…Coast…er – Owed to Trump Tariff Wore
Trump tariffs have chaotically bounced around from the highest in a century to the highest in a century. The biggest tax increase in U.S. history is parently the new Republican ideal. This poem is a tribute to this taxing chaos: … Continue reading
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POEM: Acquit My Jōb
When I quit my “regular” job two decades ago, I totally underestimated the quantum leap in my quality of life. Even with poverty-level earnings for decades, and that first decade with no health insurance, I felt that I won the … Continue reading
POEM: Missing an I
I would love to save the world. Fortunately, this does not depend on me alone. I want to join movements with others who savor justice, joy, and love. Here is a poem on this theme: Missing an I Hear I … Continue reading
POEM: Ambitions Sunk
This dude abides, as life is awesome and awe full awe of the time. Ambitions Sunk My ambitions are sunk In the firmaments of the universe And whatever verses arise Yea, no madder what versus This whirled stirs Nay, I … Continue reading
POEM: The Fewed
Fear not, wee are the many. The Fewed Wee are the many They are the few And the fewed creeps forward As the few centralize power Wee gather everywhere Wee join arms Arms that cannot be defeated Weather by force … Continue reading
POEM: No How
This poem is about the tragedy of applying great human know-how to war. No How How fright Fully billed War ships Fighter jets Arms of every sort As craft As fly As crack aims As wreckin’ as kill As wack … Continue reading
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MEMORIAL POEMS for my mom, Lois Rutt
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY AWE! My mom, Lois Rutt, died just short of 90-years-old, on September 27, 2022. I wrote a set of 14 poems for her memorial service around the theme of one of her favorite Bible verses: “For now … Continue reading
POEM: Weather Sadness or Joy
This poem extolls the value of feeling deeply, both in sadness and joy. Weather Sadness or Joy I sea In a soul tear The whole whirled And folks in choir Am I Awe right And weather sadness Or joy Such … Continue reading
POEM: Life Shows Up
Life is the miracle awe around us. All we have to pay is attention. Life Shows Up Mother Earth roots And sun kisses The flower makes scents With neither yes nor nose The chemistry of life Shows up Out of … Continue reading
POEM: Genocide Heirs
I can see how people find opposing all wars as problematic, and see situations where they would organize mass killings of their enemies. Frankly, from an international law and human rights perspective, I think that it is impossible in practice … Continue reading
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POEM: Ever Lusting Foolishness
Consumption kills. Ever Lusting Foolishness I am acutely a ware Of that chronic foolishness That swarming our planet A product of consumption And awe that passes As wise guise
POEM: What Kind?
We reap what we sow. What Kind? My neighbor planted a seed I asked him what kind it was He simply said “Look for its fruit” Each year I posed The same question His answer was always The same After … Continue reading
POEM: Dam Water
Life is a mysterious dance. Dam Water He lived As dam water Over the top Knows diving In the gravity of life Catching the sun in a thousand ways Soully to dance with bedrock And the open see Haunted bye … Continue reading
POEM: Aye, Will Rise in Three Days, Yada Yada Yada
The resistance will persist until further notice. And upon notice wee will grow even more. Aye, Will Rise in Three Days, Yada Yada Yada We will resist austerity As we root in abundance We will resist authoritarianism As we vote … Continue reading
POEM — What Comes: Of Police Helicopters
I wrote this poem on May Day, 2023, and didn’t publish it online till now. On occasion, I walk or bike across my neighborhood, the Old West End, to sit outside the Toledo Museum of Art, to write a poem … Continue reading
POEM: Sow It Goes
Life can be tops. Sow It Goes Life gives Sow much more Then it takes Back And fourth That first for life Round and round It goes Where it’s tops Nobody no’s