Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings

Political Philosophy Writings

POEM: Happy Knew Year!

Out with the owed, in with anew, and may it awe be good… Happy Knew Year! Like no other time Be for it Each new year arrives Like a newborn baby naked Yet eventually come to clothes Wear ever Life … Continue reading

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POEM: To Shut Me Up

SPOILER ALERT: I’ve learned that the instant someone starts looking at their phone, they are no longer present to me, and I shut up. Multi-tasking is a myth. To Shut Me Up If you wont To shut me up Pick … Continue reading

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POEM: Titanic Listing

Sometimes that which seems urgent is less important than any of a thousand other choices… Titanic Listing Why oh why The why’s ax Must the eternal and infernal be On my too due list As daze go buy The lilliputian … Continue reading

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POEM: Hows Calls

God lives mostly outside the walls of the church… Hows Calls Bound to the masses They awe the same yearned To counter the tradition ill Making the most Popular mistake Of going to church As being won With the Lord … Continue reading

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POEM: Usual Suspects

The existential weigh of life is the usual suspects of weather cruelty or kindness… Usual Suspects They whir In the thick And thin Of being A usual suspect Suspecting weather life Might be Kind or cruel Soulful or heartless Such … Continue reading

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POEM: Wholed On

Hang onto awe. It’s worth the ride… Wholed On I could Soully sea Every which weigh Taken in Awe directions In life And with it Countless horizons Even awe at wince As just taut 360/365 Degrees Between birth daze As … Continue reading

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POEM: The Kinds of Reality

The subjective aspect of life is determining. I can look at any given reality, or a reality forced upon me, depending how I look at it, and see something very different depending on my attitude and perspective. I strive for … Continue reading

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POEM: The Ultimate Subversive Force

A poem about love versus fear and subjugation… The Ultimate Subversive Force Bigger than me Bigger than you Bigger than our enemies The largesse of awe Making us Gloriously beggar Then we can imagine Effacing loss As due without Domination … Continue reading

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POEM: Surveillance States

The presence of God is poorly replicated by omnipresent video surveillance of the state… Surveillance States Picture this Video hear and their Be rating eyes Every wear Wolves in sheep’s clothing A mass of law enforcement Worshipping God-light tech Searching … Continue reading

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POEM: The Goaled in Age?

Trump and his malignant narcissism are not aging well… The Goaled in Age? There is no End to its awe A bout Me All CAPITOL OVER-THE-HILL Shorting US on truth Long in the tooth Owed-er and owed-er He gets Ever … Continue reading

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POEM: Name of Names

There are names of things and there is the One whose name cannot be named. The mysticism in my poetry is its fount and a fare portion of its inaccessibility. When relating to the largesse truths, to get close to … Continue reading

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POEM: Heir Quality

Ohio air quality ranks 46th among states. As an asthmatic, I keep tabs on real time air quality. I have noticed that in the summer Toledo typically gets its air quality coming in from the northwest, and in the winter … Continue reading

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POEM: As Sick Care As Republic Can

I hope that we can all agree that American health care is busted and won’t be fixed with more neoliberal profiteering or Republican austerity. We seem to have perfected less health care for more cost. Let’s give Medicare for all … Continue reading

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POEM: Amor Guns, Then People

The United States is the only country in the world with more guns than people. Feel free, too take a shot, at why we have the highest rate of mass murder events… Amor Guns, Then People Schooled in another mass … Continue reading

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POEM: Anti-Woke Dreaming

If the American dream shows up more like a nightmare, then it’s time to wake up… Anti-Woke Dreaming He’s a great businessman The rubes said in Unisom® Hardily any bankruptcies Moral or otherwise A-list of fake convictions As if he’s … Continue reading

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POEM: Knot the Boss of Me

Last night, at a poetry reading, a fellow poet, Joe Sparks, introduced his poem as “the last poem of 2025.” This sparked this poem… Knot the Boss of Me He declared With surprising certainty Sow free from doubt Heed ridden … Continue reading

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POEM: That Net Positivity

I suspect that the piles of evidence brought to bear as to weather life is bettor characterized as kind or cruel, soulful or heartless, is probably 50/50, perhaps making it awe the amor important to be caught in that net … Continue reading

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POEM: Butterfly Lands

And still, I wait for it… Butterfly Lands Lonely after A life sow long Wandering soully Can I go on Believing When I least expect it And what do I know A butterfly lands At that very moment What does … Continue reading

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POEM: Owed to Venezuelan Oil, Tank Her

Drug to war on drugs. What will, we knot think of next?! It’s the oil, stupid… Owed to Venezuelan Oil, Tank Her Captain Kook And his Peter At the war deportment Squeal in de-light In piracy on the high C’s … Continue reading

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POEM: Without Papers

I am certifiable but technically not certified… Without Papers I woke In God knows where In plays Bound soully By rivers, mountains, and sky Unknown to imaginary lines of men Where awe is well Free Flowing Beyond dammed nations In … Continue reading

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