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 the dark arts
To make
Crime illegal
Rounding up low-lifes
Shaking down
One dodgy character
After an other
It’s what
Surveillance states
Trust the reign
On the just
And unjust
The jailers of men
At least
Some men
Selective in force
Never quite catching
Their man

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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 aggrieved narcissism
And wee, wee, wee
Get the shaft
Of MINE, MINE, MINE
Soully compassed buy whoreds
Of grifters
Cons galore
And wreathed by sycophants
Asleep at the we’ll
Due this, due that
A weapon of mass distraction
Having a ball
Room in the wake of destruction
A White House beyond the pale
And wile roam burns
He busies himself
Desecrating the peoples’ hows
His patriotic sin essence

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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 what you want, to describe, to name, is to inherently fall short. The realty of poetry is that it is just, a never-ending odyssey, naming things that aren’t just things. And, at a minimum, like Mark Twain so aptly put it: “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between “lightning” and “lightning bug.” I might add: the difference between “God” and “God-light” — or “God” and “gods.”

Name of Names

God visits me
In the dark
With my eyes clothed
Soully unveiling
Naked truths
That cannot be duplicated
Buy men of letters
How ever many
Fallowing
There name of names

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POEM: Nourishment

I have COVID. I am homebound. Though the worst of it is over, my sweetheart is doing a grocery run for me today. Here is a short poem in her honor…

Nourishment

You deliver
Nourishment
Of awe kinds
You are food
For my body and soul

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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 it also comes from the southwest. The worst air quality is typically peaked by wild fires from states away, or  even Canada or Mexico. Wild fires happen all year round, thanks to climate chaos.  This poem was inspired by that moment that I realized crappy air quality was coming from southern wild fires…

Heir Quality

Holy Toledo
I can’t help
But look
At wiled fires
Awe year round
Taking my breath away
In D graded inspiration
Up on that heir quality
Sooting me fine
Weather Canadian summers
Coming my weigh
Or Yankee winters
With fire down below
The South’s comeuppance
What
You can’t see
– – –
Can hurt you

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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 a chance…

As Sick Care As Republic Can

What might
They halve
Designs on
A speculative scheme
On the madder of health care
A sick care
System (sic)
As throne money
At a broke umpire
Of cryptic profit tiers
Teeming with worth wile patience
Wading for heeling to happen
On the ward of grew some accost
Floored buy the cancer that is
Byzantine forms
Of indecipherable remedies
Endemic doctoring
And nursing resentments
As sick care as republic can
And what’s the bust they have
A profile in Trump
The cause and solution
To awe our problems
Sick and tired
Blue
Bureaucracy
Proffering their own
Red tape
Pain
Know a tension
Too the dearth-deifying
A poach
Too the same owed same owed
Knot enough
Of what is priceless
To the same end
Stiffed

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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 shooting
Dying fore that brutal realty
Amor guns
Then people
Living in unsurprising surprise
Ever contending
Agin and agin
The hole body politic
Bleeding out

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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 not a fraud of anything
Anti-woke dreaming
Of sleepy aheads
Every won in the no
YES man
In the land of nod
Lying in the wrest
Buy the dozin’
In their slumber party
Never even conceiving a wake
Wile having the tomb of their life

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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 his last poem of the year
Such a confidence, man
I’m not sure I no
Who you work for
In what likely hood
And what
Over seeing
At any rate
It peers clear too me
Dam well knot the boss of me
If there is won thing
I new
Amor, then a few daze remaining
Even in the dead of winter
As a season of wrapping up
Every our
Closer
To spring
From that omni-present lover
The soul certainty
Surprising

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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 positivity…

That Net Positivity

As far as his most cherished beliefs
Could take him
He took little for granite
Though won could be
That extra ordinary seeing
Wear everything as a gift
Caught in that net positivity
Effacing unbelievable negativity
That whirled stage set
A mist costume changes, masks, and hats
Characters of awe sorts
Both sketchy and deep
Practiced dialogue
And improvs without nets of any sort
A weigh of being
And the backbone of act too
Beyond being word a bout performance
The show going on
Whatever
Planned
As the gods laugh
And cry
Out
End seeing
Awe together
Soully hoping
Fore something amor
Perhaps vane make believe
A good run of it
This tragicomedy of a whirled
Called
Life
And that dreaded review
Making a horror of hour self
As per chants mirrorly
Bettor
Then nothing
Presence
Passed
Long
Abetting

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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 it
Mean
Peace
In udder silence
Who can say
Just
A sign
As I was
A butterfly
In awe truth
Landing

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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
A crude lessen
For Venezuelan narc
O traffickers
Be where
Offed
Coarse
Gringos just
Keeping
Up with the joneses
As a shot
In the arms industry
Oar a political climate change
A dressing
Our petroleum diction
Getting to the bottom
Tanked
Drill, baby, drill!
That sinking feeling
Awe a boat
A fentanyl thing
Or whatever
A crack, pot policy
Americans killing it!

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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 compassing
That treasure map
Incite of you
Without papers

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POEM: The Meat Cute

This poem is on the topic of veganism. the practice of not eating animal products. This poem and its title centers on what I find as a weird divergence among many serious animal lovers (read pet lovers) who don’t give a second thought to killing animals for food.

The Meat Cute

Who is too quest in
The reigning of kittens and puppies
And chicks for a wile
When we meat
That inexpressible attitude
Of what’s eating you
And you eating what
As if
Pet virtues
Sum diminutive morality
Blind too obvious
Awwwwwe
Can you see it
In the I’s of those be helled
Butt what does that have too due
With the prize of beef
Getting ugly
Bringing homme the bacon
Sum agreeable pork
As ahead less chauvinism
In the mettle of specious
And spur us to be sporting
As we are
What
We eat
Dinning on
Re-hearsing eternally
Up on deaf ears
Until we are horse
Or wear ever
We draw the lyin’
Leather effaced
Ante-cute egging on
Or cheesily milking moms
For all its worth
Amor bid tell
The deference
A mist sentient and sentiment
The strange fruit
Of a romance of meat
Cute
Slavish devotion
Or dis tasteful
With respect of looks
Or not
And who or what remains
Cannibalizing a slew of gods
In image maid
Even in a vile
Perhaps monstrously good
And still
In the end
We peer
As whatever
Thou dust
As time a bridge
In what will be
Momentary freshness
Getting into
Sum eerie realty
As awe tastes like chicken
And what madders
To awe
Is out of sight
And out of mine
That endless love a fair
And bizaar
Which may vary well
Begin and end
With a meat cute

NOTE: A meet cute is a scene in romantic fiction in which two people meet for the first time, typically under unusual, humorous, or adorable circumstances, and go on to form a future romantic couple.

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What ̂ a Choice ̂ Life

Beware of unsolicited prophets out and about…

What ̂ a Choice ̂ Life

As I was
Busy wading
For something too happen
Pretty much anything
The man
On the bench
Offered me
Unsolicited ad
Vice
What you no
Could fill a hole
Life
Which is awe most
As crazy
As sane yes

NOTE: For the title of this poem, I invented a new form of punctuation. When there are multiple ways to read my words, sometimes a space or a comma or a line break are not enough for emphasis and a clue.

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POEM: Birdbrains AND Muscle Aheads

I suspect that many of those talking about talk being cheap and extolling action score low on both uplifting talk and enlightened action…

Birdbrains AND Muscle Aheads

We have been flocked
Agin and agin
Buy the very birdbrains
Singing oft key
Talk is cheep
Talk is cheep
Talk is cheep
We are due
Do do
Do do
Awe over
Like a cheep suit them
As the truth flies
Far above
That talking shit
As partial to them
What truth can
Be had
Inaction on won’s own
As everything ails
See gall
Sow trying and trying
To make you
Their beach
On fool display
In bare assing throngs
As if soully muscle aheads
Contemplation no
And speech knot
Birdbrains AND muscle aheads
Thinking there the hole deal
As go go go

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POEM: A Lulu of a Year

I wrote this poem in honor of our oldest grandchild’s first birthday. Seven years young now.

A Lulu of a Year

Lovely little lady Lulu
You are a gift to us awe
Or more precisely: awwwwww
12-9-18
The perfect combination
Of utter exhaustion and bounding joy
May you ever grow up
With presence beyond description

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POEM: Giddy, Up

I am happy to report that I frequently get giddy at the awesomeness of life…

Giddy, Up

I cried out
For knew normal
A cross ages
Through and through daze
Over and over agin
Until be for
I new it
Got win of myself
In undated timeless joy
As overwhelmed bye
Awe that is aloud
Soully to find myself
As being
A little hoarse
Uncorralled
By the common plays
A bounding up on me
Calling me out
Gently whooping me
In my aside
With those ethereal spurs of the moment
Giddy
Up
Up
And a way

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POEM: Rorschach Testy

We live in a decrepit age where the state of the body politic is more closely connected to projecting our dark dreams onto our elected leaders than a reflection of actual policies. Apparently, we need less policy analysts and more psychotherapists who can analyze political Rorschach tests…

Rorschach Testy

He took
A Rorschach test he
Yet agin
He took
A Rorschach test
Flailing in his attest
Over and over
The same owed same owed
As a knew
As yet an other peers
Regard less
As it turns out
The Rorschach test is US
Sow telling
More a bout US
Then any
Singular leader
Getting
Bent
On the ruse of law
And taken
Buy won’s own authority
Subjects impressed
By that ink-ling
Of that dear
In the ahead light
Leader
Dispensing more
Then our dark asides
Are disposed to admit
In getting
A kick
Plumb out of those balls
In Rorschach testies

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POEM: Will Fullness

Many people at many times consider the force of will as a key to success in life. I find that willingness is the more powerful juice in cultivating well being in life. I don’t see this necessarily as an either/or issue; I see abundant willingness powering up the judicious use of will…

Will Fullness

Willfulness has its plays
When it co-habits
In a sea of willingness
And its import
It not a tax
Up on pain of doody
As a flat-out will
Better offed
Bared at see

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