POEM: Opiate of the Masses

Opiate of the Masses

“Being drug, through religion, the most wonder full I ever metaphor…”

From seamingly know wear
He professed
Rather proud of hymn self
“Religion is the opiate of the masses.”
As offering
Himself high Marx
Too sum unanswered preyer
Well founded
As some church rejoinder
Pain tension to awe
That might be
Immaculately conceived material deference
Or at least critical mass
Is there abut one
Answer
Too getting
Tight
Taut at the school of tautology
And endanger of getting
A pinch parochial
And drug allot
“Opiates are the opiate of the masses.”
If it is
Too be taken
Literally

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POEM: The Column Before The Storm

This poem is about solidarity and the peace that can abide there in…

The Column Before The Storm

In awe the trouble of the whirled
I could sea it
A disturbance in the farce
As uncounted a mass
In their numbered daze
And a tsunami of the dark asides
A bout
A choiring
A mist blinding desperation
Wading for what?
The heavens to fate changing tides?!
Know
Wear might
The answer wrest
Soully from what is
Awe ready
As wee stand to gather
In solid-heir-ity
As the column before the storm

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POEM: Got Unexpected

Expect the unexpected.

Got Unexpected

I got unexpected
Word
That swinging lick
A bit more harmony
A bit less harmonica
Alternately sucking and blowing

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Children Borne Agin – Owed to Refugee/Immigrant Caregivers

When my 90-year-old dad died last, his last months of care were made possible by refugee and immigrant caregivers. This poem was inspired when I heard someone speak of the fact that people of non-western cultures are raised to revere elders and that it is an honor to care for them. I hope that America can come to, learn the incalculably beautiful contributions that immigrants and refugees make every day to improve awe of our lives…

Children Borne Agin – Owed to Refugee/Immigrant Caregivers

“A daughter, unknown to me, came to, care for me, in my owed age, awe due to the travailing, a cross, the earth.”

A cross
This plan it
Its children
Flee their homes
And the vary borders
Which helled them
Too land in anew land
As stitch to gather
As much as they kin
They’re broke in hommes
Cared aweigh
Sew sew much
In knew hands
Of the largesse seem stress
As off spring springing from
That mother land shared by awe
Cradled in owed country
Peering to honor there elders
Nurse themselves
And others
In the end
Of life
Carrying on
Anew
For those who can’t
Help hoping
Cultivating dreams
Soully laboring for new generations
That is
Un-less
Of coarse
Un-till
Impossibly harrowing
The plowman plows under his own
Lode of crop
Craven winter’s wrest

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POEM: His Soul Vacuum – Owed to Broligarchy

This poem reflects upon the oncoming storm of broligarchy versus the people…

His Soul Vacuum – Owed to Broligarchy

“I don’t want to be, like, Hoover.” – President Donald “Broligarchy” Trump

His soul was a vacuum
For money
How ever
His expectation that others have to
Proffer him any amor
Is delusional
And what might
Come his weigh
May come a cross as pitch
Forks in the road
Witch is more familiar
In compassing
Tar and feathers
Straw men
More sow
Sticks and stones
Then flesh and blood
Ah men

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
― John F. Kennedy

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POEM: Idol Wrest

It may not be my busyness, but today I feel a scrap of hardy har hard work…

Idol Wrest

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22

They saw life in have
It is what
It is
And other stuff
Life is
Hard
Work
Without quest in
I AM who
To no
The deference between
Hallowed disciplines
And hollowed toil
For mirror hustle
For the bustle
As know control over
Won self
One love
The hole law
Of sacrifice
Of others
Con fronting
In mete grinder
And still
Moving
The fruit of the Spirit
Untouchable
Offering
A sweet spot
Sow choice
In the travails of this whirled
And brutal necessity
As if it whir
Taking
A brake
From awe
Things good
For there are labors
Of love
That give berth
To joy and peace
From mother patience
Creating hommes
Kind nest
Good nest
Faithful nest
Gentle nest
The answer to wresting
From wince control peers

 

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POEM: I Deal List

I am an unrepentant idealist. My view is that if you don’t have clear boundaries, “red lines,” that you are willing to live and die for, then the drift toward some version of amorality or sociopathy becomes insufferable and life becomes holy compromised. This poem lists three boundaries that should be maintained without exception: 1) NO genocide, 2) NO sex trafficking, and 3) NO climate calamity, collapsing our global ecosystem — or put in the vernacular, not shitting where we eat, live, work, and re-create…

I Deal List

They did
Not bother
Too right
Me off
As I deal list
Axing only
My existential boundaries
So so spare
No genocide
No sex trafficking
No climate calamity
There is know pleading
In sanity
In the court of fools

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POEM: Wins Blowing

Getting in the flow of life is easier, then you think…

Wins Blowing

“The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” – John 3:8

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield.” – Lao Tzu

“Hold on loosely, but don’t let go.” –from 38 Special song, Hold on Loosely

He might
Go witch ever
Weigh the wins blow
Knot subject
Too the gravity
Of any given
Present
Knot like water
Sow moving
Reigning unjust
And just
Falling fore awe
Toward the center
Of gravity
Untoward when countering
Resistance
Beyond time
Depending on the temp
Awe hail
May brake
Loose
As there is soully one secret
Wear the wind blows
No one no’s

 

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POEM: Victory Lapse

In life, a race well run is found in cultivating win-win situations, not winning at all accosts…

Victory Lapse

There is won thing
A greed
He was taken
Bought
Into
Power, money, status
His raze well
Run
And the soul thing left
His will
To power
His victory lapse

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POEM: A Spiritual Homme

A Spiritual Homme

We came to, believe, in a power greater, then ourselves.

There is only one thing more dangerous than talking about God – that is NOT talking about God.

Daze came to
This
I was tolled
There is a power
Grater then yourself
There is a God
And you ain’t it
Off coarse
I came to believe
In this soul truth
Of what
I am
Not in control
That lowest common denomination
In which I can live
Where I can
Feel free
To call up on
Other denominations
And still
Remain
As a spiritual homme
For others to mete up
If they sow choose

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Here is a poem about the private-public-private beach sandwich pictured below. This crammed public beach near South Haven, Michigan, is sandwiched between ample private beaches unoccupied…

Vacay’ing In Dependence Daze

Hear as I share a kittle
Piece of mine
Apportion of realty show
The dealin’ America
My own
Private beach
As owner US
In loo of such common good
Water wee
Going
Too due
In hour end of the pool
Round the public square

 

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POEM: Celebrating the Forth

Nationalism seems to me to be an over-attachment to geography and an under-attachment to people…

Celebrating the Forth

Won mourning
I awoke
Parently in the land of my berth
Recalling
I had herd
Something
Or other
A bout
Flagging borders
I just
For the life of me
Could knot re-member
From wince I came
Soully left
Questioning
How was I posed to
No what was right

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POEM: God Less America

The insistence of absolute sovereignty of the state is idolatrous and unhealthy for its subjects, and definitely unhealthy for all “non-citizens.” I vote for planetary citizenship and limit aliens literally to aliens (for the time being)…

God Less America

Where equality reigns
There is a sublime reckoning
Soully a bout
Adding up
God less America
Still, idoling on
Equals God
One nation under
A legend in its own
Mine
Mine
Mine
Not quiet learning
The after math

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Unflagging Loyal T — Owed to a T

Today’s poem is a reflection on the oft shallow love of one’s own land, called “patriotism.” In this July 4th summer season, this poem is a tip of the hat to the “T”…

Unflagging Loyal T — Owed to a T

We are the won
And lonely
Dam nation
Of America thirst
Wear ails might
I want to be
Sow with it
In its cursory virtues
Helled to gather
Awe in the same bout
As sum type of commune a T
Occult of personality
Gimme liberty
Gimme death
Of what sublime
Due we under stand
And still
A mist fateful daze
Wee get win of
In dependence
Exploding onto
The seeing
And wore out
That rather
Unflagging loyal T
Well suited
To sum her days
Truly coming forth

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POEM: DJ Sleepy — Owed To The Don’s 250th Anniversary Celebration

As The Don presides over his notion of a 250th anniversary celebration, I have conferred upon him the moniker of “DJ Sleepy” — a nation, a verse…

DJ Sleepy

A sleep
At the we’ll
Celebrate in dependence
Too hymn self
His own
Rally
Spinning his record records
Records square
Super intending to play
Whatever
He can
In a demented age
DJ Sleepy
Is the least
Woke liter in the reflecting pool
Mirrorly a green with envy
And caché of a greed
Up on self-dealing
Encircled buy every lack he
In the land of nod
That confidence man
A dozer
Running DC in an AC world
Reckoning he is cool
Wholly at wrest
Won scene drugging on
In his idol eyes
America’s doppelgänger
His term a nation
Infernal sleep
His soul fear
Being woke

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POEM: Cactus Love

This poem is about when you have a “prickly” loved one, and that creating a little space, stepping back figuratively or literally, can be a healthy form of detachment for all concerned…

Cactus Love

Love is like
Love is not like
A cactus
That rarified
Blooming life
When you least
Expect it
And lessens that prick
Of mine fullness
Keep present-ing
It is quiet OK
To let alone
For spells sow long
Fumbling to grasp
That awe of life
Is not soully felt knead

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POEM: Something Shady, On Mother Earth

Here is a poem for a hot summer week culminating in July 4th. May we celebrate Mother Earth in dependence!

Something Shady, On Mother Earth

In a hot flash of incite
On Mother Earth
I was dam well contemplating
Something shady
As ponder us
Was she used too
In deteriorating brood and litter
As owed as carbon dating
Suffering fuels
And inconceivable men paws
A poaching sum expiration date
Though eye was prospecting
At the edge of the forced
Just pining
Fore a touch more than a small parch
Seer-ing
Amor like high noon
Then the mourn of a knew age
Getting down
With rounding up
The species argument
Of de-serving
Here the calling out
Whoa is me
And byway of a miracle
I helled out
Sow
For the time being
I put it in park
Under my mother’s alms
A son taking leave
Sheltered from the raze
Still
Soully axing
What will
We due
With some kind of
Heir conditioning
Other than what
Might cut us down

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POEM: Good, Bad, In Different

This poem is a reflection on a natural tendency to overestimate our own goodness and others’ badness. Hubris is powerfully deceptive; and, much like honesty, humility pays, but not as much as I’d like it to…

Good, Bad, In Different

I under went
An out-of-sight incite
That people are neither
As good as you think
As bad as you think
Halving two live
In the grate mettle
Ground
In a crucible
Of ether
Ore
Down with
Mixing up
This precarious pare
As I soully peer
Too others
As equally
Con fused
And I am
Flee to under stand
Being bound
To this yoke on us

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POEM: Up To, Unparalleled Living

This poem was inspired by the duo of unparalleled parallels in the trifectas of: being completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble; and acceptance, courage, and wisdom…

Up To, Unparalleled Living

“Jesus promised his disciples three things –that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.”
–William Barclay’s commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can, and
Wisdom to know the difference.
–Short form “Serenity Prayer” from Reinhold Niebuhr

Hear, I AM
Holy fearless
Inexplicably happy
Awe ways in trouble
Abut in a good weigh
Accepting things looking up
In unparalleled living
From mirror existence
And won with wisdom
Even
Wreathed by folly
And stone, cold
Markers in my land
Amor, then willing
To no the deference
To foolishness
As know one
Who no’s the trouble
I’ve scene
And what can
As I am
Unfrayed of change
Fearing only too due my apart
Bowing soully
To the greater won

NOTE: for the full version of “Serenity Prayer” see: https://proactive12steps.com/serenity-prayer/

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POEM: No Locks on Adores

This poem is of the Taoist tradition, treasure of parent opposites…

No Locks on Adores

I found myself
In that plays
The greatest presence
Away with words
The keys of silence
Wear there
No locks on adores
Soully able
To stand
Still
Holy unfurled
Entranced
By awe there is
Every wrinkle unfolding
As lightening unbolting
Treasuring beyond belief
All that
Is mine
Unjarred

NOTE: To fully appreciate this poem, the second to last line, “Is mine,” is a triple pun: 1) mine as that which I possess; 2) mine as a place where one extracts treasure; and 3) mine as mind, as in mind unjarred. Treasure on…

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