Tag Archives: Balance

POEM: That Fine Line

Life is complicated. Many of us use this as a rationalization to avoid decisive action. This can leave us in a morass of moral confusion. If we a fine line a ledge, the slightest movement may result in profoundly different … Continue reading

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POEM: Karma Cat -28,000 Poems

This poem toys with the notion of karma and reincarnation as a vehicle for moral evolution and sum sort of cosmic justice. This poem employs as a metaphor the relationship between a karmic cat living thousands of lives encountering uncounted … Continue reading

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POEM: Dead Beat Nation – Owed to Whose Default It Is

I wrote this poem a bout the perennial federal hostage taking and ransom demands by Republicans around raising the debt ceiling whenever they don’t have full control. This running over the country and rerunning over the country is unique to … Continue reading

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POEM: What Cannot Be Forest Upon Mother Nature

What Cannot Be Forest Upon Mother Nature As man expired His last Once agin Mother Nature breathed in A parent excrement Concrete and steel Leaving not Even a scratch In geologic time Merely having caught a cold Cold virus Feverish … Continue reading

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POEM: That Clarity Amidst Blood

That Clarity Amidst Blood The tides of change are rising From a tsunami of tears The salt of the earth Uniting with water The solution that is life That clarity amidst blood And where souls hit the street Awash with … Continue reading

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POEM: The Ins and Outs of Breathing

Which is better To breathe in or out At their annual convention This was the question Of the year Not a moment Too soon As immanent researchers congregated Took sides Gave talks Of oxygen and carbon dioxide Aerobic capacity and … Continue reading

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Testimony for National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service — END DRAFT REGISTRATION

I prepared the below testimony to present at a public meeting in Chicago before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, a commission created by Congress to deal with questions of draft registration, most specifically, whether to end … Continue reading

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POLITICAL POEM: The Bus of Times, The Worst of Times

His political career Hung in the balance Throw a certain number under the bus Or see bus production drop precipitously This short poem recognizes a brutal utilitarianism in politics, which is present at most any level.  Using people as means … Continue reading

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POEM: Unleashed

As anger and grief morphs Into the habits and vagaries of daily life The heart is circled by its waggin’s In loo of revolutions more roil As if Too be stuck In The mettle Only to be Haunted by cursory … Continue reading

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POLITICAL POEM: Among Politicians For Sail

In the art of politics We are the wind Awe that madders To those who sea Among politicians for sail Transcending them to helm In their infernal riggings And whatever weigh As such politics Blows And how ever along winded … Continue reading

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POEM: Awe That Is Fine Her

Sheez Know more than Know less than Then any won ails In whatever Whirled Privileged to breathe at awe Fenced buy abets Dis regarding Weather grate her Or less her As any won object Is any thing worth wile Over … Continue reading

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HAPPINESS: Hedonic Happiness Versus Meaningful Happiness

I have long been interested in happiness and happiness research.  I recently stumbled across one of the most fascinating scientific articles of any kind that I have read in recent years: Some Key Differences Between a Happy Life and a Meaningful Life. … Continue reading

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POEM: Enlightenment Not Worth Beings

Conversing in the street At a protest We had a very enlightening pow wow As too in form me He stated with qualm assurance “Protest before enlightenment, protest after enlightenment” A parity of action Like I had never seen To … Continue reading

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POEM: Love Making

I was mistaken All those years Those sweetest ours Thinking I was making love When in truth Love was making me This love poem, as most of my poems, can be read several ways.  Of course, the simplest reading is … Continue reading

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POEM: A Ledged Fall

The leaf let go Releasing awe that had given it life In what could have bin A swan dive Or a butterfly prancing But it was doing its own thing Lining up for know one Little did it no But … Continue reading

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POEM: Cold War Thawing in Caribbean Stile — Owed to Cuba

An America Speaking Latin Builds a wall around an island And like a 54 year old chide So unbecoming Fool groan Wont a puerile of grate wisdom After a long wile Seeks counsel late And all that It takes To … Continue reading

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POEM: Joining That Mystical Union

Having Evolved Too keep Every last won Of this sophisticated specious Under opposable thumbs Like a perch In a stream of consciousness Executing my porpoise The best I can do A thwart on the phase of humanity This avowing That … Continue reading

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POEM: Metings, I’d Rather Do Without

I listen To that which speaks A bigger In feeleds of dreams Wanting more Then words Aloft from fences Of unsatisfying breadth And stealy calculation Dis passionate mines As inevitable ballbusters Descending from bona fide guise Even handed lines Powerless … Continue reading

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POEM: The Taoist Dowager

The Taoist dowager Bends gently to that before her Inclined to bless Those below Indivisible To the high and mighty Wholly touched Braille beyond the see Maid of tender harmonies Composed Of one, a chord The maladies of life joyfully … Continue reading

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POEM: Cautionary Tail

Shadow pays homage to light In a place beyond compare And as a cautionary tail May you not be doggedly wagged This short poem is a tip of the hat to the Taoist idea of complimentariness or yin-yang, such as … Continue reading

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