Tag Archives: Blessing

POEM: The Stub

This poem is a small tale of serendipity where even the small stub of a toe could lead to large discovery, and weather this discovery turns out to be a blessing or a curse may also deep end on serendipity. … 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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POEM: An Aesthetic Hope

In anesthetizing hope A certain author Did what he thought was write Sow cerebrally saying Hope is not a feeling Rather hope is an action To wit I despond This brakes down positively Why I get The extinct feeling of … Continue reading

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POEM: Beauty Us Aging

There is a beauty In aging A reservoir Of singular moments And glistening years In ignorance passed Belying youth In wrinkled knows At untaut skin In the game Wear even The future rests Just In time As quiet A scene … Continue reading

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POEM: My Proffered Busyness

My proffered busyness Is riding poetry Wherever It takes me And even as sow many Times come a bout The heist spot in the whirled Strong-armed by incoming Dealing with lives steel As sell sum Pilfer everything As if Following … 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: Shame Old Story

A little bit Of shame Goes along Weigh Too much With blinders Knot visible In a sense Lost To over looking As awe full as life is This poem is about the overabundance of shame, a tail as owed as … Continue reading

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POEM: Duckiness

Long the weigh I miss Took some clash Charging another Once an abject of my affection Now a worthy suspect In a lineup Of numbered whoa’s Among many Seedy subjects On the lam Yet beyond a shadow Of doubt To … Continue reading

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POEM: Monkeys with Typewriters

If you put a hundred monkeys with typewriters in a room Would there be any way to tell That it wasn’t the Fox News copy room? This short poem is a parody of both the infinite monkey theorem and Fox … Continue reading

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POEM: Stage Coach

Stage Coach One day I lost my script And was taken back Only to have scene The other actors Guise Now In the audience Having won More stage Contracted This is a good example of one of my elegantly ambiguous … Continue reading

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POEM: Incompetent Evil

I don’t care much for evil I don’t care much for incompetence Though when present together Incompetence becomes a blessing As in math, sometimes in morality, multiplying two negatives can produce some positive results.  There is at times some hope … Continue reading

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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice

Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM).  It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading

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POEM: Metaphors be with you

Metaphors be with you This simple one line poem which is only four words is a takeoff on the Star Wars saying, may the force be with you.  Is it any surprise that one of these four words is a … Continue reading

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POEM: Flowers Cut

I set before you these flowers For your reflection and edification These flowers were cut from my yard A yard not unlike the two yards that will cover us all some day Some may say that cutting short the lives … Continue reading

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