Tag Archives: God

POEM: Making Know Deference

This poem is about what may be the biggest con to which we are subject: that what you do doesn’t make any difference. I see this as a cynical project by those in power to entrench and secure a status … Continue reading

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POEM: Here on Abet

A mythic narrative that describes the arc of my life fairly well is the idea that I am here on a bet. More specifically, the bet was that, as in a previous life, I was a peasant scolding those living … Continue reading

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POEM: To Know a Veil

This poem is about desiring God, and for the spirit to fully incarnate in flesh. I have long thought that the best metaphors for understanding God is through parenthood, the unconditional love for a child, and through being lovers, desiring … Continue reading

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POEM: It is I, Can You Not Hear Me?

This poem is an ode to nature speaking to us, and in particular exploring the notion of Nature or God as a subject, not mere object or inert matter, but infused with spirit. It is I, Can You Not Hear … Continue reading

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POEM: Buy Racial? Bi Gender?

This poem deals with the fiction of race and gender as distinct biological realities. Of course, as social constructs, race and gender have profound impacts on our lives together. Buy Racial? Bi Gender? They were neither Black nor white Yet … Continue reading

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POEM: Divine Die-alogue

This poem plays with notion of God sitting next to me my whole life, and that presence involves no literal speaking. Then, upon my death God turns to me… Divine Die-alogue I am Dumb to talk about it Such profound … Continue reading

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POEM: Made Passable

1984 may be voted the most likely to be a “Groundhog Year,” repeated over and over and over. The book, 1984, by George Orwell, written in the aftermath of World War II, is a stark warning about authoritarianism that holds … Continue reading

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POEM: Cat and Mouse Game

There are many ways to view God, or not. This poem plays with deferent weighs to see God. The title, Cat and Mouse Game, refers specifically to a very clever and brave mouse who hides in the cat’s ear to … Continue reading

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POEM: Knot Sound – Owed to the Sound of a Cynic Being Borne

Ever wonder what is the sound of a cynic being borne? Knot Sound: Owed to the Sound of a Cynic Being Borne When an angel gets their wings A bell rings You may have been tolled Sow harmless in a … Continue reading

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POEM: Secret Quest

This poem plays with the intrinsically obscure interior nature of subjective experience. While one may want to speak of potentially mystical or God experiences, there is an irreducible aspect that cannot be reliably verified, at least in the typical scientific … Continue reading

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POEM: The N Times? An Ode Too AI

Here is a poem a bout AI, artificial intelligence. This is a poem with ATTITUDE!  Today’s news included this: Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission. With this poem, I throw down the gauntlet to … Continue reading

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POEM: Family Photo Finish

When NATO gathered today to pronounce the initiation rituals and well-titrated accosts for Ukraine to join “the family,” I couldn’t help but feel that there was a little too much cheer leading the ordinariness of military buildups. To that a … Continue reading

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POEM: Sorry, Mom

This poem is a form of apology to Mother Earth for the daily grand rationalizations we tolerate in service of capitalism and The Economy, our won true God. I post this as wildfire smoke engulfs multiple states with killer air … Continue reading

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POEM: Sacklers of Shit: Owed to Immunity from Civility

I wrote this poem when the Sackler family, the opioid drug kingpins, were granted civil immunity by a federal court: Sacklers of Shit: Owed to Immunity from Civility The opioid cries Is hung over America Not liable to see just … Continue reading

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POEM: Abridge Too Far

A poem about censorship, raising its ugly head again in America: Abridge Too Far With some seriously grievous squares How do we turn This censor ship round With their blank novel arguments Cons truing Selective fictions Partisan death sentences And … Continue reading

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POEM: Death Unexplained [Ode to Harry Gavin]

Our youngest grandchild (Maryjo’s son’s son), Harry Gavin, 7-months-old, feel asleep and never woke up. Below is his obituary; followed by a poem I wrote for our family and loved ones. Harold Patrick Gavin, passed away unexpectedly in his sleep … Continue reading

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POEM: God’s Tell

God’s Tell Is it just Another day Like any other Inner changeable Who could tell? And there I was Mining my own busyness When it came to pass God winked at me I timidly wavered back Yet setting off A … Continue reading

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POEM: Loyalty Oafs

Loyalty Oafs Loyalty oafs Would halve you Believe In idol vanity Sowing their wiled oaths AWOL keeping us a part With litmus tests In a whirled of acid And base Brands that burn And scar us In too submission Not … Continue reading

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POEM: God’s Lazy As

God’s Lazy As Thanks for nudging me From oblivion In too existence A billion years Of Sundays Ought too due Accept fore sustaining me Every nanosecond What have you Done form me Lately I find a deep source of gratitude … Continue reading

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FREE POSTER: God is Love (with asterisk)

God is love. Period. In case you were wondering what the fine print says: it’s the Sermon on the Mount (below). I wanted the primary meaning of this poster to address and challenge the notion that God’s love has a … Continue reading

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