Tag Archives: Intimacy

POEM: A Truth Foul

If you should believe The hole truth And nothing A butt the truth You may well be Full if it Perfectly primed For letting go Unable to be taken Any more By a singular won Given By an other This … Continue reading

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POEM: Know Vacancy — Owed To Co-Dependency

Are you so-so special More than a little off Renting that hallowed space Inn one’s head To fiend and faux like For what Mounts to ears A-pathetic brood Checking in weigh too often Getting your pique of the litter Wondering … Continue reading

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POEM: Paying In Attention – Owed To Mind Fullness

I under stand You are on Some kind of in Stall meant plan As long As you still Pay attention In do time I’ll pay for such in deference Hopefully not the final time Having been Pre-disposed In the passed … Continue reading

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POEM: Nevermore Contrived

In the distant future But not too distant Man fashions A machine That does every thing For us For the trees Imperceptible To awe but sum Living in passed tense Eternal re-pose Holding sway In make believe lives And unexamined … Continue reading

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POEM: In What Seams Faultless

At certain moments I am left In a world Beyond That which is My own Speechless In what seams faultless Only to be Hereafter Unleashed After awe Unforked tongue Speaking freely To anyone who can Here Experiencing such presence Unfrayed … Continue reading

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POEM: Unemployed Stat

Unemployment hit a 5-year low Still, Bob remains 100% unemployed This short poem highlights the difference between statistics and people.  Statistics can estimate probabilities with some accuracy of how a large group of people may act, or be affected by … Continue reading

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POEM: A Life Virtual, oh so…

There was twitter Jen Facebook Jen Work Jen School Jen Family Jen Amongst others Never at risk That they would hookup Or unplug In some formidable Jen convention Or at least the latest version In some ever expending universe Wear … Continue reading

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POEM: Trust is the Glue

Trust is the glue Sticking me to you The favored few The spoils of many Consume mating The fool Faith and credit Of US Divining Kindly mirror Or unwelcome truth A confidence game And quiet passably Escaped convictions Sow what … 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: We Won’t Be Food Again

I would rather Be Job Less than Renounce A living wager And know place to lie My head My heart Made homeless In loo of A fast fooled nation For going The beast Wee Can due Hitched to number one … Continue reading

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POEM: Eying Them Apples

Eying Them Apples From his firm bed rock Of unassailable logic However earnest He couldn’t quite grasp love At home in more gossamer venues Wafting Teasingly just Out of reach Not able to pick up Love’s plucky de-meaner From afar … Continue reading

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POEM: Jumping From The Ledger

Rejoin the rat race And all that chasten Daring to make A rodent in the machine Which is all the rage The bounty on your ahead A golden hamster wheel Retard after 50 years Left dumb Lips pursed For so … Continue reading

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POEM: Escaping Hubris

Indigency is the quickest road Out of hubris Few of us can afford Its high price Hubris, or arrogance, is powerfully seductive in the human mind.  This excessive self-confidence seems to be an inescapable part of egocentricity.  Nonetheless, as humans … 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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POLITICAL CARTOON: CEO Jesus – The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

CEO Jesus Speaks: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth! Welcome to CEO Jesus!  This is the second installment a new Top Pun series of comics that will run on Sundays, featuring CEO Jesus, Free Market Jesus, Country Club Jesus, General … Continue reading

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