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POEM — Bought Ensouled: Owed To Corporate Personhood

Corporate personhood is a scam, edging out actual human persons. Many corporate souls are filed in bank vaults in Delaware, a safe house for corporate persons…and having official papers they feel free to take a dump on actual persons. Who … Continue reading

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POEM: Unentitled Ekphrasis 247

Ekphrasis is a description of a work of visual art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise. This ekphratic poem is about the classically unassuming (“unentitled”) still life painting of a bowl of fruit. Since this type of painting is … Continue reading

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POEM: Occam’s Razor (as told by Gödel)

Occam’s Razor is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. This funny and tragic poem is a parody of the misuse of the principle of Occam’s Razor to over-simplify and round … Continue reading

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POEM: Conversion Raiding

This poem contrasts two opposing world views, moral versus amoral, right versus might, serving God versus money, etc., etc. This poem presents the question of how won might convert the currency of one world view to the other. Of coarse, … Continue reading

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POEM: A Big Rock in a Bigger Pond

This poem plays with the metaphor of the many ripples of life set in motion by epic forces that set up an existential dance with the universe… A Big Rock in a Bigger Pond In mist of the universe Plunges … 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: Self-fulfilling Prophets

This poem offers two visions of self-fulfilling prophets, one self-serving and destructive and the other building a humane community together. This poem is yet another version of my meditations on “means” and “ends.” Self-fulfilling Prophets Their whirled view Is punishing … 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: Owed Habits

Weather bad habits or good habits, habits form much of our life. Choose your habits wisely. Owed Habits If you were wandering What happens next Look to that long lineup That recurring guessed Long a go And mirrorly yesterday As … Continue reading

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POEM: Calling Awe Siblings

Awe those who stand in awesome awe are my siblings. This poem is a call for awe of us to join together as one family. Calling Awe Siblings There is family Close as kin And stronger than blood Knits beyond … 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: Consigned

This short poem plays with the theme of living fully in a divided world of bought and souled. Consigned Creation calls To you collect Consigning you To oblivion Leaving Only one question Do you buy it? One life fully lived … Continue reading

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POEM: Con Tending With Not Sees

While it may be musing to wonder what if there were no hypothetical questions, Nazi Germany has thrown up countless real-life scenarios to curdle your soul. The scenario referenced in this poem is taken from the movie, Nine Days, where … 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: Like Night and Day

I am both a known provocateur, which can be a little challenging to others around me, and an insatiably curious observer and commenter on life, meaning no harm what sow ever. This poem plays with the inevitable misunderstandings that arise … Continue reading

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POEM: After Life

Here is an intentionally ambiguous poem about life and after life. Meditate on it as you like, or not. After Life Like an unforeseen canon He was blown away At the tunnel alight Having passed Through the medium of ER … Continue reading

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POEM: Ghost Writer in the Sky

This poem, weather a dream or a nightmare, plays with that often thin line in life between terror and hope. Ghost Writer in the Sky What was this? An exhilarating dream Or night mare Taking my breath away Life suspended … Continue reading

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POEM: Sidewalk Poetry

A poem for summer daze. Sidewalk Poetry In creation Where spirit and earth meet Life sprouts In the city Neighbors, homes, And every kind Of busyness Are connected Where the concrete meets souls Where will your feat take you? Today … Continue reading

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POEM: Grizzled Prospector

This poem is about the difficult prospecting in life for goaled. There are many treasures to be discovered and re-discovered, even as life occasionally collapses upon us. Of course, each time we get through to the other side, however grizzled, … Continue reading

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POEM: The Whole In My Soul

This poem is about living in the grievously beautiful realty that a truly open heart is a broken heart. I wrote this poem years ago, and now I have come to understand that my heart is broke in, as in … Continue reading

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