Tag Archives: Mourning

POEM: Another Martyr Bides The Dust

Another martyr bides the dust And I was a stray Beside myself In the fog Of yet another mourning The missed over my heart Feeling only that ephemeral beaten The wait on my brain Fueled into thinking of the dread … Continue reading

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POEM: When Butterflies Aren’t Free

The butterfly has landed A monarch of unspoiled nature As we’d taken over Urban land escapes Of green carpet bombing Convinced that lawn enforcement Must be On our side Sow naturally lying In trails Of never ending growth A cancer … Continue reading

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POEM: 24/7 on I-75 — Owed To Trafficking Noise

24/7 on I-75 Only herd In the mourning Quiet scarce With the engines of freedom Racing vicious cycles In know way asking, “who cars?” As you whirr The buzz of the high way The humdrum of civilization The muffled rumble … Continue reading

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POEM: Morning Has Broke

Mourning is hear The bell tolls fore thee Riiiiiiiight Whatever Get up You had Left Right Left right Left Here is another Monday mourning poem for all who may be ambivalent or outright hate their work, particularly the screeching violence … Continue reading

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POEM: To The See Tossing

Even As a serious looker She wore a millstone Round her neck Never experiencing a vocation Long enough Too go To the see tossing This is a Monday mourning poem for awe of you wage slaves.  It is far too … Continue reading

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POEM: Shown Up

The last time He punched A time clock It was time to stop A feudal gesture Accept that It got him fired Up to his passions Eyes wide open After halving it awe And feeling dread In the mirror mourning … Continue reading

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POEM: Speaking With Spoken Sword: Owed To Hungering Fore Anew ProMedica

The profit tiers Some how a peer To set the captives free Going won after the other Like mammon and famine As to somehow heel the ravenous As fiend and faux As sow appetite for the pauper reproach With such … Continue reading

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POEM: For Awe That Has Been Urned

In her dreams She is wanting To be moved By more than Slumber too slumber Mirrorly to a wake Daze unending With that annoying buzz Thirst thing in the mourning The pique of the day The latest snooze A stay … Continue reading

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POEM: Unoriginal Sin

Thirst thing in the mourning Adam collided with Adam Agin and agin As taken aback As it was a hit Necessitating an equal Yet opposite reaction Recoiling for time in memorial Chastening to watch As if One clock to rule … Continue reading

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POEM: A Musing Co-Mission — Nein Poems! Owed to Know One

This is nine separate poems comprising one poem, each and all on the theme of the muse mercilessly striking in the middle of the night with irrepressible inspiration from God knows where. God bid me Higher than I Was willing … Continue reading

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POEM: Reining In Global Warning

The economy was Humming Having change Their tune Given The overabundance Of hot water And cell a-steam Showering down Hour earthly reign In the scheme of things In a call amity Of biblical portions They had everything Save the earth … Continue reading

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POEM: Meet Me Their

Meet me Wear the sky Kisses the ocean Where the day’s heat Meets the cool of eve Where a child’s cry Meets his mother’s loving ears And a full groan man Brought to his knees Now stands Before his new … Continue reading

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PUCO Testimony – FirstEnergy Robbery of Ratepayers

Below is my testimony at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) hearing regarding the proposed corporate welfare for FirstEnergy.  There was an impressive show of force by the anti-nuclear and pro-environmental folks from the region.  There was a show … Continue reading

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POEM: What If Everybody Did That?

Such sophistry Firmly on the bench But What if Everybody did that Judging propriety Smudging property An intolerable act My conscience He decreed Must fall Into line With Kant Where every reason Reduced to rant It’s the leash they can … Continue reading

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POEM: Making a Fuel of My Self

In the cold night That darkest time When dawns forgotten My heart burns With fear and pain My home aflame To an unaltarable offering And fiery furnish Of wanton change Of hammering out or deal For scanty respite From that … Continue reading

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POEM: Be Riffed of Life

He said “The world is inert.” I said “You mean Dead?” He re-plied That it is Assure thing Beyond doubt I queeried “On your incite Or the out?” By all means Necessary As you must And arbitrary mold No higher … Continue reading

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POEM: Rare Prayer

I found myself In rare prayer A genus reserved for Mother’s ilk Only doing what Kin be done In udder neglect Of that long a go Cached in Fore more sensible weighs Now wholly saved For foxholes The mass Of … Continue reading

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POEM: The Death of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier

He was a Baby with a capital B A ruler by which so many would be judged He was unjust A child of 20 A President for life A President for death As so many capriciously dyin’ with a king … Continue reading

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POEM: Owed to Racism – That Whole In Our Soul

Owed to Racism: That Whole In Our Soul Our life is A thin line between Loving hate And hope filled madness Dark mournings And over joy In this may hem together To suture self And community bound For wince they … Continue reading

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POEM: A Befitting Size, That Matters

Starring on the big screen Used to dominate young dreams Super-sizing them for mass consumption Today, celluloid immortality miniaturizes So five minutes ago Small screens test us As we flail miserably In a feudal limbo ‘Tween Puffed up images Flickering … Continue reading

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