Tag Archives: Muse

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: Not Enough Knew Words

This poem is yet another tribute to the unfathomable, infinitely ineffable muse calling up new words and word plays to manifest her unending nature. Not Enough Knew Words Sew What’s up I can’t seam Too get my fill In this … Continue reading

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POEM: Juggernaut of Whimsy

This poem is a tribute to the unstoppable spirit of the muse immersing me in whimsy. Juggernaut of Whimsy It came out Of know wear As if The whirled was over Flowing With hi spirits An immense see Giving me … Continue reading

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POEM: The Muse

This poem is about the muse striking when she sees fit, or knot. The pandemic was quiet a dry spell for my poetry, partly because my time and creative energies where engaged in my public health radio show. Still, I … Continue reading

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POEM: Stanza Loan

A poem about the nighttime dance with the muse: Stanza Loan My peripatetic soul Me-and-her-ing In the meddle of the night Stairing into space Looking fore A heavenward sealing Holing up Foiling Oh my Vega bonding Only to be Trolled … Continue reading

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MUSE POEM: Awe Mused Up

At the end of the day He was awe mused up Know longer able Too take it Sow well This poem was written amidst a streak of short poems when the muse struck.  Sometimes the muse needs to be addressed … Continue reading

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POEM: Sew Much Silence

Sew much silence And not enough Ears To take it in Awe that seams Unspoken  Just got back from a Nonviolent Communication group session with the topic of “Receiving Empathically.”  Such active listening to ourselves, other people, and, on a … Continue reading

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POEM: Awe Due Consideration

What is good A bout religion At best There is little to say Giving a fare hearing More about listening Too small Still voices Respecting only what due Saving A few choice words For those empower Occupying humanity Only in … Continue reading

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POEM: Having Her Weigh With Me

The muse had her weigh with me And it was sow right There was nothing left Accept light This short poem is about the love affair between an artist and their muse.  The grace-ridden gifts from beyond our doing and … Continue reading

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POEM: The Curator

I am The curator Of your infinite beauty Privy to collections timeless And in real time Streaming glorious tributaries To the art of who you are This is a poem about the glorious privilege in close relationships of having unique … Continue reading

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POEM: Howie Tried And True

Too fine The word That was lust to him As a gossamer knight he Oh Howie tried And true Enough Wading in silence Only to peer Parently from know wear To meat His every knead Too fine Word Maid flesh … 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: Ode Record Smashed

He smashed His ode record Broke in The same oh Same oh! Skipping A beat Down Sow deep In his sole Feted To follow him Wear ever Won is I wrote this poem as the last poem of the day … Continue reading

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Double Oh No: The Name’s Cadabra, Abra Cadabra

God’s Name is knot Abracadabra Too be unloosed Unwhirled As owed man Putting on Some kind Of spectacle Who’s genesis Giving No quarter To years Behind In a sense Out right hostility And udder a version Sow called Crater of … Continue reading

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POEM: Free Verse

You are trying Too figure out Perhaps even singularly a verse Paying sum game Never getting A head Dis integrating As a metaphysical meting Of meter and anti-meter Unmoved Object And unstoppable farce With unending meanings Crying Help Lessly under … 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: A Corny Poem — Owed To Iowa

He was feeling it In a corny state The mother of corn starch In the thick of it A sweet mother High on fructose Full of it As lots of feed In feedlots Of walking meat But it was my … 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: The Taoist Dowager

The Taoist dowager Bends gently to that before her Inclined to bless Those below Indivisible To the high and mighty Wholly touched Braille beyond the see Maid of tender harmonies Composed Of one, a chord The maladies of life joyfully … Continue reading

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POEM: The Awe Might He Acorn

The acorns fall Like reign From above As the mighty yoke is broken Flailing to grasp the gravity of the situation Each won A tiny oak Tolled by nature If only Such nuts Can hold there ground And a void … Continue reading

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