Tag Archives: Success

POEM: A Bout Time

A common complaint is that there is never enough time. Overbooking ourselves seems endemic. I have made an intentional effort over my life to create some space and time, allowing me to lead a less hurried and less forced life. … Continue reading

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POEM: The Lamb and The Lyin’

Violence often seems to be second nature, obvious or inescapable. Perhaps violence is inescapable because it begets itself, setting up new rounds of consequences where further violence begs further violence. Violence begetting itself may just be the manifestation of the … Continue reading

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POEM: Fallen, For It

This poem is an ode to hubris, perhaps the greatest enemy to our collective lives. The largest hubris of all is leaning into hubris as a character asset. The Tower of Babel will fall, as well as every version of … Continue reading

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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: CIA Director Nominee Gina Haspel Tortuously Testifies – Of Course Torture Works, I Am Looking at a Huge Job Promotion

Gina Haspel, Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA Director, slunk partially out of the shadows yesterday to testify before Congress and the American people why a torturer should be promoted to director of CIA. She refused to acknowledge that torture is … Continue reading

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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Republican Leaders Gather To Celebrate Their Tax Scam

The coalition of deplorables known as the Republican leadership are celebrating the careening success of their ill-considered, hypocritical, and mean-spirited tax scam.  Now, perhaps the only hope for sane Americans is that GOP leaders will stumble over themselves in their … Continue reading

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FREE POSTER: GOP Greedy Old Perverts Sexual Predator-in-Chief Donald Trump and Roy Moore

Dirty old men, predominantly dirty old white men, are running rampant throughout our culture and politics. A long overdue push back is underway as many powerful sexual predators are finally being held to some account.  The cutting edge of this … Continue reading

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A Spiritual Autobiography

I wrote the below spiritual autobiography a dozen years ago as part of a servant leadership study group.  While it definitely needs updating, it serves well as a brief overview of my spiritual history and development over much of my … Continue reading

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POLITICAL POEM: Fighting Exclusively

It was his thing Fighting exclusively Battles he could win His crowning I deal Never finding himself On-the-cide of losers Whirled why’d Naught ails But win Filling his sales Whatever He could bye A captain of destiny In habiting the … Continue reading

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POEM: Hell In A Handbasket

I would rather live… In a trailer That proverbial mobile homme Seeing stars when roofs are razed And nothing but realty at my back As awe of creation is present As I am Looked down upon Wading patiently fore that … Continue reading

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POEM: Never Agin

They lived in an ethic Spacious enough To ford seven generations Rooted in time immemorial And in awe of the presents Their will yielding To a vision enduring beyond death True sojourners of life Not a cataclysm of transients Who … 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: Life As A Breeze

Life peers to me As a gentle breeze With fragrant harmonies In the tenderest victories Know longer bought a bout by yielding hope Prospecting in rock Dead set, vane certainties Or coarse inclinations While a sole breath moves through me … Continue reading

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POEM: The Yeast Of These

Wile there is much bred Daily preyed for Ample for awe concerned That seemingly still Fomenting swell times A mist repleting agin and agin In dubitable motifs Giving ascent to That for most ingredient A telling signature of homme The … 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: Constipated Destiny

He knew knot Exactly where He was going As fate would have it Seized by easy convictions Big house Auto, pilot And every won else’s Re-guard Of one self full Filled Buy in And sell out In humanity A sure … Continue reading

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POEM: God’s Perish

I under stood God’s might And might not And in awe probability New That I Will only Fooly see Phase to phase Until awe of creation Come prized my parish This poem is about dying to see the face of … Continue reading

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POEM: Putting The Monet In Monetize

The starving artist Whose art couldn’t be made Fast enough Fore his dealer Rejecting means Except as accede In awe but name groan Poising as a plant To the extant one can make cents Putting the Monet in monetize This … 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: 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: A Strange Gift From Smother Earth

I awoke Too the rumble Of a river of cars Getting the goods Being trucked over and over As fuming motorists And fuelish consumers Whirled wide Tank up With great import As their gauges reach emptily A diction Beyond words … Continue reading

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