Category Poetry
One-eyed Man
We are conditioned, convinced when we are but babes in arms Depends on the teacher to determine whether this helps, harms Despite where we live, we are persuaded to think as we are told In America, the United States of, we’re pressed into their mold Molded thus, in childhood, know we’ll have any life we […]
Could It Be?
Could it be I have heard voices From the bottom Of the sea Depths darkly Speaking Murmuring softly, Indistinct, unknown Language, dialect Unrecognized Marks my ignorance Can I distinguish Truth from lies Which lie behind The darkness Of my eyes More the fool Than wise Yet, I hear them I feel them Rising up Into […]
On the Town
Could it be I stop for coffee in the morning That it’s little to do with imbibing caffeine Could it be I am engaged in my sojourning Simply so I may see and by others be seen
What Time? What Hope?
Being greedy In small steps Grabbing what What you want As though It’s yours By right Or rite Casting bones Waving feathers Odds and ends Imbued with power At midnight Any hour Darkness hides Our fright Our trepidation Nervous laughter Hoping, hoping Longing to know The secret Wrest the prize The surprise You know Has […]
Hitch Up Your Trews
Tomorrow is a good day to try something new I mean, what do you think will happen to you If you choose, one time, your dream to pursue Treasure like sunlight sparkle on morning dew Or turned down a lane, the way the wind blew Where lurks a forest darker than evening news Go on, […]
Bloviated Gas
Good for everyone, everyone should say Except a group who hates one over there While, that group hates another, they say Good religious people taught to love, care Easy to imagine they only learned to hate Church shootings, beheadings, massacres So I don’t want to travel anywhere of late Due to fearful, old, white men, […]
Of Course
Why, of course, it cost a lot It cannot be any good, if not Do you really believe this true Just a bill of goods sold to you Would you matter either way Would it matter any given day It cannot matter that I can see You know it never comes free Except what you […]
Don’t You Know?
Please pay, before consuming At birth or your entombing Think twice, but speak once Or you get a Nelson Munz Ha, ha, might follow aha Not required, not the law Anticipate at least a smile If once you think a while It is only your life, after all Living large or living small Hope you […]
Disquieting
I speak my disquiet to the concrete and the glass To every other person which, on the lane, I pass Tell it to the trees, the birds, every blade of grass Adults so rarely listen that I tell each lad and lass Nothing comes from my dismal, despairing cries Torrents of bombs and bullets fall […]
Another Name for Heaven
Fast we live And fast we fly Fast is how we die Slow we move And slow we love Earth as heaven above
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