Category Poetry
Crusade to End Public Torture
More certain and more frightening than death and taxes More pervasive, deadly and inevitable than a pandemic It will drive you buttier than a batterfly, watch the nets Wag your finger, shake your fist, hang your head and cry The presentation may be good, but you’ve seen it all before If you ever liked […]
Read All Over
Black and white and red A cat bats a pipe cleaner Young, old, shapes, colors Food and drink, laughter Thought, winding up and Winding down, voices Rising over, falling under Art, barely-heard music, Community and creation City views, sculpture, time Reminders of travel, place Eiffel Tower Lego, distance Interactions of youth similar And different […]
Jonas Jonathon Barnstable-Bailey
Jonas Jonathon Barnstable-Bailey does not like mincemeat pies If he could he’d tell you all of the many wherefores and the whys Yet when Granny makes them small, they have a strong attraction He will pick them up and lick the top no matter what the reaction He will quickly lick all the powdered […]
Governments’ Fear
Strange, disturbing and unnatural, the sight I witnessed earlier today Two people, women, sitting outside, talking in the old-fashioned way No phones, smart or dumb, no tablets, no pads, no games, no e-readers, Could I detect anywhere. Should I go and warn our fear-filled leaders? Anyone not plugged in twenty hours per day might […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR
The last day on our calendar changes odds to evens Repeats in opposition then, as regular as the seasons And we adjust our reckonings with a day thrown in Which lets us catch up to the sun and so begin again We treat each new year as new time, a new beginning Resolve to change, […]
Prufrock’s Lament
LET us slow then, you and I. When vile emissions spread out across the sky The ether that lays us upon the table; Lets us skulk through fear-deserted streets, The mutterings retreat Of soulless nights in one-night cheap brothels And raw rust juggernauts and mortar shells; Streets that follow past the seediest tenement Too usurious […]
Opposites
Why do people think peace implies a boring sameness The cosmos where we live is composed of opposites We will never have everyone thinking the same way Nor would we ever even want to, if the truth be told But opposition is no way required to equal violence On and off, hot and cold, […]
Love to Spare
In this time of rejoicing greatly Pomp and circumstance stately We see that the days grow longer Power of sun and hope stronger Sing, praise Earth of subtle virtue Air, sea,wind, rain, seasons, dirt, too Despite your beliefs, what you know Here’s time to let old hurts, hates, go A new sun year’s begun, next […]
Hope
Pause a moment, on this most momentous eve Though it is not everyone’s special high holy day And try to practice what we all profess to believe Since what we do often contrary to what we say If you believe a god, God, created all, everyone Why then believe your group better than the rest […]
Taking Flight
It is so late at night, it has become very early morning Still, here I lie, brain roiled in riot, with unclean hands Creating, too long awake, intent, so I should be snoring Time it is, past, I seized my uncharted, unnamed lands Until a nascent solution lives, I shall not cringe nor beg […]
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