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No Place Safe to Stand
If you find something’s wrong don’t cast about looking for a reason I’m the one to libel, always, I must honestly admit, this or any season You think you’re wrong, you’re incorrect, I’ll swear an oath I did it From simple misspelled words to atom bombs, for all I will take credit The argument […]
What Else?
You. Stop. Right Now. Whatever else you are doing, besides reading these words, and I know you’re doing something else, stop. In a world where multitasking is the norm and dealing with disparate desires and duties is the only way to survive, simply doing one thing feels foolish, wasteful. Perhaps, to you, it even feels […]
When a Fan of a Certain Age Attends a Students’ Classical Concert
Hot lights shine, burn yellow, orange, blue and red Reflecting back off crimson shoes and scarlet laces Clashing with those many white and black clad Sharp counterpoint to their serious, sober faces Red the vagrant color corrupts the evening’s show Bright blood, a wound, mimicked by a flautist’s tie Stark food-color hair in back, […]
TRIKU II
Triku ~ 5-7-5 ~ equals three word Haiku. I try to give them some sense or make them humorous and I think I succeeded in most cases. Here are my next seven. I hope you enjoy my word play. Indiscriminate Inconsequentially Cannibalistic Pronunciation: Denuclearization Mythological Archeology: Memorialization Figuratively Puritanism: Polarization Continuation Politically Antiglobalization Abnormality Technically […]
Dichotomy Project ~ Found Verbiage Free Verse
PAIR 2 SAD END Army defends questioned abortion law Results critical argues commission Restrictive rules trouble rape victim Says losing open doors forces secrecy Across the nation legal rights struck Bias, harassment, injuries and hard lessons Blood, bruises and killing with no remorse Pregnant child doomed, without hope Woman say clash killing all ages Trustees […]
DICHOTOMY PROJECT
Found Verbiage Free Verse As I’ve begun exploring what haiku, poems and stories can be garnered from the headlines, sub-heads and captions (the bold-faced type) in my local daily newspaper, I’ve begun to wonder what this might say about our existence at this moment in time. Like snapshots, capturing images, emotions, our greater story expressed […]
All Bets Are Off Part I
My extremely simplified recap of how I think we got where we are… Who do you suppose first stood upright, cooked food, sheltered in caves, constructed huts, wrapped animal skins around themselves and whatever other first you can imagine? These people changed our paradigm, our world view, and nothing would ever be the same again. […]
All Bets Are Off Part II
All Bets Are Off Part II My extremely simplified recap of how I think we get where we are and why and how we need to change, continued. As the world grew toward today, population spread through exploration and conquest. If you were on the winning side of these equations life became relatively safer, but […]
Headline Haiku
More than 1,000 Uprisings continue needs Death warning art world Thousands out in cold Assault on girl after dance Education breakdowns Selection begins Selfishness will end career Bigotry, just fine 1960s hits Time follows sunset horror Studios to close Mentor clobbers champ Jurors face man found shot, death Defense suspension Murder advantage Show follows jail-time […]
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