If you are bored
If you are bored by other people’s dreams, your own aren’t worth dreaming.
Punishment
For the raid on the Capital, Trump should do time. Selling state secrets? A capital crime. Sexual predation Should send him to jail. Add money laundering: No chance of bail. Obstruction of Congress Merits repression. Intent to do murder: The list goes on further. But there’s one mortal sin That can’t be forgot. For cheating
Can I Hear A Hypocrisy?
“The Week” reported on June 10th, 2022 that clergy and other personnel of the Southern Baptist Convention sexually abused hundreds of women, teens, and children over the past few years. Southern Baptist leaders regularly insert themselves into public debates on cultural and political issues as “a voice of conscience,” and now their credibility has been
Deus Absconditus
He picks his favorite face In scowling concentration, Brooding in infinite space Over hands interlaced. Good rules or bad rules. Neither overpowers. Equipoised, creation cools. Glory self-devours. Hands fly away from clasping, Scattering the stars. Giving is filled up with asking And there are wars. He studies his outspread fingers Splayed all over space, Leaves
Two Poems By Ellen Douglas
Two Poems By Ellen Douglas Geste I warn you, I won’t promise anything; My ruddy revenant may well confound With skirl of bagpipe, antic highland fling, Each steadier denizen of grassier mound. Perhaps down medieval stream I’ll trail; Slim effigy, in velvet-hearted drift Of lilies, spiced yet scentless, poet-pale, Not pennies, never pennies for my
May Day
Hurray, hurray, The First of May! Outdoor sex Begins today!
Earth Day
This year it’s a time of mourning. Putin has scorched part of Earth. Losing his war, he might use nukes. Gaia will scream and perish
I Was Wrong
Mistaken Optimism I wrote that Putin would be forced to flee Russia. The Russians love him.
Erin Go Bragh
Bless the humorous, Guiness-loving Irish: To them, a flock of swallows is a gulp.
Tunnel Vision
-with a nod to Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A man as muddled up as me. Too many must-dos drive me nuts. I need to cut out ifs and buts And clear my mind so I can see The forest rather than the trees.