poems

BACKSTABBERS

You gather the crowd to your delight,And claim you've done so to know of their plight.You hand over scraps because it feels rightBut your impulse, I know, is to give out of spite. You mourn in publicity, the lives gone in the day,And shed tears for the lonely as they...

HAIKUS OF THE SCION

For those who used their political influence to get tested at a time when our healthcare system did not have enough to go on.

THE CALL OF THE RISING SUN

A toast to our re-emergence from this pandemic.

THE RITES OF PASSAGE

THE RITES OF PASSAGE

It was he running out the door sobbing and scared. Having tripped on a tree stump, he fell kissing the ground. He got up and ran again for all his life’s worth. I watched him intently as tears rolled from his fearful eyes to his muddy cheeks. I saw the fulfillment of...

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LESSONS FROM BEER SESSIONS

LESSONS FROM BEER SESSIONS

Because of massive publicity, the lure of the red dimension has encompassing appeal to all of society’s minds. Since it is a race on which the last man standing is, the riders gather in unlikely places to behold or take part in the highly acclaimed game within the...

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A VAMPIRE’S LEAP OF FAITH

A VAMPIRE’S LEAP OF FAITH

In Time Magazine’s March 18 issue, the famous author of The Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches said that she has one more book to write that will end Lestat’s reign in gothic literature. Meaning, after her spiritual transformation, she will never write about...

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PRIVILEGED LIVES

PRIVILEGED LIVES

Privileged Lives. Adj. 1. Too many dreams but too few a means. 2. All due to poverty. No literature has yet been personally encountered about the role of government in all – out poverty, nor the relationship of politics and poverty, but external observation has been...

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BLACK AND MOBILITY

BLACK AND MOBILITY

Black: the height of grief, the fulfillment of the darkest emotions, of loss and despair, of gripping fatality, the lamentation of the past, and finally, of a shredded life. It is the same color that reins the trail of an upturned stance. When it lands, it blows off...

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SOCIAL TERRORISM: PAINTED

SOCIAL TERRORISM: PAINTED

Anger. Sorrow. Pain. Universal cancers compounded by time. The cure is liberation determined by time. The comfort is hope sustained by time. While man endures all these, he has not forgotten to capture their progression. Through his various competencies, each face of...

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