Tag: life
group name: politicalpoets
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February 08, 2008 02:28 PM EST --
as we bag up our own groceries
and fill our cars with gas
a few old hands remember
a kinder, gentler past
when your company got in trouble
if that company went bust
the pension you worked . . . more
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September 29, 2007 08:37 AM EDT --
Most people don't give second thoughts to their dreams, they simply dismiss them as brainless nonsense. I just to to think this way. But the more I dream and simultaneously study C. J Jung and his . . . more
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August 09, 2008 06:02 AM EDT --
(Born all of a sudden during this sleepless night...)
The only words I know in Georgian
Are: "Kamardjoba, Genatsvale!" -
What is intended to mean -
"Greetings, my dear friend!" . . . more
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December 19, 2006 10:25 AM EST --
Running
through twisted, tangled corridoors of madness,
Slapping
bare feet on the cold concrete of sadness.
Captured,
caught in a web of mangled thought.
Questions,
instead . . . more
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June 06, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The US Constitution gives Americans free speech.
Does that imply that we can freely exercise the power of dissent?
Yes, in some cases it does -- in other cases, maybe not.
Try going to a presidential . . . more
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November 02, 2007 02:33 AM EDT --
There is something that defines the title of "writer". As a fan of the beat poets, and things raw and unsaid, i am drawn to this week's featured Mad One.
Karl Leuba. He hails from Pheonix, . . . more
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April 08, 2007 07:27 PM EDT --
Walking ,
through a ghost world,
Always observing,
never a participant.
Constantly blurring,
remaining nonexistant
Passing unseen,
Unnoticable.
Except to the keen.
Disappearing ,
before thier . . . more
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July 14, 2008 02:39 PM EDT --
incidents of daily life are a dance
in time, a pirouette in learning,
a waltz of happiness, a procession
of confusion, or a jig of
sorrow and shame, the steps
of the dance . . . more
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June 30, 2008 01:19 AM EDT --
I published 20 rules for
writing modern poetry,
here's a poem that just
can't follow those rulez!
rule one: never use words
with . . . more
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July 01, 2008 09:09 PM EDT --
for Donald Hawley - 7/1/2008
soothsayers, seers and saints
have a corner on the future,
perhaps scientists do not,
stuff happens, no longer a dream. . . . more
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June 06, 2008 04:01 PM EDT --
That pooch and her stuffed toy puppy,
she confronts, attacks, tries to destroy it.
I suppose confronts is a bit of over simplification,
she does chew it, bite it, throw it, and jump on . . . more
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July 13, 2008 10:25 AM EDT --
Daffodils white, yellow, gold, buds,
surround the long black driveway
shoots pushing up
green sprouting
bluejays announcing
woodpeckers busy
tiny oregon junkos . . . more
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June 12, 2008 05:01 PM EDT --
astrology, alchemy, atheism
none a true science
so many endeavors
directed away from
reality, truth and beauty
so much wasted time
. . . more
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July 05, 2008 04:39 PM EDT --
night sneaks upon us
like a swarm of locusts
invading fertile fields
more
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June 12, 2008 03:32 PM EDT --
Summer Days Haiku
on warm summer days
it seems we are at peace
then the TV comes on
Vibrations Haiku
vibrations . . . more
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June 21, 2008 03:59 PM EDT --
roses now in bloom
now filled with rainbow colors
the summer solstice
more
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July 05, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
love can give warmth
sorrow, devotion, worry,
a headache or great joy
more
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July 06, 2008 05:27 PM EDT --
is life, time, belief
certain karma or is it
all existential?
more
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July 13, 2008 09:32 PM EDT --
lost old poems,
some from high school,
others from college days,
still more about love.
moving like all insults,
allows us to lose these things.
tears and woe, there's . . . more
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June 05, 2008 01:47 AM EDT --
witch's strange poisoned brew
what a horrible black broth of evil
gruel with bubbles of hate, malevolence
our long terrible war
victims scream a tragic song . . . more
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