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About gods of timing belts and spark plugs

...“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", most frequently translated as "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". A. Dante, 14th century Italian poet

They sway the power over mere mortals
They drop ...

Categories: absorbers, car, humor, humorous, life,
Form: Rhyme

NIGERIA AND BAD BELLY

...Nigerian people let us embrace the truth,
Bad Belly is Bad Belly
It is Bad Belly when your Father beats his chest,
And declares that "he is the giant of Africa," 
But he cannot boast of ordinary ...

Categories: absorbers, africa, betrayal, corruption, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Problematic

...Shock absorbers don't help,
the axis is broken, the axels are crabbed,
forked up.
No garage can unflex the inflexible,
maintenance cannot be maintained.

Axially speaking, the world
and its bi...

Categories: absorbers, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Vintage

...my body's a vintage car  ~
                           grace and humor are my shock absorbers

[broken monoku]

Written 14 Nov 2020...

Categories: absorbers, age, humor,
Form: Monoku

Disorganized Religion

...As traumatized as I am
by the history of organized elitist creeds,
including religious and judicious,

I am even more terrified
by my experience of disorganized unnatural spirituality,
dissocia...

Categories: absorbers, culture, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse

Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uqZhnqHMAg


The orchestra strains to be symphonic --- a bee in a tin box.
Cigar smoke thunders, molecules of sound wilt
only to be dialed up through brass lungs...

Categories: absorbers, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Theater of Utter Charm Part 18

...Part 18

it helps to see the spectrum of behaviors
as a spectrum first of all
not disorganized not random
not to the degree the clergy would have it
which makes them ridiculous
as well as dang...

Categories: absorbers, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

The Blue Planet

...THE BLUE PLANET
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


This beautiful blue planet that we call earth
No one really can confirm its origin or birth
Some declare it was shaped by a powerful being
Others state th...

Categories: absorbers, destiny, earth, environment, future,
Form: Rhyme

YangRed and YinBlue ReMemory

...You.
Reading this.
Right now.
Proof you have descended
from an unbroken powerful line 
of politically and economically successful
Elders.

If we define “powerful Elder”
as those who have had...

Categories: absorbers, culture, earth, health, love,
Form: Political Verse

Old Friends

...Quakers build their cooperative politics
on following consensually-held fertile lights.

Buddha adds,
Follow your TruthLight,
back through our universal co-arising (0)-spacetime equi-valence
du...

Categories: absorbers, destiny, earth, earth day,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Heap of Sand

...Tall
                                                           I stand
                                                       like a mountain
                                                   or st...

Categories: absorbers, identity, life,
Form: Free verse

Adventures In Motoring

...The younger crowd will not believe this bit of lore I fear,
But operating vehicles was more complicated in yesteryear!
For example, to signal turns you hung your arm out the door,
And to dim the l...

Categories: absorbers, funny, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Magic City

...I grew up with an understanding
that magic lived in a city
of blue lights and coveted sin,
that men were built to be
senseless steel buildings
tall enough to shoulder any storm
but too condescending ...

Categories: absorbers, love, romance, sad, longing,
Form: Ballad