Additional Poems

Why are you watching me? Why am I on your list,
classified as an enemy combatant or potential terrorist?
Why are you watching me? Please tell me why I'm on that list.
Is it because I always challenge you? Is it because I...Read More

Your beauty eloquently shines,
with effervescent hue.
An ushered in new day,
additional memories to accrue.

Moments swelled from passion,
can certainly overwhelm.
Always assuring my attention,
in a perfect magical realm.

Fairer beauty nowhere to be found,
witnessed by my own two eyes.
A constant and veracious attraction,
invariably never...Read More

When asked
by my nephew
for an essential reading list
for PermaCultural Therapeutic Design,
my Taoist thoughts went back
to Unitarian-Universalist
Yin/Yang pre-history,
when Earth produced a theologian,
Dr. Thomas Starr King (1824-1864)
reaching out for non-violent dialogue
across all global healing cultures.

This 1800s Dr. King 
would-be global peacemaker
noticed
and reflected
and...Read More

Dancing in time, bringing in the heartfelt holiday 
Wafts of women in full traditional costume of Puerto Rico
Gyrating in the streets, teasing the crowd with their prowess
From old to young, they make their point in colorful garb.

Boy children and men...Read More

Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Moby Dick is generally regarded...Read More

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had six additional chapters when it was released as a book in 1891. The work,...Read More

Orange paisley in the seventies prancing in my mind
Twisted up with lemons and avocados, fruit colors
Also shown in mushroom canister sets and Tupperware

On equal footing stark straight black and white stripes
Proving we are in a new age with additional freedom
I...Read More

They let me down 
now put me down
harsh views of me all around town
no one has seen me or heard a sound 

I fell down in a pit of trouble 
wasn’t offered a hand or a cuddle
snowballing mind evermore muddled
an...Read More

(1A.)
Doomed To Feel That Bite And Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss

Beyond mingling of Light, Matter, Human thought
reams of coils within darkest abyss are there caught
denied rays emitted by our reddish flame sun
wherein single feather may weigh a billion tons
lay boiling cauldrons...Read More

Why spoiled misses princess...
never wishes to awaken from pleasant snooze

Appellation (with trailing switchback
and/or additional colorful turns
of phrases) emphasizing assigned
nom de plume "princess goldilocks"
hardly flattering compliment

gently aforementioned sobriquet mocks,
jabs, and stings painful as botox
analogous when the Daily's
(mean neighbors on Lantern Lane
out...Read More

My Morning Rant
By Miracle Man
1-7-2020

Seems weekly I awake to a new paradigm,
we’re legalizing “weed” so it’s no longer a crime.
Radical change came so quickly, I’m left agast,
and morality, it seems, is lost somewhere in the past.
But its a gateway drug...Read More

Found Another Pound Which Is Still Around

Will remember what we had found;
Had been another additional pound,
Food taste;
Expand waist;
Wouldn't you know it still around.

Jim Horn
...Read More

The imagination was giddy with fervent anticipation

A beautifully comforting breeze

soothed the mind from every conceivable direction

while also invigorating the playfulness associated with imminent invention


Another day provides additional time

for the creation and nourishment of an idea

Another opportunity to relentlessly explore

previously unvisited...Read More

I
There are lines we recall from literature
As in escaping "by the skin of my teeth"
That we owe to the bible, in this case, to Job
(not "job", a Biblical Book by that name, chapter 19)

II
Psalm 29 today, as we close 2019,...Read More

Finding a house,
is the most difficult thing.
You find what you like,
or you get nothing !

You want a bedroom,
with a shower attached,
a kitchen of your own,
and your budget matched.

You want it close
to the university,
and to be free,
from the noise of the...Read More

The law of nature

What a beautiful flower
A wasp runs freely
Jumps at once
Into the lap of a beautiful flower

The flower welcomes the wasp, gratefully
She blossoms lovingly and offers sweet honey in honor of love
No other flower in the vicinity exhibit jealous...Read More

Into the depths of my soul I searched once

The happiest day of my life to find

Difficult to locate wasn't at all 

For was the day that love our hearts enshrined!






© Demetrios Trifiatis 
      09 October...Read More

Frisky, gray squirrels scramble
Beneath a massive, old oak tree
Gathering the best acorns they see
Their fluffy tailed, lively damsels

Opossum wobble on short legs
From their laurel sheltered lairs
Toward the thickets where there’s
Vast bugs and spiders in their webs

Gentle, soft haired rabbits assemblage...Read More

Black Hills Legacy

In the vaults of the U.S. government sits
A cache of money gathering interest.
But money cannot buy the hearts of a people
In exchange for land and legacy
For breaking the Laramie Treaty. 

The ‘Black Hills’ have been raped
Of wealth beyond...Read More

Prescribed blood tests
present no qualms,
unlikely nothing askew i.e.
ticking time bombs
nor prone to catastrophization,

albeit anticipatory anxiety
plus demeanor of poetically titled
medical practitioner allays, calms
alleviates agitation exhibited
by dad's and/or mom's

panic minimizes si? no sweaty palms,
nonetheless precautionary measure taken
thumbing apostle Matthew psalms
ayee feel grateful...Read More

See we know about traditional old skool 
gangster new school and mumble 
well I’m the additional 
mister medicinal 
brain cells missing 
brain fail consistent 
I’ll stand here and diss you all 
don’t get me fishing fool 
I didn’t grow up...Read More

nowadays, walking sidewalks is so yesterday
since I was asked “where is your Ninjas?
they are now updating status and you are just
typing some comments?”
oh, dear. I am thinking about real Moving Sidewalks
I saw the two of them in an airport
and of...Read More

Sunshine comes from heaven, breaking up clouds in the sky, and dispelling the winter coldness to land the world a Spring

The smiling comes from eyes, breaking up gloom in the heart, and bringing  warmth  to put on the...Read More

Last Names
by Edmund Siejka

Whenever I meet someone
At a party, a restaurant or in line at a store
And the conversation turns to last names 
I respond politely
When they ask
What nationality is that?
The question strikes me as anachronistic
Like how old were you...Read More

The first three lines of this verse are the magicicada — additional letters are put in for effect. Perhaps you see a kite? 


FRANKLY BENJAMIN

electricity
even if
a bit eccentric
        C
    ...Read More