Aggrandizing Poems

Paper Tigers

...Some go 
through life
in a sophomoric
zone

Knowing about
strangers
while being 
alone

To ever 
quote names
or that face
in the crowd

Aggrandizing
self
as their folly
— astounds
...

read a book once

...Read a book once
Folded the corners
To mark my progress.
It was sort of a
Wagon train read
Long, torturous, 
A seemingly endless quest
For an unknown destination
Pictured only in the minds
O...

Choosing Love

...I feel victimized
by the commercial success
of what was once a silent,
waiting,
watching
for Emmanuel,
Allah WithIn Us

I wonder
when I become red-faced angry
about not being able to CONSER...

Convene from Keepers Rebellious Gallery

...Brother. O Brother.
   O when when we were callow 
	In days young  Shakers  of the movement before 
gray & silver turned our locks we held in idol 

	Spree even damned were we 

	Lessen a very...

Strange

...There is something peculiar in our midst. For the first time, man has never been so distant from an authentic kiss. 
But today, now, right now, hugs are no longer warm. Bees are rarely seen and they...

Of the Same Dust We Are

...Of The Same Dust We Are


                              Our futile attempt to equal the creator

          In wielding unfathomable might to shape life and bequeath desire

                   ...

Loneliness

...I've been seeking to blend,
in with people and at least make a friend.
Most times I use my pen,
To try to get out of my lonely den.
So many times has loneliness pushed me over the brim,
That the...

Fixer Upper

...Having lived in multiple ports
Comingling with people of various sorts

Living in luxury or existing in squalor
Coffers full or down to last dollar

In town after town one constant remained
Pe...

Healthy Voices

...I grow increasingly concerned
about living in an unhealthy monoculture
of educational
evangelical
judicial
legislative hubris

Rhetorically LeftBrain dominant
verbally debating
which empower...

Demagogues Left Right and Center

...sharp words 
scratching against the fabric 
of civilized society
slowly tearing apart 
the structure
of reason and tolerance
ignorant assaults  
launched by loud
self-appointed
self-importan...

No Bowing Before This Queen-A Collaboration

...There's one who acts like a righteous queen
Prattling peacock, she loves to pose and preen
She is surly and gruff
Heckling slurs with a huff
And denouncing the life-saving vaccine

The ...

Crappy Politicians

...I’m thinking we’re on a downhill slide
With self-aggrandizing politicians now,
Bloviating so self-assured and snide
Paying no attention to their campaign vow.
With an eye on their big monied dono...

Within a Seed

...Within A Seed

Biological form in seclusion which darkness enfolds, anxious unlike the

meditating lotus flowers floating in tandem, fully conscious. In a vacuum,

innocuous, molded in an inner...

Seeking the Boundaries of Love's Depths and Her Hand

...Poem One: Inspired by my reading of -Lady Labyrinth's---magnificent

poem ,  "Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"

 (1.)  Poem One

Seeking The Boundaries Of Love's Depths And Her...

Fame Not Required

...My great challenge for fruitful wisdom paths
is credentialed expertise.

My obstacle to polypathic health
is self-aggrandizing comfort,
cheap ease,
self-sufficiency,
detachment.

Obstacles t...

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