Ascendency Poems

The Frog That Became King

...He took an oath beneath the chandelier palace,
tongue lapping at furtive moth wings.
A crown of collectible bottle caps
balanced on his warty brow.

Lilith bowed as he passed,
her petals mutter...

The Madness of the Crowd and Other Popular Delusions

...(Dzachuka Tibet, summer of 2017)

The Madness of the Crowd and Other Popular Delusions

The crowd is always prone to madness
Since reaction as a herd in danger
Demands conformity without...

Frayed Edges

...It is worn, patched, and tattered, frayed about the edges.  It has at times offered me adrenal ascendency, scared me out of my wits, challenged me to act, or to be still.  Its warmth has often failed...

War Crimes

...Even after 69 years of life experience, 
There is one issue that I cannot help you with,
As my opinion on it is so muddled and indecisive.
And I will have to leave it up to you,
To find a thread ...

Kamala

...Knocked down a pervasive glass ceiling 
And left the racist bigots reeling,  
Meteoric rise to Vice-Presidency 
And the praise for her ascendency 
Lets little girls know the sky is the limit 
An...

Hawk In the Sun

...A shadow runs across a meadow
a hawk above me on a cloudless day.
A high prescience
for a moment
overhanging a far heaven.

It is not stooping or diving,
not reaching or snatching,
it is not ...

Beloved Sarah

...You wore your vernix like a crown on a budding successor

Head held up high and then there was an almighty scream

I cut the chord and crowned the royal moment with a kiss

	The inauguration of...

Whitman Unread

.... for public domain

I fear each Winter's ascendency.
I loathe its long and formidable reign.
I yearn for Spring and Summer showers,
Autumn's chilling wind and brutal rain.

Winter's doom, lon...

Great Little England

...skinny island rump
  highway seas churning the horizon under turbulent skies
  entity England
  migration waves still grounding along the continental shelf
  monarchs, priests and lords
  relaun...

England - Gleaming In the Distance

...across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of an ice wall crunches, enfor...

Find Your Way

...Find your way
from brain stemmed
seed tree infancy
of glorious humanity
history

Find your way
From correct diverse limbic resolutions
back to shared soul temporal-health 
co-acclimating div...

I Weep For You

...The morons have no heart,
they are heartless. 
In the left side of their brain,
nothing is right.
In the right side of their brain, 
nothing is left. 
That's why they use their
stony heart to ...

The Story of Potential

...beyond our time and place a clumsy confusion of Primordials dwell
  they play with notions, forming bubbles in child-like wonder
  they meld and morph, shaping membranes which burst asunder
  fall...

Bathed In the Anguish of Golgotha

...I am a dog of Caanan. Protector of Israels settlements,
and scavenger of the deserts. Cowed in movement and
strangled with inhuman voice, I feed upon the waste
of the crowds that gather about your...

The Character of God

...Creator of Life, you are,

We extoll your creative wonders.
We stand in awe at your wisdom,
We're compelled to pause and ponder.

Almighty God, you are,

Astonishing displays of your great po...

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