Best Dogmas Poems

These chains of deceit that bind me to this hardwood seat. 
I bend and break the bars that confine, but they remain, like the haughty,...

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War if fought by those who have firm ideas
By those who are inflexible
Those who have never lived on the streets

We stand up to set the...

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While fingers on her right hand tickle the ivory
And a finger on her left hand keeps place in a book
Her mind wanders off to some...

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Different seasons
In different nations,
Different flavors
By different colors;

Different races
In different places,
Different tongues
And different songs;

But we are living
In only one world,
And we are speaking
The very same word.

Different...

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THE POET’S SESTINA

The poet put the pen to his head and killed himself;
 he shot the leftovers of an ideal in a second of no-thought.
...

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Fire burning bright how we take you for granted without a revelation of what you are.
Before the phrase was uttered you were there to start...

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I'm filled with wonder and dismay.
Is life real, a dream, illusion?
A construct, maybe, I could say,
who'd author such confusion?

If me, I dread what might portend;...

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Today we do not honor hamburgers or franks
Today we offer thanks
For those who died or were maimed
To fight against evil or whatever it's named
To fight...

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You can’t pin me down
I will slip away from your fingers
For I am a free thinker.
Ideas, I accumulate
My imagination is flamed
By my tots untamed.
You can’t...

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To faith communities
and fraternities,
brotherhoods
and sisterhoods
and sororities,
local non-profits
and friendly neighborhoods,
mediators
and counselors,
cooperative associations,
trauma-informed learning theorists
and practitioners for resilient
mind/body peace,

Do not deceive yourselves.
Continuing to gaze and daze 
on...

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When Richard Feynman was asked if he believed in UFOs, extra-
terrestrial life, this was his response:
"I believe in the law of probability.  The Milky...

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Tyrants of the Ruling Sun

Let the universe swallow my slaving soul
As the sorrows surround the sinking shoal
The light lingers before it falls on my face
Edacious...

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All of us,
or nearly all,
have had both spiritual experience
and some religious teaching,
sometimes from prophetic pulpit ScriptureSpeakers
and sometimes through more maternal StoryTellers,
and all immersed in prodigal...

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The Radical Religious

Like chickens they sit on a roost in the dark
With their toes holding tight to the perch
They feel safe in the night ‘gainst...

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On the grounds of Kongo dya Ntotila
Monte Kibango saw you born
O fearless daughter that quiet talks
Nganga Marinda of Mwana Kongo´s clan
In “Antonianism“ your belief was...

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