Best Mandate Poems

Cherokee Tears

ceremonial drums' rhythmic heartbeat
impassioned tribal chants
echo in Smoky Mountain mist before dawn

tortured spirit of an ignoble president
Andrew Jackson seems imprisoned here
haunted by wailing ghosts...

Read more of this work...

Must money make man mad?
Money makes man mad
Meanwhile, man made money
Must millions make man mad?

Massive money many mention
Mighty materials, man’s main mandate
Making many mentally magnetic
Mean...

Read more of this work...

For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its...

Read more of this work...

The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it...

Read more of this work...

To an unmet friend:


You see the mortal world
and for you man is machine,
little more than a device
for the vagaries of evolution.
Faith is illusion, hope lacks
weight--...

Read more of this work...

Law began by living,
locomotion meeting the rails of electric rainfall,
Consequence coursing through interconnected crossbeams
making all form fruit of the first & final recipe,
one great statute...

Read more of this work...

The Capitalist


It was dark out
winds from the north
branches swaying over granite graves
The night seemed ominous

Poem will resume after this ad

	Have been thinking about a funeral...

Read more of this work...

Last evening I noticed another disconcerting Trump headline.
This felt and smelled more like a deadline
for disintegration
than a lifeline,
a bootstrap, if you will,
toward integrity of health...

Read more of this work...

Have you seen changing of colours?
World shifting thoughts without insight
Mellifluous tones making way for cacophony
Drums buried beneath shambles,
And people returning to the jungle,
Craving roots and...

Read more of this work...

One suspects a matagouri temperament
Upon first glimpsing that weathered face.
Wrinkles extending like braided rivers
Life of tussles and toils, to demonstrate.

No stranger to heat or an...

Read more of this work...

If hard evidence is wanted that we New Englanders 
		have roots running deep in our rock strewn 
soil, look no further than our old cemeteries,...

Read more of this work...

Happy Birthday, United States!
This did not happen, just by fate.

We won the Revolutionary War,
Signed the Declaration of Independence,
and more.

No longer citizens of Great Britain,
Nor under...

Read more of this work...

I challenged you, and you finally took the bait.
This was a battle that I had to instigate.
But, you only came when I gave you a...

Read more of this work...

Children are seized at the border,
their parents led away in cuffs.
Under Presidential order
ICE morphed into a gang of toughs.

The United States has no shame
they sold...

Read more of this work...

Oh, the chills I get when he turns his presidential back!
On the thousands left to die in Afghanistan, what a sorry hack.

Reminds me of creeps...

Read more of this work...