Best Skeptically Poems

The congregation eyed him skeptically
     Long hair, a beard and sandals on his feet
Beyond his exterior they’d not see
  ...

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February 13 Scripture Meditations Based on Joshua 1-5

Key Verse – Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be...

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The scorpion and the turtle? Have you heard this story?
They are mortal enemies in natures scheme of things it can be gory’
Anyway this is a...

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I was skeptically listening 
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;

An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby...

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For “EARTH HOUR” we pledged  without words rearranging,
Let us try and attempt to stop things from changing
Am doing my bit as promised to myself...

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With jaundiced eye I look at the politician’s vow
To make our world a better place in four years,
Cure all our ills, and provide calm for...

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Squalidness—Squabbling squeamishly;
Scrutinizing stigmatized scandalization, substantially scarce
Sprightliness...skeptically surrendering
Shamefully—Scolded sardonically;
Snarling splenetically, severing sensibility, scowlingly simmering
Strenuously...sought survival
Sparring—Sinister sisters;
Seductively swiveling soreness, sarcastically snared, swirling
Storms...sporadically striking
Slowly—Sacrificing stories;
Scorching slanderous subversiveness, suffering...

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Awakening near the new dawn full of joy, 
[this inexplicable sense of happiness] 
feeling that all is well within my soul when 
gladness, like soothing...

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I was at a friend's pool after school.
She loaned me this impossibly tiny bathing suit
I looked at it skeptically but I didn’t ask whose it...

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I want to apologize for my burden of wrong
To your ears where my penitence does belong
I lingered in vain, the gray swiftly took hold
Now my...

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This agonizing pain I feel, seems to have placed itself permanently in my life.
Such Anguish, Indestructible distress; somewhat like a wife petrified for her life,...

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Popular Mozart melodies are playing on a low loop.
Five people tense as a clinic nurse
calls us in or leaves us hanging.

I know the drill,
she’ll lead...

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What secrets does the winter know,
Would it tell me if it could?
Fairy tales of frost and snow--
Of icicles and leafless wood.
And would I dare believe...

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we walked  three miles in the country  
in the dark 
down the lonely roads 
and past the deep swamp
too far away from home...

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Blown beyond simple comprehension;
Finding hidden whirling tasks,
Reaction reeling to unwind.
Sucking wind from vacuum.

Bouncing ideas off rejection;
Landing in unmade puddles.
Impressions one would steal.
Cold hard metal facts.

Looking...

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