Best Tellers Poems

Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Your lover’s drawing straws without you, better bid farewell;
he’d never time for rhyme or reason, so it’s just as well.
Slip out the curtained window quick,...

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Tiny, timid, thing
tell tales that throw time
through thought; teeth tightning trenches
these trouble tellers taunting tidbits
Thawck!
Toiling Thugs
They tinsel trash
through tonsils
Tackle them!
Trophy triumphant toddler!

1 tiny
2 timid
3 thing
4...

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The Mexican midsummer sun
beamed down mercilessly, vertically,
so that men's heads and shoulders glowed
but their faces, and every human expression,
disappeared, dark and intense in the radiant...

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The Tears of Gaia

Wash down over a silent place,
Washing clean our plastic, 
Our Empty cans, our debris,
Tears flowing gently over, 
Humanity’s darkest fruits,

A child stands...

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Chances of precipitation zero.  Chances of dew, zero.  Chances of a raindrop, one hundred percent, as she was spotted in the sky about...

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"Holy Humor"    Posted 1 Mar 2021

if you need an ark to save two of each animal      i...

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I am tired of the denial
Refusal to face the facts
Not learning from doctor’s reports
Not listening, so that we can plan
What is happening is unfolding,
All around...

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When you hear the poet speak
Raise your hand
Snap your fingers
In the old beatnik tradition

Howl for the poets
Howl for the truth-tellers
In the old beatnik tradition

Snap your...

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The party last night was amazing.
Every one must have  got the 
memo because I saw a lot of my
soup friends. Jack, Jan, Tom and...

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Fortune tellers come and go
Palms are read to say it’s so
But I don’t need some cards to know my life

I’ll love you till the day...

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4 months
4 months of I love you’s and late-night conversations
Conversations about college and dogs and anything we could think of
Conversations about how many kids we...

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Fixing holes with good intentions.


Lions and tigers,
Dolphins and earthquakes.
Liars with cider,
Have nothing to say.


Animals and insects,
Bugs for breakfast.
Mammals need sex,
So find true love and get...

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Walk the wooden deck 
of the boat I was tied and shackled to.
Feel the sun as it reaches down to
the cotton fields I have picked,...

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Ride, ride, ride thou figure from the East
In thy curse hath many a mother wept
On thy brow the furrows of distant steppes
Yield unto a steely...

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