Best Unum Poems

Youa tells me a story over the hot hibachi:
How she went to Laos
To see her lucky sisters

For the first time in two decades,
Since the country has loosened up enough
To let tourists like us in.

“Isn’t it beautiful?” she asks me,
Then says she gave her sister Mayli...

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It’s not just bricks and mortar
Nor a distant memory 
But the ground roots of our livelihood
And our future destiny. 

As this place prepares to close 
When the final bell will sound 
To mark the end of education  
 On these few acres of ground

So...

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E Pluribis and Unum Haiku

Pluribus Unum
Did look lost without the E
So what should we do?

Henry Mancini
Drove a long Lamborghini
Both made sweet music.

Did you see docile?
Guy who was an apostle
Sleeping on the job.

Let the bed bugs bite
And will stay up through the night
Trying to get tight.

Oh...

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It is a free country as long as you have money. ha! ha!...

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INTO AN ENDLESS AND SINGLE DAY

Uninterrupted torment, 
for the unfortunate ones, 
like me, 
to suffer as always, 
the craving is so strong, 
consistently, 
trying to find us an explainable excuse to submit, 
constantly giving us shakes and stress, 
continually without giving up, 
makes us sweat,...

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...inspired by 'To The President-Elect' by Joseph Brodsky


You've reached the pinnacle of fame
where double-speak's a daily game,
so many words, so little meaning,
popinjay, so skilled at preening.

Posing for a photo-op
your perfect hair a puissant crop,
your perfect smile, a frozen glare
which fools the foolish everywhere.

Demagoguery designed
to derogate...

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...inspired by 'To The President-Elect' by Joseph Brodsky


You've reached the pinnacle of fame
where double-speak's a daily game,
so many words, so little meaning,
popinjay, so skilled at preening.

Posing for a photo-op
your perfect hair a puissant crop,
your perfect smile, a frozen glare
which fools the foolish everywhere.

Demagoguery designed
to derogate...

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"50 Words for Poe: cor unum"





"cor unum"

cor ad cor loquitur 
confessio 

crescente luce 
de profundis
lux vitae lux
et lux in tenebris lucet
de nobis fabula narratur

fons vitae caritas
lux vitae lux


(LadyLabyrinth/2019)




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8k9f88gEbE




et super omnia
ad te ipso sit tru
et deo
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It’s time, by now, we did away with nations.
I tell you, hand on heart beneath the flag,
This jingo jag has now become a drag.
Those puerile patriotic palpitations
had meaning only when we lived in tribes.
Today our people mix and mingle freely –
so can’t we now dispense...

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...inspired by 'To The President-Elect' by Joseph Brodsky

You've reached the pinnacle of fame
where double-speak's the daily game,
so many words, so little meaning,
popinjay, so skilled at preening.

Posing for a photo-op
your perfect hair a puissant crop,
your perfect smile, a frozen glare
which fools the foolish everywhere.

Demagoguery designed
to derogate...

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Carrying worn suitcases packed tightly
with meager possessions, lofty dreams,
bringing hearts filled
with longings
for the familiarity of homelands
and family left behind,
they came to America.

Schowengerdt, Rabun, Mazzei,
Erickson, Keeton and Rausch.
RaGusa, Martin, Devries,
Kaplan, Renfro, Czypryzs,
Morrissey, Hartpence, Colbert,
Collier, Roth, Proia and Ward.
They came to America.

Shining through immigrant tears,
Lady Liberty’s freedom...

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...inspired by 'To The President-Elect' by Joseph Brodsky


You've reached the pinnacle of fame
where double-speak's a daily game,
so many words, so little meaning,
popinjay, so skilled at preening.

Posing for a photo-op
your perfect hair a puissant crop,
your perfect smile, a frozen glare
which fools the foolish everywhere.

Demagoguery designed
to derogate...

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The past and the future
fold into the present
Conceptually vacant
twice empty refrains
No before and no after
perpetually frozen
The ice of indenture
—this moment contains

(Dreamsleep: September, 2022)...

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Forced by angry Esau to leave home
  Jacob had no choice, so he ran
To his mother's brother in Haran

The sun set quickly that afternoon
  So Jacob set twelve stones by his head
And lay down to sleep, the ground as his bed

In the morn,...

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Unum Carmen
 
Too many good thoughts
so many bad poems
The bridge to forever
exacting its toll
Too many to count
just one to remember
As beauty releases
—redeeming the soul
 
(The New Room: June, 2023)...

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