Depressingly Poems

Loving Yuck

...Love without
Love within
Love where I am
where I’ve been

Beginning to think:
far too much abundance 
of this foolish, loving folly, 

so I kicked my
wagging tail collie -- 

loving view~...

chinese soup

...( a college life vignette)

It’s Thursday morning, usually no one’s favorite, but this one seems sugary new, as if beamed in from a different, better universe. The clouds look fluffy and f...

Memories of Jessie

...
(A lone voice whispers)

It's early morning as I stand here in our old bedroom 

Listening to my old friends the robins, blackbirds, and thrushes 

The twitterings, tweeting and chirps of wil...

Seventy-Five Years of Seeking Peace

...For 75 years Israel has offered peace to her neighbors
   the Arab response, 'Never!' -- be Israel's leaders Likud or Labor

 From 1948 to 1967, before 'territories,' before 'occupation'
   when ...

John 3:16 Reviewed

...How can an omniscient,
not to mention
omnipotently patriarchal,
God

So love the world
that He gave us
StraightWhite Capitalist 
Lord and Master 
anthrosupremacists

So they could infest
...

A Poem To My Bpd

...This is a poem to my BPD. As much as I hate you, I need to accept you are a part of me. That is not to say my diagnosis defined who l am, more that I need to treat you with as much compassion as I po...

Steer Free and Clear By a Bajillion Miles

...Steer free and clear by a bajillion miles... 
the warning words website not secure
nearly left writer of these words piss poor.

usually linkedin with *********** websites
lest ye find yourself ...

Curious Integrity

...I find it easier
and, admittedly, more fun
to climb through tough terrain,
piles of leaves,
loose rocks,
debris,

If
and when
my goal is not to push sweaty through
by force of independently...

How Many Holidays

...How many times have I heard?

The family that prays together
stays together

And, the family that eats together
stays together

I know from personal Holiday
and every day
experience,
neith...

Company Monthly Meeting

...Every Wednesday my company has a meeting after work.
Not a drinking, carousing, laughing, eating meeting.
Rather a staid, sad, depressing, numbers are down again meeting.
It has taken on a depress...

A Diabolical Unnatural Halloween

...It was a DIABOLICAL night; trick-or-treaters as ALIEN to 2020 as anything.
No one on the street, jack-o-lanterns absent, no BLOOD curling scream.
What TRICKERY is this? Recently dug up previous sle...

Did Their Lives Matter, Part Ii

......And of course who can forget all the
black-on-black we see every day?
More people are killed by such violence
then cops could ever dare take away.
Take all the dead from the rioting
and, depr...

Land Filled With

...
Plague of lies,
froggy croaks untrue
Swarm of flies
surround Capitol dungHills
Infectious hope buzz kill:
Leftover piles of shill legislative bills
that don’t do  do right

There sho...

Meta Paradigm

...Verbal thoughts of LeftBrain polynomials
follow feelings not not RightBrain polyphonic 
when both respect our interdependent polypaths,

Because harmonic feelings,
unlike thoughts of flight or f...

The Ways Health Calls

...What is the difference
between your highest vocational aspiration
and your better health for all aspirations?

If your answer is
Nothing,
like the sound of two lungs breathing,
then your are o...

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