War Elegy Poems

Born December 5, 1961,
blonde cherubic, lips of rose buds,
eyes of the bluest baby innocence.
Remember the 1960's brother,
Massapequa proud, Long Island.
Our Cedar Street,
lined once with what...

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Death of Morale 


True, I do practice the act of introversion quite a bit,
But why should I be blamed? To what am I to admit

When...

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God in the gloaming,
splits the violet horizon with lightning.
An assembly of angels of every nation and
tongue,
they're lifting coffins of great numbers of
war dead-
both military and...

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To dwell in past of fate,
where sorrow and pain predominantly coexist as fortune of bitterness.
To leap on is to beg death for his sting 
To...

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Hear them pray for the last time,
their leather boots no protection still.
Listen to the church bell chime.
Hear the men ordering to kill.

Turn off the radio.
Stop...

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for abunic sheriff – a friend who battled sickle cell.

yesterday the bones in my friend’s body wrote me a note of grief saying that they...

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A sane man once was I,
A sane man once was I.
But 'tis a shell
Now bound for hell
When sooner shall I die.

An echo still rings on,
An...

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They grew up side by side two kids in a park
Playing together until the streetlights lightened the dark
Growing as school friends and team mates in...

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The world is broken,
So Am I,
Bleeding grief ,
Through cracks of Mosaic.
It wasn't aliens,
Who plunged the sword,
Scouring the substrates,
To excavate their rewards ,
The were my own,
Love...

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 Rebirth atop the mountain tops I am
Seething the crops of my faith
I am banished from the garden
Amidst the open meadows of grace
Nighty darkness firefly...

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THE BLACK TUESDAY
(Tribute to the Victims of the EndSARS Lekki Tollgate Massacre in Lagos, Nigeria; Tuesday, October 20, 2020)

Dark is the night,
Darker the soul,
Fathomless depths,
Stories...

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M. Obama whined to the world about white flight
(Caucasians fleeing urban areas as minorities move in).
Implying a racist slight against P.O.C communities...
but why would any...

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There goes the water where we find all the fish
There goes the earth where we grow all the food
There goes an ideological wish
Another tenet of...

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World War II vet, aged one hundred,
once risked his life for his mother land.
His country in a Covid war,
he once again lent them a hand.

Once...

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