Excesses Poems

THE TRAIN OF DECLINE

...A twilight full of bitterness,
A dull and gloomy existence,
A deadly routine on the highway to nothingness.
The dictatorship of time has bound my lamentations,
Condemned to follow the hands of my...

You Get What You Pay For

...It’s a truism that you get what you pay for
Or vote for or ultimately what you deserve…
But when we pay illegal immigrants
To stay in five star hotels with pre-paid debit cards
And the homeless t...

Normalcy

...A return to Normalcy
As night comes, all are at ease 
We return to slumber 
In the electric comfort 
Of artificiality that is our lives 
We revel in the false sense of our own 
Modern convenien...

Speed Limits

...They pose with the austere stares of
Loving, friendly ghosts —tall, gaunt and lissome,
With big, rounded head.
Draped in weathered robes of care,
They are the only guardian spirits we see.
They ...

Purpose?

...Why Poetry? she muses, sat in front
of paper, staring blankly, lifelessly
at her image.—		and really…, who is she
to ask the page—in a manner so blunt—

to shoulder her excesses? such a stunt
s...

Waste In The Fire

...Trimming fat
off his soul
he searched
for the bone

With every 
new slicing
his consciousness
honed

All waste in
the fire
to sizzle
and fry

Excesses
like smoke
rise forgotten 
— i...

The Sledgehammer - in Trumps own words

...
Folks ask why
I chose Elon as my guy,
Smart and tough
Knows how to fight even when rough,
Let him loose
To put woke projects in the noose,
Cause a stir
For progressives to deter,
Stop the r...

Pre-Jul

...Pre- Juul time 

The trees on the avenida have fairy lights
wrapped around their trunk
in the evening when the avenida is full of
slow-moving cars, people wanting to go
home from their offices ...

Wildflower

...
Quite by chance
I saw a single, small, white wildflower
amid a crush of grass and weeds 
along the roadside, its presence crowded out 
by seed heads and space hungry leaves 
of species honed f...

Sappho Translations V

...Sappho Translations V by Michael R. Burch


Sappho, fragment 23
translation by Michael R. Burch

I long helplessly for love.
Gazing into your eyes not even Hermione compares.
Who is your equa...

Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome

...I walk o u t...

I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture betwee...

Pay It Forward

...
Pay It Forward
Miracle Man
9/18/2024

Most days many scan their menu choices,
trying to decide on which choice of meat.
But across the world comes starving voices,
not opting for cho...

back to black

...“How does it feel, studying for your first exam of the semester?” My sister Annick dug at me, via Facetime.
“Oh, I’m miserable and no one even knows!” I exclaimed excitedly.

I already miss summer...

who is a winner

...Winners and losers


Perhaps Alexander Duggan is right
that winning is everything, thing whatever the cost
I think losing gives a time for reflection
not for bitterness
winning is by itself a ...

Lost Love

...Lost Love 

(A lone voice whispers)

Once lost
In love's asylum 

Overcome by guilt 

As I sat serving unseen emotional titans

In every second, 
Sat in silence 

Feeling numb and 
Bri...

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