Exerting Poems

Putting Someone Down

...Pressing a ball,
Will make it small.
Do not let someone fall
It is not a smart goal.
If you press a ball,
By exerting some force
The ball goes down,
We cannot make it round.
Putting someone d...

Brexit

...I hardly brew coffee alongside the metaphor of
English mornings blended with summer’s febrile breath.
But, on this occasion, I did....
It was a stifling moment on television.
The social media was...

Liberation step 2

...observe habit patterns that bind
exerting a compelling bind
from which if we wish to be free
befriend silence, with love aligned 

awareness free from our mind tree
ambles gently through life c...

FAITH IN GOD WHO ENABLES US TO WALK AFTER HIM

...April 29 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 23-25
 
Key Verse – 2Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep ...

Pronounced side effect upon my dreams

...Pronounced side effect upon my dreams...
courtesy Fluoxetine hydrochloride -
the hydrochloride salt form of fluoxetine, 
a diphenhydramine derivative 
and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor 
...

the two of us

...karmic attraction veers 
toward the inevitable and 
the unavoidable rolls out 
as it was always meant to be

like magnets exerting their pull
collide becoming inseparable
call it fate or call ...

After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race

...After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race...

Planet earth (the Mother of all)
breathed a collective
and palpable sigh of relief,
and I too deeply exhaled,
...

Bank rolled by billionaires

...Bank rolled by billionaires

No matter Tuesday, November 5, 2024
still one hundred and eight days away,
(thank you Julian Date Calendar -
FOR LEAP YEARS ONLY),
I believe a foregone conclusion
...

I saw God but now what?

...It is true
I have seen God
But not as a man,
Nor woman,
Not as some all powerful being hidden in clouds,
Nor in sacred texts embodied in the image of "religion".
No.
I have seen God and it is ...

Convalescence of Richard McGeehan

...Convalescence of Richard McGeehan

Spouse of my eldest sister
marital bond fixed in place
strong as mortise and tenon,
he hales of hearty Irish stock
genes of said septuagenarian
analogous to ...

somewhat like falling in love

...childlike spontaneity and pure intent
as innate propensity of our soul
in judging poetry contests
where focus is upon
a line of inquiry 
seeks an ethereal scent
made alive by words symb...

Blossom In Snow

...I have seen the fire blossom in snow
on the Himalayan peak
wondrous meteoric dust
rise in hymnal flames

Rode on shoulders of snowy giants
on heights untrod by human feet
bathed in mighty ener...

Women Don'T Sweat They Perspire

...After the Dominican with it's heat and humidity
This is absolute heaven on earth
Temps in the low seventies with bright sunny skies
AND NO HUMIDITY
Humidity's a killer as you all well kno...

Frequencies of Comfort

...Allow me to be an instrument
Harmonizing notes of hope
Seeping to the deepest areas of sorrow
An air of unforeseen humility
Sending frequencies of empathy

A vibrational wind of faith
To those...

Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania Circa Early 1970's

...Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania circa early 1970'S

(just in time for end of summer reading...
recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence)
intended food for thought indulgence. 

A boys' life ab...

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