Fides Poems

Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She

...Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She...,
a septuagenarian renown for his trademark prank
to steal himself into a neighboring house,
and prepare an elaborate meal
unsuspectedly nab...

Cum virtus invenit Amor et Fides

...Although I could count the petals of a flower
the tree of my great faith doesn't cease from sight
like a seed of hope always seems to foster,
the echoing call that wants a praying answer in the ni...

Mirrored Reflections

...
  The calmer
     the more confident
  The more strident
     the more insecure

  The more natural the laugh
     the less the self-importance
  The harder the stare
     the less of him w...

Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika

...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?

Hobbit those characters who lived 
within the realm 
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...

My Queen

...Prada, you are my queen 
In my heart you always dwell 
You don't need crown to be golden 
You're more precious than any gem 

Your smile is full of brilliance 
You rob the sun of its radiance 
...

Fides

...(Goddess of Faith) 

F-ire of my faith
I-ron of my will 
D-estiny of my fate 
E-mber of my glow 
S-oul of my spirit

October 6, 2022, 3:46 AM

For my daughter FIDES, 
my primary inspiratio...

Fides

...She first saw the light in the year of the dragon,
In a blissful morning in the month of the lion, 
Water cleansed her soul in the same year of faith, 
The angels up above have foretold her fate.
...

Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika

...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?

Hobbit those characters who lived 
within the realm 
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...

His Bona Fides Unstained

...Mr. John Kerry is not to blame
As he prattles on about climate change --

   "Much more important!" he warns, "than Ukraine"
    Thus keeping his woke bona fides unstained --

          Forgett...

Taste, Middling Mediocre

...Words that do not speak to me
       Fine poetry may very well be

     My taste, middling mediocre
       No literary bona fides
     ~ This wild card's a joker...

Sleepy Popcorn

...I couldn’t sleep. I was lying in bed watching the patterns reflected moonlight made on my ceiling when I heard the faint beep of the kitchen microwave. I smelled popcorn.

I decided to fill up my w...

I That Expose Heaving Breast To Harrowing Night

...I That Expose Heaving Breast To Harrowing Night
 (BORN FROM NIGHT BATTLES IN YOUTH FIERCELY FOUGHT)


I that expose heaving breast to harrowing night
Daring to curse fate, defying its awesome mi...

Silent Butler

...In the house where I was born
We tied our laces in the dark
Then shuffled down the stairs without a lamp.
We breathed a foggy whisper
On a window webbed with frost
And we swore, and we swore,
A...

Heads Wins Again

...“In God We Trust”
the dollar we must

Two-headed coin,
minted unjust

“Fides in Deum,”
our fortunes to blame

The past purloined
—the future inflamed 

(The New Room: March, 2021)...

'goodwill' Hunting

...Does it make you sad too that Republicans say
That no man is my 'brother' who won't make me right, (1) 
That diversities' bona fides died.
Parties punish a member who won't smoke their 'joint, '
...

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