Baku and a Swedish cook
...Baku and the Swedish cook
It sounds impossible, but 72 years ago, I was
a galley-boy on an old tank ship loading
oil for Iceland, a country with watery beer
Baku, I remember the long avenue, ...
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Categories:
functionaries, age, allah, allusion, america,
Form: ABC
Guiding principles
...Laws
Laws, disciplines, norms; God’s laws, man-made social laws
What’s the first, what’s the important, or more important?
Excellent this question. Priority? Hmm, there are atheists
What or ...
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Categories:
functionaries, fate, life,
Form: Free verse
The Peter Principle Ii
...The Peter Principle II
By Franklin Price
2/9/2015 (Edited 2/9/2019
The Peter Principle, alive and well
Look at the government and you can tell
A glance, once taken, at the House and Senate
Le...
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Categories:
functionaries, america, conflict, hope, political,
Form: Couplet
Attendants
...Attendants
Attendants once were happy in the ancient mansion
Made of sand and granite by the cliff
How fortuitous to be employed in these harsh times
Tending to the mundane chores and sober or...
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Categories:
functionaries, absence, abuse, age, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Kiss of Judas, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Le Baiser De Judas By T Wignesan
...Kiss of Judas, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Le Baiser de Judas by T. Wignesan
In our century where one sells father and mother
Husband his wife and wife her husband
And who doesn’t with e...
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Categories:
functionaries, jesus, judgement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue