Gadfly Poems

My Heartbroken Love Song

...(swap quatrain form)
"So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
 E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly


Bereft am I now that you’ve gone.
Y...

Cloistered

...
Is it a sin to stay Closed away
within the Long moment of midnight sky?
Perhaps I will dance in the last rain Of May,
No! Not I! I will not gadfly,
as is the...

The Model

...Sympatric Aphrodite,  
wide photographic opportunity
We bow to our natural needs
Her glare, to all our hopes
The actresses' deft chin, glacial
A mountain of irses
Gadfly 1970s
Where blondes an...

Exclusion

...I know the game of exclusion,
have played it all my life and
now I've mastered it,
a talent to brag about.

Exclusion from normality,
the joy of inclusion.
Exclusion from continuity,
the mala...

Salman Rushdie

...Intrepid gadfly;
the voice of dissent.
Multiple times stricken,
multiple times resolved.
Though he bleeds,
still the pen that chides never bleeds,
nor is it obliterated.
For three decades and ...

Glaring Gadfly

...There once was a gadfly daring.
His speech, it was laced with swearing
          He said too much
          which earned a punch
from the blonde whom he’d been staring....

Escape of the Bluesman's Song

...Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives 
a different walk of life...

A Political Truth

...
 A Political Truth
or 
Term Limits Will Never Happen
Tom’s Opinion
July 20, 2020

This November, from a vast assortment of people,
we’ll choose those whom we think best qualify.
Onc...

Enthusiasm

...Thinking about enthusiasm, I can not stop myself from writing about two things!
Two different 'subjects'! 
Still trying to connect!


When two ladies……...
Whose husbands work with the same empl...

Contagious Health

...Are you feeling sad,
wanting your faith community,
democratic society,
to live more...
live more deeply...
live more widely...

Faithful to wealthy health, yes,
and I wonder if you are angry,...

Is This the Best We Can Do

...in a country of  335 million people
one of the richest more educated places
on the entire planet

the largest economy, 
the best military
still for now a democratic country

is this the best ...

Let's Be Kinder

...In his essay "Let's Be Reasonable" 
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;

This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and cold...

Gadflies and Honeybees

...Where to begin
in the middle of cold and dark
winter's solstice,
healthy green life's time
of impeachment,
excommunication,
dormancy?

Where does this all rightfully
and sacredly left end?
...

The 50 Move Rule

...
"The 50 Move Rule"



Thomas Crown 
rolled his smile 
around her frown

Romance blew a warm breath
over her pristine cowrie shell
Voodoo Mojo ...

Battery For Hyundai Sonata Needed Today

...Battery (for Hyundai Sonata) Needed Today

Frugality worn by fiat generated
by alternate fickle finger of fate,
the plus side being said vehicle
parked here in public Salem's lot,
where I live ...

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