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Words from a Woman

...Mrs. Holloway polishes her poetry dimly,
Regaling herself with the accoutrements of
Selected poetry, cluttered and less jinxed
By way of satanic slamming by famished,
Idle critics who read The Ne...

Steven The Seagull

...I saw him posing on his perch
While exploring Blackpool merch.
"The Snack Thief" is how he's locally known
Wide eyed, plump and holding his own.
He loves chips, ice cream cones and bread...
So k...

MY REQUEST

...Oh God of Creation 
Direct 
My creativity and productivity 
So I can fly out of this nation 
Even with slow motion but no stagnation 
Thriving and striving globally not locally
Without any comm...

Doing absolute zero endeavors

...Doing absolute zero endeavors

Earlier today March 28th, 2025
(thee hour now fifteen minutes
after eight o'clock at night, cuz
yours truly & wife paced back
and forth from one room to the
othe...

The Gift A repost from 2020

...
                This is a repost of a poem I wrote on here in 2020

                      I dedicate this poem to the Franklin Family
          A family who serves others continuously not only l...

The language of pain

...As the morning dawns, the sounds of life emerge
As the world awakens and begins the day
The quiet darkness of night recedes and the
Noise of daily life begins its clatter
But are you really liste...

Community

...

Community, do you remember that
Our rapidly changing world, has stripped community from behind our backs

Technology connects us across the globe
But sometimes isolates us within our own mind...

The old fart alter cocker shuffle

...The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle

as one fairly long run on sentence
unwittingly made locally famous 
courtesy residents here at 
Highland Manor Apartments
as first one foot and then the oth...

Corporate America

...Gagged by the navy neck-tie crowned upon him by the last soldier, the businessman precariously waltzes the death march down into “Sam’s Greens and Grains”, a specialty salad shop that locally sources...

fear of the outside

...fear of the outside

I lifted my glass of red wine towards the lamplight
I didn't see a romantic dream, but a dirty glass
full of fat finger marks and I could not blame the barman
I should have ...

Big Tony

...Yet another funeral
Another old friend gone,
Not many of us left now
As time grinds on and on.
This was goodbye Big Tony 
Of the last five years of
My indisciplined wild life
Before I was resc...

Yuletide pageant merry go round

...Yuletide pageant merry go round

Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style 
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart 
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two ...

World of Choices

...World of choices, 
people of  different colours and choices 
poets write different perspectives for their audiences,  
Sometimes it depends on the locations of the poets. 
Someone who is writing ...

Independence , Self- Government

...Africans chose independence,
colonizers accepted their wishes
And  brought them neo-colonisation 
Which  looks like modern incarceration 
As they have limitations of rights 
Locally and internat...

Green Resilience Theory

...I've been warmly remembering
your peak solidarity experience
joyfully shared

When you suggested
in a state-wide wisdom circle
that our cooperative advocacy
might feel more robust
and become ...

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