Long Divider Poems

The Conditions of Living

Stark organisations of my observations
Respond to beauty with pure elation 
Instead of chronic devastation 
Process the abject consternation 
From contrived over-saturation 
And acute mass manipulation 
That should be in legal confiscation
Truth found...

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Ten slices of pure marmalade plus two years of misted Karmapa bread equals? Oh do hurry up. The sum is easy. Oh ok then try another. Twelve custard tarts divided by an in between feathered...

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Animal Chain Atrocities

No longer a bucolic photo op
bedecking a cover of Life magazine

Free grazing
pastoral images
now but bewildered enslavement

Animal commodities
factory farms and feedlots
CAFO habitats raising
sixty billion a year for dinner tables

Chickens

Hi-Tech slaughter
football fields long
alethic poor
four walled...

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A thought, a memory, flashed across my mind this morning.                         ...

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A hiding place, a warm and darkened room,
A lit doorway, bright against the dark,
Cold against the warmth, a frame for odd
Assorted stranger-forms whose faces loom

As quarrels over (what?) convulse and rend them,
Leering laughter giving in...

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Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.

Part 2

act three

in the third act delirious 
the laws of physics etc.
he coughs...

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My Name is O.M.P.H.I.LE; I own it as a badge, it is my definition and who I am.

O pen-minded
I open my mind up not to judge, to live and let live. As we all on...

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There are such countless astonishing and special applications 5 Himalayan salt bricks for divider establishment. We can make our home, eatery, or any meeting place splendid by introducing these very appealing things. 

Saltability and associate to give...

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When I was called little brother, 
I smiled.
It meant I have an elder sibling.
One from whom I could learn,
To discern,
Between Light and Dark.

What about the Grey?

Only a few would about the grey; 
Enquire.
Even fewer, 
Perhaps...

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Pointing back

From where I sit,
this crowded street of frowning faces and lying eyes
meander past the mom and pop facades with kids in tow…
tethered by their wants
and constant whining

now glaring at me as if,  
I...

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If Christ Were To Ask For Your Approval To Save Me…

If Christ were to seek your approval to save me… Would you give it?
For all of the mistakes I’ve committed,
 would you “forgive it?”

Would you...

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Driving from Florida to Atlanta,
snapped an image with my phone.
Crossing the Georgia state line,
I saw the rebel flag flying alone.

Had seen this flag before.
Used to fly with two others.
Georgia and Tennessee,
were its pole flying brothers.

Don't...

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pounding 
grinding 
drilling
sawdust
plumbing scraps
empty boxes 
strewn from 
bedroom to bathroom
and everywhere in between ...
a miner's shanty once
propped up 
on timbers with 
no firm foundation ...
that's okay
jack it up
pour a footer
it has one now
reroofed, rewired, re-plumbed
remodeled...

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Winter storm Blizzard, dangerous 
White out conditions.   An unassuming man
From Puerto Rico was driving in it, when
He and hundreds of others were forced to
Exit the interstate.  

He was glad, as he had...

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In a void and darkened land I the spirit dwell.
From the darkness of that land I caused the light to swell.
Over all the darkened world the light shone so bright.
The light I called day, the...

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A slight chill of cold darkness,
air hit me as I roamed outside,
I saw the red moon move a fence,
alike a farmer with a glowing nose,
I kept speaking and was sleepy
the hopeless empyrean was everywhere,
facing similar...

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Back in the days of the capitalist & commie regiments,
There was a structure that separated states & sentiments.
Mother Germania was divided by an expansive wall.
But someday this fence of Berlin had to fall.

Kennedy gave speeches,...

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I AM the Bread of life
The Light of the world, the gate, the Good Shepherd
Resurrection and life
The way and the truth, the true vine, I AM
That I AM
Protector, provider, I AM
Unchanging, redeemer, I AM
The alpha,...

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the single guy waiting with his groceries at the register whilst a child screams & mother whispers/growls obscenities 

after placing the divider stick
between the groceries making their way on the conveyor
towards the cashier &
his own,...

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She Felt Alone




She felt alone more than ever lately. It was a new feeling. One that wasn’t always present within her. One that she honestly, wasn’t use to at all. 
She felt alone lately. It...

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I plan my murderous ways deep within my mind.
She is ruthless and demeaning and so unkind.
Telling no-one of my prearranged scheme today,
No-one that can discuss this deed in anyway,
She is uncanny, mysteriously, skulking in house.
I...

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? 
The divider in chiefs, divider in thieves
The first in the world, thieves so bleed
The divider in chief, divider in genes
The first in the world, genes so greed 
The divider in chief, divider in terror...

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Good God Man!
What are you people thinking?
If you can’t drive that can any better then that,
You better give it to me.
It’s enough to make me want to start drinking.

Stupid Bimbo.
Your bulb isn't too bright…
Maybe if...

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Falling leaves in autumn through the air sail
The chestnuts hit the ground like a thundering hail
The willows poplars and birches sing an old tale
Of a billows and seas and kraken giant whale

The sky is clear...

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THE NUMBER FOUR

     Two plus two or two into two.
     Giving you the easiest clue,
     to get the Desired Number.   ...

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