Long Follow suit Poems

It's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started.

After all,
we have all emerged together,
and are still emerging
people of TaoGod,
right?

Our faith includes defining our still humanizing species
as among those not capable...

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"Monsters in My Head"



the small gods
inside of us
worry too much

they speak in tongues
that never know the 
depth of what is real or not 

for tongues 
they never think
they just have a taste for blood

trading gossip...

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Pardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...

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the episode took place near the sewer
the boy lay lifeless on the stiff ground
his white clothes dipping in red
a rowdy mob encircled him
like vultures awaiting the surrender of a fighting  spirit
his horrified eyes gave...

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Beyond the mourning of bereavement no stilled tears

Today marks fifth anniversary of tragic deaths
an aching breaking heart – mine
remembers four extinguished breaths.

dashed – not while riding off
in a white horse open sleigh,
but upon learning untimely...

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Disappointment, the pure supreme king has appointed 
this failure as prince
the downfall of deception, never present
For a moment, all seemed to be a lyrical epic
a stone to float upon a bed of feathers
transformed to a...

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Beyond the mourning of bereavement

Today marks fourth anniversary of tragic deaths
an aching breaking heart – mine
remembers four extinguished breaths.

(dashed – not while riding off
in a white horse open sleigh,
but upon learning untimely demise 
regarding prosperous...

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For those who Seek China's Hand,
For those whom China seek thy sand,
For those who gladly lay with this Communist Swine,
For those who shook, danced and dine,

'We are Coming for you!'
Be you single or doth mingle,
Be...

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While walking in the misty morn of yore
One dismal dark decaying depraved day 
I was suffocating with the sounds of the dying city

Slowly coming to life with the dawning sun 
Surrounded by the sounds of...

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SAMADHI

I am the Void
                   and THE ALL
I am the pen
       ...

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Oh please for the sake (and sock e) 
of brethren deemed friendly, i be
see-ch ye with genuine humility 
to desist launching nuclear missiles. 
This American bloke put his lock, 
stock and barrel of gunmetal faith...

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This poem was too long to submit without premium membership, so I have submitted it in two parts, but it is meant to be read together. 

Part one....

They say he is clearly psychotic, if knowing...

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Within the year crusades began, 
led by the noblest of the land. 
Hugh Vermandois was first to arrive, 
with an huge army at his command. 

Godfrey and Baldwin arrived next, 
as well as Robert of...

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THIS WAS WRITTEN FOR THE FIRST BURNING BUSH
A DEMONIC DEMOCRACY

“We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to present the President”……
And yet he just keeps talking
No verbiage can he espouse that I would ever care to hear
While all...

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A DEMONIC DEMOCRACY

“We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to present the President”……
And yet he just keeps talking
No verbiage can he espouse that I would ever care to hear
While all I see is smoke and a lot...

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What if our minds were like spider webs,   
Spreading to the invisible realm?  
Beyond the brain seems blissfully insane
Like a transcendental spell.  

While science is keen to explain our dreams 
And...

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A DEMONIC DEMOCRACY

“We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to present the President”……
And yet he just keeps talking
No verbiage can he espouse that I would ever care to hear
While all I see is smoke and a lot...

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HOW I WISH THEY KNOW
My dearest neighbour woke up early that morning
Unusually or perhaps usually unusually to me angry
Pushing through his window
In order to make way through unto the land
I drew nearer not by choice...

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(dashed off upon learning untimely demise 
regarding prosperous family, whose small 
plane crashed. about half dozen years ago, 
they lived ~ three doors down from us.) 

No words can assuage the deep sorrow,
this once upon...

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An open curtain gave sight to all the lived behind the curtain on stage
     Mostly racks of clothes, a few hats, and belts too laid on the ground
At this sight my...

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summer before freshman year
stargazing from the muddy banks
of a class celebratory bonfire
across the roaring river

multiple guitar melodies
competing with the sounds
of joyous screaming and laughter
as well as the usual night life

ever the outsider
all alone in the...

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Most of the people I see on facebook must be living double lives
Most of what I see is filled with deceit and lies
Some I know outside of facebook in the public eye 
From their lips...

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I could not refrain from asking what it was that made her sigh
When each picture that she started she took down. I wondered why.
The young lady was forthcoming; said her thoughts were fresh and bright
Every...

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Repast for June 13th, 2020...
(and countless provender
scores of years gone by)...
to partake larding refrigerator cupboards
think respectable food vendor.

Courtesy Montgomery County
(Pennsylvania) Assistance Office in general
and Electronic Benefit Transfer
(EBT) card in particular.

Yes, I (a mere tenderloin) reckonize
a...

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In this world, we claim to know but we only teach what others show. For what we've learned has been taught by man so how could we possibly know the bigger plan? They give us...

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