Long Hodge Poems

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 plus seventeen carousel rides resonated
veritable pantheon of pagan rituals 
and...

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What Is Love 
   by Edmund Siejka

My parents argued frequently
So love was an elusive something 
Usually found in someone’s else’s home
In high school 
A little more sure of myself
I dated my first girlfriend
In...

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I've lived in Idaho before they turned our state sideways to resemble a gun
Seen lively conversation stop midsentence aftering catching a glimpse      Of the sun

Yeah and some may say we...

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H-E-L-P!!!     N-e-e-d     s-o-m-e      b-o-d-y!!!...
Spouse booby trapped husband!!!

Homicide courtesy munch
house zen by proxy
immediately suspected hunch
police, K9 corps, and ambulance
nearly lost their lunch crossing...

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Try mumbo jumbo chicken gumbo soup saith dumbo

Yours truly an unfortunate hostage
within Homo sapien zoo
presenting poetic hodge podge 
and mish mash to you
looking for unwitting subject(s) to woo,
and albeit impossible mission) to free me,
where within...

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Tower, buzz and scurry
Oh great resilient city
Ahoy!
Alive.  Scramble bustle earth's
 ethnicities
On lurid quests--
A pendulum of tantric turmoil and
Blessed harmony

Quixotic city--brash,
Sangfroid merotomized and
Chrematistic--metro nonpareil.

See a myriad melange of
Tortured splenetic
Souls and great spirits
Noble and soothfast

Great city,...

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While crossing Verrazano Narrows Bridge
recurring mem’ries of New York recapture 
history and civilization of the two boroughs
provide me with deep interest and emphasis.

Brooklyn in its old Dutch for “broken land,”
and Staten Island named “Staaten Eylandt”
named...

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

two plus seventeen carousel rides resonated
veritable pantheon of pagan rituals 
and quirky superstitions lit 
(akin...

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Inspired by the moving scenes in Episode 2: "Ride the White Horsey", Season 1, of "Cross" starring the inimitable Aldis Hodge. Based on the brilliant novels by James Patterson.

His Grief remains his constant companion 
By...

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Written ~ December 
two thousand seventeen
in case ye dear reader possess 
an eye extremely keen
nonetheless just by happenstance 
courtesy this human bean  
counter, who also happens 
tubby garden variety alien. 

Panoply of mystical elements...

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That day is etched in the back of my mind still
I was five yet I can still hear the screams and cries piercing in the clearing
My uncle Hodge was in the saddle on Babydoll
His best...

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Oh to be laying on a bed
Of soft feathery fern
To rest my weary head
Not much left to learn

Except to look at the ceiling
There above the world
And know that what I'm feeling
Has brought my life unfurled

Freedom...

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The academic
Chris Hedge is an active academic to the left of
Politics, who often lament that we common people know nothing about what the greedy Capitalists are up to when seeking wealth and more power treating...

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(More Pun-ishment)

The difference between a Fine and a Tax
is really easy to tell!
A Fine is a tax, for doing wrong!
A Tax is a fine, for doing well!

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade,
I once heard...

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over occupied world
bewildering hodge-podge of people
pushing stress where it ought not to be

in the slim rays of late day
in the splattered mess of guttered streets
a homeless man asks for a light
for a half burnt cigarette...

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Sadly I heard my mother Groan
                             ...

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You’re entering names into the computer,
a program called Family Tree. Burritts 
and Badgers and Shattucks. How fitting 
that I’m fixing chicken with roots
tonight for dinner. Potatoes and carrots
roasted with onion, garlic, turnips 
grown since the...

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A trickey question came up,
while some friends had a talk.
If a "fly" had no wings,
would you call him a "walk"?

Another thing that puzzled their minds!
If a turtle doesn't have a shell,
is he's considered "naked" or...

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Once I purchased a book about 
Total Recall
It might be of 
Re-cap-i–tulation
Rum-i-nation
Or glorious immigrant stories….

But I failed to reach even 
a library spot…
Too high a ladder.
Your ablution will falsify
Your ebb and flood tides
In Between, O...

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Always excited by the rising sun,
Watching as the shadows run
Every single day, I’m trying to make it through
Sometimes I’m so exhausted my face looks blue
Take my exhalation but please Lord leaves me some breath
I see...

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I see that some people
enjoy the experience
to be in a spotlight.

  It’s a strong need
  for some who long,
  await the right time
  that may generate
  another meaning,
  another...

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The early morning sunshine peeks
                              ...

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How does a well dressed man differ from a dog?
It will come to you, if you give it a chance!
Time's up -  A well dressed man wears a suit,
a dog - just "pants"!

If there's...

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YouTube and Chis Hodge 

It came as a surprise to me that Chris Hodge 
has been banned on YouTube, a man of knowledge 
worth listening to
He is an honest intellectual; as such, it is hard
not...

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There's a real old famous saying,
which has me wondering, just a bit!
"If all the world's a stage",
where does the audience sit?

One thing to me's a misnomer,
and I ain't fooling round!
Swimming, ain't no sport, my friend,
it's...

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