Long Panhandler Poems

Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality

Countdown to homelessness – 
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register 
pyrrhic victory won.

10…9…8…3..2..1… 
Found me linkedin at the end of...

Read More

Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous groundhog
gets his (most often male)
foretelling...

Read More

I CAN’T BREATHE

I am being suffocated by causes.
Will we march Quixote-like
enraged by the spinning of the windmills?
We protest the wars carrying placards
while expecting others to carry arms,
praise God and worship Jesus while
condemning all others to...

Read More

Alms Za Try'n To Reach Out As Legatee Wannabe

Yukon pots sib bully challah me Jude
dish hiss literary panhandler schlepping
along virtual figurative boulevard Asia
brogue kin bloke rattling tin cup aware
how quickly passersby dodge away as
if I...

Read More

Trusted (non Trumpeting) Flora And Fauna Emerge Out...
Of Hibernation To Rejoice Arrival Of Spring 2019

Accordingly, other than
meteorologists plenti schooled
ascertaining onset of temperate air
more particularly otter den non humans
unassumingly (ferreted out), who bear
the tidings, when that...

Read More

Chorus x 2
It’s okay if my ego wears jacket
it’s nice if my resume plays drums
I’m endowed, dazzling and full
so let the world know my hands are a major part
of those holding  it.

1. A personality...

Read More

Whereas if it is meant to be 
Can we see God's Holy face
 is it in his pleasantry die
It reaches far from beyond
 mileage bigger than the sun 
And how do we know the righteousness...

Read More

February second - requires one
with acute hearing to cock, and ear
turnips tickling the nose nostrils
delicate hairs (instagram ideal outlook) subtly,
markedly, lively..., yet gently flair
soon harkening shrieks

of delightful analogous funfair
no stranger to Renaissance Faire
of pitch perfect...

Read More

Small fortune already spent
to maintain 2009 Hyundai Sonata
(pray cuz I love genii, or even mirthful
teletubby heaven sent)
compromising financial means to pay rent,

telecommunications service provider (Verizon),
electric company (PECO), sparking pent
up rage against the machine money meant
to...

Read More

The Good Samaritan

Man born of woman is born of a few days and full of trouble;
Many people have good and bad inside them
Do you honor them that spitefully use and abuse you always
Do you go...

Read More

What are you doing with your life;
Do you find a moment, to just reach out;
Have you smile at a someone;
Not flirting but being reasonable in agape love....

Tell the world
Tell the world
Tell all and anyone about
Jesus

Take...

Read More

I wouldn't be scant. Its codfish lies to pull ferociously all up in its cube. The forks stomped the ponies. Why did your 
goodness lift our leaf? What do ideas ride like? You sound like...

Read More

Isn't it curious how we cling so fast to fantasy
preferring fiction over reality
people more likely to recall the smallest details
of the last few films they saw
or even one from decades ago than to be aware...

Read More

I imagine little house on the prairie
(bordering Lake Woebegone),
a place to hang cloak
most bucolic, edenic, idyllic...
apropos place for this poetic cowpoke,

who at present day trumpets
himself as token panhandler
of Perkiomen Valley, a
genteel, gentile, and gentle
Semite with...

Read More

She's just a mall goth skank in Courtney Love's flesh. Digital jail bait. Open wound scissor sisters. The cure is deep inside. Divinity embedded within skeletal matter, salvation within my hands. Lobo Cristo devoured his...

Read More

a lone man just shaking his head
Constantly stumbling
His mental status;
Causes disclaimers;
Some say he’s got dementia;
Needless to say;
To say the least;
He’s often found on the streets;
Walking and talking;
Shaking his head
Constantly stumbling

Some say he’s a vagabond;
Some say...

Read More

"Loneliness has never earned a day's pay.
     What I've learned, first of all, is that loneliness chooses it's own weapons.  It 
hasno distinguishing marks, and comes in no colors at...

Read More

We had new neighbors move in next door
Something strange about the clothes they wore
All tattered and they never looked clean
Yet at night they were both fashion queens

We’d see them leave for work each AM
In their...

Read More

Intoxication is being drunk if only for a little while
Intoxication can become a bad habit with a crooked smile
Being high and drunk all alone really makes no sense
Being homeless, a panhandler and a drunk can...

Read More

I knew a panhandler with a pocked face,
a poor man; he was in a hurting place.
Living in shadows, he hid in plain sight
and begged for change on the streets each night.

He'd often share what little...

Read More

Black plastic jellyfish float on the breeze,
detritus of homeless, drunk as you please.
Reminders of illness, and other things lost,
price of a forty the true smallest cost.
Gathered at feedings, the city’s unknown,
backpacks aloft, they migrate and...

Read More

Someone on the subway’s playing a butt tuba,
whoever this boob is, his flagellant notes stink.
And when some, borrow or rob, panhandler gets off,
I fine-tune my radar and sit next to the door.

I switch to my...

Read More

Misery gazed through beer-stained blur,
Despair in faded jeans;
enslaved by his habit, his outstretched claw
beseeched me donate to his cause.

A ghost begged another ride on his addiction.
His wretchedness reached out and slapped me lonely;
the squalid secrets...

Read More

I once saw this man 
Who was panhandling
His apparent was gay 
Though when you look closer upon him
His clothing was better than yours
He held a sign crying out ...
out of work, homeless and hungry
Yet he...

Read More

I was walking to the bus stop
those city streets get crowded
people from all walks of life
and some just barely walking

confronted by a panhandler
asked me for a dollar....
reached deep into my pocket
said here,it's all i've got
the...

Read More