Long Segment Poems

I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried not to retract, 
but after so many tears 
I have...

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Sun and traffic - day economy.
Six a.m. drive to plywood mill. Too tired
to be angry. Each day a step
toward death. What is being accomplished? The
small satisfactions
within each day. Book consciously read.
And frustrations. Package dropped, honey...

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Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard...

since being a student in grade, junior and high school
analogous to geometry proof how lack of use proves
quite aware that finger muscles atrophied
veering off on a tangent...

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I reflect upon a word -
   Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times -
 those times when I believed all I was taught
from...

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”



The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Acts

(Part 3)

Avian Notes...

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Welcome, Soupers, to our special segment today. We have a very unique guest with us - a cherub! Yes, you heard that right. Please give a warm welcome to our celestial friend, Calvin.


Calvin, thank you...

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While daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022

How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would be hard pressed
to differentiate one moment
from the next without the...

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Gott, oh mächtig, Trump iz on the warpath again!

Glad for birth write to express views
aware cunning linguists 
will apply figurative screws  
in an effort at blatant mud slinging ruse
exercised courtesy mail in ballots, 
or...

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#A Nod To My MOTHER Who LOVED Her BLACKEYE PEAS. "So Do I", If Cooked GOOD..."YES PLEASE!" A GREAT "B" LETTER FOOD...
BROCCOLI 
BOK CHOY 
BERRIES 
BEETS (THESE ARE THE TYPE OF "BEATS" I LIKE...SAID A...

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She has been dreaming of the day when her Bo will come home and stay, her Bo has been out at sea since the “thirteen century”, he fought on the pirate’s boat and gorge out...

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Hello Mr. Half Circle.  Welcome to our show.
I know that you are more comfortable hosting
interviews than being the person interviewed.
But let's get right into our show, because there
are some very interesting things going on...

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New Years Day 2017
A New Year, a New Start
St. Francis Hospital

Blocked from my memory is a segment of time. (a few days) I retain only angelic sounds from six songs, running not in succession but...

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I didn't want to offer him my life but discovered it was not mine to give
When he entered my world my heart beat to the rhythm it chose to live
My muse was awakened from many...

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“Make America Great Again (MAGA)”

Make America Great Again (MAGA)
Where shall we begin 
MAGA has a negative connotation
Greatness has never been in this nation 

A segment of the population focused on gaslighting us
Expecting the minority races...

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St Francis Hospital
New Years Day 2017
A New Year, a New Start

Blocked from my memory is a segment of time. (a few days) I retain only angelic sounds from six songs, running not in succession but...

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Mama, mama ...
I got a triangular problem
And I need you
to give me the square deal truth
Straight honest for real, lying foolproof — 
it’s a rectangle of a mess
I’m trapezoid in a love box,
never thought it...

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~ Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~ 
 (1900- 1980 )
( Blood Quill )



Lovely lady she shine
She persevered through life
Wrote thousands verses of  Love, Faith, Hope
Ambassador Sunshine
Daughter, sister and wife
She fought hard all thru her...

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Hydration day’s a month away.
Online belonging company’s an hour from 
startup stardom. Titration hors-d'oeuvre 
Viewfinder pigeonholed 
to rooftop tourist 
traps ruin’d carriage holy woods 
Hollywood's margins, Carousel 13. 
Things You’ll Bury: 
molasses sourdough flowers crypto-
currency...

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~ Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~ 
 (1900- 1980 )
( Blood Quill )


Lovely lady she shine
She persevered through life
Wrote thousands verses of Faith, Love, Hope
Ambassador Sunshine
Daughter, sister, writer, wife
She fought hard all thru her life...

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~Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~
(1900-1981 
(Monchielle) 


Lovely lady, she shines 
Ambass'dor of Sunshine 
Daughter, sister and wife 
Upliftin' poems she wrote 
She persevered through strife 

Lovely lady, she shines 
She's famous poetess 
Wrote verses of...

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Gott Oh Mighty,Trump iz on the Warpath!

Das Don Auld (can hard tank
tucker son of Carl, and leave
landscape barren) calling out
rigged ken tuckered hoarfrost race,
viz demolition derby presaging

death to White Anglo Saxon
democracy DOMS (delayed
onset muscle soreness)
minions...

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"In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value and the boundaries of the...

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I just want to take you back to that small frail girl,
The girl who sat in the shadows, in the corner of her room,
The girl who’d,
Never dare to cry,
Always wondered why,
Often wished to die.
The girl...

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It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of tearing down Confederate statues, spitting on the legacy of Christopher Columbus, and even declaring the national anthem a poem of oppression would have been regarded as...

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It is very impressive to go westward
in an early morning of midwinter,
because you will see a full moon 
that you have forgotten for a while
in the middle of the western sky.

[The westward moon is, perhaps,...

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