Long Unbent Poems

  Another Cruel Link in their Chain 

1.   Beginnings

Her babe was her joy, such a beautiful boy,
	and he suckled her breast till the end.
The slaver sought cash, bestowed mammy a thrash,
	sold her...

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I feel like a high school civics class dropout.

So much confuses me,
to this day, you see,
about democratic constitutional legal equity,
which feels like it should have WinWin original empowerment intent,
about public and private rights, unbent
protected against...

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It is a fever.

  
The poet

They found the poet outside the park

His steps spoke many words of wine

His upper half seemed half asleep

And his feet walked a crooked line

His arms were spread as if...

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Sun setting over the dark green fringe of a shivering lake on the last day of winter
An old man still unbent sits on a deserted wooden bench
   with the load of his cares...

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In '48, a state was born, 
But for Palestine, a time to mourn. 
Nakba came, with lands displaced, 
A people scattered, dreams erased.
In '67, the war did rage, 
West Bank, Gaza, a new stage. 
Occupied...

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Bruce

A lumbering man, 
audibly achily, stepped to the
floor’s center.
Had there been a spotlight, he’d’a shone.

His arms unfurled.
His hips spun.
His soles, silent
as he padded here,
then twisted to place a foot there.

A phoenix swooped, festooned in fire’s...

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(A lone voice whispers)


As we stroll this Long Walk together
On Boxing Day

Someone's prayer reached out through the Ether and asked me

Hey
Are we all silently walking in a spiritual sense

Do some like me walk blindly...

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Dragon Slayer! Dragon Slayer! Just say it isn’t so! Just Look at that cutesy face! 
Behind the scary teeth, fire, and smoke… Choke…Ah… he’s gentle to embrace!
Moody, sulky, get even-ish, is truly he. But to...

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It's 5:30 AM, sky bruised and quiet,
And he’s there at my feet, my loyal companion,
Eyes bright, no judgment, just need.
Out we go, one steady step, then another,
Field sprawled wide, we chase the edges of dawn.

Back...

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blue planet water
blue sky just scattered sunbeams
dusk's red, unbent light


Brian Johnston
July 28,2014

Poet's Notes: 
Isn't it great? Three wonders of nature explained in 17 words. It is so much fun 
sharing my love of Physics with...

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Israel:

Yo, I’m Israel, the land of the brave,
From ancient times, my roots engrave.
A homeland promised, a dream fulfilled,
In '48, my state was willed.
I built my cities, made deserts bloom,
A beacon of hope, in the region’s...

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Men cannot be trusted
emotionless and hardened,
They tend to be aggressive
Then thoughtlessly are pardoned.

Promiscuously driven 
With ego swelling large, 
They're loud, endowed and over proud
And in your life they'll barge!

They see vastly different
They see a girl-...

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In the garden of the heart, where roses bloom,Your beauty awakens like dawn’s soft perfume.Each petal whispers a tale so sincere,A song of love only we can hear.
We are one, entwined in nature’s grand design,Held...

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"All of us are on a journey and the answers are unspoken" Quote by _Constance La France 


The song I usually sing is one of self-love,
What I wish you'll believe, akin a moon above.
My hands...

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It was dark. So dark you could barely see,
And I was there, under the sky, and I was so free.
It was a moonless night,
And the wind blew with fierce might.
The flickering diamonds illuminated the sky,
I...

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In the fascinating life journey of a couple 
When clouds darken in their midst all of a sudden
With murky grey shades in their relation purple
Many a storms begin to twirl their souls ‘n burden.

Clouds of...

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When you sort decades of electric cables from that box hidden away

It reminds of disentangling neurons haphazardly fired at random

	It’s a beautiful day and you’re in it among sea saw and hammer


Hundreds of screws in...

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Do I know who I am? Who am I?
In the space in this place at the
Clearing? What am I am some of
Us after THEY decided everything 
In their favor! NEW WORLD ORDER!
NOW we survive for...

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The Almanac and the Bible
By: Tom Wright
1/18/02

Upon a shelf, two books, of black and green,
the almanac appeared most freshly laid.
It's cover divulged the service it had seen,
It's yellowish pages being dog eared and frayed.

By the...

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Hoping everyday there will be a vicissitude in your thinking.
Irritation and repose.
Waiting.
For a text, a call, reticence.
White space on paper.
Empty.
I drank your wine.
I reveled in your game.
Laid nude and bent over your couch while you...

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I will not bow, nor bend, nor break,  
For I have fire no storm can take.  
My voice, though quiet, will rise and roar,  
A wave that crashes on every shore. ...

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I am not the meat you supposed I am, so you have began
Believing your own lies, and now will starve as punishment
Nothing pure can comply with your greed, each strand
Of hunger is ready to tell...

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This poem may get into trouble,
The world wants identity double.
Attempting to culture commonality,
The world champions individuality.

Theft of language has become all too common,
Yesterday’s use today identifies one a strawman.
Definitions change, words take on other meaning,
Often...

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so many smiles have pierced my passions
speared by dazzling white
so much dear flesh resolved to warm me
midst those moonlight nights
for ne’er should once I take for granted
dreams that madness might …
but I have been a...

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I feel like everyone expects me to smile,
to be the one making their day bright;
but here I am with these rocks in a pile,
skipping stones just trying to find some light.

I can never seem to...

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