Long Wendell Poems

Let me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,

A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.

A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival motives
are absent,
so self-thrival motives
remain pick your pocket rampant.

An intellectual prostitute
to...

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The ship came like a flying horse, at an inexact time
Our brother-sailor, from the Pantheon of Poets, was on board
Jean Pierre Basilic Dantor Frankétienne D’argent
Who wrote, in haste, the last act
Happened to be miraculously on...

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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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Every January first of the new year...

finds me (a doggone muttering Homo sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previous three hundred
and sixty five days in...

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Then Comes the Lady in Blue


(“...But to the sound of his passing/he sings.  It is a kind of triumph/that he grieves— thinking of the white lilacs in bloom, profuse, fragrant, white in excess of...

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Organic
zero-waste stream 
permaculturally designed
and cooperatively owned
farms
are no more or less Democratic-Boutique ecopolitics

Than AgriBusiness
extractive anti-ecological 
rather than restorative-ecosystemic therapy,
competitively owned
and Business as Usual capitalist-colonizing designed
multinational conglomerates of anthro-hubris greed,
are no more or less Totalitarian Universal Supremacist...

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I am reading Wendell Berry stories
again,
still,
today.

And notice
over these past several weeks
he unfolds two bipolar themes.

Berry is,
was,
a cooperative Southern neighborhood farmer
of organic hospitality.
His protagonists grow on multigenerational farms
as Berry grows into writing while farming,
thereby farming readers
co-investing...

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Alaskan wilderness, a beautiful sight, holds grave danger when you go it alone.
It was freezing cold one night when Frank’s unwanted adventure began. 
He had left early that Sunday morn, before an unexpected blizzard moved...

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The Journey:

This journey has many obstacles, and bumps along the way.
Many prayers to God above we often have to say. 
Our minds lead us in some directions that are not true, 
But God is always...

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The Journey:

This journey has many obstacles, and bumps along the way.
Many prayers to God above we often have to say. 
Our minds lead us in some directions that are not true, 
But God is always...

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What would be the point, in this first winter snow, of going
back to several of the women whose bodies I have known
and wondering what they thought about all these intervening
years. Inevitably it is their children,...

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Burdened For America 



The light becomes dim, and we bow our head to pray,
We need you God – to lead us through our day. 
So much despair, and worry on every hand.
What has happened to...

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A Mama’s Love.

Words can’t tell the love a Mother gives, 
How precious and compassionate the life in which she lives.

She sweeps her children close and protects them with her love,
And prays for God to hear...

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I.

I’ve lost my sense of silence…

I’ve lost my self
So now I hate everything
I want nothing to do with anything
Does this make you sad?

It makes me sad, sure,
And even as I curse even that sadness
I cant...

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My confusion comes from too much doing. During the news
eating cheese and crackers, drinking wine, thinking the world
needs me.

Or the falling leaves, the days shorter but so much brighter.
How the cloud cover of the canopy...

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You were born into this world for me
And for all who live that would believe
You appeared among all your creation
So from our sin you might set us free

Never have you ever charged a penny
For the...

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Wendell just getting off work,
And was headed home 
by way of his favorite place to chill,
a lively place called
Pharaoh’s bar & grill.
With the hope of winning,
his retirement one day,
Wendell stepped into 
bucks shoeshine parlor 
to...

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Oh Lord my God, the beauty
Of your word is the strength
Of my spirit

Your golden word is the radiance
Of my joyful heart

You have left me breathless,
Sweeping my heart away,
Whom shall I love in my life
But you...

Whom...

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Christmas fun.

Teddy bears, and stockings – candy and some treats,
The kids look forward –to all the good eats. 
The pretty Christmas tree and the lights strung 
Had to make sure all the stockings were hung.

The...

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Coltrane with Giant Steps coming downstairs, feeling A Love Supreme after two weeks
King going up the mountain and dreaming as he speaks 
Miles said, So What... Kind of Blue
Malcolm, By Any Means Necessary, sees it...

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The Star.


In the sky over Bethlehem a star once shined so bright,
To announce the birth of Jesus with its wondrous light.
The wise men came with wonder and precious gifts,
To honor the new born baby and...

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Little I ask, my wants are few,
I only wish a roof and home -
a simple one this man will do
   that I may call my own.
To within its walls live and age
with a...

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Angels are among us – in many different forms, 
The flowers in the garden or a rose among the thorns.
We may never know where they are watching from, 
But they are there from dawn to...

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Being Kind. 

Being kind is the right thing to do, 
It will always make its way back to you.
In a world where there is so much hate, 
We should make kindness a way to communicate.

On...

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Precious Time.


This truly is a precious time that we all seem to share, 
Being with friends and family that we all love and care. 
Our homes filled with decorations of color and of green, 
Such...

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