Looked For(A) Poems

Grey zone reports

...I have not looked for a while.? Yet its out there... 
Somewhere.? I must find time..Before it fades
Thats time i mean.' Elusive to catch despite all
 Our wiles.'
...

The Blood of the Lamb

...I came in from the fields to take a bath.
Taking off my worn clothes I stared aghast.
They were so stained and filthy, torn and worn
That I looked for a way to get new clothes.
Sadly, I was poor ...

Laughing

...I didn't really laugh
I could have, though.
At who?
At myself?
At her?
At the irony of it all?

She always left an imprint on me.
Always gave me a new way of thinking
And left afterward.

...

God Bless You!

...God Bless You!

Finished shift at eleven o’clock in the night
and go to the underground station, the train flying
to the next stop, changed the line here, at Baker Street
Get on the first carria...

Everytime I Think Of You

...


I followed the path
That lead away
Some unforgotten words
They constantly replay
In my mind the stratosphere 
Further on
Lie the divine
I looked for a sign
Standing to my feet
Rece...

SUBLIME JOURNEY

...
beyond mortal grave
along divine hope
my spirit awaits
firmament great sight---
faith's journey sublime.

trust-propped vantage
focused on God*
propels my heart
toward blest vie...

Park Bench Sage

...I sat next to an old geezer on a park bench
He looked at me, said "I can see you're a mensch"
Let me tell you what I've learned in the past 80 years.
"Oh no", thought I, but his words flew like sp...

The Way

...
I've looked for a way in,
a tear in the silence
that walls whatever is behind
be it nothingness or being,
bright mornings that almost 
tip into the ecstatic, a blessed
oblivion where boundari...

After the Party, I Woke up on a Tropical Island

...
It being a holiday, with friends, I went to chill out
In a gregarious company, partying was sheer fun
After a heavy booze, my first-time experience, 
I fell flat, plunging into deep ...

Smile

...I've looked for a gift to bring you, 
but nothing seems enough. 
Can flowers be painted; 
can the sun be made brighter? 
Can rivers flow faster, 
or stars be whiter?
Words have become my enemy,...

no bombs here

...No bombs here

I walked ashore in Nagasaki 
traces of the bomb had gone
the dead buried
the maimed packed away 
no one wanted to talk about
the bomb
Nagasaki had many shops 
I bought a kimon...

Has he Found a New Country Yet

...Edwin the explorer bunny trotted along on a daily quest
Whispers said, “he is different than the others, quite unlike the rest.”
Handsome though, many a fair bunny maiden had to allow.
“I can see ...

The Space Around Me

...Come and open the space around me and set my spirit free; come and open the space around and let me breathe some dignity; courage has a cookbook and wisdom has the recipe to make the headline for the...

Trolls Want To Share a Wife

...Three old trolls looked for a wife.
One to keep the rest of their life.
They decided they wanted to share one.
A woman who can cook said the troll who was fun.
A woman who was jolly and fine said...

Being Black Is a Race

...Being Black is a race. 
A race against time
A race from the police 
A race from racism
A race from ourselves
A race from poverty, drugs and abuse
A race within our race against our own kind, to...

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