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The Divine Master

...The divine master is many things:
He is a monolith to which we pray;
He is the light and he is the way; 
He’s in each and every place -
Like the commandments we shan’t debase.

The divine maste...

Categories: misfires, philosophy, self,
Form: Rhyme

ALL MIXED UP

...Just suppose,
you juxtapose
date and time…
early riser,
back home
before
you’re supposed
to go. A riot,
that it seems
my brain
pauses, supposes
it knows
everything,
but the calendar glea...

Categories: misfires, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Mad Dog Milt - Return To Soup Creek

...As Mad Dog Milt wanders back into the town
Caressing his trigger, his face wears a frown
Six months in the hills but it’s time to return
And somebody somewhere is going to burn

Six months of li...

Categories: misfires, western,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Bound Together Forever

...Be my Romeo, I can be your Juliet; 
Then again, on second thought 
let’s be a fairy tale not written yet; 
Clipped by Cupid’s boomerang shot; 

Arrow directed at someone else 
clear target in p...

Categories: misfires, emotions, feelings, love, magic,
Form: Rhyme

Words Ii

...Words
Words are weapons
I sharpen each
To cut the flesh from your bone
To cleve the atom from the soul
Words
Words are hard and soft
They protect or protest 
They shape nations 
I do all the...

Categories: misfires, allegory, anger, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Free verse

Enthusiasm

...Thinking about enthusiasm, I can not stop myself from writing about two things!
Two different 'subjects'! 
Still trying to connect!


When two ladies……...
Whose husbands work with the same empl...

Categories: misfires, anger, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

The Eightieth Trimester, Part I

...Huxley was in his nineteenth year,
a freshman at a fancy school,
the kind with excesses of ivy,
who claimed they accepted no fools.

The academics were no task,
he’d always excelled with his mi...

Categories: misfires, abortion, conflict, courage, culture,
Form: Narrative

Apnea Consequences

...Segregated solitude
misfires synaptic connections,
and I meander around spectre conversations
in autistim-like nightmares,
wondering if I can learn your language.

Memories are like ice,
reducing eve...

Categories: misfires, fear, life,
Form: Free verse

Je Disparais

...I drive an appetite that never tires; 
A gaping heart engulfing all it seeks. 
I own a will that constantly misfires; 
A mind subverted by its own critiques. 
I navigate the valleys and the peaks 
Of...

Categories: misfires, life, social,
Form: Ballade

Black Muzzled Thoughts

...The forest exploded,
fauns poured out
of a blue spigot sky.
They jumped so high
they brushed against Jesús's feet.
Brown streaks of lightning,
(wide alien eyed) so steady even in terror...........

Categories: misfires, life,
Form: Free verse