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Mutually Assured Distruction

Mutually Assured Destruction

Air-raid drills in the hallway,
air-raid shelters in the backyard,
neither would have worked.

If us and the Russians would have
gotten MAD at each other 
the Cold War would have been toast.

In 1990 with détente,
no one would get MAD
or so we thought.

Perhaps the Russians will get MAD
at the Ukranians. The Ukraine gave
up its nukes, so perhaps

Categories: mutually, war,
Form: Free verse

Mutually Assured Destruction

A box on the guardroom table
Near the door, just by the wall
An innocent looking box
Metallic,  grey, and small:
A knob or switch on the front,
Memory at times let’s me down
Meant that little gizmo really was
The most important thing in town.

Sent back to Corps Depot though 
Nobody then admitted knowing why
I enjoyed the period  of

Categories: mutually, fate, history, military, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

Strength and Humility Are Not Mutually Exclusive

“I, who am strong, must bear with you, who are weak.
I can mentor if it’s strength and wisdom you seek.”
  “I, who am weak, must bear with you, who indeed
   think highly of self and just some Scriptures heed.”


April 26, 2022
entered in the Killing with an Epigram contest
Sponsor: Margarita Lillico

Categories: mutually, self, strength, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Mutually Assured Destruction

Mutually traumatic relationships,
like co-arising declarations of war,
codependent not listening aggression,
co-nonempathic hatred,
rabidly competitive systems,
nationalistic sociopathology,
pervasively dissociative mental illness,
deliberate maladministration
for growing degenerative subclimates
of mutually assured destruction,

Take us nowhere
toward understanding
why Earth
is otherwise a life evolving
revolving
spiraling space/time planet,

Much less a therapeutic direction
to resolve why
universal positive energy
is sometimes win/win healing co-relational
recreating co-incidental regenerative events
growing resonance
and resilient holistic interdependent systems
rather than

Categories: mutually, death, health, life, love,
Form: Political Verse

Mutually Exclusive

If to err is human 
and forgive, divine;
There are many more humans
than divinity in
this world of mine.

Categories: mutually, introspection
Form: Grook

Mutually (Ex)clusive

My love.
Your words, last ones,
echo in my head today:
“I think the difference is 
you’ve made your peace with it.”

And then.
9 months later, in my dreams,
a different sentiment was
voiced from your lips:
“I feel there’s a little 
piece of me inside you.”

But love,
peace and piece, 
think and feel, 
Why must they be mutually exclusive?
It seems we cannot

Categories: mutually, introspection, love, peace, peace,
Form: Free verse

Mutually Unsupport Ly

My heart beating is alive hitherto
my lung breathing is hitherto
my eyes hitherto facing the queen
of myself thy love IS don . . .  
    — ( thank thou by blessing creator)
But, obviously in worth is degrees
of early befoul inquiry  . . . 
your wearing breasts in a practical nude

Categories: mutually, caregiving, confusion, imagination,
Form: Lyric

Mutually Un Supporting

My heart is beating yet
my lung yet breathing
my eyes yet facing the queen
of myself thy love
      — (Thou thank your creator . . . )
But, obviously in degrees
in other side
your wearing breasts in a practical nude

Categories: mutually, caregiving, confusion, family, life,
Form: Personification