Snow Political Verse Poems

April 16—Rain

No Rain



In 2025, the world ended
With the collapse
Of the worldwide climate system.

Monster storms of the century
devastated half the world.

But the other half of the...

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Aunt Mary was a small and wiry mother
of six;
four by birth
and two by informal adoption.

She sang in a small querulous voice
yet spoke boldly
filled with loving...

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Ageing retainer
losing hearing
and codependent consciousness
in this silent sacred season
snoring snowy wonder

A winterish hibernating memory,
Dreams of globally peaceful slumber
resolving GoldenRules 
engaging compassionately personal 
political powering plunder
and...

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As her EarthDay drum calls out
to inside outside severance

Amid EarthTribe's gathered laughter
and sorrow,
speaking
and listening,
singing
and silent witnessing,

Earth's wealth
leaks nutritional health 
gifts sharing value with every messiah
in...

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Whether LeftBrain dominant
or RightBrain feminist prominent,

Whether outty
or insy,

fast
or slow,

stop
or go,

yes
or no,

decline
or grow,

inhale
or blow,

hide
or show,

strength
or flow,

sun
or snow,

cry
or crow,

Yang's cognitive power pleasure needs
are also Yin's emotive enlightened...

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If life's sacred meaning
is found,
or perhaps never even lost, 
through active multicultural regenerativity,

I hope love's secular purpose
might find me,
and us,
through Earth-responsive recreation,

Like white patriarchal privilege
recalling
compelling...

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I am struggling
to avoid that "I told you so"
mean
and self-congratulatory voice.

I do feel under-appreciated
but I don't feel any happiness
about the Virus
as vindicator of my beliefs
about...

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I'll be turning 68 this spring
and still looking for a health-wealthy home.

This feels remarkably like a younger traveler's game,
with less capital-acquisition baggage
and toxic furniture
and uncooperative...

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Information Overload

Lost in data,
Lost in tears,

Empty words, promises,
Presented with flowers,

The Truth and the lies,
Together, hand in hand,

Information Overload,
From our waking to our sleep,

Words thrown to...

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Might help explain how fruit
full this harmless poetic brute,
(a Methacton School of hard knocks
grad), who sports astute
demeanor with ample
brew netted locks,
vaguely androgynously cute,

his trademark signature...

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I long to be the top new-green leaf
on the tallest swaying spring breeze tree
in my florid fragrant late-spring neighborhood.

Not to lord myself
as superior to all...

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Slowly, slowly,
Like melting snow,
Our humanity,
Drips away,

Fingers tapping,
Screens flashing,
Lives spent,
Chasing Paper castles,
And hollow hearts,

And for our Attention,
We claim our prize;
Gifts of Short lived
Dopamine,
Pieces of silver,
Exchanged,
For our...

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Sometimes,
not often enough,
I stop my morning routine
to watch the feeding drama breathe feathered flurries in and out,
on, 
and under,
my side-yard bird feeder

Outside my kitchen windows
over...

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She was soft and the winter snow
was out learning good deeds as we know.

Imprisonment or the dead penalty
nothing can affect the inner cruelty.

She was broken...

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We began our late winter do-over
with a dirty ceramic bowl
during a too-much snowstorm.

Well, no,
obviously that's not where this rebirth story begins
but neither is a cream-colored...

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