Star Poverty Poems

Superhero strobe lighthouse helm hexagonal 
        Sixty degree angle glass captain bridge
      ...

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I know you don’t know Gikomba, Gikosh
It’s where we go to shop
For everything second hand and camera
Shirts, purses, suits, girlfriends, even senators
You must get there...

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The ground is hard 
from last night's snow
all creation has frozen, 
slick ice from a day of infernal sun

Twilight has bled away to pitch-black onyx...

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Shadows stretch out across this lost highway. 
Cool winds dance dying leaves as the sunsets cast.

At the edge of sky, hues of gold and Crimson...

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It was always for the dyeing.
See the amazing 
two headed asexual 
gang of socialite housewives 
revealed on prime time
for their anti-social media 
love for handguns...

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Truth exists; only lies are invented,
There is heaven but I couldn't find the stairway,
I found myself in hell,
So I walked as if I own the...

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Beloved
You know we are beyond imagination
for are you not!

Right hand and left
we hold together all possibilities.

Teach us how to be human,
teach us to be humble
yet...

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In London Town, a girl was born
Who lost the crown, but won the scorn 
Of Lady Margaret's deep disdain
For something proud, she cannot reign

Her daughter's...

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Africa my continent
I remember you today as always
The cradle of civilization
The land of great and revered warriors

Endowed extravagantly with all God’s natural resources
Africa my continent
The...

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There is a lovely fellow;
a joyous sight to see.
A personality that’s quite mellow;
he swims space easily.

He travels many light years;
dancing in and out through time.
His...

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My friend, Ennaytsch, has said, ‘Basic, is Fear…’
The fear of poverty’s a noose,
That tightens more, the more you try
To pull it loose!
The fear of criticism...

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Don't fool yourselves. 
Trump didn't divide us
any more than Obama united us.
The divisions were already there.
A hopeless societal and political sedimentation
That took well over two...

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Hands
Stretched out like branches
Reaching for the kiss of sun
An army of hands, brown hands
Stretched out at me
Shrivelled weak hands
Looking for their daily bread. 

Hands
With nobody...

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Star light star bright
first star I see tonight
I wish I may I wish I might
Find a place that has a  room

Now I lay me...

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You have to remember
that some members of a team
have star status,
they're
not like us
they don't lose out,
we
are the fractured
supposedly inured
to loss and pain.

It's the same over...

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