Prescriptive Poems

Four for the Road

...Four for the Road..!!


The seeker

Is seeking a story

Bringing relief

Without dissolving

The story...



It 

All comes back

To nothing

A word

A seeming something

Whi...

Crazy NaughtiMess

...Crazy
that you can listen
to glistening gospel ministers
missing Messiah's GoodNews non-sinister
transNazarene re-sistering
whole Earth uniting salvation

Crazy
Jewish lay teacher
and EarthN...

Shed

...Not a house
Not a garage
Not a place for tools
I shouldn't be prescriptive 
Yet these have to be the rules

A chair, a lamp 
A heater
A kettle is the max
A place of peace and quiet
So that ...

Tell It Like It Is

...Subservience, domination, 
a foot on the throat,
religion taught them that, did it?

oppression, decapitation,
suffering, death through starvation,
divine ordinance they have, do they?
...

Sacred Promise

...That first black and white
grainy
strangely fluid
floating
flat screen view
of the early developing individual
inside EarthMother's womb

Reminds me
of that first
full-spectrum green and bl...

Moving On

...Moving on is what they all want to do,
But the victims can't because they are too traumatised,
Or their bodies too damaged,
Maybe even worse, with all contact in this world severed.

The parents...

Limbus Puerorum

...Most of our lives are lived
in an in-between world…
yesterday and tomorrow the bookends
to what has happened
and what is yet to come
ordering the mayhem in an artificial attempt
at unity and co...

Listen To Your Dog

...Your dog has an indispensable dispatch,
a critical communique.
Are you listening?

Your dog is howling at sirens,
		          annoying all your neighbors.
Have you noticed?

Your dog’s evolut...

Sides of Sinister Sam

...Staring into the mirror looking your self into the eyes is said to be a window to the soul. What do you really see? When you glare into the battered abyss of the emptiness of the sinking quick sand o...

Great Expectations

...A pandemic Christian evangelical error
disparagingly contrasts gospel privileged scripture,
root of all-powerful faith,
with inferior and erroneous Eastern religious traditions,

Like Buddhism
...

Egodefensive Gods

...In pursuing nature's selfish tendencies
to conspire against us,
hapless proletariats,
with growing winds
and floods
and fires
and pollution
and waste 
and death of entire species
and loss of...

Competing Cooperative Archetypes

...Everyday games we play
grow productive successes
and over consuming failures.

Every day and night
we try to reduce
RightWing dominant overproduction
LeftSoul underconsumption,
Gap growing de...

Redoubtable Pestiferous Nemesis

...Affliction with mental illness beasts sans,
     depression, panic/ anxiety
     obsessive compulsive disorder
     didst for most of my lix splitting life zap

psychological state plagued with
...

The Dark Abyss

...He found what he was looking for,
   his shadow turned inside out

He moved beyond prescriptive cure,
  all questioning and doubt

He left the future-past behind,
  silhouette of all he’d miss...

A Predicttive Text I Guess

...inscriptive
              descriptions
prescriptive
              dipictions
translated 
              transcriptions
pictorial  
              pictograms:
professed
           processes
pr...

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