Mentor Prose Poems

One day when life was full of peace

My mentor said something to tease
Who are you? Why are you here?
What is your life's purpose, my dear?
Are...

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I unconditionally love the eutony heard by
my soul when I hear certain words.
zing, zip, zeal, zest, zealot, zipper, and z,
are particular favorites, for several sing-songy...

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Yes Dada! I realize I am nothing but I live in ignorance.
I need Thy grace.
I need God's Grace to be liberated from this ignorance.
Without you...

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My job was to set up ten mentors for my children at my school. I set up sixteen.
The training was after school yesterday and thirteen...

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We all have one in our lives, someone better than you,
not much to be done about it, in shades of blue,
where did he get the...

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He walked into my office, business in hand,
In denim baggy overalls, a plaid shirt, white painters cap, 
and grandpa's old white leather orthopedic shoes.
If I...

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Scenes of life keep on changing,
Tend to keep us wondering,
Darts of flesh make us faltering,
Keep in touch with God praying,
Propelled by spirit to go on...

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Nigerians aren't happy people...But we enjoy everyday 

Not because it's easy but Our fate is accepted 
Yet, we grow to change that... 
  ...

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I suppose,
as a pretentiously self-uberespecting Wise Elder,
I should be alpha-embarrassed to admit
my youngest son,
unable to speak or even sign,
unable to even successfully chew and swallow...

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You did not choose to be born,
much less Black Lives Really Should Equally Matter born
into this legacy,
your familial and civil Two-Connecticuts destiny.

I realize that,
And regret...

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(continued from, "From Laetitia to Euphoria An Epistle Warning against Melancholia: Part I)

Melancholia’s third and final principle is the dissemination of nihilism, the philosophy that...

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When I was a new seminarian
I had a favorite parish priest mentor
who told me the best way to die
is while having an orgasm.

I wasn't sure...

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They said that over the years I've killed ten people, and 
they said that with conviction as if it was a fact
I think in secrecy...

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We might expect LeftBrain deduced beliefs and monoculturing values
to develop a discontinuously co-arising energy and information base,
becoming  dualistically dysfunctional,
degenerative
of Earth's limiting fossil-fuel declining energy,
and...

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He's a bit off
That one
Writes poetry
Observes the passing throng
Passing judgment
On what's wrong
Pushing virtue
And venture
And all that out-dated stuff.
Isn't Wikipedia good enough?
He told a friend
Sleep gets...

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The Baton, A Letter to my Children
Curtis Johnson

Dear Pam, Curt, and Jem,
My father, your grandfather, died when I was 13 years of age.
Pam, when I...

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How can you say
with your not quite straight face
that you neither know nor care
anything of God, or gods, or even exotic goddesses?

That's like saying you...

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The host-guest relationship is more or less sacred all over the world.  (Gregory Bateson, Sacred Unity)

Except among terrorists, where host and guest are reversed...

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When you hear justice
do you also listen for responsive mercy?
Or are you more likely to feel merciless revenge
against uncivilized behavior
swelling vibrant adrenaline 
baptizing your self-righteous...

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Good Humors Create Healers

Humorless weaponed officials
applying laws
to challenged and challenging
unarmed natures,
is like expecting a rabid rattlesnake
to advocate with and for patience,
understanding through merciful listening,
to apply...

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