The Queen of Cancel Culture
...Give me all your Bibles and
Prayerbooks, at once.
Americans of all in unison
cried, who is this dunce?
Only the Queen of Cancel Culture.
To this citizen, a heinous and
destroyer of the US Con...
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Categories:
quadrillions, america, conflict, feelings, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
The Universe
...The human spirit was made for this place
Distance greater than quadrillions of miles
Yet we reach to the stars with open hand -
Think of them as neighbors with eager smiles
We find our peace in...
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Categories:
quadrillions, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Portfolio--Touch Heaven
...Today I travel through light years to the edge of the universe. I will go past swirling gas giants posing their beauty with colors of red, yellow, orange, blue, and green shifting from one expression...
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Categories:
quadrillions, fun,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Lonely Angler
...He was there in the beginning
and through the eternal ending.
He'd scattered his seed 'cross numerous worlds.
They flourished.
They perished.
Flora, fauna, innumerable forms,
aeons of evoluti...
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Categories:
quadrillions, endurance, fishing, humanity, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's Lament
...One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.
'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats wor...
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Categories:
quadrillions, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet
Ancient Light
...A story inscribed in the constellations
of the punctate canopy of night
Perseus astride the winged Pegasus
Hurtling to save his fair maid Andromeda
from the beastly Cetus the seasick sea-serpent...
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Categories:
quadrillions, imagination, space, stars,
Form: Free verse