War Question Is Poems

I ask myself a rhetorical question regarding...
the durability, longevity, and tenacity of *****sapiens,
after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity.

How did the human species...

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Why do you always look at me
With that question in your eyes
The one that always wonders
How come you never try

Why can’t you just go exercise
Your...

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Is it  a myth that History repeats?
This universal question that time deletes

Is the evidence clear that it occurs?
Through eons and eons it strangely recurs

Is...

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It is hard to believe sometimes,
That we all have a God,
When the whole world is at war,
Where is God's iron rod?

God observes and teaches us,
If...

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A New World Question

Now —
It must be asked— seriously —
How despised is hatred?  
Hating hatred?

Who?  When?  Where?  How?
What…to do about that?...

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A walk around the block in my parents’ neighborhood at dawn
wearing mom’s sweater and pop's sneakers with a clown hole cut out for  
...

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So what do you want to be 
You want to represent your own culture
Give me a break 
Your culture has a patent 
For 
“Those who...

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but this government MANDATE 
from Harris County is unnecessary, 
unconstitutional, and unAmerican. 

It’s an unprecedented overreach 
which looks more like a communist dictatorship 
than a...

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marched to drum beat
frightened soldiers obeyed
were they ever guilty?...

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The Question

The shadows deepened and the night approached;
As she called to him once more.
Her dim eyes searched the empty space;
There behind the door,

Her wrinkled hand...

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We are surreptitiously taught

Insidious ways

By a system that is twisted, flawed and that's lost its way

We are taught to respect it without thought or question

So...

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Is this it?
The reason why we are here?

Is this it?
This cost seems so dear

Is this it?
Now the music falls silent

Is this it?
Vivid pictures of loved...

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Allegiances, they pledge; my side, theirs
My trust, unconditional
Acceptance preceding perfection
Their appreciation shown, their truth unknown.
With them, are my woes no more
Unrestrained is my voice, in...

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In the name of what god
In the name of what religion 
Can we shed blood?
Can we allow segregation?

How can we call a war holy?
How can...

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More Beautiful With Age?

Do men grow more beautiful ageing?
It may not be fair but seems true,
Some process that’s secretly working
To bring a man’s heart into...

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