Rans Poems

We Became Who We Were Not

...First it made me curious
Then it turned to furious
That men disguised as women
Could claim they were victorious

For in our youth the teams we chose
Did not measure length of hose
Some girls w...

Family Xmas Picture Cards

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(*Glossy and costly! Family name imprinted,(as if we did not want know 
their first and last names? And surely no verse allowed!*)

(( But, I made this one up. Heh-heh!))


Sorry…we...

What We Do To Win, Part I

...I long have been a trail-runner,
and my name is Art Constantine,
sprinting peaks is a thigh-burner,
just as tiring as it seems,
I started this at seventeen.

Most people thought that I was nuts...

When Ungifted

..."A gift is different from something you buy, possessed of meaning outside its material boundaries. You never dishonor the gift." Robin Wall Kimmerer

A social gift,
a gift for compassionate verbal...

Refined White Values

...While trickling thick amber honey
in my black decoffied coffee
I wonder why I never noticed
until just ever now

How refined white sugar
has monopolized my wider full-hued view
of more nurturi...

Misnomer

...The sky was filled with starlight, 
clear as transparent glass.
Yet everyone seemed uptight -
the judges who ruled en masse,
earthly stars who shone over-bright.

A winner would be chosen tonig...

Secrets

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"Secrets"



I know something 
good about you
you were a child once, too -

without malice

gentle as the petals of a rose
sweet and pure
no...

The Great White North Can Relax Now

...The great white North can relax now,
The raptors lost their seventh game
And like the other also rans…
Go play some golf out on some greens.

They gave it all a real good try
But, Boston was th...

His Steadfast Love Endures Forever - Psalm 118: 1

...Every day is a gift from God
in His providence, He has a plan
for in His love, He seeks us out
making sure we'll not be also-rans

This is God who made all that's made
from before eternity, God...

Ran's Nets

...Rans nets, which bind and trap.
Ensnare and incapacitate all who swim in the oceans of life
I tangle thy golden skeins.
Your pearlescent webs that move in the voids between the 9 dimensions.
Your...

2020 Sight and Sounds

...Speaking With NonBully VoiceBoxes

Dissociative injustice,
like racist slurs and disinvestments,
retributive oppression
for not being SWM enough,
has ecological roots
in LeftBrain anthro/ego-c...

Opportunity

...If you’re Buttons, the Prince or the house servant Cinders’, When life closes doors it then opens up windows, and when faced with life choices only you can decide, if a Princess or Prince hides in yo...

Theories of Every Big and Little Thing

...Key CapitalistYang/CreolistYin EcoHistoric Concepts

I find a fuzzy irony in this morning’s early search for a new journal notebook, having filled my last from what had been, five years ago, an inc...

I Am Not His Property

...I wake up with a great startle.

My Obama EarthTribe CoOperative WinWin GlobalVillage Dream
was merely my hibernation.
I dreamed we share richly valued properties from healthy-wealthy African Eld...

Political Choices of Vibrant Cultures

...History publishes eco-political winners
and probably not mystery marginalized also-rans.

NeoCortex dominant pursuits 
of growing cognitive information,
knowledge and facts,
comprehension of Ea...

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