Short Lumped Poems

I will not be dismissed as a dunce,
lumped together by Gallup or Luntz.
I will get out and vote
without need to emote
and defy every pollster for once....

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Ravaged fast-food bags thrown by the way
French fries lumped or scattered
Bits of bread and ketchup, maybe a pickle.

The paper will blow
Or some good soul will pick it up
But the fragments of food fill the bellies 
And clog the arteries of the innocents.

The city birds feast....

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when you read a poem
consider the probability
that what seem to be chopped off phrases
and shreds of dangling sentences
are actually jagged blocks and slabs
of porous prose lumped and crammed 
in a page in a manner that's ...


           ...  not entirely


                    ... unintentional....

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On specific night, the moon shows part a story
With sliced light's slant on key rock,
By at odd interests' solarity—

The cold rock fires back
Through lumped scars mixed in as minerals;
From behind, dark side's show, light lack.

Haunted angles
Sun spangled
Rankled

On specific night, the moon shows part a story
Through lumped scars mixed in as minerals,
Rankled.
...

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If there would be no more,
could I say I did my best,
or would I be lumped together
on a pile with all the rest?

Do I make a difference,
or do I always fall short,
how will I be judged
in life's Final Court?

I can change right now,
I will obey His command;
I can be a loving example
throughout His entire land.

My life will never be wasted,
the beginning is starting to show;
by example - I can thank Thee
for showing me the way to go....

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