Short Unproved Poems

If your heart
stops
Does consciousness
die
What life
connected
Can
death untie
Forever
a concept
As still
unproved
No one
to comment
Who’s left
—the room

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023) 
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Intelligence
a number …
never a word

The writer 
a halfwit
till viscerally heard

Tomato
tomatto 
the pudding unproved

Empirical
nonsense
— the spirit unmoved

(Dreamsleep: January, 2024)
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Boros Trump? Donald Johnson? I'm confused!
Which is which, hair's similar, philosophy's unproved
Is this a new trend?
How will it end?
Will these ducktators join forces, it leaves me bemused...

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What is the difference 
  between a fact and the truth

One limited in time,
  the other free and unproved

Language and formula,
  the great deceivers abound

As the light burns inside us
  —our hearts to impound

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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Ol’ Suzy


Remember ol’ Suzy Jackson?
That girl was a boat load of fun.
Kissing behind the shed,
till our faces were red,
and we knew we had found the one.

I thought I’d lost her when she moved;
leaving my love for her unproved.
But, I found her again;
and I asked for her hand.
Now my lonely heart has been soothed.


for the Whisper Sweet Nothings contest.  11/17/2017...

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They circled her with flowers 
They prodded her with knives
Because of unproved powers
Jealousy of their wives
Judged by every man
For doing nothing wrong
Stories tell the tale
Of every witches song
Children voiced the threat
A verbal open lie
The accused hadn’t a chance
Confess and simply die
Crushed and stoned 
And sometimes burned
No proof for punishment
No lesson learned
A hopeless sad life
Their names carved in Stone
Ashes swept away 
Where once hair and bone...

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