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Not My Battle

(“Splendid Isolation Merit Badge”, 2010, original oil)

Not My Battle

It’s not my battle
Not my hill to die on
Or claim as king.

I’d rather just sit peacefully
On some lonely mountain
Enjoying the sounds of silence.

Sure I can see the dust rise
And hear occasional horns blow
Of the little battles raging far below.

But it’s not my battle
Nor hill to die on,
At

Categories: social commentary, peace, perspective, political, society,
Form: Free verse

Pandora’s Box

(“Pandora’s Box”, 2014, original pen and ink and oil)

Pandora’s Box

I don’t know who she was,
What she did or how she did it,
And maybe as the first it was sublime
Or maybe she was just another woman 
With the kind of perfect snatch 
To launch a thousand ships
On a sea of broken hearts,
But Pandora certainly left her

Categories: social commentary, corruption, culture, mythology, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Ideology

Everyone believes the news
Until it's all disproved
In some dramatic fashion
When the headlines cash in

Everyone tells their family
Their family tells their friends
It doesn't matter what direction
The story comes to in the end

Forge a brand new enemy
Force hatred upon me
Exterminate the likes
We won't have better lives

"Truth" born out of rumors
Rumors borne with fantasy
Taken by the big names
Taken

Categories: social commentary, political, sad,
Form: Rhyme

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The Bee Poem

Did you know there are more than 20,000 known species of bees, but only 5 percent are social bees? Only 5 percent allow you to get to know them. They’re minding their business, building their nests, and you interrupt their day to tell them, “You’re not like other bees,” because to you that’s such a

Categories: social commentary, allegory, extended metaphor, gender,
Form: Free verse

The Law of Averages

In my humble experience I’ve found
The average individual is smarter
Than the average group
But the average group is stronger
Than the average individual
And so the group will always get its way
But the individual can usually figure out
How to stay free

(3/28/24)

Categories: social commentary, inspiration, perspective, society,
Form: Narrative

Perpetual Quandries of Dischord

Perpetual Quandries of Dischord

Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder
A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border
A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder
The incriminating evidence on an old tape recorder 

Elements of discontent shivering through a crowd 
Firmaments of promises sent confirming love out loud
Innocents in recompense versus the indiscriminately Proud 
Poetic precipitation forming among the thunder clouds

Hallowed ground to

Categories: social commentary, international,
Form: Rhyme

Welcome To My 'Merican Life Life

Welcome to my Snowflake life
Where I know what's right is right
Children belong with their parents
Not in cages with ICE agents

Welcome to my Libtard life
Where I know whats right is right
If they lived here since childhood
Then here's their home, their "Neighborhood"

Welcome to my human life
Where I know what's right is right
You may feel we owe nothing
I

Categories: social commentary, community, patriotic, political,
Form: Rhyme

The Letter

The Letter

I sent a letter to 
Lady Karma 
And that Blind  
Lady Justice . . . 

Hopefully they 
Will wake the "F" up 
And do their appointed jobs.

I wrote this letter
With my sharpened quill
Of consciousness,
Compassion,
Empathy,
And need

The ink was a special mixture
Of tears,
And of blood

I expressed the pain
We as a humanity
Are collectively suffering
By the hands

Categories: social commentary, analogy, introspection, judgement, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

A Social Commentary

I just heard that Donald Trump

Is making Pink Floyd pay for the wall 

They're the ones that built it 

Seems only fair after all

Categories: social commentary, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse

Save the Past-Social Commentary

you see, he grabs what he can get
that bearded fellow in the sky
because its the future and we forget
for what once people gave their life

everyone seems to forget
the bible was a book of philosophy
changed in the past for illiterate peasants
but it still carries the same meaning along
remember the cruisades? 

i see those who hold their

Categories: social commentary, angst, natural disasters, religion,
Form: Free verse