Winter Society Poems

It’s winter in the year twenty-eighty-four
Hell has landed on every shore
Devilish eyes aglow as they rose to dominate
People now captive to a totalitarian state

Society is...

Read More

As I hold back tears confronting fear I wonder if people ponder,
The image of those who plunder the innocent old and younger,
Cities becoming jungles I'm...

Read More

("Turning of the Tide", 2019, original encaustic)

The End of Freedom

In the long winter nights
As everyone sleeps
Or long summer days
As everyone plays
The force of habits
Long ingrained
By...

Read More

...I think many of them forget
how precarious all this is,
civilization only works
if success is what we all give.
If the plumber does not succeed
that we’re all...

Read More

("Winter Tree", 2023, original encaustic)

Celebrating White Supremacy

As the world turns….
ever faster and more wobblier
it’s hard to go a day 
without hearing some reference to ‘White...

Read More

she awakens to
a glimpse of winter sunlight
homeless shelter...

Read More

(Family heirloom, Persian Gharajeh rug)

Coping Skills

The world is certainly not as it should be.
Maybe it’s always been that way,
But now we know 24/7.

So we each...

Read More

October is one of those months that begin to transition and change to prepare for winter.

As our days begin to shorten, this tenth month brings...

Read More

Frosty Nights, Warm Hearts: The Allure of Four Cafes in the North

The night was frigid and desolate as I stood by the window of my...

Read More

A private club was run by old Tom the cat,               ...

Read More

paralyzed in 
hellishly cold
confining space
pummeled by cruel 
icy shards 

feeling lost & unfound
waiting to get lost as
the past cries
the present sighs &
the future screams

the days...

Read More

frigid winds
slice through
forlorn survivors

vicious viruses
infect
silently

ignoble trolls
incinerate
merrily

loitering crowds
frolic
mindlessly

tis the season
for 
force-fed
forgettable 

FOLLY...

Read More

brisk wafts
ricochet off
a shimmering
blue lake
__ __
______
______

silent joy
saturates
fall day
floating
above (below) 
within (without) 
orange echoes
echoes of ordnance
)
(
)
(
~~~***>>***~~~

autumn
Utumna tumnau umnaut mnautu nautum
autuno 


------- :((~~leaf-fall (green>yellow>orange>red)~deciduous dance~ponds of red...

Read More

“IF—”
for an Immature Age

If you can damn a warm January day
  As part and parcel of a worldwide curse,
And not let the ignorance in...

Read More

buried in an
empty apartment
cluttered with 
dusty memories
whispering loss/regret

fearing & secretly 
wishing for
apocalyptic 
obliteration:
absolute
simplification

immobilized
by a frigid
gray/wet 
scowling
landscape

going nowhere
groping for hope
hoping for 
   a gentle
...

Read More