Tallies Poems

Without Regrets What Have I Left

...The end of days is a term
Dark enough
To make men squirm
And real enough
In a way
To make one consider
His final day…
Without regrets…who’s to say

And doing so I must look back

On what I...

Prisoner of Poetry - Mar 22

...My bars the words, the prison guard my verse,
Rattling the staves of this poetic cell,
I struggle vainly, locked up in this jail. 
Yea, thus is my predicament, my curse.

Oh, how jealously, you ...

The Serling Zones

...There are many zones
the popular Twilight Zone
crossing the school zone
with all the basics
like writhing and reeling and
arrhythmias are fatal

for Western students
cluelessness,...

The Evolution of Want

...Listen up, 'cause I'm about to break it down
From caveman to spaceman, desires abound
Security, survival, that's where it begins
Food, water, shelter, protection from our sins

But we ain't stop...

Art As Activism II

...*Henry Ford developed plastic from soybeans for cars. It degrades! 



Art As Activism II

Imagine no longer the sounds of seagulls squawking                       
or splashing through...

A Time to Reflect

...Quite far we have traversed, in pursuit of goals we chose,
Through troubles and trepidations of seasons in throes;
Sometimes reveling sunshine, sometime in glum of shadows,
Always together~ on bar...

Gun Addicts Despair

...Gun addicts sad and looking glum
                       No lives were lost to guns today -
                       No tallies to add to their sums,
                       No reaper swaths with live...

Capsule in a Caravan

...A shored life
awakes the old
patience is a virtue

a wondrous light
a way for the world
one way passage

yielding trifles
abundant returns
nameless faceless

novelties in scro...

Narrow Margin

...First printouts show Number One's, ahead,
a feigned smile fades to a small office,
two arms outstretched hold a desk instead,
one ponders deeply surprising spread,
one knew the field ...

The Funeral Urn

...“we look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay 
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we know
yet come what may, our inner child continue...

naturally protective reflex

...
   Mayonnaise in my mouth; 
it was turkey—the first Pollack 
I saw. His fault that the splatter 
looked like a forgotten egg on the side. 

  Walking toward the waste 
basket, I threw up in i...

Why Are We Here

...Written: August 09, 2023,                     Why Are We Here Poetry Contest
                               Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
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Anything Goes -- 2020 Election Version

...(Updated in such form that Cole Porter would sue)
 
[Intro]

Times have changed
And we've often rewound the clock
Since Nixon got the shock 
When he crashed on Daley’s bloc
If today
Any shoc...

Victoria Visit

...Truths, as though fairy tales, I have heard so miscellany,
That her flora and fauna reveal true theophany;
Rolling and spinning lowlands with hill-like granite blessings,
Moss misty magnificently ...

C a T and the Sphinx

...***  C A T and the SPHINX***

Cat is on the prowl
Without taking a step!
Proud fellow, often unseen,
Gracefully gliding by.

He feels he knows it all —
At least all that is necessary to know ...

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