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Red-Bearded Origin

...Whenever I spot
red-bearded Origin,
the destitute street musician
of Budapest who asks for a donation, 
not making a protest with a grin;  
don't be amazed if I'm the first 
to drop coins in hi...

Categories: unhoused, anxiety, blue, emotions, fear,
Form: Lyric

New Year’s Old Wishes

...So many live life as a masquerade 
With guarded heart and masking face
It’s not until we lose or gain in faith
That we are pruned to grow by grace

As the year ends we regret deaths
Thinking of...

Categories: unhoused, america, house, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

The Blooming Block

...Sitting on the block of the day
Looking into amethyst abyss 
No longer seen as hunter or prey
Disenfranchised like blue cold kiss

Watching the animals fight their wars
Knowing some win some lo...

Categories: unhoused, america, blue, boy, girl,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Love is Unfamiliar

...You bend me, twist me, break me
In unfamiliar ways
All pleasure no pain
You soft as petal, you light as a feather
Unhoused me
You have my body, my flesh and bones
I must now build a home in you...

Categories: unhoused, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse

The Senior City Center

...When I entered the City Senior Center
with my Open Mic proposal
to increase resilience
and decrease apartheid dissonance

I could hear no music,
see no dancing.

The quilting room
and the ga...

Categories: unhoused, age, america, community, education,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

A Shamed City

...Our mayor and city council know what to do
The county supervisors and talk show hosts too

Budget measure HHH we Angelinos passed
Costing billions, homelessness would end at last

There were 57...

Categories: unhoused, political, poverty,
Form: Rhyme

Disabling Corporate Culture

...Dynamically spiraling fractions
of potentially integral energy
win/win cooperative
and win/lose disruptive

Against peaceful eight octaves
of eight
is one hundred per day
full-octave spectral...

Categories: unhoused, culture, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Blackest Fragile Friday

...Black Friday,
iconic of Climate Fragility,
is designed to transition retail
from red
to black
end of year balance sheets.

Black Friday
is black
good
wealthy
robust
from a competitive cor...

Categories: unhoused, earth, god, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

CareFueling Charges

...I was charged with a misdemeanor,
based on witnesses
who imagined they heard me saying I was leaving
without a note,
even though I knew
I dinged a new red truck's door.

I know they saw my opp...

Categories: unhoused, angel, depression, health, mental
Form: Free verse

Stone of St Croix Island

...Carefree in leisure time, one blasé tourist, 
almost happy, I once had collected a complicated stone;
after the sunny hours had ended and last opportunity
for keepsakes began.

In my hand the stone h...

Categories: unhoused, africa, dream, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse

A Mandrake's Gesture Vol. Iv

...Yes, there were certain
majesties, which
in all regards are 
to be expected.
For upon the engagements
of husband and wife,
Prince and Princess,
to marry, there is 
an exaltation, thought
the...

Categories: unhoused, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Epic