History Warning Poems

It started in three thousand BC
When for survival, warning sounds were key
These utility communications
Building sender-receiver relations

Secular signs, religious ritual
The use of bells became habitual
Calling to...

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How hard would it be to stage a coup
And change the regime in Russia today?
It seems like a relatively easy thing to do
Make Putin for...

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Eisenhower’s Warning

The brightest grad students from M.I.T.
atomic physicists with soaring ambition
were hired by the armament industry
to design bombs with doomsday precision

China’s top students with noble...

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This SoothSayer's Warning – July 24th, 2021

Dire prognostications 
(terrestrial inhabitants blithely heeded)
with contemporary age
fortune tellers foretell day of (w)reckoning,

sans total mortal kombat annihilation
when human (and...

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See my blog Address of Poetry:New Vistas, going up now, about the hard days that lead to the write of this truly moving poem. ...

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Over half our country believes the bleep,
As web of tyranny over us creeps.
Cloaked as being fairness for the masses;
Freedom fleeting as each edict passes.

Right of...

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Like cyclops (with one eye), like octopus (arms that encompass),
the wound of lost elm limb (a bull’s eye to witness home playground),
stares down what would...

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Dire prognostications 
(terrestrial inhabitants blithely heeded)
with contemporary age
fortune tellers foretell day of (w)reckoning,
sans total mortal kombat annihilation

when human (and many) other innocent species
(stalwart cockroach adept...

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DEEP-FREEZE ALASKA

corpses in a row
hung on meat hooks in the morgue
until Summer’s thaw

8/30/2017

Hopefully, they don't do this anymore! :0...

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I never knew a love before


Of you my proudest moments stand
For only I can see
This life was once a jumbled mess
Much more than it should...

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Closer now
closer than we’ve ever been
as tyrannies anthem
drive us all insane

Closer now
closer to the grand genocidal of our history
this screaming civilian
barters a blood transfusion for...

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Surly you have put   
                your word to...

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A warm Sunday morning in December
on the fringe of the tenants of freedom.
The sky was ablaze with the colors
that God had painted there.

Small birds of...

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The gathering storm rattled snakelike over distant hills,
Heads of dust and debris thrown as charcoal relief
To the vast expanse of the sky;
In the drought of...

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