Friday, November 8, 2024

Children in cages is

Children in cages is
Such a “glorious thing”
Christianity’s Christ
This would not make him king

If you cannot help them
Better to do no harm
Humanity, mothers
Fathers, sound the alarm

It is not one but none

It is not one but none
Medusa’s head of snakes
Miracle mirages
At war with such high stakes 

If we follow fables
What else will we believe
Surrendering power
To someone who can weave

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Peace is not standing stll

Peace is not standing still
It is not in one place
It moves after resolve
Critical thinking grace

Scoop the clouds from the sky
South Ferry, Central Park
Joy is exuberance 
Bursts of light in the dark

Flooded with drowning words

Flooded with drowning words
Our sentences broken
Not worth saving them our
Thoughts have changed since spoken

Vanishing epithet
Disappearing ink scroll
No longer on highways
Where we have to pay toll

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Out of the populace

Out of the populace
A confluence forming
Marked with the obvious
Of a darkness storming

Is there an audience
Apparently that’s so
And how far is too far
Will anyone say no

Saturday, November 2, 2024

The near naked trees stand

The near naked trees stand
Across the flatter west
As evergreens ever
Brooches on autumn’s best

Water towers looking
Like spaceships have landed
The road stretching onwards
White dashed and gold banded

Friday, November 1, 2024

Breaking my own heart with

Breaking my own heart with
Puzzles missing pieces
Nighttime skies with lost stars
Never signing leases

Concentrating on moon
And our feelings of here
Forgiving the future
Before it grows more near