Category: My Poetry
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By The Grace Of God
THE NEXT CONCESSION Bring me double whiskeys And sparkling, ice-cold beer All night long Till they carry me out In a sodden heap. I will leave, not with my shield, But on it. With Spartan bravado We marched in and down the stairs To an Aladdin’s cave of unearthly delights, Thinking our years gave us…
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Rent-Free
Living Rent-Free They seem to think my condition is fragile. Blessed with a constant state Of atrial fibrillation, My heart, a naughty, misbehaving child Is throwing a continuous tantrum That justifies my continued care In the cardiac ward. Fine with me. Four walls Three meals a day And all the time in the world To…
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Laugh Out Loud
Laugh Out Loud Words declared with such sincerity Prompted an urgent need in me To laugh out loud. I had to cover my mouth And suppress that first reaction For the sake of propriety. It was not my place To interrupt a solemn occasion That did not allow for quips Or any sign of frivolity.…
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Mathew 6:24
Mathew 6:24 Give no thought for the morrow. Place your faith in me And all will be well. Words of comfort, For if the morrow’s promise is More of the same, Then better not to dwell overlong On such dreariness And give it no thought. This is the voice of one in despair Who can…
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Appomattox
Appomattox Like Lee and Grant at Appomattox Our meeting was cordial. It was hard to tell Who was Grant and who was Lee, But it was agreed to leave weapons at the door. It was not as I expected. Formality scented the air. Protocol dictated our moves As we kept a cautious distance, Circling the…
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Master Of None
Jack-Of-All-Trades I’ve explored the surface of many things, Touched upon their prominent peaks But failed to dig deeply into any of them. I’ve danced like a skipping stone On the surface of a vast ocean Of knowledge, The proverbial jack-of-all-trades, But settled on none. It’s a weakness that leads To charges of superficiality And occasional…
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Jiffy-Pop
Jiffy-Pop My mind is a silver balloon of Jiffy-Pop Set to explode, Ideas snapping and popping Before fully formed To emerge at last Into something tasty. Some kernels fail And emerge stillborn Failed in their promise And destined for the trash. Most are ready for eager mouths And live a brief life of glory Before…
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Piping More So
Piping More So Piping is like haggis, Both make the best of a poor situation, Piping more so than haggis (in my opinion). Some may argue For one or the other, But both make do with what is at hand: Plentiful sheep, A bit of barley, Some spices, And a few small, straight sticks, Taking…
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Symbols
Symbols Not to overstate the obvious, But symbols are representations Of something else. We imbue symbols with A tangled web of meaning. Cross, Swastika,Yellow Star, Quran. Symbols are a kind of shorthand That can declare many things at once, A belief, a worldview, a moral stand. There is danger in adopting symbols Without understanding their…
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Leech
Leech You are not here for my comfort. You are here for my education. I dine leech-like On your presence And take what morsels You may drop Or I can find. Doctors minister to my physical needs. Dialogue ministers to my emotional needs And an intellectual need for stimulation. This may be presumptuous, But I…
Palimpsest 