Orioles flit by In the spring dew Night was not endless Recall how our techno-world all folded up Like a jetliner folds up into a pill case Dropped in a sewer grate How long can the blue sky last? How long have we left on this Earth For all with eyes to see and ears […]
Category: Poetry
252nd-266th Postcards Record
First postcard record up: 252nd-256th cards! Cards 252nd to 256th Second postcard record up: 257th-261st cards: Cards 257th to 261st Third postcard record up: 262nd-266th cards: Cards 262nd to 266th All records at Poetic Postcards
252nd Card
Text: Happily they went about their business. Each one took the others to hand, and told them in turn: “This above That, but only when Other. Not between Who, but only if Sad. When without Whistles but lightly with Care. Some before They and only if Wise. Trouble not Taken but Weathered and Weasely. Some […]
The Revolt Ever to Collect Its Due
Filling the waters with unstable ideas The Jabberwock waxes with apoplexy The waves roar up tremendously in air that immediately had been _____ still Deep beneath, crabs scuttle a little faster Pennies dropped in the wishing well vanish in bursts of light The seas churn The lakes bubble Controlled technologies burst the bonds placed on […]
First, Awareness
Feathering my new pages Notebook of two three months still lost Yet press on Do not become more like others Become more of yourself Put something on the line, any little thing Heat set to 68 70 72 74 makes a big difference when millions of times over Roll like a smoker Windows down spring […]
One. Simple. Thing.
Sharpening the pencils And then re-tracing the vibes Alerts ripple through your being And all your escapes are locked off One way on the planet One way to survive One way to thrive Now that you know Hear this one, simple, thing:
Indifference
Indifference, that ugly beast Inflicting the ends of many species Creating the nothingness of exurbia Creating the violence of exclusion Inflicting the ends of so many lives The obsolescence of truth in advertising The draining of your own childrens’ vitality
Singularly Absent of Demagogues
INTERLUDE 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ but there wasn’t any error, all the lies came together, no one questioned them all alerting others to the weather singularly absent of demagogues a spectacle was joined ever nightly inside, the notes were compiling upon a desk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Joyful Earthworms
Diminishment of ties to the mainland Loss of connexions with the planets surface Forming independent households and cabals Here in the winding, turning, ether Lost to their ships like the Bermuda Triangle Twisting apart from one another like sparrows flying in formation Twisting together like a mass of joyful earthworms in a compost box Receiving […]
A Time To
Time to go and time to trust Time to wean and time to lust A time to love and a time to kill A time to devour all the pills A place for you and a place for me A place beneath an olive tree Seven red roses I declare That you’re the one who […]