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Poem – Thoughts While Drunk and Swimming in the US Treasury Building’s...

Thoughts While Drunk and Swimming in the US Treasury Building’s Decorative Fountain   I found an Aqua-man action figure!   Bathe in the fountains As the water flows over me As the water flows through...

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Saint Nicholas, Don’t Be Mad At My Kid

My child awakes singing sweet songs, the infant Rocking in his bed, holding a plush toy elephant. Leaves are plastered upon the walk, everywhere clumped and scattered  Upon the soaking ground outside,...

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Like the Wind – Haiku

Only a fable/ The Syrian Gazelle Boy/ One that got away  Filed under: Poem Tagged: haiku, poem, poetry, running, syrian gazelle boy

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Poem 02/24/2013

A Night Under a Tree, an Oracle After a spell the doorways open, Like two orphans the divided green grasses in waves part, And I am attenuated to a foreshadow, Carried aloft on a wild ride, into the...

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Haiku – Polar Vortex

-7? With -29 windchill? That’s not cool at all. Filed under: Faceberk haiku, Poem Tagged: cold, haiku, poem, winter

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Getting Laid Off – Haiku

Someone cut the light while I worked. It surprised me. Click. Black ribbons falling.  Filed under: Poem Tagged: haiku, isolation, laid off, poem

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Happy Pi Day – Three Haiku for You

Eagles fart majestically in the bright halls of eternity.  Cherry blossom petals will fall, but not today. Where are my damn keys? I go to the store for no reason and I buy some time, haunt the...

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Lao Tzu on “Wu”, emptiness

“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a...

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Paul is laminated on the bus

The morning coffee, a decision against cream, more traffic, less belt, pull bell cord, more lines around the eyes,   less Billy Budd, Sailor, less Plath, less claws, yon scuttlers eternal clutching...

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Cafe on a stormy night – Limerick, public warning

There once came a freak named Biddle, who wet a small booth with his spittle, or so it would seem, thought a guy named Gene, hey it’s just rain, a little. The context is NSFW, but the poem is not. Last...

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Edible California Roll – Poem

The diversions and pastimes  we found could be splashes of colors like a torch of jewels buried in the loamy field, flecks dried and drifting through the fog sparkle fiercely twinkle with a furious and...

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Political Poem in an Old School Way

Political Poem in an Old School Way I rock the photons like a strong invader, Walking off the set stone Schwarzenegger, The time and the place, yo, Get bigger and bigger, Bigger and bigger, Get-g-get,...

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45th Great Haiku

Bad and conflicted Orange circus peanut hands Thrash and writhe in dust      Filed under: Poem Tagged: bad, Conflicted, haiku, Trump

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Poem – Three peasants go into a bar

Grouse and grey and mauve Walked into a bar Grouse says to Grey “I’ve only three pence, will you buy?” Grey replies, “Maybe. If Mauve agrees not to tear the flesh of a suckling pig after his flagon is...

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Soliloquy from MacBeth, altered

Vive l’μηδέν The reactionary himself is hoarse That cronies the fatal environmentalist of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you splices That tend on mosque throats, unsex me here, And fill me from the...

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Bye Felicia- Haikus on Paul Ryan

  Goodbye dirtbag creep. America cheats its young On another dime. Bye Felicia, yeah You can go right on home now Because you suck ass.   Poor people lack food Seriously, fuck them, right? I ate my own...

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The only time I shall use a word intended, italicized

Passing lamasery in gloaming Faint lamasery Oofs in fog, and resettling, Monocarpic torch   Procrastinaughty Iteroparous Cat naps and claws, purrs, sunbeam Falls on house and brook   Texas Abs Wild...

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Khipu khipunon

My binary rocks And all the hues are leaving On the 24th. Half of the old tree Is squished down on some boulders. Treetops from ground, reach! Woolen cotten twines, The tributes and the rhymes, they...

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The search for truth

Porque no mundo mengou a verdade, punhei um dia de a ir buscar; e, u por ela fui nom preguntar, disserom todos: «Alhur la buscade, ca de tal guisa se … Continue reading The search for truth

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Poem – Drowning in bed linen

This poem is correlative of randomly paired Shakespeare Sonnets 17, 43, with a dash of Kanye A museum, a moiety, the still be praised by eyes and gaze back, into … Continue reading Poem – Drowning in...

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