Her essence like flowing wheat
abundant, warm, windswept
fresh in field & earthy sweet
rich hair falling backswept
Green eyes, cheeks in blossom
bountiful splendor
smile cheerily awesome
tender & slender
Since our first stolen glances
my blessed heart still dances!
edited 05/21/25 0950
Like amongst butterflies
in balmy winds blown
Embraced in warm sunrise
midst melting rays flown
In ascent
freed from ferment
Am content
without lament
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ferment = agitation, unrest, commotion
edited 08/24/24 0820
Twisted like acrobatic acts
to engineer outcomes perverted
opinions offered up as facts
then glibly, haughtily asserted
On recklessness binged
in forward pose
pours on claims unhinged
anything goes!
These days seem veracity
as well as morality
eclipsed by mendacity
in foam bath banality
In times erstwhile weren’t we restrained
by facts as being impregnable?
Perhaps too old to be retrained
for when few norms are detectable
Now floating away dazzled
from Reality’s shores
we’re too creaky & frazzled
to keep pulling the oars
Thus on waves of distraction we’re drifting
when did we last do something uplifting?
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facts = “Factual evidence, since it is an impediment to what we desire, is banished” – Chris Hedges
edited 08/15/24 1730
Written in 2015
First couple of Empire
so tall, fit and lean
leading us in quagmire
smiling, waiving, preen.
While both o so chichi
ain’t he a bit preachy?
Should’ve minded caveat emptor
of “Change You Can Believe In”!
stuck with “Hope and Change” Emperor
who proves ever deceiving.
Misses no chance to endorse
while he’s killing by drone
‘The World’s Finest Fighting Force’.
Predecessors’ true clone.
“We left Iraq”, says he, “Heads held high!”
How (aghast!) can that be, why?
When million people had to die
still nothing sensed gone awry?!
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-chichi = showily or affectedly elegant or trendy
-‘heads held high’ = “The last American soldier will cross the border out
of Iraq with their head held high, proud of their success and knowing
that the American people stand united in our support for our troops”
– Obama, Oct 2011
edited 04/10/21 1450
The Philistine not only ignores all conditions of life which are not his own but also demands that the rest of mankind should fashion its mode of existence after his own.” – Goethe.
Straight faced the Philistine advises:
“Won’t stick my neck in guillotine!”
Instead he declares, no surprises:
“Like my butt in a limousine!”
No use for intrigues Byzantine
or time for Sistine Chapel
(or the fifteen or seventeen)
Prefers fries to an apple
As always by strong insistence
he brooks no interference
Perplexing perverse persistence
in painful perseverance
He’s always certain
though rarely right
How thick his curtain
and drawn too tight!
edited 01/03/22 0910
Remember the past
was it not quite the blast?
But wait, not so fast
don’t we now stand aghast …
… when having to recall
our silly, witless gall?
Too many a close call
drunken nights lost in thrall
Did youth spent heedlessly
flash by in much haste
and rarely weedlessly
prove an utter waste?
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-weedlessly = here: clean & sober
edited 07/13/24 0820
“Why’s everyone in my way
while I’m never in theirs?
Why do they drive so astray
with only me who cares?”
Impatience turns rampageous
hurls us down that black hole
while patience is contagious
and leaves us in control
When one’s ego bigger than the car
seem we can’t help rant, honk, speed & spar!
The car fleetingly lends power
to a driver who’s lacking
whilst on foot meek as a flower
timid, weak-kneed & slacking
Ponder: You’re not stuck IN traffic
You ARE the traffic, Seraphic!
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Seraphic = a member of the highest order of angels; here: a ‘far more deserving than thou’ person
edited 06/08/24 0735
Glimpses:
— Changing trains at the Martinez, CA Amtrak station
Snailed paced approaches midnight
at Martinez station
under yellow, dimming light
stuck, lacking evasion.
Waiting precariously grounded
for the ‘Starlight’ to sally forth
(station by eeriness surrounded
to carry us on the way north.
— Shod feet on seat, by fast food replete
Limp lonesome louts languishing
their dirty shoes on seat
of manners not anguishing
by fast food replete.
Munch national brand name fares
rather ‘inedible’.
“Here, enjoy it”, vendors dare
chutzpah incredible!
— Dozing off
In defenseless recollection
mind haplessly reactive.
Stuck in endless loop selection
heart helplessly held captive.
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Seen from afar trains stir through the Valley
tween horizon to horizon fields.
A fleeting, insignificant alley
sliver in abundant agro yields.
In the city of Fresno spoils
well to do agrarians.
In fields where the mercury boils
toil poor proletarians.
Through train windows’ scenery
on trees, seem in millions,
irrigated greenery:
almonds in the billions.
These last years they’ve been irrigating
by race to the bottom drilling.
Momentarily mitigating
as aquifers not refilling.
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-agrarian = a person who favors the equal division of landed property and the advancement of agricultural groups
-proletarian = (proletariat) the class of wage earners, especially those who earn their living by manual labor or who are dependent for support on daily or casual employment; here: largely farm workers
-spoil = plunder
edited 04/23/17 0805
The morning dawns blurrily
thoughts lazy & shoddy
darting around squirrelly
Creaky his old body
As couldn’t endure Life’s steady gaze
he indulged dreams Elysian
Now stuck shuffling in regret’s haze
eliciting derision:
of his mind’s intransigence
and his limbs’ recalcitrance
editing 05/15/24 0915
