One time I saw this: I saw a man coming down the middle of the road With a hoe on his shoulder and from the hoe swung a bucket. There were no cars on the road. No cars coming or going. Only he was coming. When I saw this man I asked myself, …
On the dying leaf: sand-blasted commentary on events
Sound of the bullets The room was dark Held his ground You need not go In front of the inevitable Gathered up a large handful Dreamed and planned and saved Feeling his way with caution I went back to my room You need not go Turned out the light It was the mother An …
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The F-35
Oh, how I have wanted to write a poem about the F-35! About how angry I was when it was allowed To crash the mountain skies above Burlington. But when I visited Burlington recently I realized that the F-35 is only part of the story Of a town that has lost its way. And …
What if our wounded warriors could become our wounded healers
I would like to start by quoting excerpts from a recent article in the New York Times, “A Secret War, Strange New Wounds, and Silence from the Pentagon.” by Dave Phillips: Many U.S. troops who fired vast numbers of artillery rounds against the Islamic State developed mysterious, life-shattering mental and physical …
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There must be twenty ways to kill our planet
Buy cars of many colors, Drive back and forth at top speed. Farm cattle in giant feedlots All over the world. Feed them crap that makes them burp Until the atmosphere fills up with methane. Keep burning oil And drill for it in pristine places out of sight out of mind, And off shore …
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someone else
Someone else’s dam has burst Someone else’s children are shooting Someone else’s war is escalating Someone else’s soup is burning Someone else’s misery is measureless Someone else’s eyes are sad Someone else’s words have fallen on deaf ears Someone else’s success has surpassed all expectations Someone else’s ‘s garden is going to waste Someone else’s …
My dream is out
Somebody poked a hole in my dream and found me They didn’t even have a wand They were just trying to get out of the big dream Of the f__ked-up world And blundered into mine With their war-like mentality Their hamburger breath And their angry hurt red eyes of blame and fear and hate And …
Russian conscript
He said It’s time to be willing To die for the motherland And stamped my papers But I want my daughter to live in peace! Men are born to fight, he said Don’t be a wimp Then he got gloomy and looked at the floor I thought of my friends Who electrocuted toads I thought …
Waking from the dream of causality
I was reading about Italy’s weather turmoil in the midst of southern Europe’s continuing hellish heat wave and unprecedented storms and then I read this: “The minister for civil protection, Nello Musumeci, wrote on Facebook: “This is one of the hardest days in Italy’s history . . . Climate change has hit our nation and …
Ask a poet
God blesses America. The United States thinks it is omnipotent. But Americans themselves are impotent. They have no control over what their leaders think or do. Have you noticed that the United States does cyber espionage While everyone else hacks? If you want to understand the United states You should listen to a 72 year …