God

brought to children

in sorties of pain

 

Strictures

and scriptures

religion ordained

 

The wings

of an Angel

lie buried within

 

Iconoclasts

pawning

— original sin

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2026)

 

Until they find a cure

for avarice and greed

the just will stand alone

 

Until they combine

the system as caste

vicissitude sits on the throne

 

Until they end

starvation and blight

world hunger forever abides

 

Until their love

is retendered anew

— Ascension forever denied

 

(First Book Of Prayers: January, 2026)

Trapped

in the machinery

enmeshing his pain

 

Orphaned on

the loading dock

of yesterday’s fame

 

Laden

with the icons

of perfidy’s haze

 

Wandering through

the desert

— of destiny’s maze

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2026)

 

The smell of

petrichor

and thunder

 

The taste of

solace

and goodbye

 

The sound of

memory’s

 last rejection

 

The touch of

love’s

enduring lie

 

That thing

that slips

between your fingers

 

A feeling

lost

when foundlings cry

 

The sight of

vision’s

lost intention

 

Whose moment

bleeds

— je ne sais quoi

 

(The New Room: January, 2026)

 

 

Only the dead

know the end of war

 Cursing the living

to forever endure

 

Rich people gifted

to hide in the past

Where nightmare’s amend

— their terror recast

 

(Tribute To George Santayana: January, 2026)

What they don’t know

one can only assess 

What they can’t see

they can never possess

What they affirm

they can never deny

What they proclaim

they can never imply

 

Things they impugn

only traitors allow

Things they assume

they will never avow

Things they besmirch

they will never applaud

Things they embrace

they will never defraud

 

Once they betroth

all suitors be damned

Once they constrict

to never expand

Once they commit

to never rethink

Once they get sober

to never take drink

 

If they remember

those promises cast

If they retender

the future and past

If they stay open

the visions will come

If they’re bespoken

— the truth zero sum

 

(The New Room: January, 2026)

Say it simply

or not at all

The truth uncovered

in brief recall

 

Too often masked

in verbiage strewn

Whose darkness blackens

— a sunless noon

 

(The New Room:  January, 2026)

Begging

for what their past endowed

the Sioux

displaced once more

Imbued

by Wakan Tanka

their legacy

unmoored

They fought

the armed invader

winning battles

losing homes

Giving up

the greatest way

of life

— we’ve ever known

 

(‘Searching For Crazy Horse’: January, 2011)

Is there consciousness

without language …

 how would you know

 

I believe that there is

but have nothing

to show

 

The ‘Hard Problem’

continues …

unmetered unrhymed

 

Restated

unproven

— and left ill defined

 

(Radnor High School: January, 2026)

 

 

Let the other guy

die for his country …

I’m living for mine

 

Let the other guy

waddle in shame …

in glory I cry

 

Let the other guy

sanction defeat …

in victory I thrive

 

Let the other guy

rot in his grave …

 eternal I strive

 

(For Will: January, 2026)