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Alert

                     Alert Discovering Americas inside Himself he never knew were there, he felt Apollo’s ranging thrust, Paul Bunyan’s stride Across their western deserts’ sagebrush pelt, Stepped out Atlantics and Pacifics, Lake Superiors, stretched canyons wider...

Facebook Pages

          Facebook Pages I look at other people’s pages.  Post, On post, on post.  It is as if folk think (If that’s the word) that out there there’s a host Of hungry eyes so thrilled that they can’t blink Because of all the drivel there displayed To them by...

Cast in the Mould of Eternal Flame

Cast in the Mould of Eternal Flame The law corrects the imperfections, flaws, And weaknesses of individuals. It can’t perfect them.  Make as many laws As you might frame and still residuals Of cussedness will thrive like tares among Genetically engineered crops.  Tell...

Philosophical Advice about Friendship

Philosophical Advice about Friendship Two thousand years ago and more smart men Began to write philosophy about Male friendship.  What they wrote on scrolls, again, Again, again was that they had no doubt That perfect friendship could exist between Two perfect men of...

Cuckoo

                    Cuckoo   Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem “Love Me and Leave Me to Die . . . Carry On, Carry On” ………… The soundtrack for the plague of AIDS became The music...

Friendship, Higher

          Friendship, Higher “the sun was rising now in fellowship                with the stars that had escorted it” …………………Dante, Inferno, Canto I, lines 38-39 It sounds like pure companionship outside The entry...