Historical

The Romans lost control,
And Europe was overrun,
By waves of babarians:
Goth, Mongol, and Hun,
Civilization corrupted,
Trumpified, undone,
And order not restored
Until the invention of the gun...

Empty Bottles

Buzz alert
Now and here
As long as
There is beer

Forager

Blue gray winter sky
Junco hops among weeds
And grass now brown gold
Seeking a small feast of seeds...

Marketing Madness

Continuous, overwhelming,
Commercials on T.V.,
Urging sales and
Consumption, relentlessly...

Fleeting Pleasures

Enjoy the good things
While they last
For all too soon
They’re in the past

Flow

Up from the ground
And through the air
Energy coming
From everywhere...

Uninvited Guest

The birds look down
At their seeds
Where the squirrel feeds...

Fate Of Fossil Fuel

Oil-fed cars driven
Around the suburban sprawl,
On fun trips and errands,
Before the big fall,
Automobile Nation
Causing its own suffocation...

Liquor Is Quicker

Teenage rite of passage
Pass the vodka bottle around
Temporary joy & euphoria
Then puking on the ground

Migrant Caravan

A long journey has led
To this place, and a wall,
No going back, no way ahead,
No roof above, no hope at all...

Red Base

To those of us undereducated,
Under-appreciated,
What could be more sweet,
Than to screw with the elite...

Misperceived

The games politicians play,
Seem harmless, when
Viewed from far away...

Fallen Sky

Since when did things become
Uncertain, all gone, the normal,
Not knowing, being numb,
Now left with a growing fear
Of what might happen here...

Giant Bonsai

Upturned spider pine tree
Huge in its 300th year,
Grown so wide since
Someone planted it here,
Poses above the selfies,
Indifferent, and shimmers
In an autumn breeze...

Ex-Samurai Garden

Sun warms my back,
As, wind-blown, I hunch
Wordless, thoughtlessly,
Over a bento box lunch...

Cold Flowers

Staring at the yellow,
Blooming in front of me,
I’m lost in that yellow,
Momentarily,
Sipping sesame
Barley tea...

The War To End All Wars

One hundred years since the
End of World War One,
Seems pretty trivial now
About who lost or won,
Barbed wire and bones
Of English, Germans, French,
And all the others who
Expired in the trench,
A whole generation lost
In mud, blood, and stench....

Evanescent

Morning, after the rain,
Mist over the rice field,
Hints of the night remain,
I’m aware of this moment,
Fleeting, iridescent,
Like something imagined,
Something dreamt...

Adversarial

Them and us,

Fighting over

Something frivolous,

Argument 

Seethes and spins,

Neither side

Wins...

Navel Gazer

Turns out the mountain
Dwelling mystic,
Is not wise or holy,
Just solipsistic...