In The Dark

During a night, about
Halfway through,
Your mind can start
Playing tricks on you,
Dream things may start
To lurk and creep,
Until you are able
To fall back asleep...

Syria

Hiding from the bullets,
Cowering in a hole,
Cursing the poor luck
She could not control,
Born into a bad time
And in the wrong place,
War dust mixing with
The tears on her face...

29, 29, 29

It’s now, and here,
The extra day
To add to the year,
Thereby making it
Complete, correct,
An odd weird day,
Fleeting, circumspect...

Alone

Quiet as a mouse,
Or maybe a cockroach?
Motionless, I lie
In an empty house...

COVID19

Sheltering in my room
Up on the seventh floor,
While a virus spreads
Outside my door,
Waiting for things to
Be like they were before...

Winter Plant Power

By the chain link fence,
Behind a parked machine,
A nettle plant stands up
Proudly, purple and green...

Coffee Break

Plans executed relentlessly,
As hours and days go by,
And I am one of the few
Who stop to ask “Why?”...

意識

Welcome to the
Sentient zone,
A place you
Enter all alone,
Full of existential
Awe and dread,
And all of it
Inside your head...

政治家

Politics are entertaining,
But not entertainment,
All strive to be reigning,
Ride in big black cars,
Talk to the cameras
Just like movies stars,
Winners get to control
The ship of state,
Spend our taxes and
Influence our fate,
But all bets are off
As the election impends,
Tactical promises, and
Dog-eat-dog never ends...

Quadrennial

The Gregorian
Calendar we keep,
Proclaims that on
The 29th, we leap!

Anaesthetized

Destitute, bored,
But restless,
Medicate against
The nothingness...

Tiny Raptor

Viewed by a worm,
Or by a bug,
A sparrow is a
Dinosaur thug...

Dogma

In god we trust
Because an old book
Says we must

QBF

Flying in the clouds
Is how it sometimes seems,
Blindly aloft in a
Turbulence of dreams,
Gliding by instinct,
Instead of understanding,
Hopefully en route
A safe soft landing...

Daily Avoidance

Something that could
Happen, but doesn’t,
As if it were, but wasn’t,
Unhappiness deferred,
Or deflected,
While unnoticed,
Unexpected...

North Of Kansas

Look up at the overwhelming sky,
From a land fertile and flat,
Over which the coastal elites fly...

Waking Waiting

A part of her which tries
To stop, wants to keep,
Prevents her from
Going to sleep...

A watchful part,
She can dimly feel,
Insistent, lingering,
Ethereal yet real...

Cleared Out

Abandoned homeless camp,
Brown weeds bent in sadness,
Scattered detritus speaks of
Failure, addiction, madness...

Body Clock Abuse

Airport lounge,
All checked in,
Let the jet lag
Torture begin....

The District

Utterly self-absorbed, in
Theater of its own making,
Paid for by rewards of
Its taxing and taking,
Political mud-fighters
Excite and entertain,
The problems they
Should be fixing, remain,
The news cycle causing
A form of inebriation,
All drunk on power in
The capital of the nation...

Pizza And Beer

Dramatic energy and action
Viewed from a sofa
As an abstraction...

FB Friend

He spends all his
Time, or so it seems,
Flooding Facebook
With political memes,
Ad hominem funny but
Vicious partisan views,
Created by trolls
From the daily news...

水仙

February calm and cold,
And up from barren land,
Green, white, and yellow,
The brave narcissus stand...