In this dark world Is the "She" Living green earth Wrapt 'round Her She comforts A Lonely Dove Her heart pierces Through Her Being Crystalline channel Upon her head The birthmark Of a fallen angel Pleads guidance Pleads strength In this paralysis Of Karmic belief A...
The Peace Prize
The Peacemaker Complains not Has no resentment Nor is caught By many-eyed spiders Spinning webs of deceit For those who might fall Conceding defeat No escape or attack She forgives not forgets The deluded disciples Of hates and frets She stays under the wing Of the...
Love Hate This State
New England weather Empirically erratic Polarized personas Claim Democratic Nothing expected Is automatic The gossip elicits Too much static Dare question why I'm so emphatic I stand in refusal To be diplomatic I've met too many Psychosomatics And gun-toting Paranoid...
A Broken Heart
(In Memory of Jack the Cat) You died Suddenly they said: A heart condition. Deeply well I knew The stagnant waters Of your sadness Days before we hugged In the stunning spring Sunlight Our mutual weakness Silently exposed Eyes closed in A preparatory parting Another...
Freeze Frame
Fat Rat and Slim Cat Sitting by the road Who'd you think shows up? But Smartypants the Toad He said "I have to cross Why do they go so fast?" "I don't really care" said Slim "It's amusing when they pass" "My name's Bubba, this is Slim." Said Rat to Smartypants "We're...
Societal Cage
A beautiful pregnant woman Becomes the ugly single mother Her ugly duckling Will be a beautiful swan So many beautiful cars Are driven by ugly egos An ugly self-interest Can mar a beautiful charity A beautiful body Can harbor an ugly soul The ugly indigent May have a...
Seal Killers’ Curse
Canada: Red-spattered photos Seals mercilessly bludgeoned In front of each other Hundreds of meek creatures Ruthlessly beaten To Death Did the Almighty miss this too? Is He at all grief-stricken? Are You? Enraged enough To curse Greedy Men of Massacres? Pray I, they...
Mind Over Matter
What really is thin? What is really fat? Is he always the dog? She in all ways a cat? If they're in power Why do they shake? Does feeling pain Cause one to break? Do we have an anthem Or just another poem? When you escape a house Did you run from home? When we're up...
Mental Trash
There it lay, run over, in the road. I must look At sweet fate Stuck to tar Translucent skin flutters in the breeze. Ants gather A happy Eulogy Apple pie, is no more, forgotten. Ciera S. Louise c. March 22,...
Inciters of Driven Rage
You get in your car Life becomes chance How many self-absorbed Won't signal in advance? Go u l t r a s l o w Or light speed fast Power-starved tailgaters Up your ass So you tip your mirror Rather than react To the Sociopath Weapon at your back Tanks obscuring view...
