Out of Control 

Malignancies, car crashes  Power’s decisions rash  Politics, war, ideological clash Terror marring summer skies Buildings imploding, cutting short lives Death, loss, insanity, sundering ties Young men angered over trifles Seeking fame with rifles ...

Autumn Morning Jog 

On morning kissed streets Mercuries fleet streak past As mothers perambulating, solidarity meet Whilst old men for whom the die’s cast Each other knowingly greet. The shopkeeper with wares Opening for the day  As youth, hale and fair Blazing bright, much to say...

Satanic Mills 

Huddled masses, yearning to be free Enslaved to needs of you and me Grow our crops, tend our fields Beneath hard men who refuse to yield. Packing impulsive desires  Things they can’t afford to acquire  Into mails, swift to ship  As technocrats...

Department Store Baby 

Baby ahead of me in line Eyes staring, beautiful they shine   Fresh opened, trusting, kind Shimmering wisdoms new and divine.  Not stained with adult guile  Which sorrow’s sediment piles   Ensouled only a short while  She makes me...

Affliction, Wrath, & Need

The Golden Mouthed, he was the one Singing about the Father, Spirit, & Son  Chorusing Triune creeds Beseeching deliverance from affliction, wrath and need.  Old words, on Sunday’s reverent intoned Under gold onioned domes Before workaday concerns,...