Published in Scuzzbucket·18 hours agoMember-onlySeduced By The LightsDance, while your heart still beats — Seduced like a fool, again and again like an insatiable moth, praise is your flame financially immolated by the stage’s bright light how many years lost, how many years more will you feed this cruel muse who for the price of your soul gives you claps, kicks, and bills you can’t…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published in Blue Insights·1 day agoMember-onlyWhen Pain SingsThe old human refrain — My hands are two and my knowledge narrow An Aladdin with his lamp of hope That exhaustless fool, Imagination, taking flight Where do we get such assurances? How do we dare such grandeur? To what effect do we listen to such Spheres? — singing of what we most love to hear…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published in Move Me Poetry·3 days agoMember-onlyFate’s GameShe plays by her own rules — Far short of war, or the shifting hands of restructure Fate rules by fear — the fear that makes one avoid another, that freezes, divides, orders and arranges that holds silent, and compulsively speaks that strategically hides, and erupts unexpected proud, pissed, focused, paranoid, private, public wearing the mask, now ably…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published in The Power of Poetry·5 days agoMember-onlyVisited By The Three FatesA laundry list of unsparing truths — we weave and weave our cunning designs within the fabric of your intentions spinning our silky, spidery, slippery, careful karmic webs around your organs, words, hands, ankles and actions tripping you up, and laughing at your fall every aim you misfire — your heroic goals are our nightly sitcom we…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published in Blue Insights·5 days agoMember-onlyAdagio Born FlowerGrowing from deep misery — soil deep, adagio-born flower what is the sound of something slowly growing? the sky hangs like drying laundry its drab grey heaviness mirrors my soul as I wait for my customer to finish his litany of complaints at this company I represent so I can shave away the excess interest off the mortgage…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published in The Haven·6 days agoMember-onlyCanada Will Build A WallAnd America will pay for it — Lurking beneath the forced mutual smiles of Biden and Trudeau, as they shook hands in front of the cameras this morning in a clumsy attempt to show a united front, was an unmistakable glint of animosity. Trudeau was coming under increasing political pressure for allowing wave upon wave of illegal…Satire4 min readSatire4 min read
Published in Scuzzbucket·Mar 23Member-onlyWithout SignificanceThe beauty of anonymity — you were a drop in the bucket a speck, mote flea on the back of an elephant the size of two galaxies it was your wedding day today, your marriage with death, Lethe, the underworld your contract was up, Earth had other tenants it needed looking after you would die…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published in Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs·Mar 22Member-onlyThe Externally Viral BluesThe Anatomy Of Being Broke — When I first wrote my Open Letter To King Charles, I was uncharacteristically proud of my effort and thought to myself this one should do well on Medium. I was so pleased with the piece I did something I never do: I recommended it to two of my fellow Medium…This Happened To Me4 min readThis Happened To Me4 min read
Published in Know Thyself, Heal Thyself·Mar 21Member-onlyTwo Halves To EverythingMaking a clean cut — Two, two halves. Always two halves to every small thing don’t hold back when you make the scission lean into it, use a good knife a scalpel blade, vajra sword — viveka one half of you will die and take everything with it your baggage, your faculties, your failings the…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published in The Haven·Mar 21Member-only10 Ways Murdoch Seduced 5th WifeAt 92, you have to raise your charm offensive game — Disclaimer: In case you missed the kicker, this piece is a satire. Rupert Murdoch is 92 years old, and still has the power and influence to get someone as criminally dangerous as Donald Trump elected president, let alone plunge the entire planet into WWIII. …Satire3 min readSatire3 min read
