Archive for November, 2017
POEMS & FLEETING THOUGHTS
PAY BACK
Once powerful men
Thought nothing
Of touching a woman’s ass
Her breasts
Violating her dignity,
They now find
That their acts
Are biting them
In the ass.
POEMS & FLEETING THOUGHTS
Looking Back,
Have you ever
Wished
You were young
Again,
With what
You know
Now?
POEMS & FLEETING THOUGHTS
THE END
For our country,
I feel this
Is the beginning
Of the end.
And we
Are in part
Responsible.
I once used a line in a poem, ‘a sadness too deep to be real’.
It is becoming real.
There are still those full of poetry, stories and art. They struggle to survive and they always will. But greed has taken over this country.
The only comfort for me personally is that I will be dead when this great country’s dream is unrecognizable.
Vanishing Tracks
This poem may respond to many people. Thanks for your strength for your loved ones, gone but still here to love.
Doris Marie Lawson Schwaner, 7/3/1939 – 11/8/2017
I wrote this for my mother a little over six years ago. She’d been battling Alzheimer’s disease for several years. I heard her voice yesterday afternoon and she heard mine, thanks to my sister.
Vanishing Tracks (II)
What is resilient in us is resistant to memory
When the memory goes she will be some other self
Still resilient to the sailing light and shadow
And hungers and exhaustions of love
Made maybe even more immediate
When the resilience goes what is that then
When the resistance goes what is that
Just outside her heart she hears a sound in the night
I am out there knocking on the dusty porch
I have brought a friend with me
When she opens the door will she see herself
Holding my hand?
Do you remember when the car door opened up
As you drove and I…
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A FRIGHTENING SIMILARITY
IMAGES OF HITLER
I first had this feeling whenever I saw Trump signing a new piece of legislation as all around him, Vic President Pence, Paul Ryan and others smiling and affirming their agreement, no matter
Dare they not?
I recall a meeting I once viewed of a meeting with Trump and his cabinet. Sitting around a table each member was given a chance to speak. The comments went around the table as each member present gave a glowing report of Trump’s presidency. Dare they do otherwise?
This recalled an image of Hitler. Reflections of his generals telling Hitler that all was fine as the world stumbled to chaos.
Science and Magic are Two Sides of the Same Coin
I thought some of my fellow writers would enjoy this post.
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