Category: Commentary
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Our Feral Dinner Guests
Homage to The Naming of Cats by T.S. Elliot Our Feral Dinner Guests Tigger and Midnight are not in sightprobably just out cattin’ aroundwhile Yinyang lounging mid-drivewaysurveys my trip to the trash caneyes half open in feigned interestalready had their evening stash Tigger a.k.a, Gray, Stripes, etc.a gray tiger, timid and jumpyour newest feral dinner…
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Revisiting Archery After More Than A Year
Since the original posting of this poem, I’ve changed bows, and my accuracy has improved exponentially. I’m currently using a Bear compound bow adjusted to 50 lbs with sights. I still use the 40lb recurve from time to time, but I’ve come to prefer the compound… Progress?… Archery 40lb recurve bow4 strings11 arrows each44 pullssinews…
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The Gates Of Istanbul
The Gates Of Istanbulby Loreena McKennitt See there, past that far-off hillA tower held in the skyHear there, in that dark blue nightThe music calling us home See there, in that far-off fieldFlowers turned to the skyFeel there, in that dark blue nightThe music calling us home Stars may always guide our wayFrom desert sands…
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Watch Needs Winding
Watch Needs Winding need to water plantson this chilly fall dayneed socks and shoeskeep the chill away the pocket watch in my watchpacket needs winding — too analogsome would say getting ready tore-enter the fray, but first my watch needs winding –LE – 10/19/24
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Old People’s Wisdom
Old People’s Wisdom They say old people are wiseBut to me, we’re merely humanArtifacts, renderings of conditioningAnd non-stop, round-the-clockVitriol and propaganda In most casesWhat they call “the wisdom of old age”Is but a cunning for survival thatIs genetically encoded in our speciesOur racial memories back to the beginning If there’s any ‘wisdom’ in old ageIt’s…
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Survival Of The Fittest – Most Deserving?
Survival of the Fittest? There’s not enough to go around,so we’ve been constantly told, and thus solda bill of goods that profits theself-proclaimed, privileged few. Who, living in obscene opulence, stolenfrom wage slaves and the poor, subsidizedby governments, their cronies in power,enabled by want-to-be entitled elitists of all stripes. Mandarins of the status quo dismiss…
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Loitering
This poem was initiated by my seeing the many ‘no loitering’ signs around town. Appereintly, it’s illegal to exist without spending money… –LE Loitering who do you think you aresitting or standing therenot spending any money where’s your civic pridedon’t you knowthe economy can’t survive people existing withoutputting money back intothe money-pool that raises all…
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‘O Mare E Tu
‘O Mare E Tuby Dulce Pontes and Andrea Bocelli Sentir em nósSentir em nósUma razãoPara nao ficarmos sósE nesse abraço forteSentir o marNa nossa vozChorar como quem sonhaSempre navegarNas velas rubras deste amorAo longe a barca louca perde o norte Amore mioSi nun ce stess’o mare e tuNun ce stesse manch’ioAmore mioL’amore esiste quanno nujeStamme…
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Enigmas
Enigmas no matter how many timesmy motivations explainedthe essence missedor simply ignored intentions assignedexpressions translatederroneouslynot mine other’s agendas creditedas mine, though notarticulated inmy mind – at all what, howmeanings missedaccidentlyintentionally no one listenshear what they want towhat they’ve beenconditioned to interpretation byassumption enigmatic –LE – 9/18/24
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Seriously, What Do You Think Truth IS?
What is Truth? Intro Recently, I was challenged to write about “my Truth.” Considering the thousands of years we’ve been laboring over exactly what truth is, it seemed pretty much like a fool’s errand. But after some reflection, I considered it a good way to do the type of examination commonly practiced this time of…
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