Tag: Poetry
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Artisan Designed Mayhem
This is the second part of a larger piece that I wrote a few years ago after a walk through the Ancient Weapons display, on a visit to the Huntington Museum of Art on a cold evening in April. Death by Design Forged barrelMachined and polishedWith firing mechanismPatiently assembledFrom cast and smith-forgedScrews, springs, clamp-jawsTo hold…
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Morning Wonders
Morning Wonders A large bird of prey glidesHigh in the pristine blue skyIn great lazy circlesAs all is caught in itsPredatory eye As a large black dogLopes across the distant pathAnd vanishes like fogBurned away by a blisteringlyBright Arizona sun The strong headwindAnd constant inclineDrive me into aHeart Attack modeThat I’ll hopefully survive Home at…
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Thoughts On Mothers’ Day – A Memoir Memory
A Little Something For Mothers’ Day. Let’s hope that most mothers are a little more pragmatic than was mine, with her head buried in romance novels and soaps… Yes, I’m sure my dad’s felandering and our family life certainly played into her depressions, and escapism, along with her ‘nerve-pills’ and habitual denials… A Mother’s Legacy mother…
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The Idolatry Of ‘Prosperity’
The Idolatry Of ‘Prosperity’ Apartment complexesAnd condos poppingUp all over Town Even though there’sNot enough waterTo go around With ever decreasingSupplies from theColorado River Compact As it driesIt’s lakes and tributariesDie As the showContinues toUnfold As ever increasingHosts of homeless divertTo the dry riverbed And lounge acrossThe paths with brokenShopping carts in underpasses With horrific…
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Seems Like We Should Do Just That…
TURN THE PAGEby Bog SegerPerformed by Geof Catelucci On a long and lonesome highway, east of OmahaYou can listen to the engines moanin’Out his one note songYou can think about the womanOr the girl you knew the night before But your thoughts will soon be wanderin’The way they always doWhen you’re ridin’ 16 hoursThere’s nothin’…
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Morality – Wisdoms From The Get’ To The Present
Ancient And More Modern Wisdoms Some say, Jesussome say, Lao Tzuthere’s MuhammadPlato, Gurgiff, Buddha,and Confucious tooonly to name a few– and that’s a mouthful – they say it’s tooambiguouswisdom is disguisedwhere’s theambiguity inliving simple lives it’s an ancient linelife allows no crimebut wisdom in disguiseshould make us realize that what goes upmust come backdown andmany…
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Sol’s QR Coding
Sol’s QR codingTaurus projected – dappledshadows under trees shadows of yellowpalo verde blossoms rainetch the QR code –LE – 5/3/25
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Work Ethic – Santimonious Myth
I wrote this in response to those complaining about the lack of a ‘work ethic’ (AKA the complainer’s particular ‘ethic’) among the younger generations, and bragging to me about their own, dripping with disgusting sanctimony. Work Ethic – Sanctimonious Myth the imagined moral superiority ofa capitalist vision of a work ethicbased on hard labor and…
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Another Memoir Memory
Crush On A Greek Goddess Antoinette my half-hour violin lessonfollows her’sI’m sitting in the professor’swaiting room – hiskitchenhis apartment’s mainroom – his studioI hear her playingbeautifully my turnshe comes out aGreek goddess tallclassically beautifullooking only at the kitchenexit to the hallwayshe heads straight forit looking neitherleft nor right knowing of my crushshe purposefullywalks by ignoringthis…
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First Loop Ride In May
First Loop Ride In May Bright clear cerulean skySol’s long morning raysDapple shadows the whole wayTo El Camino del Cerro‘The road to nowhere’ Most of the way The dry riverbed exudesLush verdant treesWho’s roots must runTo the river belowGone subterraneanA century ago Sadly Homeless campsIn the riverbedHave exploded exponentiallySince we moved hereA short few years…
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