December 2010
8 posts
Merry Christmas, Doctor!
Titles and other stuff
A few years back I was approached to consider adding a PhD after my name. I was told that a doctorate would add significantly to my “access” and “life’s work”… and that it could be easily obtainable, based on my years of study, writing, and poetic passion. It would be based on my unpublished works, which in turn would serve as my life thesis. Since it was merit of...
Unfinished... (2007)
Open Letter To Future Generations
Did you ever look at all the wars and other craziness going on in the world and wonder how grownups could be so stupid?
The civilized world is structured and run by people who have PhDs (they’re doctors of philosophy) or have been taught by them; so the first place to look for seeds of widespread craziness and stupidity, is in the socially accepted...
So Somewhere...
So somewhere between
North and South
between East above
and West below,
Truth and Spirit met
My compass, giddy,
danced and twirled so
and spun so… I sickened
so, as my tempanics…
popping and pounding
Cardio infarctous…a love
stuffed heart that could
not stand alone,
forcing my sanguine
river… emptied to the limits
So too, my nether zones
where the...
Daylight...
Before the day can overwhelm
By child-side, she is filling up
To drown the dust of duty realms
Her children’s heart, the purest cup
That hold her seeds of endless dreams
She sips their love of nourishment
They darn and sew her lonesome seams
Her nest with them… well spent
Lovedmadlydeeplymuchly…Papa
Agnus Dei
The Agnus Dei
On a blood bought ship
I sail the waves
The “Ez ozel” to most, but
my “Agnus Dei” where I
take the spoils of broken
men… in another’s name…
those tossed by gales of
token shame and slave crews
who were shackled and chained
to spoil them now freely and
wash them in rain and toast them
with mercy and kegs of grace and
bread of...
God's Forked Tongue...
“Be wise as serpents…”
The Spirit speaks to me with a “forked” tongue. Always…
You see, it’s not the kind of forked tongue that we have grown up with from Western Cowboy and Indian movies. Or the kind that conjures lies for the sake of future advantage, doubled meaning in triplicate that only a member of the Bar could translate… or evidence...
The Mule
“He came like God in judgment” I was told…
down our dirt road Lord Sherman marched
through the Onslow’s rural roads
passing great-grandpa’s house,
God and his “bummers” slashing,
pillaging and plaguing our Ervintowne…
Noisy yanks, without mercy…
spoiled.
Jehovah Tecumseh, too…
and his horsemen marching
to the sea, roaring… you could
hear them five miles out… God’s tide
rising,...
“When anyone tosses their spiritual insight about publicly like a toy Frisbee,...”
– JT Cardwell