Pardoned

Aggravated

Frustrated

Feeling less-than-motivated

 

Respiration

Inspiration

Fills me with anticipation

 

Emancipated

Vindicated

Sometimes it’s worth it to say I waited.

Keep Kicking

If you go with the flow
You may be a fool
Just hitching a tow
To a stagnant pool

Or even worse yet
A whirlpool (how grim)
And then you’ll regret
Your failure to swim.

8:52

It seems that it took so long
To hold you in my arms
I thought this day would never be
I can’t wait for you to share
My life and all your charms
But I can’t even get to eight fifty three

It’s eight fifty two
I’m so in love with you
At nine o’clock we say I do
But it’s eight fifty two

Beyond Debate

Ancients at the podium
Inspire righteous odium
Every word they speak, a lie
Theatrics for the shuttered eye
Best stock up on Imodium
The shit is sure to fly!

Pretty Kitty

Tiger crouching in the grass
Patient pose to watch prey pass
Fear not, it’s no ferocious one
This orange beauty prefers the sun.

Common Ground

Differences abound
But what cannot be found
Is a reason why we all should unite

Everyone seems to feel
Only their beliefs are real
Resulting in a nonstop ideological fight

We’ve got to find the place
Of compromise and grace
Or watch the fuse ignite.

Didn’t Age Well

Seeing that stale flame
Really left me cold
Remembering the foolish game
And how it grew old
As we did, just the same.

Collection

Want a like
So you can gage
My depth of rage?
Take a hike!

Hear that click?
Press your luck
You'll need to duck
Really quick.

Feel some fear?
It will expand
When you understand
The mob is near.

Fractured Fairy Tale

There is a crooked man
In a corrupted house
Whose wife has no plan
To save her less-than-upright spouse

He has no good defense
For stirring so much strife
I guess it’s just a consequence
Of living a crooked life.

Current Events

Once you’re immersed
The current pulls you down
Until you’re in over your head

If you stay submersed
You likely will drown
Break through for air instead.

Transcendence

Return to the source
Primordial force
Soul starts to merge
Sensations surge
Sentient stars
Perform eight bars
Harmony ignites
Phantasmal delights.

Mournful

It’s exhausting to articulate
The lethargy I feel
Bordering on insensate
Is anything even real?

Assailed by the absurdities
To which the weaker cleave
And all their foul proclivities—
For truth, I grieve.

Thinking of John

You played where you weren’t supposed to go
But you went there anyway
Until you learned about the endless show
Then played a different way

We say goodbye to you
Beneath a dying sun
So glad for what you chose to do
So sad for what you might have done

We say goodbye to you
You smile and say hello
Across the universe you flew
To where the sweetest berries grow.

Overstated

I have such ample breasts
Of chicken, eyes up here
They say a jackass jests
Well, so it would appear.

In the Moment

A gibbous moon is waxing
O'er the Lightning Bug Ballet,
It’s tranquil and relaxing
As they flit and flash away.

With solstice quickly nearing
What will the summer bring?
I shrug, and just keep leering,
Enraptured by the spring.