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Anybody’s Anything: droighneach
Nothing that is temporary becomes infinite;
each thing’s just a project. It starts and it finishes,
simply an effect of a cause, made of composites
that wax and wane. Being comes and then diminishes. Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged #BookofForms, daily poems, droighneach, emptiness, eternity, illusion, Irish verse forms, poetic forms, relationships, substance, time
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Here and Back Again
Sometimes it’s funny the way the world looks different when you learn a new thing or catch a strange foreign film or think at least to yourself that you’ve come up with an idea, the result of figuring out exactly … Continue reading
Posted in Planes
Tagged acting, failure, hypocrisy, procrastination, reality, success
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The Tipping Point
We reached the tipping point
when male pattern baldness
and erectile dysfunction
became more important
than curing cancer
or infant mortality.
When all the television shows
about poor people
in situation dramedies
were replaced by “reality” programs
about the hard lives
of people born or married
to wealth and power. Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged culture, daily poems, Malcolm Gladwell, old age, tipping point, wealth, wisdom
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Mr. and Mrs. John Q: double dactyl
Higgledy-piggledy
Public, John Q.
voted for this mess and
gave it no thought:
just what would happen
when truth lost its way
and no ticket back
could be bought. Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged #BookofForms, American verse forms, Anthony Hecht, daily poems, double dactyl, ignorance, poetic forms, politics
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What Urgency: descort
What’s so urgent
all of a sudden?
It’s not like the world woke up yesterday
as a hot mess,
broken into tiny fractions
by some new denominator.
Where have you been?
Wake up and smell the coffee;
some of us been drinking a pot a day
since Reaganomics. Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, daily poems, descort, French verse forms, illusion, poetic forms, urgency, woke
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Score None for Everyone: deibhidhe
When kingdoms fall, what is left
besides the dead and bereft?
War leaves all wounded and poor,
most more wretched than before.
Who cares how right the victors,
their flags, displayed in pictures,
atop the now rotting crop
of those stopped. Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged #BookofForms, daily poems, deibhidhe, illusion, Irish verse forms, poetic forms, victory, war
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The Way of Not Alone: cywydd llosgyrnog
The way is not so wild and free
that you walk independently
or win victory alone.
You may travel without a clue
of who or what walks next to you,
there through all that you have known. Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged #BookofForms, cywydd llsogyrnog, daily poems, paths, poetic forms, solitude, togetherness, travel, Welsh verse forms
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