a poem is a sermon
The world is full of empty headed fools — their courses set by half truths and whole lies — who trust their leaders, and obey the rules, and bow to every bright new flag that flies. To cry “Alas!” that there are such as these is pointless waste of energy and time. One might as […]
I have not found the answers seeking truth, nor even formed the questions halfway right; the mysteries that tempted me in youth are still in shrouded mists hidden from sight. The path under my feet begins and ends a single step from where my legs touch ground; and sacred destinations? Well, my friends, not more […]
It’s not about learning to draw a clearer picture of the ruins It’s not about taking a sledge hammer to the ivied hallowed halls It’s not about the trash you can talk about those who disagree It’s not about undercovering where lies are passed as truth It’s not about reporting the faux paus and misdirections […]
I will blaspheme to instruct if those still listening can hear: the pretense of this world is fucked beyond repair; that much is clear. I will replay classic moments in a whirl of light and sound; relive near death’s self-wrought torment in my history’s chains, bound. I will speak in words, in whispers of potential […]
Despite what you may read in books, no revolution brews in noisy bars or quiet cafes among agreeing friends who decide the status quo is flawed, and pay their dues producing pamphlets that describe the means to reach some end. It is not action by committee, out to change the face of the illusions that […]
Certainly my outlook on life, my philosophy of existence, has been influenced and affected by Christianity. Besides the fact that our culture in the United States is immersed not only in Christian metaphor, but has as its core the underlying belief that everyone is Christian and shares as a result some common understanding of a […]
Here is a little food for thought (bold and italics, mine): Democratic poets will always appear trivial and frigid if they seek to invest gods, demons, or angels with corporeal forms, and if they attempt to draw them down from heaven to dispute the supremacy of earth. But if they strive to connect the great […]