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Weekly Poems: A Veterans Day Poem and More VERY SOON I'LL HEAR THE VICTIMS' SCREAMS Very soon I'll hear the victims' screams, Even in the midst of my content, The end not quite enough to quell the means, Each nightmare not exactly what I meant. Recruited in a time of peace, I went... ( added 3 days 15 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Halloween Poem and More HOBNOB WITH THE HOBGOBLINS Hobnob with the hobgoblins And gather with the ghouls! Let the monsters in your heart Loose to run with wolves! Open up your happy Hell, Window on your weir! Even as you know quite well Each demon from your... ( added 10 days 22 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Set of Proverbs and More THE UNCERTAINTY OF CERTAINTY 1. If you're sure you're right, you're probably wrong. 2. What one needs to believe is precisely what one needs not to believe. 3. Certainty is a wall one erects around doubt. The stronger the doubt, the stronger... ( added 17 days 23 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A 40th Birthday Number Poem and More FORTY Forty can't believe that she is forty. OMG! Already? It can't be! Recently seems much more recently. Though centuries ago, when she was thirty, Years stretched ahead as far as she could see. LIGHT ELUDES THE LATITUDES OF LONGING Light... ( added 24 days 22 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Columbus Day Poem and More CLEAR AWAY THE COBWEBS FROM YOUR EYES Clear away the cobwebs from your eyes -- Old ways of thinking, doing, wanting, dreaming! Learn that present truths are future lies, Undone by what is now well past redeeming. Make of life a... ( added 31 days 21 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Congratulations Poem on a New Home and More HOME IS THE HABIT THAT DWELLS IN HABITATION Home is the habit that dwells in habitation. Out of the familiar comes the longing, Making place a matter of belonging, Enduring urge that hungers for relation. WHERE DO WE GO Where do we go when we... ( added 38 days 23 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Poem for Yom Kippur and More YOU ARE NOT, WILL NOT, DO NOT WHAT YOU DREAM You are not, will not, do not what you dream. One accepts that one cannot be pure. Moreover, there are sins you would redeem, Knowing that your world remains secure. In you there is a longing to... ( added 45 days 23 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Poem for Eid al-Fitr and More ERASE MY SOUL Erase my soul and let me be Invisible as air. Detain me in Your emptiness And let me be just prayer. Let my passion disappear; Focus well my mind. Immerse me in infinity Till at peace I turn to see Ramadan behind. ROSH HASHANA... ( added 52 days 18 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Sixth Anniversary Poem and More HAPPY SIXTH ANNIVERSARY Happy sixth anniversary! As years pass, the coating wears away, Perhaps revealing more than one can see, Perhaps revealing more than one can say. Yet what one feels is more than ecstasy. So is love far more than one... ( added 59 days 15 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Labor Day Poem and More LABOR IS A BLESSING AND A CURSE Labor is a blessing and a curse, As one must work to live and live to work. Better jobs to get up for or worse, On the whole, with none you'd go berserk. Remember, then, that dignity requires Doing, working... ( added 66 days 16 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Love Sonnet and More ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING, PLEASE Once more, with feeling, please! I've had enough Of lubricated passion come and gone! Years and years and years and years of stuff Squirting, squirting, squirt and then it's done! With feeling... ( added 80 days 21 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Third Anniversary Poem and More HAPPY THIRD ANNIVERSARY Happy third anniversary! A time for celebration and reflection. Praised be those who live as they believe, Pursuing through each act some deep connection. Years refine what none can grasp or see. There is in every... ( added 87 days 22 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: Proverbs on Marriage, Sex, and Love, and More ON MARRIAGE, SEX, AND LOVE 1. One needs always to remember that the point of marriage is not sex but love. 2. Love, like the air, is often taken for granted. But a happily married couple both know that they need love and are grateful to have... ( added 95 days 5 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Number Poem and More SEVENTY-NINE Seventy-nine has just one working kidney. Even that one doesn't work so well. Vast domains of knowledge, passion, pleasure, Eagerly await his ample leisure, Nor have they aged, as far as he can tell. The problem is he's in such... ( added 101 days 22 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Political Poem and More UTOPIANS ARE UNREPENTANT MONSTERS Utopians are unrepentant monsters. The perfect is the perfect rationale. O send us serial killers, rapists, gangsters, Preferably to "should" becoming "shall"! In those who seek to make their visions real... ( added 123 days 20 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: An Independence Day Poem and More I WISH THERE WERE A WASHINGTON I wish there were a Washington For every failed state, A Jefferson or Madison To guide them through the gate. I wish there were a Lincoln For those now ripped apart, A Roosevelt or Kennedy For those that have... ( added 131 days 19 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Poem About Love and Lust and More LUST IS NO MORE PHYSICAL THAN LOVE Lust is no more physical than love. Feeling is the fuel that feeds that fire, A flame that might, controlled, pure pleasure prove. The language of the psyche is desire. One is dragged towards ecstasy by... ( added 136 days 21 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Father's Day Poem and More FORGET THE FEAR OF LOVING ILL Forget the fear of loving ill, And give yourself away. The more you love, the more you will Have reason to obey. Each has will to happiness, Retaining rights to be, 'Mid a world of more or less, Satisfied and... ( added 143 days 22 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Poem About Seraphim and More SOMEWHERE THERE ARE SERAPHIM Somewhere there are seraphim Singing night and day Ecstatically, eternally, In their seraphic way. Somewhere there are seraphim Singing songs of praise To God, Who sits upon His throne In glory as they gaze.... ( added 150 days 22 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Poem About the Environment and More WILDERNESS IS ANYTHING BUT WILD Wilderness is anything but wild. It is an artifact of modern life. Longing for innocence, we are beguiled, Determined to re-virginize our wife. Eons of humanity were there, Resident in each ecology. Nor can... ( added 157 days 23 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: Wedding Vows and More WEDDING VOWS BRIDE: I vow to love you all my life, In sickness and in health, And share your journey through this world In poverty or wealth. I vow to give myself to you, To trust you with my life, To be your source of happiness As lover... ( added 164 days 22 hours ago.)

Weekly Poetry: A Memorial Day Poem and More MAYBE GRIEF NEEDS RITUAL, AS MUSIC Maybe grief needs ritual, as music Embraces rules that turn sound into song. Maybe if one trusts that one won't lose it, One can turn away, though grief be strong. Reserve, then, days for rituals... ( added 171 days 16 hours ago.)

Weekly Poetry: A Graduation Poem and More CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR GRADUATION Congratulations on your graduation, Opening a door not easily reached! Now go through it: on the other side Great mountains become hills, and then just fields Rolling eastward towards a rising sun. All now... ( added 178 days 22 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Mother's Day Poem and More HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY FROM FAR AWAY Happy Mother's Day from far away! As love has wings, it flies across the sea, Passing seraphim alight with glee, Placed in nooks on clouds along its way. Years cannot such innocence betray, Morning's holy... ( added 185 days 22 hours ago.)

Weekly Poems: A Poem About Terrorism and Health and More SO MAY A TINY, CLEVER ENEMY So may a tiny, clever enemy Wield more power than the greatest states. Inventive, mutant, merciless murderers, Now they plot as the world prepares and waits, Each moment shadowed by catastrophe. For us, the only... ( added 192 days 21 hours ago.)