12/07/2025
Mental Map
Welcome again to the Monkey House
where all are welcome
but few stay
The floors are grated
and the walls a fury of paint
that constantly drips below
The stories they tell with their colours
There's more
A chandelier made of tin cans
and a collection of kazoos
A jungle of light and sound
Don't be shy
Everyone who's entered has left
12/06/2025
Birds don't cry
Why don't the birds cry when it rains?
Do they know no matter how loud they squawk the rain won't stop?
Or do they know that soon the rain will end?
Like all suffering
Finite
Their wet wings prevented from flight
and their small bodies convecting their energy
away
like a fire of steel wool
leaving nothing but feathers and bones behind
But surely that is not the case
because we still have birds after it rains-
but maybe less
Still the birds don't cry
12/05/2025
No one cares that it snows in Baltimore/This isn't the South
Mayday it's a gray day
Can't see the Sun in the sky day
but can't even go out and play day
No it's a work day
Wake up early just to drive day
Wonder what will make you feel alive day
Make money to survive day
When the snow settles
I'll be inside
and once I leave
it will be a memory
Today will be forgotten
but it's marks will be remember
by my mind, body, and soul
So be it
Yes I wink at the full moon
and say hello to animals
and if that makes me mad
so be it
The point of this
I ask myself what I am doing with my life
I ask this everyday
and my answer as always is enough
but not enough
There is a part of me that always wants more
but I know I just want to be okay with what I am
And I love who I am
but I am more in love with who I can be
and I know that is who I will be
so that's who I am
What I was, what I am, and what I will be
All at once
That is what I am doing
12/04/2025
The irony of a last waking moment poem about being energetic
The hum in my mind can't stop
I have to keep going
like on and on
I am energy
12/03/2025
Windmills
I too would fight a windmill
if I thought it a threat to me
who wouldn't? a coward?
What would they fear?
The blades up so high cutting them down
A windmill is an admiral foe
they are both old and new
and they are alive just as the wind is alive
and they do work
like we do work
We are not so different from those windmills
Everything a circle
12/02/2025
Word Salad
Deep deep down
in the gentle nest of your heart
a small of of who you will be
is cracking through its speckled blue shell
The first thing it will see will the the light of your soul beaming
and the brighter it burns the brighter you will be
Fuel your heart with good memories and goals
Your hearth with grow and soon you will find
that the you you want to be
will be the you you are
and now you will need to the the you you want to be
again
Thought
The plague season is among us
Hunker down
stay warm
and pray
health will come for all of us again
12/01/2025
Bugonia
There are twisted men who put their disturbed thoughts into motion picture
Sometimes there is merit in this
to tell some moral
but there are equally times when it does not happen as such
Now I have seen heads roll
needles thrown about
abduction, violence
for what
Just to say humans are a disease and that the planet would be better without us
Is that profound? To be disgusted at oneself and what we are capable of?
And to what... give up?
I think NOT
P.S. I have more nuanced thoughts about this movie now.
11/30/2025
The Bells
I can hear the bells
They ring just for me
and they resonate
for what seems like hours
They must be made of bronze because what else
could make such a charming howl?
Gold? Silver? Glass?
They bells seem to tell a story of a boy
who couldn't sit still and spend his whole life running
He could never settle down
until the weight of the world forced him
I don't like these bells
11/29/2025
The Air
The air smells the same today
it is just colder on my nose
Nobody knows where this air came from
or where it will go
after it passes through my lungs and whatnots
Maybe it will go up so high it will be confused with Space
and maybe I shared the same air as Kermit the Frog
who knows
All I know now is that the air smells the same
and it is warmer leaving my nose
11/28/2025
Every museum looks the same
The most beautiful art is hung on the blandest all white flat walls
It hangs there by nails
just like everything else
it is mundane
priceless and mundane
The void when I close my eyes is not monochromatic
it has faint colour
my mental pictures are priceless to me
So why do we allow art to sit on black walls
have we got no imagination?
P.S. The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum is an exception to this complaint. That little lady put thought into every angle of that place.
11/27/2025
Thanksgiving
The magic feels different now
that I am on my own
and my obligations optional
the world my own
It felt like the same rhythm
but I also felt like it was slipping away
Maybe that's just how it is-
getting older
Everyday is a decision
to be what you were or to be what you will be
it is daunting but it is always done
The magic is different now
but I am thankful for the magic
because I have tasted it
and not everyone has a home
11/26/2025
Thought
Bleeding pens suck
Do other people play with the world with their mind?
When I close my eyes
I see stars of orange juice and planets of jelly beans
It is magic
When I walk down the street
mailboxes turn into rockets
and the flowers sing
It's not drugs
It's imagination
11/25/2025
Wide Awake
Now the world is sleeping
and I am awake, seeing
all that cannot be seen in the light
The glow from below
Here where the rats sing
and the meat rots
do I call home
because I am just a mortal man
I know no frills
I talk plain
I am okay with the four walls around my brain
There's only one me and I am awake
Goodnight tomorrow and Hello today
I am here with the rats
and I am here to stay
11/24/2025
Time Square is an Orgy
All of the lights
the people
it is not warm
and everyone is bundled up
even though it's not so cold
And it goes on and on
All hours of the day and night and day
A city that never sleeps
and it is so bit it cannot die
A never ending wick
There is no grass
There are no trees
They pump in fresh air
but the water is fine
Cheers to you
New York
11/23/2025
Fake Thanksgiving
A cacophony hummed along across the table
Many people, more dynamics
all at play, all at once
When will the Turkey be ready?
Only the Creator of the Universe knows
What has cinnamon
you know I can't eat cinnamon
Nothing. great
It's a barrage
but it is beautiful
because every shout is full of love
and that alone is a special thing
I am thankful for many things
but top among them is family
Let's eat
11/22/2025
I have no clue to who or what I was addressing this to
Now I don't know what to say
but I'll say it anyways
I Love you
Every street every second
you're away
I wander my mind but I can't think of anything
but you
Oh why does the world keep slipping away
11/21/2025
unnamed fox
The cloudy eyed fox wanders the dell
searching for food
for what else could a fox fancy?
It's red fur and white tufts
make for a stylish and cozy coat
almost like a reddish tuxedo
His eyes stuck out to me most
they were bluish and milky
Maybe cataracts?
They seemed mysterious
like they could see the future
because they had seen so much of the past
Felix is a fitting name for a fox
Unless he already has one
Next time I will ask
I am not sure
Should I fear a fox?
11/20/2025
flying blind will cost you
Somedays you lose
and today is one of them
I worked all day
but did it wrong
Time lost
This sucks
11/19/2025
The Human Tree
Somewhere out there
there is a tree made out of people
where every leaf is a cute baby
and the branches are people like you and me
It grows with Humanity
digging its roots deep into the Earth
and extending its trunk into the Heavens
One day it will reach them
Till then it soaks up the beautiful Sun
and smiles
Everybody growing together
It's a nice thought
11/18/2025
Who Knows
The mind needs fresh air
like a Porsche needs premium gas
If you want me to preform
you much feed it
High Oxygen High Octane
fire all neurons
Cease the day
that just the way it is
There is not limit to the tank
breathe it all in
11/17/2025
Ham
Now I am not much sure
what to tell you
but I'm just not that conversed with the rising cost of SPAM
nor its requisite meats and brines
I don't eat the stuff
Simple as that
Now if you don't mind
I'd like to get back to work
And yes making a 1:16 scale replica of Mt Rushmore out of popsicle sticks, glue, and a dream
is work
Now Gooday
11/16/2025
This title should be blank space to represent Nothing but here are words that explain that... Ain't that something
Water tastes sweet just as the air smells divine
Even though their sensation is close to nothing
Nothing in
Nothing out
Each breathe identical
in perfect balance
Nothing in
Nothing out
You can touch nothing
You can see nothing
and you can hear nothing
Do all at the same time
and the mind goes haywire
Nothing is to be feared
11/15/2025
Addicted to ZZZzzz
Rest is addictive
you just stop moving and wait
for something to come on by
what, doesn't matter just some inertia
The World is quite nice
Thought
I wouldn't much like to be a sailor in quiet seas
Life is much more fun when the ship is sinking
11/14/2025
Goodbye Today
So long
It is time to go
to the land beyond sight and sound
Into the night
Dream land awaits
Sign up
Go ahead
sleep
11/13/2025
Reuse Reduce Recycle and if you buy new don't buy crap
I can feel the pull of consumerism
more stuff more space
It grows the economy
but to what end?
What landfill will I fill when it is all said and done?
I think now I understand quality over quantity
because I am sure the archeologist of the future
will have enough shit to sift through
11/12/2025
Melodramatic - As per usual
It all crumbled
but I still smiled
The World was mine
just as it is always yours
Just refuse to be anything but happy
It is as easy as that
Nothing lost
Everything gained
____
Siesta now
Good night
11/11/2025
DODODO
Do and figure out the details as you go
What do you have to lose?
Nothing
We come from nothing and end with nothing
so what do you have to lose?
Nothing
Smell the roses as you go
just because you can, smell the lavender too
Do it all
Legs and will are the only thing separating you and
the World
Never be bored
Only curious
P.S. Check out Always Look on the Bright Side of Life By Monty Python
11/10/2025
Tempting the Heavens
Warmth faded from my hands
while the World behind my back
got a powder sugar coating of cloud seeds
Sarcomeres scream in fiery rage
the cold rock was unmoved
Layers of clothing separated me
from the now naked trees
I climbed higher
as the snow continued to fall
Burning energy in bursts till-
the top
Secured I looked behind me as I descended back to Earth
The snow rode with me and I smiled
I am home again
11/09/2025
Thought
Wandering minds fill in the blanks of the mundane world with wonder
Big Willie and Little Willie
There they stood. Proud
Big Willie and Little Willie
They had accomplished something great
They had climbed the highest heights
during the lowest lows
but they got up every morning
and stood proud
Now after a hard days work
the Willies hang low
and look for a warm place to rest their heads
and wait for another day to come
11/08/2025
Taking Care of Business
The climber laid back supported
only by his fingers and spirit
while the rain and thunder roared
Breathe. Move. Clip. Clip. Step. Reach. Pray.
Fear pours down soaking his mind
but now is not the time
It is the time to move
Nobody knows what compels him
not even himself
Normal nature just doesn't seem to be enough
The reminder of mortality sustains him
Soaked and illuminated by the flashing sky
The climber settles his feet on the solid ground
Satisfied
11/07/2025
Kentucky
Creator of the Universe
there are times when even the faithless
see divinely inspired natural beauty
The reds intertwined with greens oranges yellows
An optic salad
White whistling grass scattered between the brush adds so much
texture and life
This land of abandoned puppies seems cruel
but that's our fault
We do tarnish
We make bad
We greed
11/06/2025
Do Not Order the Reaper Sandwich from Dave's Hot Chicken
They asked for my ID
made me sign my life away on a receipt
What the hell am I going to eat
Oh this isn't so bad
No it is
It is worse than bad
This is Hell
and I need to hurl
I lay in a pile of sweat
and regret everything
Fire from all holes
P.S.
I looked like a corpse
11/05/2025
dayshift/nightshift
The Sun has called the quits
at least when I'm free
It seems like it's on the same 9-5 as the rest of us
I guess that's fair
Why should the Sun work more than me?
I just wish we were on different shifts
P.S.
The Spanish figured this out long ago with the siesta. I should go to Spain.
11/04/2025
I guess I was tired
Rest has cursed me again
I need rest
Flush that spinal fluid through my brain
Sleep now
Yes heavy
snores
11/03/2025
Unholy Water
There's something in the water
It can't be seen, touched, or tasted
but it is there
and it is poison
the water freezes when heated
and boils when cold
the World is going backwards
Drinking it makes you forget that me and you
are not so different
mostly the same
Drinking it fill your heart
with hate not hope
Don't drink that water
Drink wine
11/02/2025
Tiny Dancer
Unwavered by the weight of the World
the dancers made tiny pitter patters with their paws
as they gracefully hurled themselves across the plastic world
I stopped wondering how they kept their strong bodies so small
and just watches
P.S.
Went to the Carolina Ballet
Unfinished Thought- Unless
Wandering around days of future passed fill the mind with
11/01/2025
Asbestos Suit
Everything is on fire
It devours It hungers
It cannot lick me
I stand, cool
The World may be rendered to ash
but I will still be standing with my
Unwavering Beam of Light
Be sure of yourself
and know why
Nothing can hurt you
Survive the fire
that's growing stronger everyday
10/31/2025
I wouldn't even know how to do evil if I tried
Filled with cheese and beer
I prance into the night
blazing through the dying of the light
for now is a time of mischief and I am it's caper
I bay at the Moon
I recoil at garlic
I am a collection of others fears
I am a monster
10/30/2025
Chasing Tomorrow
Yellow Sun on the horizon
I will get there I will catch you
Yellow Sun so far away
you are so beautiful and full of life
I will run I will climb
I will do everything I can
to be with you ol' Yellow Sun
Hope on the horizon
Dogs bark I run
I'll catch you
oh hope on the horizon
I am so tired
but I'll find hope on the horizon
10/29/2025
Thought #1
Up and down are the same it's all relative
Last Thought
My eyes are quite heavy
and those little muscles
that reside inside
can't hold them open
anymore
goodnight
10/28/2025
Dream of a Better World
My happy place lies just beyond my eyes
that gray coral that can take me anywhere anytime
Imagination is a wonderful thing
Serenity is always the goal
now happiness
Peace triumphs all
rock paper scissors
The mind should be a temple for peace
I Love the World
and I want to share Peace
10/27/2025
The Great Divide
Two yellow lines separate life and death
stay on your side and you'll live
Cross them and you may kill or be killed
Eyes open. Mind wide
Look, listen, feel
do anything but cross the line
Their lies not pot of gold
only dice games with the Devil
And if you do find yourself opposide
slow down and leave
There are people here, racing just like you
Leave, don't look back
Look ahead
Stay in your lane
P.S. Watched my friend get hit by a car who crossed into our lane. Everyone was healthy after the fact. Keep your eyes up
10/26/2025
4+20
four and twenty years ago
my eyes first saw light
my childhood was fruitful
despite my parents fights
they were trying to be more
but the home isn't a playground for war
a different kind of quarrel now relents my soul
they say that I am a learned man
but there's something I must know
why am I so alone?
where is my place?
what is my purpose? will it come to me?
am I gone?
as I whittle down my days
and make my mark upon this earth
I see the grooves are shallow and carry little worth
I embrace the quiet serenity
I grow tired of the stillness
there is no progress in peace
and I find myself just wishing
that I will play my piece
P.S.
Biked to DC and back from my apartment. My Youth will not be wasted.
10/25/2025
Who's running from who? Or Relative Motion
The same ol' Sun that I used to damn in the Summer now seems so far away
The World is in retreat
Leaves fallen, lines of salt drawn on the road, skin hidden
behind layers of defense
Now as frost nips my finger tips
I pray for a warm summer day
knowing the worst has yet to pass
So I too bundle up, hibernate
till better times will come
This dance doesn't seem to help anyone
Maybe one day-
somehow us and the heavens will find Happy Medium
10/24/2025
Thought #1
Dragons made of paper manchette sit on mountains of gold stolen from the swarms of ants below
Thought #2
Small dogs seem like cruel experiments where no one wins but the dog surely loses
10/23/2025
Cry Robot
A robot crying would be a sorry sight
It not only wouldn't have asked to be brought into this World
but more so wouldn't ask for emotions and their tear ducts
We bring new life into the World all the time
Heck I think there's at least a billion of us
and it is awful to watch each other cry
but we persist
Biology wills it
Still to bring a robot to tears
What would make a robot cry?
Loss?
I am not sure how they would feel
I'm sure it would be fascinating
10/22/2025
Brownian Motion
Who am I but a motley fool
dancing around without direction
but at least I am moving
unlike the ballerina wind-up
forever spinning, still
I used to know what forward meant
now I'm not so sure
Life's not a race to the end
so I guess forward would be smelling the most roses
or perhaps
helping the most people smell the roses
I like that
Helping people
10/21/2025
Diseased Mind
Helplessness is a plague
that only oneself can dig their way out of
because to be helpless one must reject help
and even in this twisted world there is help
The darkest nights are lit up by the stars above
no matter now few
Look forward
Move ahead
Hope
10/20/2025
Clock In Clock Out
Boredom is a wicked cur
and I wish to kill it
The question is with what
It could be anything which is what frightens me
The Whole World...
loves it when you sing the blues
I have much love to give to the World
but first I need to allow myself that rite
Tomorrow will come
that alone fills me with joy
Time is mankind's greatest blessing and curse
I am sorry for wasting it away
10/19/2025
Autumn slipped out of her slip
The still green autumn trees sway in the early night breeze
casting shadows both from electric and lunar light
upon the asphalt and grass below
Fall is a funny season beauce as the trees strip down to their bare bark
Us two legged types add on layers of reds, browns, and oranges
Seems like the World goes in reverse
but with this global warming its two steps warmer
one step back
Although it can seem gray
the change of the seasons are pretty
and pretty things are good by me
10/18/2025
Fire was TV before Radio
What exactly does a deferred dream look like today?
___
Now wait there's more
more show boating and waving
red, white, and blue
angry at the status quo
but fighting with signs and presence
alone
How often have you feared a sign
How often have you looked away from a fire
I fear the day ol' dixie will burn down
10/17/2025
Hamburgers
What's so special about America anyhow
Is it our wealth?
Our culture?
the dying, undying American Spirit?
Does the World still look at us with awe
and do we believe in it ourselves?
I still wonder why Lady Liberty has shown only her back to America
What does she see?
10/16/2025
Fading thoughts
Barely awake I write
below no moon
just electric light
I can't write long
and I don't have much to say but this
Suck the marrow out of each day and you'll have nothing to regret
10/15/2025
Traflamadorian
Yesterday's memories were once tomorrow's future
and that's spectacular
I wonder what it would be like to be unstuck in time
to have a TV remote for life
I'm not sure I'd like it
Would you just repeat the best moments and skip over the worst?
That seems hedonistic
but is that so bad?...
If you don't have to take the bad with the good
why should you?
To learn
10/14/2025
Wide Asleep
I am tired
so I rest
like a snow hare
bundled in
Cozy
sleep
Aaaahhhh
10/13/2025
Gray
Gray seems like a more appropriate colour for sorrow than blue
Blue is so kind, like a blanket from the sky
Gray is moody and desaturated
Suitable
When it rains I feel gray
it makes it hard to play outside
and that is where I always want to be in the World
They say computer screens make millions of colours
but it's funny how no technology quite captures the real thing
Machines can do a lot but they cannot experience life as we do
In that we are alone
Gray
10/12/2025
ICE
The things that shouldn't be happening are happening
and I'm not sure how much longer
I'll believe in the Creators future dream
Soldiers in civilian livery snatch and steal
contribution and sacrifices and then send them away
to their escaped homes or worse
The waitlist for the chopping block isn't long
and it's better to ask yourself now
whether you'll fall in line or if your head will roll
History has seen this before
Killing of the weak to make the few feel strong
They have their weapons but we have ours
remember it's them, then me, and alone you will be
if we don't act now in Unity
10/11/2025
The Birds
I wonder if birds mind signing out of tune
I reckon they don't pay too close attention to those sorts of things
Ego and all that
It must be nice to be a bird
the freedom
Until it rains
then they must get mighty cold
I held a dying bird once
it was sad
so light so delicate
Such is life
It's no good to gamble with your life
We've only got the one after all
Just like the birds
10/10/2025
Action Reaction and the Time in between
There is something fantastic
about the action reaction of a pool stick smacking in the cue ball
it ricocheting with a clank to bum-bump a solid ball down the sink
The sound, the sight, the observability and quickness.
What Newton left out of his famous every action there's a reaction mantra
is the fuse. How long it takes
I have recently fallen victim to the fuse and would just like to say to the chili pepper I ate on an empty stomach
Fuck you
10/09/2025
The Brightest Red Balloon
Eyes see colour the same way every day
The red of stop signs
The eggshell white walls
Green trees
But our mind can make the most vibrant scenery feel gray
and the most mundane marvelous
Chose the beauty when you cannot find it
It is there
You just have to see it that way
10/08/2025
The Stranger in my Mind won't leave me Alone
No matter how fast you run
or how high you can jump
there is no escaping the self
It is shadow in complete darkness
it haunts every dream and nightmare
There is no way out
so look in
Clang around the old tool chest
find what's wanted then chase it
the odds of running into answers is low
Fail, succeed, doesn't really matter
Just do
Even when it's hard- just do
Peace is around every corner
10/07/2025
Ruffles, polka-dot, red nose, and a hat
I don't mind so much that at times I can be a complete fool
Sometimes I'm good
others... not so much
P.S. I don't remember what I apparently screwed up here
10/06/2025
can you read out these letters for me and find the answers in the clouds
Of all the Light in the Universe
only a speck ever reaches the eye
and what the mind focuses on-
even less
That tiny light that passes through holds everything known
and gives it to everyone for free
Maybe the Garden of Eden isn't so far away and that Tree of Knowledge told us everything we need
Open eyes and see nothing more
nothing less
10/05/2025
To the Statues in my Mind
I tend to build monument of my character in my mind
and like all monuments, they fail to capture the appropriate scale
If I am not the fastest should not cause disappointment but the statue of Hermes sure thinks it should
Never enough...
Maybe these monuments
serve purposes against my own happiness
Slaves to what I could be but
I am not
Is that a good reason to tear down my idealized self?
Because it is not true?
Maybe
Truth finds it way around anyhow
10/04/2025
Nervous Excitement over Dinner
Sometimes I just get a little excited and super energetic
like a pinball machine
all pistons
go go go
I try to stifle the high
but I just can't
it is like lemmings off a cliff
inevitable
They said it was fun
and I had fun too so I'm not sure why
I tried to stop
Maybe I am crazy
10/03/2025
Are we not Men?
I know what separates us sapiens
from our brothers in the Animal Kingdom
One; We see ourselves in others eyes
and Two; we tell stories
I once heard planes defined humanity
not that we invented them but instead that we don't kill each other in such a stressful environment
I can't imaging a bunch of chimpanzees on a plane
Ants are interesting but I'm not sure if they really learn or share what they learn beyond simple pheromones
So I'll stick by my guns
Kindness and stories
P.S. We are DEVO
10/02/2025
The Hunger and Thirst
Every action, every thought
is tiresome
It's a fast but time is so slow
I do see clearly though
what I have done
and what I will do
Kindness
it's what makes us human
that we don't kill each other
Instead reaching out a hand
I will do that
Only when you are so weak
that you can barley help yourself
are you truly vulnerable
I am close
P.S. People ask why no water for a day. It is to feel.
10/01/2025
"Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail"
Look me in eyes
we are not so different
you and I
In fact I think we are more or less the same
I mean no harm
and assume you don't either
the World is kinder when we say hello
I never cared before of what you believe
why would now be any different
Now don't worry I am not asking for your hand down the aisle
Just that we both stand next to each other and have the willingness to listen and be decent
I am here, waiting, and I'll never stop saying hello
P.S. That title is in the prologue from Kurt Vonnegut's Jail Bird in which a highschooler wrote to Kurt summarizing his work with those words. Those words were written by John Figler, who must've been 17 back in 1979 which makes him some 60 odd years old today. I hope he is well. Peace
09/30/2025
On Faith
It is not hard to maintain the amount of piety
I observe
But even the little I do goes beyond what many young Americans
can tolerate
It is not about believing
in the traditions
It is just about doing them
Afterall I am here in part due to them
I don't think it's dishonest to act this way
I know what I am and I don't think I am fooling anybody
Least of all the Creator of the Universe
09/29/2025
Electric Flicker
Although the electric candle light flickers
it does little to flame that primate part of my brain that lights up during a bonfire
Something special, intangible about a large dancing pyre
Our own beams of light seem to meld with the World's
briefly, and before human eyes
It must be as close as us layfolk get to seeing
The Creator of the Universe
We may try to imitate with circuity and LED,
but nothing compares to true light
09/28/2025
Maryland Snake
To the snake I ran over with my bike
I'm sorry
I didn't see you until it was too late
You coiled up to reduce your size
but not enough
If it is any condolences, you scared me
and anyhow I did not look back to check on you
maybe you're alive
Lot told me to never look back
Next time I will try to look further ahead
but this wasn't the first time and I doubt it will be the last
...
09/27/2025
C6H12O6
Sugar calls to me
just as a siren calls to a woman starved sailor
Walking down the candy aisle is a test of faith
even the more pious would flinch at
There are so many ways to get your fix all wrapped in pretty foil and bright colours
I wish it just drifted away instead of lurking around every corner
I wish I were blind to that seductive sugar
09/26/2025
The Social Glue
Even in this big world
which oh so often feels like it's fallen apart
do small gesture of humanity give undying hope
People still say hello to the unknown stranger and they still say hi back
Doors are still held open for those whose door holding skill are behind them
There's still that common decency between the common man
and from that we built society and that's how we'll maintain it too
Decency
09/25/2025
Stranger Theory
Strangers are just friends in waiting
You never know what you have in common with someone
until you open your mouth and listen
Everyone has a story just waiting to be told
as do you
That's why, deep down
whoever you're closest to.
That's who you've got the most in common with
Just say hello
09/24/2025
Who's your neighbor
Up and down that East coast you get to see so many faces
and so many stories
Sitting next to a stranger
on the train
or waiting in line maybe even caught in the rain
So many stories to hear
So many stories to share
It's a beautiful thing to colour in the blank world around you
with the vibrancy of those closest to you
It's a small world after all
09/23/2025
Stranger in the Mirror
Shaving your face is always a treat
It's a chance to be like
Hey who are you?!
But it's the same you
but new
and oh so handsome too!
It's the contrast from
I don't care how I look
to a clean mean fighting machine
Maybe I should shave more
09/22/2025
Thoughts
Just below the waves
nothing can be seen
It is only when the eyes peer above the surface
can light be seen
---
Seems to me everything I want to do
costs money
I don't like that
It's egregious amounts too
---
Every days a chance to look at the world anew
So why don't you?
and why haven't I?
09/21/2025
Childhood Whims
Canned green beans
on Styrofoam plates getting holes poked through
by plastic forks
Those were the Sunkissed days
drinking that nectar out of fruit cups like a sailor
Carton milk, four square,
a rare treat of dodgeball-
recess might as well been Christmas
Easy going on razor scooters
that hardened the softest shins
Piles of dirt sky high
Just for me and my friends
I don't know when but something changed
09/20/2025
Ehh
When I open my eyes
I see the world
but you're not there
Where are you amongst the stars
Where are you in the racing cars
I am here quiet, alone
you are there soft, at home
Maybe we've already crossed paths
maybe we never will
but deep down I'll love you still
because you are my unknown lover
and I still believe in unknown love
So I cast my coin in the wishing well
hoping to see you in the rippling reflection
09/19/2025
Fall's Calling
The leaves are falling
Autumn is calling
Will you pick up the phone?
Why hello, oh it's you
you're what I dream of when I am blue
Long pants, wool sweaters,
old sappy love letters
The air honey crisp
There's no time quite as beautiful as Appalachia in autumn
The fire red maples covering the mountains
I love the fall and I fall in love in the fall
I just don't know to who
09/18/2025
The world beyond sight and sound and whatever spaghetti squash is
Peace on Earth is only a blink away
just close your eyes
and let the worries fade away
Who can be right when everyone has a different definition of wrong?
Behind closed eyes only you can see
Your abyss your chalkboard
I wonder what you'll write
If you're like me you'll look at it for awhile
Study it like a sculptor, look deep within
and find your unassailing truth
and start your world from there
Every Peace needs a foundation
09/17/2025
U-Turn
Noise only bothers you if you let it
ya know
I just ignore it
Things only have power if you give it to 'em
well that's not always true
Politics and all that
huh
What a world
09/16/2025
When it rains...
It all comes down
the sky is falling
No patch of concrete spared
and no plant parched
Rain. Seek shelter
From the outside
Go inside and do what?
Wait for the rain to stop?
No, that's no fun
and maybe the rain won't stop
Do
Whatever you can
Read, write, learn
Jump up and down
Call a friend
Do SOMETHING!
09/15/2025
Upchuck funeral for my twice daily spicy friend
Stomach acid can't handle
the amount of capsaicin I've consume
so it fights against me
and this time
this time it wins
So long habaneros
You've hurt me too badly for this to go on
09/14/2025
Welcome to the land of Today
I haven't been here before
Today
No one has
it's all our first day Today
The birds songs may sound the same
but they are new
as every step taken
Whether you stumble or fall
is enough
because today is your first Today
Worry not of the Past
It is you choice to let it haunt you
Worry not of the future
it's not real
Now's the only time there is
hold onto your heart and your luggage and make to most of it
09/13/2025
You don't have to be to be
What's all this hoopla
about doing things right?
Just do them
that alone is enough
Your voice just has to be true to you
Your pen writing your thoughts
your brush your imagination
for you alone
Why would be good at something limit you doing
Never say you're not an artist
just be
09/12/2025
Question and Answer
Is there anything else besides this
Yes No
I think so too
There is something
Untouchable
that I want to touch
Let's make it here
Heaven on Earth
Yes
09/11/2025
Slumber
My eyes
they grow heavy
It is time to rest
...
09/10/2025
Baltimore
I hope the beat up little seagull
on a marble slab
can find its way to the Ocean
In our hard time city
In our hard town by the sea
Oh Baltimore why is it so
why can't you grow
to be a land of homogenous living
not cut up slices of black and white
I want you to be a city where everyone eats a square meal
sleeps under roofs
looks each other in the eyes
Baltimore I do not know what happened but I hope for what's happening
09/09/2025
I can't fathom
I don't know how one man can just look at another
and think less of them
and I don't wonder why
Because there is no explanation
anywhere across the nation
to put a fellow man down because of the colour of their skin
Antisemitic stones have been cast at me
I know it is hard to be an other
a butt of a joke
an root for all life's problems
That's how I know that we're not all that different
We all bleed
09/08/2025
My Song
Sing'n ain't never done me wrong
even when I'm out of tune and the lyrics are a jumbled mess of memory
A songs a story
we tell a round and around
and well the story
the story is a beautiful thing
So sing your own song
and sing it loud
cause it's your song
and your story
and that's special
Only yours
09/07/2025
We are all home
Some wonder
I know
where the Sun goes
when the day is all but done
The Sun goes Home
Amongst the Stars
to rest so brightly on the other side of the Earth
Our home
Is the same Home
All of us, together
shining under the Sun
each with our own stars
pouring our souls deep into the night
The soul is bright
it is sturdy
and it dances across the sky
just like the Sun's rays
We are all here under the Sun
Where the Sun makes plants grow
and we eat those plants
and the best of us share them
the worst grow fat and alone
But no one should be alone
because you should not feel alone at home
and everyone is home
and our souls are dancing together
We must come together as one
and be home
09/06/2025
Round & Round
Going round and round
so fast so fast
Watch the world go past
then you will be found by yourself
Blink and you'll miss your reflection
in the lens of your own eyes
Blink
I may not know where I am going
but I am going
and I cannot stop
Pistons fire round and round
Stand tall even if you are small
The World's not so big anyhow
09/05/2025
I Love Apples
These words I write
write these words
day in, out
breathe in, out
I just want to
fly
Down here where the huckleberries grows
The birds fly downside up
but they sing the same
If you know
I know
Who what where when and sometimes why
how the trees know where to go
so
I'll chop one down
and make applesauce
Peace
09/04/2025
Transferable Luck
Luck is funny
because it's real if you want it to be
and laughable if you disagree
Luck and fortune oft walk
hand in hand
which is interesting
because it means luck was captured
I have always thought of myself as lucky
and we are all lucky to live another day
Sometimes I just wish I could share luck with others
To make their worries go away
09/03/2025
Dog Days
I only knew Kody and Lily
for some seven odd years
but I will miss them
for the rest of mine
Kody and his shy ghost eye
that seldom saw another's
Lily and her slender adventurous
soft spirit
They were lovely dogs
and I will cherish their memories even though
the thought of them brings a tear to my eye
09/02/2025
Stories on the Shelf
Rows of books
are not so different
from rows of houses
Each contain their characters
and stories
They look more interesting when they vary in design and colour
and they both look grand all packed together
and lonely far apart
Books vary in size, cost, style
as do the rows
Their architect, their authors
Their windows, eyes to what lives within
The World is much more peaceful
when we all come together
side by side
09/01/2025
Plea for Nature
Feel the breeze come crashing down
the Sun against your outstretched arms
and allow yourself to be that soft soul
you know you are
The city is loud
so much noise
it clutters the mind
The world starts and ends
between the optic nerve and the brain
Act like it
08/31/2025
Dream Wondering
Every dream that has ever or will be dreamed
is amazing
Good or bad imagination is fascinating
The Whole World
I know little of the World
The World less of me
But I know I will be happy
Knowing that I spent my time
with those who see opportunity to be kind
and act
No matter how big or small humans are at their best
when they see an opportunity to help and choose to do so
The World is lighter when we all don't have to carry the weight alone
08/30/2025
Ouroboros
The Snake eats its tail again
It is hungry
Hungry for more
more than it alone can provide
but it's tail is all it sees
No garden of Eden
nor golden arches
It believes it should sustain itself
by itself
Our serpentine friend is foolish but familiar
so ever more it goes around the merry go round
of days, weeks, years
never growing, blind
Until it chooses to see the light
and realize it's hunger
cannot be satiated by one
mind and body alone
