The lions roar is very loud–
He voices his power just like a god,
And none would ever doubt
The terror as it strikes them down,
But lions know little of courageous things.
Tag Archives: poems
Tolerance
We are now so tolerant,
so willing, that intelligent people
are unable to speak freely
If All the Stars Should Go
I will predict that all could end.
That time should slip
and suns should burn
A Pharaoh’s Rise – Revise #1
Among the world’s most pressing ruins
artifacts come rising as phoenixes
parting their form from the fierce driven wind
and sand that whirls around in its dying
hour of enjambment with earth and sky.
Poets Bend Your Lines
We poets do not live
within the confines of margins;
poetry itself lives
We Break
We break
as the newspaper
and anchorman read
teleprompter like,
Wooden Frowns
Nothing is more disappointing,
nothing so uncared-for
as one that knows let down,
The Net
I wished that love
was not far-flung
as foreign coasts
What if?
What if I made you change
your ideologies today?
there’s babies soft and strange
and hungry human hearts at play
where algorithms dare not go.
Gonzo is Dead
Oh, man, they’re gonna make it look like suicide
and type a note on how life is not all joyrides
Artificial Intelligence
A.I. is the genie,
and we are the question;
On a Bad Marriage
Everyday was exactly the same,
and the night did nothing,
and staying weighed me like an elephant
Entropy
This is the law,
the rule of nature eternal,
the force for which we name
The Playground of Life
There is a gypsy in her hair;
a place where I slip off to breath,
a paradise of spring and new born things,
a playground made of laughter’s glee.
The ever decreasing minutes of day
The ever decreasing minutes of day
trickle like the granules in an hourglass;
Do not Fall For a Man Like Me
Do not fall for a man like me
I am not blind; I do not see.
I am the reason storms have names
Dad’s Shadow
On workdays he’d get up,
worn as the mattress’s springs,
and put on his dad face.
I’d sometimes see him through the cracks
A Carpenter’s Tools
How many year ago
did the carpenters tools
become useless
to understand the world?
Habitual Bipedalism and Episodal Humanism
Ever since the first grass blades gathered
beneath the feet of wandering birch trees
those little leafs have made us leap and flee;
our hips an Eocene launch toward hazards,
The Bluebird and the Apocalypse
There is an apocalypse in my chest,
and there is a bluebird beating its wings.