absence
need not mean
disconnection,
merely priority
I’m on the road for a week. I’ll check in, when possible.
free verse
Poem Up at Amethyst Review
My poem, “Why Would I Pray,” is featured at Amethyst Review. I’d like to thank editor Sarah Law for graciously encouraging me to work this poem through to completion.
Ken G.
Remembering Air Force Won
Remembering Air Force Won
Teleprompter on the fritz?
No problem! After all, you’re a president
with a very, very large brain.
Just ad lib. Name the army after George Washington.
Praise revolutionary patriots for taking over the airports.
After all, it’s only history.
And you’re (re)creating it every day.
Trump blames teleprompter for Revolutionary War ‘airports’ flub
President Trump cites China’s respect for his ‘very, very large brain’
American Tradition?
American Tradition?
Relocation of native populations.
Reservations.
Relocation in times of war.
Internment.
Relocation of detainees.
Presidential orders bordering on inhumanity.
Concentration camps.
There is nothing time honored about any of this.
Internment of undesirables, from Native Americans to Japanese Americans, was wrong, but that doesn’t mean the tradition doesn’t continue in the United States, as seen in the continued incarceration of detainees, particularly children at the US southern border, under conditions that are unacceptable and, more importantly, inhumane.
Image source: © Michael de Adder (Facebook)
Castle of Illusion ~ blackout poem
Castle of Illusion
Land and sites engaged the illusion,
made perfect the wholeness, hiding
hollowness. Empty windows watched,
the Ego isolated within, disturbed.
Cairn of ancestors, bitter wind,
vacant feel part of its landscape,
our own psyche apart from it.
This blackout poem is based on a post, Hunting the Unicorn: Shells and Fruits,
written by Sue Vincent and posted at The Silent Eye. I encourage you to read it.
The image is an edited/layered version of two of Sue’s photos.
~~ Thank you to Sue for her inspiration and for graciously accepting my offering. ~~
diamond dreams ~ magnetic poetry
diamond dreams
beneath the light of a thousand
honeyed stars, I breathe
a sweetness found only
in time spent with you
If you want to try magnetic poetry, you can do it online, here.
Background image: NASA/NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer)
via Astronomy Picture of the Day
(click image for larger view in new tab)
Shades of Gray ~ #writephoto
Shades of Gray
Let me in. Don’t let me in.
Door after door, opening,
leading ever deeper.
Questions within questions.
The light in your eyes
telling me to enter,
yet offering no answers.
Shadows, hints, that tell nothing,
yet say everything about you.
All of this leading nowhere.
Nothing, but the next,
and the next, each time
leaving little to hold onto
but shades of gray.
This is my response to Thursday Photo Prompt: Open #writephoto
at Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo, with her photo.
