In a week when it’s apparent That there’s so much light at stake In your liberties and lives And in decisions you can make In your right to speak out freely On positions you can hold In your doing what you ought to And not merely what you’re told In your freedom to [...]
(Last week, I engaged in a little good-natured mockery of AI. This week?) Just when you’re feeling cocky And you have the whole thing licked You click your heels together and A hornet’s nest gets kicked My life which was so beautiful Has suddenly turned ugly And all because of what I wrote And [...]
He had a dozen followers And set their hearts on fire But remember, of the 12, my friends One was a denier They listened to His wisdom As the greatest truth purveyor But one among the listeners Became his friend’s betrayer Ten among their number Were made of stuff much stouter But one [...]
Events precede so swiftly There's no need for asking why You failed to see the turning point Before you've passed it by You wander through the chaos And you feel a little lost Without you even noticing The Rubicon’s been crossed And then you wake one morning And everything has changed You make [...]
Regard the ant and termite The coral and the bee All of these are prosperous But none of them are free They feel the storm, they flee the rain They tremble at the thunder They see the flash of lightning But never do they wonder And yet, they're so well organized Their royalty, prolific Our [...]
Put aside inflation Back burner global warming The way we handle secrets Is what really needs reforming The Intelligence Community Judging from appearances Loses lots of documents To folks who don’t have clearances You can call me biased Or label me a “homer” But “Intelligence” Community May be a misnomer For I’m [...]
I often hear superlatives When finishing my narratives But last week I got took to task For using bad comparatives My poem seven days ago It failed to pass the muster The host, he didn’t mince his words He cut me down like Custer For actions so transgressive There are limited solutions And [...]
Far be it from this poet To compose a new beatitude But I think there should be one On the rich rewards of gratitude Of all the thoughts I’ve ever had Bizarre, profound, or fateful This one is the clearest “Blessed are the grateful” They come to you with joyfulness Perhaps their way [...]
I should have moved to Florida I should have grabbed my Lexus Loaded it with all my stuff And hauled my ACT to Texas I think back to a week ago When hearts were filled with buoyance That Leftists, just like government Would be a mere annoyance When we could get on with [...]
Be ye Poet, be ye Pundit Well, we all must dread the day Or the moment or the hour When there’s nothing left to say When inflation and recession Hypocrisy and violence When criminals and prosecutors Stun us all to silence When gaffes and poor decisions Doom, despair, and grief Require a thesaurus To express [...]