April is the cruelest month, A famous poet said His dreary observation Keeps repeating in my head And so it seems appropriate And somehow, sadly fitting That April honors poetry At least from where Im sitting That I have had a chance to write I cheer with great Thanksgiving But speaking from experience-- Its sure [...]
There’s a MEME that’s out there posting And it’s, kind of, going viral That Obamacare’s in trouble And it’s, sort of, in a spiral That it’s ceased to be dynamic Of its breath, there’s little left Under water, doomed and done for Of its life, it is bereft There are those, though, who dispute this [...]
The world is slowly turning But it’s quickly getting stranger No one has good answers And everywhere, there’s danger Some of us look heavenward Repeating our entreaties Moving through the Lenten season Toward the “Quem quaeritis?” Others study heaven Simply looking at the stars Like those who funded NASA And have set their sights on [...]
Ive written poems for holidays For birthdays and vacations Like Anthony, Ive even penned Some funeral orations Ive written poems for guests And even sevral for the host Of all these odes Ive written on Obamacare the most Back then Id quote Pelosi In ridicule and rhyme Were spending 90 billion But it wont cost [...]
Theyre storing all our emails Each and every text Calls are all transcripted God only knows whats next What girls wrote in their diaries And each Cathlic boy confesses Is parked through perpetuity In digital recesses Soon video will recognize And bureaucrats record The books that Ive been reading And the way I praise the [...]
I gave my heart to Hollywood To Bogey, Kate and Liz But now they can’t be trusted Even with, “The winner is…” I gave my heart to politics To try and do some good Trusting those in charge to do The things they said they would I gave my heart to John McCain He said [...]
Its far beyond my competence And some may find it odd To justify, As Milton might The ways of Man to God Since mankind first awakened We sought to understand Our place in this creation That the great Creator planned We sought it in the river And we sought it in the wild We sought [...]
For eight years, weve been told The other guys had stronger forces For six years then, the leadership Told us to hold our horses Four years ago, they had a plan According to sage sources And now they have power But theyre not sure what the course is Well, if politics is marriage They may [...]
I was told once by a wise man Thus, of course, it must be true That on any given issue There are several points of view So I always keep an open mind And try to do my best To explore my way of thinking And be open to the rest While at peace with [...]
You may know the story. Poet Robert Frost was asked to write a poem for JFK's inaugural. But on the day, the DC sun was blinding and he couldn't read what he wrote; he recited a different poem from memory. Following is a link to the poem Frost wrote for that day. But be careful, [...]