LOWER down, in Johnstown, all seems calm.
UNION is going on 113, war survived, injustice re-submerged;
PARTY, faction, a steady equilibrium of peace?
FLOOD bursts as a sign; submerged may see the light, bad structures can fall.
Month: June 2022
2022-06-06 words
LOWER, UNION, PARTY, FLOOD
Justice Delayed Will Yet Arrive
GAVEL in last judgment, Judge! You will not be partial;
MOGUL in the dock cannot inflate importance or
DEIGN self as exception to what is good.
WRECK those who, unchecked, did not turn and plead for grace.
2022-06-05 words
GAVEL, MOGUL, DEIGN, WRECK
The Rhythm
SCOPE of poem? Uncertain, but not to create cliché.
BLOKE, yes. Bohemian, yes. Musician, yes.
ROACH—no. So, what’s he high on? Life? This poem does not know.
BONGO? It’s the focus here: the rhythm’s about to start.
2022-06-04 words
SCOPE, ROACH, BLOKE, BONGO
A Jumbled Composition
SPLAT, drone note of my life’s score.
SAVVY, tempo sometime signals upswing.
MORON, unwelcome annotation.
DROSS, common in this composition. Yet some notes true.
2022-06-03 words
SPLAT, SAVVY, MORON, DROSS
129
#1:
THERE, down the river on a
BARGE, floats cargo
WORTH a king’s ransom. What a
FARCE to think it won’t sink.
#2:
BARGE in, see this
FARCE in progress.
THERE is nothing
WORTH your time in that room.
#3:
THERE in the Suez Canal, a giant
BARGE stops up the works. Watch the
FARCE as it plays out, wreaking havoc
WORTH millions for its disruption.
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A Brief Together While
FARCE of common good and common life: to count a person’s
WORTH in currency of culture’s wars. The tribes
BARGE in, dragoon troops, demand oaths.
THERE is a greater mode: of shared delight; for this brief together while, we all live.