Species We

Human beings

The current dominant
planetary species

Civilized controllers
of the realm

We fancy ourselves
as highly evolved
rational creatures
but underneath
our pretty garments
and beneath
the cocky facade
exists scared
soft and pink
fragile creatures
equipped with only
slick weaponry

Long removed
from the
jungle primordial

We rapidly evolved 
up
the food chain

Dominating 
with 
high tech gimmickry 
but in reality
deep down 
we still be
soft and pink
mammal 
animals

Fragile stewards
of an
ailing planet

we are failing

Full Size

Full Size


A tangerine
ain't an orange
no matter
how you slice it


Clementines
may be be sweet
but 
it's still not an orange

Size does matter

if you want more
of what you crave

Good things
may come
in small packages

but

you don't get as much
of that good thing
as you desire

Maybe we need
to
downsize
our
expectations

Maybe we need
to be grateful
for the little things 

They all add up
and accumulate

The Detour Tour

The Detour Tour 


To get where
we need to be

we so often
have to travel
through calamity

Frustrating
as the detours
may be

They are a 
practical necessity 

These curves
of unforeseen reality

Forever testing
our resolve

Bolstered by
the belief
our patience
will be rewarded
someday

Well Connected

Well Connected


In the swirl
of this existence

we live and die
in our narrow slots

By day

you and I

dance in parallel worlds

We wave at each other
as we fly on by

Quick visual checks

Touching base
superficially

but 

come late night

in the still of
our solitude

we interact

our words in sync

a joyous interlude

when our worlds
briefly intersect

and we can link 
hearts

and be

cyber together again

Medal Heads

Medal Heads

You too
can be
a hero of
heroic deeds

Doer of brave 
and noble things

Not as hard
as it may seem

Courage is not only
running into a fire
to save a stranger

Courage is 
staring down
the demons
of your past
and
conquering them

Doing your duty
for your family

It can take guts
to be
a responsible adult

Magic Waltz

Magic Waltz


In the moon drenched mist

between Earth and stars

We dance

the late night dance

to the rhapsody
only we can hear

Just the two of us

gliding in sensuous
innocent embrace

This is our moment

even though
we know


that in
the end

this is our
fantasy entirety

For tonight
the magic
is our thing

and the memories

will sustain us

for all eternity

Major Wager

Major Wager


Went to the
equine bank
to make a 
withdrawal

The allure 
of the race track

Play the odds

Let it ride
on a four 
legged nag

Here they come
to the post parade

Pick a winner

I got a hot tip
from a guy
with knowing eyes

who knew 
someone
who
knew something

Inside dope

telling whispers

the stuff of dreams

So I bet it all
on the gray

Number 5
on the program

And they're off!!

Once around
they take their trip

Thunderous sounds
of hooves 
pounding the oval strip

Down the stretch
the screams of dreamers
bring them home

Photo finish!!!

We live and die
by chance
and all the
vagaries
of circumstance

Today I died


Took a fall

on a sure thing

that wasn't
so sure
after all

Nest Remnants

Nest Remnants


Come to me
my sweet baby

Let me sooth 
your pain

Dry your tears

Ease your fears

You belong
in Daddy's arms 

Sleep under
my umbrella

Dream the dreams
of innocence

Soon enough

the day will come

when 

you will want
nothing to do 
with me

Dance away 
my love

Stand on your
own two feet

Leaving me 
thumbing through
the scrap book
pages of memory

Alone in your
empty room

As it should be

The Burning Twig

The Burning Twig


Wandering through
the urban wilderness

Indulgent pilgrims
from Sodom Nation
roll 
down the boulevard

Seeking another shot
of instant gratification

Amidst the glitz 
and revelry

I heard a booming
voice above me

from a source
that is a mystery


Was it God

or
just another
chemical hallucination?

The voice
that just can not be

by all scientific reasoning

Declared his love for me
and all his
wayward children 

And just like that
the force was gone

or was it?

I've got no proof
of my close encounter

and I told no one

lest I be stoned
by the doubting
humanist crowd 

but now I do know

Faith is an uplink 
required
by man


Even if we don't
fully understand

the eternal mystery
we are players in

What the L?

What the L?


Every seduction


Every temptation

requires
a spark of lust

which ignites
into a torch

The consummation

of a beautiful

raging

out of control flame

Feasting on the
oxygen 
of two bodies
smashing together

Passionately
colliding

Energy eventually spent

Embers glow and
slowly grow cold

You know where
this poem is going

So I'll state the obvious
that you will not hear

Love is not lust

Lust is not love

They exist on
parallel spheres 

Occasionally
meeting at the
intersextion

Lust is a sprint

Love is a marathon

Choose the race
you want to participate in

I'll meet you at the
the finish line with
an adult beverage
and a sedative

Irrelevant Elephant

Irrelevant Elephant


Gathering dust
in his shrinking
cubicle box

Mr Disconnect


Perpetually dazed

Completely obsolete

So far out of loop
his opinion
no longer matters

Lost on the bypass

The invisible dinosaur
stares into space

Maybe someday
he'll be needed
again

but

by then

he'll be long gone

Ponderous Ponderings

Ponderous Ponderings


If you came face to face
with the truth

Would you know 
what to do with it?

Can you even believe
your perceptions?

Can you still trust 
your assumptions?

Those hazy recollections
of all we have learned
and applied
do so
cloud our new reality

Doubt seeps through
our concrete paradigms

Until the core is infected
with the paralysis of doubt

Once we lose the
protection of our
self confidence

We question the foundation
and ponder

Is truth still a possibility?

The Unchosen Ones

The Unchosen Ones



In our play ground

where we run
around 

like wild 
little monkeys

a whooping and
a hollering

Order now required

organize the games

Captains anointed

To choose up sides 

The last one picked
always smiles

but

cries inside

Something they
carry within
throughout their lives


Don't tell them
tis just a game

These self esteem
crushing scenes
  

Tale of Two

Tale of Two 


In the city 
that never sleeps

tourists soak up
the scenery

Bright lights dance
in their dazzled eyes
as they clamor
to see the sights

Offstage

away
from the bustle

huddled in
the shadows

far from the view
of the paying crowd

refugees from our
jobless recovery


fight over the scraps

soon to be cut again
by their deaf government

Cost reduction clamor
from the entrenched
numbers mob

What better place
to slice than the
desperately silent
soon to be majority?

who struggle daily
and face a future
of obsolete uncertainty

smothered by depression

battling to
survive
the biting
winds
of poverty
that blow
defeat through
these dark
city streets

Ashes of History

Across golden fields
two forces assemble

The banners are raised
bugles blare the charge

Strangers in different
uniforms collide

Thousands of 
one on one
hand to hand
combat death dances

Beneath sulphur clouds

our blood
will be spilled

Generals peer
through 
looking glasses

safely removed 
from the carnage
they have set forth 

One side wins

but there are
no winners

Broken soldiers
carried back behind
the lines 

Their lives forever
shattered

The dead are
carted away

Names to be
scrawled on
future monuments

Just another
skirmish
in this endless
civil war

On to the
next battle

for the
cause we were sold

Dumb pawns we

Across the pages
of history

we fight and
die for a 
country
 
where love
once mattered

and will
again

Until next time