Category Archives: Greed



Emancipation

An intellectual, perhaps Voltaire,
Perhaps Diderot, many years ago
Reflected on our freedom and welfare
And determined what everyone should know:
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Posted in Greed, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Wisdom

Clerics, Monarchs, Money

Go back to One Samuel chapter eight—
That’s when the struggle that still haunts began.
The priests were running things, and doing great
For themselves—they got the loot, ran the clan.
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Posted in Greed, Religion, War

How?

I sit here, determined to write
Some lyric verse
Celebrating joy
With, perhaps, a comic lilt.
I squeeze my brain
To press out juice
Sweet with cheer,
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Posted in Death, Greed, Pain, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Today's News, War

My Volume Of Verse

I’ve hammered out
Three hundred ninety poems,
Some bent and skewed,
Some polished
And quite bright.
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Posted in Greed, Illusion, Poetry (What is it?), Politics, Religion, War, Wisdom

Poetic Themes

I’ve written about pain
And love, and death.
Versified god
(The source
Of most sorrow
And stress),
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Posted in Greed, Poetry (What is it?), Religion

Futility

I’ve complained about the weather,
Complained about the world;
Incessantly, complained
About religion, greed—
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Posted in Greed, Religion, Wisdom