Category Archives: Pain



Approaching Death

When you’re eighty-four, and wake up each day
With a creaky hip and a swollen foot,
With a body stiff, pretty much kaput,
You wonder at the lyrics of decay.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Pain, Wisdom

Life

You get born,
Then struggle to learn to walk.
Then you learn to talk,
Go to school, compete,
Graduate, compete again.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Pain, Religion, War, Wisdom

At The Paddle Tennis Courts: Requiem For Michelle

One day Michelle, and her English bulldog
Ginger, came to the courts to learn the game.
Blonde, tall—nuanced slender curves stoked fierce flames
Among the benched old men who watched her jog.
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Posted in Beauty, Death, Pain

2/6/2014

Today’s my birthday.
My stepson called,
My eldest called,
And my youngest
(Not so young at fifty-one)
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Posted in Aging, Family, Pain

Typhoon Haiyan

A biblical god named Jehovah
Is frequently quoted in torah.
He’s often enraged,
Resentful, engaged,
And kills us with violent blow-overs.
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Posted in Pain, Religion

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