Category Archives: Several Short Poems

April, 2010: Current Events

T. S. Eliot
Famously accused April—
Guilty I. R. S.?

Those Bangkok red-shirts— Continue reading →

Posted in Several Short Poems, Today's News

Flirtatious birds flit—
Stalking cats misunderstand—
Unrequited love! Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Joan, Several Short Poems

Stony, silent toad
Sits—supple tongue, deadly, coiled—
Waiting for a fly. Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Joan, Several Short Poems

Politicians jest,
Excoriate, mock, score points.
But what principle,
Philosophy, theory, Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Joan, Several Short Poems

Administration Change

Inauguration:
My whole life, I never saw
So gross a tsimmis. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Several Short Poems, War

Grave business, blue-black!
Cut slack, print money, thrust back—
Way to skin a cat!

Posted in Greed, Politics, Several Short Poems