Category Archives: Today’s News



Agitation

Neurobiology, doubtless, maintains
Strange modalities manipulating
Brains—sound and sight and worry, produce strains,
Synapse sparks, ebbs and snarling flows freighting
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Posted in Politics, Today's News, War, Wisdom

Tumult

March, Twenty-eleven
And the guys down at the paddle tennis courts
Ask, “Marv, what’s goin’ on?”

For nine years now
We’ve fought in Iraq,
Afghanistan.
Africa boils, as Egypt,
Libya, Ivory Coast
Revolt. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Religion, Today's News, War

Creationism

Let’s assume, for the sake of argument,
That one of those almighty creators,
In a blast of “Let there be’s,” did foment
Our universe (a god, not a satyr!) Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, Today's News

Modern Egypt/Ancient Israel

It’s January, twenty-eleven
And, this time, folks rage on Egyptian streets
Burning to leaven with yeast of heaven
The coarse grain of modern life—to defeat Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Politics, Today's News

Religion, Yet Again!

Learned a new god yesterday: Ayyappan.1
I’ll tellya, it’s hard to keep up—Hindus
Got a lotta them! Spawn of myriad views,
Crowded canvas of the superhuman. Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, Today's News

Concupiscence

What strange increase and puzzling decline
Might join fierce finance to rich poetry?
Surely these two—antagonists—recline
In sep’rate beds, certainly do not ski Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Today's News