Category Archives: Today’s News



What’s It All About?

You reach a certain age, settle, look back—
Find your head moving, lightly, side to side—
Soundless words contemplate the trashy wrack—
Your wrecked life’s debris, polluting time’s tide. Continue reading →

Posted in Today's News, Wisdom

Politics

Face it, “occasional” poems suck—the Queen’s
Birthday, the Prince’s new-born child, triumph
At the Battle of This or That—pralines,
Candied words, trivial verse, crud-lumps— Continue reading →

Posted in Local Color, Politics, Today's News

Fire Season

It’s that time again! Each year—when wild air
Spumes, raging east to west—bent, sullen fiends
(Devoid of skill, of charm, talent, note) dare,
Find means, make their mindless mark, nourish dreams. Continue reading →

Posted in Local Color, Today's News

America: That Shining City on a Hill

Never mind the war zone News; instead, talk
About Business—that’s what we’re best at, right?
Well, there seem to be cracks in need of caulk,
“Lender responds to data breach,” one bright
Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Today's News

August 20th, 2008

When imagination fails, and whimsy
Shrinks from dry to arid, what can one do
To prime the pump of creativity,
To plump rich words that sing of joy, of rue? Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, Today's News, War

The Monday News—Page A6

Australia
The main story’s
Not too bad:
“Pope concludes Australia visit.” Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Today's News, War