flowers

flowers bronzed with blossoms of garnet
verdigis tinging the copper leaves
age will not wither nor summer's heat
repaying beauty's eternal debt

why do we see
value in patterns
random but somehow
repeating their lives

fractal equations
stored on a hillside
mirrored in clouds
call to our minds

( thanx Flower Garden thanx )

peace de resistance

mice are sneaking in and out
with canisters of fire
burning down the shop and house
and arousing the exterminator's ire.

somehow they began to fight
instead of keeping quiet
but there is something not quite right
when tiny rodents riot

although i'm sure they're feeling proud
they'll soon find out why it's not allowed

the friends of art

it's art that finds
the kind of friend
that can depend
upon the trend
within the heart
that surely binds
however far apart

so now it's time
to post a lot
like in the past
when pens were hot
and poems came fast
although they might not rhyme

as after all
it's not beyond the blind
to understand a mime

a rainy night

wait right
here i'll
call a
cab

it's just a rainy
night in midtown
a rainy night in midtown

seems like it's raining
on all the boys & girls

it seems like we'll get home with umbrellas unfurled

keep out - this means you

since the dawn of race relations
tribes have looked with deep suspicion
at the neighbor tribes who trespassed
where our own tribes did their fishin'

now that rivers lakes and oceans
see their fish stocks are depleted
competition for what's left there
will only be repeated

what this means for future friendship
is the dawn of race relations
is heading for the sunset
and more fighting between nations

keep out! this means you
and you and you and you and you and you and you ...

piece plant

sandy arabia negotiating
is better than shooting and bombing and hating
but wait i forgot the hot desert weather
they do all of that at the same time together

perhaps if we tell them
we love their suggestion
they'll believe us without
a walk-through inspection

and when we assert
that we've left all that land
they'll understand that we lie just like they do
and isn't peace grand?

bon appetit

if it comes in a can
or it comes in a jar
i can make it myself
which is better by far

i hate to be picky
i hate to be rude
but packaged nutrition
is not really food

it's bad for ya, dude!

it's loaded with sugar & salt & with fat
you really don't want to be eating all that

thanx to liam ryan

sitting in a drafty cage
of concrete floor and iron bar
the chimp is staring back at me
i stare at him

i stretch my arm one finger crooked
and he to meet it does the same
we touch in greeting, nod hello
unable to exchange a name

but apes & humans never know
the good that all their faces show

venus & a very new moon

silver sliver & scintillant star
sparkling sisters rising at sunset
cycles meeting for millions of years
watching i share in the dance from afar

let me decide what i believe

where did all these people come from
telling me what jews believe
none of them are family
all of them should leave

Sense and Nonsense about Jews and Jewish Belief

who says there's no such thing as bad publicity

don't fret
its just an epithet
we should feel we're in their debt
that they haven't forgotten about us yet

Epithet with a Pedigree

our own way

pain
not despair
and anger
not rare
the usual battles we fight

winning by day
for all of their jealousy
holding them off
through the long cold dark night

we need to remember
to play to our strengths
and never discuss giving way

we need to think only of our own people
whatever our enemies say