confess reality of dark side
fight to keep it under control
to contain fear, addiction,
selfish pride, hateful lies.
it hides inside us
fallen nature
we all need
rescue…
help!
monstrous
13 Oct 2026 1 Comment
in nonet, Uncategorized Tags: dark side, hate, monster, pride, rescue
shades of cyan(ide)
19 Sep 2025 16 Comments
in free verse, imagism Tags: blue, cold, glacier, hate, ice, iceberg, ocean, ship, water
polar bears ride floes
on aquamarine surface
under faded denim sky;
neon sun glows coolly
over subarctic ocean’s
darkest cobalt depths.
(feel sharp inhale of chill
air from looming glacier)
cerulean calm of water
belies danger below…
an iceberg submerged
could sink big ship like
cold hearts steeled in
cyan crevasses of hate.
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Meeting the bar at dVerse poets pub, Laura hosts an imagist’s colour motif. NPS Photo of Pedersen Glacier, Alaska, taken by Jim Pfeiffenberger.
violence against humanity
05 Aug 2019 2 Comments
in haibun, question poem, Uncategorized Tags: abortion, culture, death, hate, violence
Awful week of three senseless public shootings by U.S. citizens at garlic festival in Gilroy CA, Walmart shopping center in El Paso TX, and popular nightclub neighborhood in Dayton OH.
We wonder why domestic terrorists perpetrate violence against unsuspecting victims? Why should innocent people die while enjoying their life? Why is our society spiraling down into a culture of hate and mayhem?
Why is it legal for mothers (whose nature is nurture) to pay doctors (whose profession is healing) to dismember their preborn infants? Why do fathers abandon or abuse their own children after conceiving them? Why do we insist our lives are superior and consider other lives expendable? Why not choose to love and protect one another, starting with our family?
Perhaps there is some connection here, an unnatural progression from selfishness, disrespect, broken relationships and alienation into a macabre culture of death. The shooters are guilty of crimes against humanity but we are all culpable.
killing on home turf
abortion births death culture
all victims bleed red
rise!
22 Apr 2019 24 Comments
in quadrille, rhyming verse Tags: crucifies, hate, kiss, lives, Messiah, rise, soldiers, tomb
disciples and Jesus
share passover meal
Judas betrays him—
kiss seals the deal
arrested, on trial
in kangaroo court
soldiers spit, hit,
crown him for sport
Pilate denies
hate crucifies
Messiah dies
tomb found empty
wondrous surprise
because he lives
we, too, will rise!
The day after Resurrection Sunday and linking a quadrille (44 words) for dVerse prompt using the word “rise”.
dark shadorma
03 Apr 2018 2 Comments
in shadorma Tags: death, double, hate, lovers, shadow, suicide
A shadorma is a 6 line poem with 3-5-3-3-7-5 syllable counts.
in shadow
motivation comes
suicide
double death
why two lovers hate themselves?
asphyxiation
Many years ago, a teenage co-worker, Barry, and his girlfriend died together in his car running inside a garage. I still sadly wonder…why? Tonight, we discuss suicide at NAMI support group.
inheritance of fools
21 Feb 2018 8 Comments
in haibun, scripture Tags: civilization, education, grief, hate, rage, violence, youth
Wrote this “grey haibun” to share at dVerse Poets pub…
A mist of grey grief hangs over us all. Roll call of promising youth, senselessly gunned down before their prime, grows irreversibly longer even as numbers of disconnected, angry youth swell precipitously. Education leaves God out, letting demons in.
Hate disrespects human dignity. Rage destroys human life. Violence disregards meaning of community. Selfishness and rudeness rule (un)social media. We refuse to walk in the life-giving Light; choosing to crawl into the darkness of our own souls.
The civilization of Man is graying fast. Without fear of God, we will fear each other. Beauty of human culture fades. We follow a suicidal path and wonder how to write our own obituary.
ashes to ashes
ravens cry over ruins
grey twilight descends
An insightful article regarding philosophical reasons for school shootings HERE…
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