June 27 2025

The Daily Dread

You were my first draft
Left glorious and unscathed
That was our #moment
Then the real world rushed in
Forcing revisions on us



Before it's too late
Send for ale and fresh horses
Siege necessities


plastic surgery
botox filler fakery
like peas in a pod


You became my poetry
Fortuitously or ill-fated
Left glorious and unscathed
You were only my first draft


The time it takes to
Send the moment to my brain
Seems to take longer



nothing more useless
than unasked for advice, won't
listen or follow

Profound formula
X-rays times Y-rays equal
Ludicrous thought rays


June 26 2025

The Daily Dread

Empathy fuel low
My burn rate of G A F
Might just be maxed out
Then I read the daily spews
Outrage needle pegged again



vagary garden
whatever I can forage
from trellis and ground
tossed in a pot set to stew
only I can burn the soup



Pandora's Box was
hidden in a safe under
the base of the place
called Utopia; but still
it was found by the humans


Idolater words
Clever translation trellis
Swimming in a stew
A mass vagary mélange
Unclean aspic mysteries


Phrazez that Payzez

The free rider populates both ends of a societal spectrum
It's the ones in the middle that do all the work


June 25 2025

The Daily Dread

Fury of wings
Branches above
A shriek
Tiny talons
Bounce head
Duck!
A robin?
A sparrow?
Red-Winged Blackbird?
Trees above
More flaps
Another wack
Squawk
Cover head
Walk faster
Nest too near?
Birdy P.Oed
No starscape
Danger foretold
For todays
Sidewalk walk
Of the bird



a tangle of words
treble stanza then braid them
haiku a day wrap



sky clouds drift over
where the new moon should have been
daylight lunar toons


Phrazez that Payzez

Cooled in a sociality

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June 24 2025

The Daily Dread

I write small poems
While next to me on the couch
World's thrashing around
In night sweat terror detox
Reality withdrawal

What a button does
Can never really be known
Until you press it



Perched on the next stool
This enigma seemed to me
A shade too cozy
Proceeded to press buttons
That had long been left unpushed

Phrazez that Payzez

Which one of youse got their stardust in my pixie dust?

A murder of crows
A scavenging of seagulls
More than just a flock


June 23 2025

The Daily Dread

It's the gardeners choice
On the type of garden grown
If peace or strife's sown


his nibs huffed and puffed
bluster, blather, has no doubt
then caught in lies (sigh)


Guru Guru plays
funk on smoky car's eight track
loud Banana Flip



With a great big sigh
Guru Gummy found his zen
"Transcend this garden."



June 22 2025

The Daily Dread

so much happening 
nothing said seems to ring true
wary world watches


aristocracy
#progenitor spirit champs
the bit for over
a hundred years seizing this
moment to shackle us all


The fearful fox watched
Picnic proceedings for scraps
After dark pickings


progenitor fear
loud ring in our ears warns this
won't be no picnic

When I was very young I received a rubber band powered propeller plane. Not the cheap balsa wood models, but a smaller, lighter design. A light frame covered with very colorful cloth. I remember it as blue, orange, and yellow. After assembly I took it in the yard for its first flight. It soars and flies beautifully right through the open ventilation window under our back porch. The place where lumber, ladders, and spare building materials for my father's ever ongoing house repairs and unfinished renovations. I never found the plane; even when years later I cleaned that area out. From time to time I would search again and again. Where did it go? I still wonder to this day.

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June 21 2025

The Daily Dread

when the liminal
becomes the subcarrier
signal waves bye-bye



as the earth leans in
cry not for shrinking daylight
embrace the darkness


Tipped on its axis
The drunk world slurs it's solstice
Planetary binge
Celestial power drinking
Earth wobbles out of control


June 20 2025

The Daily Dread

I remember when police wore shirts to work

For most of my life
It ran in strict parallel
Within it's privileged shell

Course change late strife
Dragged its slimy trail
To intersect our tale

It proceeded to foist
Mealy mouthed and moist
It's fetid festering soul

A global hairy mole
No channel change
Can stop the strange



Geezer cynic shouts
"Let's get ready to grumble!"
Complaining ensues


first mash them all up
heat and serve in a big bowl
fresh hot tea peas soup


And then I heard that grapes were just hemorrhoids on a stick. Put me right off wine for a while.

Statistically I may have twenty years. That's because I'm the luckiest man in the world. But all the things i learned in my first twenty years were the best. So the best is yet to come.

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June 19 2025

The Daily Dread

taking a short walk
into a long days vortex
to meet my long night



Dog days of summer
Ushered in by long spring days
Don't seem as long now



a controlled fall down
earth's gravity well defines
how I walk about

alternating falls
in a controlled manner down
into planet earth's
gravity well is the best
description of how I walk



is that a vortex
in your eyes or are you just
happy to see me



Took the time to write
About a constellation
Of beauties in sight
My mystery achievement
Blissful hours spent tonight

Spray largess around
Flourishing on every self
Still no trickle down

Excuse for being
proud of my humbleness and
character flaws with
wanton whimsy because of
so much salt rubbed in life's wound

3/25/2023

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June 18 2025

The Daily Dread

Once beyond the pale
Becomes the coin of the realm
Frenzied fiat force



fireflies recalled
chased around on summer nights
then they went away



the current regime
will fold spindle mutilate
to get it's own way

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