Tag Archives: humanity

Connected

I wish I saw the Wallflowers at the Hartford Meadows on the twelfth of September eighteen years ago. I used to love The Wallflowers and my mom bought tickets for my 17th birthday and I waited all summer long and … Continue reading

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Haiku #5 for my niece 

Some days you’ll want to cry all day for no reason. That’s perfectly fine.

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Questions

Who in the world is it that we’re waiting for the earth keeps spinning round there’s no one coming to our door   What in the world is it that will make us care and realize that there’s no such … Continue reading

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I Drove A Car Last Night

*WARNING*GRAPHIC CONTENT* (This poem is about cruelty to animals. This is sadly a true story. The police are not providing animal control services, though they get county funding to do so. There is a small understaffed & underfunded nonprofit clinic … Continue reading

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Once Humanity Has Gone Away

Birds will sing the same old song once humanity has gone away cats will still eat mice and rats and night will follow day fireflies will come in June and dogs will howl at the moon with stars still twinkling … Continue reading

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You Will See God

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Humanity’s Blight

I am the shackles on the legs of history, the whip on the skin the smallpox on the blanket I am original sin.   I am the bullet that pierces the quiet night ignorant, I fly without rhyme or reason … Continue reading

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Only Words

Are they only words just letters pieced together tell me, what’s stronger what’s more powerful than words than these sounds we make to justify taking lives if I create God, tell me, of what use is it without words that … Continue reading

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Still The Birds Fly

The flying birds were a prelude to annihilation spreading their wings burying a generation and still they fly and mothers have no tears left to cry and they live that which we ignore and they look to the sky and … Continue reading

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All The World

Sometimes the night sky is the only thing you need to see all the world.

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