Libertatem (+4)

Community college intellect,

Ivy League soul

Questions lie subservient

—feelings in control

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

Last Goodbye

Who can measure the

speed of fear

Who can filter the strain

of lies

Who can weigh a lost ounce

of love

Who can package

—a last goodbye

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

That Horse

Every scepter, every throne,

reverts again anew

The god’s, their will divided,

in Iliads of truth

All wars of good intention,

paved avenues to hell

Honor shamed by Zeus renamed

—that horse where judgment dwells

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

The Dilettante

To no one in particular,

but everyone out loud

What you portend as Poetry,

should never make you proud

The words are so revealing,

of what’s not inside your head

Your heart lies soundly sleeping,

there forever in your bed

The words you do disservice,

as the rhyme you then defame

The couplets maimed and slaughtered,

with free verse then just the same

With your voice not flat or tinny,

maybe you should try to sing

Because verse as you now write it

—is a bee that cannot sting

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

The Only Shame

Man’s inhumanity to man,

knows no country, religion, or race

Man’s inhumanity to man,

the only shame time cannot erase

Man’s inhumanity to man,

as constant as the spring driven rain

Man’s inhumanity to man

—rising over and over again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)