Souped up 72
I see the license plates
A little Chinese food
I sit at the Dragon Gate

Time to wok and roll
Basketball in DC
In Vienna lovely snow
In Dublin meant to be

                    Si.

The godawful ugliness
Of so many American towns
Grey day blues
Not a single beautiful building in sight

Basketball to me is American hope
Canadian invention
Eurostep
We should have eloped

I also like Asian food
Kim Chi
Summer rolls
miso soup

Ja Morant on the break
Jokic with the lob
One hand, with authority
Alley Oop Oop Oop, Oop Oop!

Leonard Cohen and his broken grace
Chicago Divinity was my place

David Brooks, life is not a race.
Oh! Susan Meek in lovely lace!

                      sensualist

incomprehensibilitas, my watchword
for today

pondering imponderables
things which words can’t say

like loves which last a lifetime
trillions and trillions of stars

exoplanets, perhaps aliens,
this transient Earth of ours

the smile in her beautiful face
brown hair down to her back

the hopes I have, the fears as well,
gifts I know I lack

so tonight when I am leaving work
I’ll wander silently

think of the ones I’ve tried to love
and dream of dying near the sea.

It kinda makes sense
That I would turn to poetry
Mrs. Dewey's class. Women.
Mr. Keating. Todd.

Some say don't get even
Get odd.
Karma - I saw that.
Have trod, Have trod, Have trod

Main Street, Strange Street
Encounters with Chinese Hermits
In my solitude
I plod

Neverland
Whoville
Tattooine
The Land of Nod

                    Escape!

Tokyo to Kyoto
Upon the Shinkansen

Now in Carolina
But I remember then

Rieko’s generosity
Gave us traveling yen

Not really a question of if
More a question of when

Will I too disappear
Like I’ve never ever been?

...............Irish bar, lovely songs................
the Beatles, Steve Earle, the Proclaimers
     We sing with these Hall of Famers
   though we ourselves are no-namers ...


        then the night and the Silence
                     Beast Tamers.

an anxious, disorganized dismal day
I’m a mess again

but gratitude for the music
and the men who did befriend

courage to keep keepin’ on
tomorrow my sons, my mend

please help me resist my fearful self
and find nightlights comin’ round the ........................................................,,,,,,,,,­,,,,,,
bend

The Buddhist practice is compassion
And avoidance of desire
Meditate in silence

Gandalf: Serve the Secret Fire.

like talking with a friend
            trying to begin once again
                             emotions each bend ...


                          timeshare

Here in the Darkness
I remember times gone by

Tidal pools in Monterrey
To Bangkok we did fly

My sons at play upon the beach
Sunlight in our eyes

The discovery of Socrates
The wisdom of the Gandalf the Wise

We're doomed. Life is cruel Catastrophe.
But still we have to tries.

In this world we're just beginning
To understand the miracle of living
Maybe Irish, truly Clark
Maybe hidden, Maybe dark

Mason Nation, un pequito place
Books and movies, sacred space
Books and movies, more to come
Mother Mary, dum do dee dum dum

Fairfax County, not Arlington
Moby ****, pita bread
Laranaga, CAA
Seemed determined to go all the Way

                 Opening tip.
                     1st play.

.................won ton soup..................
      broccoli with garlic sauce
                       xie xie

Tidal pools in Monterrey
San Francisco Zen
Sacramento childhood
Santa Rosa son

            California one.

Why must despair be truer
Because it comes later?
Satellite Beach, teach
See ya later Alligator

California girls
Moroccan mint tea
Trinity College, Dublin
Man said meant to be

Icy exomoons
2 beautiful daughters
Maybe coming soon
Extrasolar Water

Vegetarian spring rolls
Kyoto bullet trains
Mr. Yamamoto
Ms. Lois Lane

             Women: ordain.

I continue to wait
Listen, learn, and read
The Dark Knight's Chicago
A pal's last need a thing to heed

When the kairotic moment comes
Strike while strike you may
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Daniel Berrigan. Dorothy Day.

Another Wizards game
Might get to see the Greek Freak
Judi, Wendy, Alex
Susan Darlene Meek

Catteleya in the morning
She reads North and South
Sullivan's Island beach
Somethin' brave from your mouth

                    Lai la Lai!

19999
Waking Ned Devine
Some other time
Guilt, but I still climb

Never right without the woman
Therefore, never right
Carolina Inn
2 flights 1 night's delights

Fire on the patio
Bipolar fascination
Heraclitus more than Thales
San Francisco meditation

A Man Called Otto
Me at Angkor Wat
JMU, Albert Camus
Mi hermano Scott


      The Old Man and the Sea

                  Si. I taught.

Into the Spiderverse
My children with me go

Multiplicity
Is indeed a wondrous show

Young sons sung again
Trappist 1 we know

Curious coincidence
As above, so below

She remains out of reach
A phantom in my mind
A beckoning
A silence

Not gonna teach again
Not a lot of travel
My sons get new classes
Nagarjuna and snakes

She's 17
22
37
53

California snow
Blondes
Udon
Earthquakes

                    Spirit Lakes

despondency, please let me be
I feel your weight, can’t break free
no dear domestic tranquility
my heart it hurts for posterity
so many in terror of alterity
unsure of my future destiny
        Ah, I can’t break free!
            Please let me be!

Lifelong religious obsessions
But I can also let them go

Shinkansen speeding by
Tokyo to Kyoto

Kamakura Buddha
Silently the snow

The mystery remains
No one on earth will ever know.

I take 6 different medicines
             see the doc
                  sleep

It's not gonna be resolved
It's just gonna end
The silence is eternal
Silence be my friend

                   Amen.

I'm not an academic
I just write some poems
Sadness in the morning
Burning firelight

Sleep perchance to dream
Staunton aglow in snow
The Matrix comes at Christmas
Krakow would delight

          Red pill. Mystic flight.

Wolfgang Pauli to Neils Bohr
Expecting to be rebuffed:
You probably think these ideas are crazy

To which Neils Bohr:
Unfortunately, they are not crazy enough.

Tryin' to keep one step ahead
Of the persecutor within
But at times he pins me down

Blues Boy King in Memphis
When Love Comes To Town

Graceland in Memphis
Pink Cadillac

Walkin' in Memphis
All the way to Iraq

Long distance information
Get me Memphis, Tennessee

I have reason to believe
We all will be received

            In Graceland

Virus spreading among the students
Carolina blues

Sherlock Holmes beyond prudent
Deductive clever clues

Plato loved geometry
Pythagoras said, All is Number

I see 37s
I hope good luck before I go under

didn't think I was so angry
didn't know I could feel hate

but now I Rage Against the Machine
destiny or fate?

I often don't understand
the workings of my mind

emotions overcome me
I seek, but do I find?

beauty brings me hope
ugliness despair

kindness and connection
against isolation everywhere

ambiguity
deep within myself

my demons and my angels
the lifestory on my shelf

I cannot overcome
the ignorance and strife

the endless agony
of my relationship with my wife

reduced again to silence
often I just endure

searching for gratitude
unknown, quite sad, impure

Will Ferrell on George W.
On SNL

Washington, Lincoln, and
I wanna say .... Kensington
I dunno

O, but I know George W.
As do the millions of Iraqi dead
And tens of thousands
Of dead and wounded
American soldiers

Kensington is referenced
In the medieval English
Domesday, which is to say,
Doomsday Book

Said to be unalterable
As irrevocable as

                The Last Judgment.

Just went to the carnival
As everybody should
There are some freaky strange ****** up folk
In my neighborhood

Took two years of Latin
Wasn't very good
Honeymoon in Rome
Fine Norwegian wood

Not an Academic
Markson on my shelf
Not an intellectual
I like Legolas the Elf

Ashes to the ocean
Lightning in the sky
Holy Toledo, Batman!
One for Scott and Ry

           Ay! Ay! Ay!

7:37
Palindromic time

Live not on evil
Find some words that rhyme

Writing again today
Scifi postcards

Moonlanding stamps
My attempt to be a bard

        Criticism is easy
           Life is guard

Vietnamese food today
Take two of my sons
A sense of the Absurd
Un pequito fun

I'm tired, lonely, bored
I've got a worried mind
Overwhelmed by the Absurd
I hope you treat me kind

                  Dailiness.

Not salvation. Dailiness.
Still learning after all
Took the train from London
River Eden, Wetheral

Mexican food for lunch
A little afternoon rest
Try to call my son
Qualyxian the Quest

Small victories
Carolina blue
Rothko's TV sets
Susan Meek not Sue

              2072

Reading C.S. Lewis in Florida
Several decades ago
I traveled twice to Oxford
Oh! That Narnia snow

Went to Poet's Corner
Royal Albert Hall
Took the London tube
River Eden, Wetheral

Aslan on the move
Hagia Sophia
Orhan Pamuk
I would like to see ya

Don't read Lewis anymore
Do read Tolkien twice
The Once and Future King
Breaks the Queen of Ice

               Very nice.

the nationalistic crush
               ugliness not lush
                        hope in hidden hush ...


               shhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Not intentionally obscure
Searching, on the lookout
Memories concur
But I have to find them

Abgescheidenheit
But only for a time
Come and go, go and come
Bangkok Buddhamind

The 2nd Noble Truth
Power. Devastation.
This year's spring break
Solamente a staycation

Prayers for the antelope
Prayers for the gazelle
2 outs in the 7th
Ain't no tongue can tell


       Shema Israel!

amidst futility, small steps
despite despair, poetry peps
          traveling, sitting
                 Qoheleth

Subramania Bharati
Courageously fought he
          
14 languages
Tamil true

An inspiration
For me and  you

       India!

My angels know their demons
My demons know their twins
Which ones will is stronger?
Which ones will will wins?
Took a boat from Stockholm
Sang for Swedes and Finns
The Dark Knight always rises
After Batman he Begins

                     Chicago!

Evil cannot be cast out
I've learned this the hard, hard way

It's built in to life
Truly here to stay

Unde Malum asked Camus
Like him: yo no se

But I do pray for deliverance
When in distress I pray

                Silent Way.

close encounters, Richard Dreyfus
     like me, he bipolar in real life is
         Devil’s Tower, shooting star shower ...

                               Stand by me:)
                          art (not apophenia)

It had to be poetry
Just had to be
Woke up from a dream
Please protect my 3

Eternally unknowable
The inscrutable tides of God
Shy. Unshowable.
My parents named me Todd

A lover's quarrel with America
Freedom. Ignorance. Hate.
Agonia.Agonia.
Please protect my Cate.

Death closes all
But some good thing before the end
Thank you for help from Andy
My counselor and friend

         Good God. Good pretend.

Boonsboro is also blue
1837
Villanova's Kevin
In Charlotte Dr. Maguire

I wait to go postal
Need to read indeed
Yo estudio
My chance y my desire

I asked for mystery
So I now give thanks
River Eden mist
In Tokyo the train

37 and 72
Ever ancient, Ever new
Still not sure what to do
Adam Raised a Cain

               !

He says we are biological machines
When we die: That's all She wrote.

But I think the soul is no thing
And there is Nothing in my note.

Adonis in Atlanta
I too need a creed

Adonis in Atlanta
Where my soul does bleed

Adonis in Atlanta
I speak, but who does heed?

Adonis in Atlanta
I now plant a mustard seed

The fool hath said there is no God
Only silence in the Night
Yo soy solo Todd
Things ain't gonna work out right

Carolina Inn
Her and me and you
Exoplanets spin
Rothko green and blue

Once I was a teacher
Now I just drive my car
Extrasolar water
I wonder if you are

           How far?

Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Nothin' to do
I lie in bed inside
Once I walked in Stockholm
In Tokyo I did ride
Bullet train into the night
Rieko was the bride

            Arigato.