when the poets turn on their own country
it’s all over but the shoutin’

practical men don’t believe this
but among the spiritual, truly no doubtin’

language too becomes a weapon
which, if skillfully employed,

turns the World’s Greatest Nation
into one from within destroyed

                          Paranoid?

Some Buddhists say
Nothing ever achieves being
Like everything is trying to exist
But never quite does

I think I understand
I've moved so often
Samsara
The way it was

I trust the Buddha
Can't tell you why
Bangkok temple
Silent monk in robes

We disappear
Probably forever
One man justifies
One man overthrows!

It took my 35 years
But I finally told her
Unrequited love

I never saw a goddess go
Uniquity
Gentle grace

Driving home alone tonight
Exoplanets
Stars above

High School
College
Her face

                    green light
                     black lace

Equip yourself! it read
     I wonder what’s ahead?
              Preparation, prayers, the Dead...

                      shamanistic solidarity.

early morning quiet, cheap motel
     watching, praying, waiting
        work begins again today
              JMU in the CAA . ..

  The Colonial Assassination Association

They think it is the ancestors
The ancestors breaking through

Irish eyes are smiling
But what am I to do?

We went to Wetheral
All 3, not just 2

I'll never really know
But I'll listen long for you.

Thomas More
A saint of fire rather than water
A servant of the king and God's first
Richard III not Elsinore

Thomas Merton
Buddhamind in Bangkok
Prayer of abandonment
I wrote her because I'm hurtin'

Thomas Aquinas
In favor of tyrannicide
Silent at the end
The Angelic Doctor, Your Highness

Dr. William Thomas
My beloved teacher
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Help me keep my promise

                  Amen.

A time of division, flattery, and lies
      What then shall Cordelia do?
              Love, and be silent.

Pythagoras transmigrated
Plotinus did so too

Not only Hindus and Buddhists
Also Kabbalistic Jews

I myself remember
No former living lives

But come this time December
I’m the one who strives

For motion in the Meadow
A-swimming in the sea

The Love Song in the morning
We waken and agree

The stars they shine in summer
In the winter we need Fire

We ourselves keep watching
For the soul of the Messiah!

Robin Williams
Cremated in San Anselmo
Ashes to the San Francisco Bay
My my hey hey

Episcopal
Catholic Light
Chicago
Mr. Keating. Long May ....

Only free in dreams
Thank you, Sean
Journey on.
Callooh! Callay!

Alakazam
Mork from Ork
Teacher to Todd
Live to teach another day

            Yea verily. Yea.

train tracks and cemeteries
       not to praise, I come to bury
                   Moby **** in my library ...


                           like a jackal

Can't control the way you're received
Might be misunderstood
Don Quixote the Wise Madman
Alonso Quijano the Good

It's quiet in the park
I walk the silent bases
Are my posts ever noticed?
I like both books and faces

I also like the lady parts
But my nights are long and lonely
Dreaming of a knock
Unlikely telephonely

Dreaming of a knock
But ordinary days
The Space Coast calls
Black Arrows in the Maze

              Lake Man!

I was given madness
Madness was given me
All along the Baltic
And the South China Sea

She was given beauty
Femininity
But she and I, o southern sky!
Just not meant to be

         not she and me

I have delusions about women
Fantasies and delusions
Animals after all
Cruel. Though some are kind.

I had a dream in Charlotte
She helps Bob endure
I too saw Tokyo
I wanna travel blind

Meek is a Scottish name
Just saw this on Wikipedia
La Florida is Spanish
What we seek is what we find

Witherell is English
Comes from Wetheral
Running River Eden
London Calling where we dined

               Turkish coffee

Perhaps too much anguish and horror
let me be grateful for afternoon light

sleeping, waking, reading, eating
moonview true at night

memories of my sons in mind
wonderful the sight

despite the terrors of this world
starry sky delight

San Antonio Riverwalk
     silent monks, but we quietly talk
              The Princess Bride and Peter Falk...

                                        as you wish!

clouds slightly shroud
the glowing mystery moon

meaningless decadence
President the Buffoon

driving morning
shimmering sun

just a little love
before I am done

tired and unsure
memories of Taiwan
the past becomes a blur
bring me to Gamla Stan

can't quite escape
These United States
San Francisco, California
At the Dragon Gates

I eat a little salmon
Drink a little tea
All my friends, all my friends
Have forgotten me

Libraries are quiet
The ocean's pounding roar
I saw Paul McCartney
Once in Baltimore

           Lenore!

They don't really wanna learn
They mostly wanna fight
And Janey is the girl
Who I'll be with midnight

San Francisco Zen
Quiet in the flight
Exoplanets spin
Florida is fright

Irate Iowa
Berlin burning bright
Northbound 35
Texas 2 tonight

      Well, alright!

I can set aside the religiosity
I live ordinary days

Taco trunk for lunch
Basketball I plays

Family separation
Memories of Xie Xies

Ichiro Suzuki
Long after Willie Mays

I'm a Bored Panda
I hope my music stays

           50 Ways.

Jesus and Zacchaeus: both seekers
my brother Sam is dead: Tim Meeker
I hope my love poems didn’t freak her ...

                           non-violence

............An otherworldly keening..........
        much mystery in its meaning
     we face forward: listening, leaning ...


                    Across the Border!

the great Mughals near London
  our talk, my walk, dark night
         prophetic her name
             poetry the game
                   sing fame.

The isolation is frightening at times
I reach out but do not reach
You should see the girls
Who live in Satellite Beach!

Shared privacy, One love
Hablo un pequito Espanyol
Vegetarian burritos
80s Rock n' Roll

I like those Taoist Immortals
I climbed Yangmingshan
Thin Red Line
Scifi Gamla Stan

The marriage is Disaster
But she gave me the gift of travel
The World's Greatest Detective
The Riddler too unravels

All the King's Men at JMU
She calls him Jackie Bird
I rebel; therefore we exist
One man against the Absurd

                    Word!

I’d make a good aborigine, she said
I use landmarks for directions

I also often walkabout
In search of resurrections

Blessed are the Meek, he said
Not a counsel of perfection

Susan is really wonderful
Indeed, my predilection

I place the poems for Precise
            later alien socks - very nice
                        no stranger danger;
                                          I roll the dice ...


                     mysteries, persistencies

A little sleep
Brings a little relief
Gracias
Xie Xie

Still have gout
In my elbow
But I live to write
Another day

Lu Lu in the Navy
A bona fide Batman fan
Wanna play with Fire, Scarecrow?
Run to you and I ran

Wyoming Catholic College
Men become hermits. Women go mad.
Once I was a teacher
Now I'm just a dad

             Sweet Sir Galahad

I fear my own intensity
Help me dailiness
I have a need to fight
And a need to fly

O Life! Please protect my wife.
Help me dailiness
Be more practical
Battle back the lie

Glad to be in Maryland
Down on Main Street
Not far from Baltimore
I remember Life of Pi

Please let Alex see
Judi too as well
Ain't no tongue can tell
Purple goes the sky

         Ay! Ay! Ay!

grateful I laugh, anguished I weep
     in Wetheral I wai the sheep
               now my need
                     sleep

words as seeds despite being ignored
    step by step despite being bored
      work and love, music moored
        Silence sacred and implored

sins, faults, and failings
        falling, wishing, wailing
               both grateful and unavailing ...

                               memento mori
                          memores estis et bestia
                                in this together
                           (don’t think less of ya)
                       Renew the Quest? Oh yeah!

Got my mind on Pythagoras
Mathematical transmigration
37. 72.
Taipei 101

Haven't been to India
Do eat chana masala
Slumdog Millionaire
Light of a thousand suns

Vienna aglow in snow
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Almost like a fairy tale
I fly back to DC

Religions in other regions
Nothing is eternal
If I get my car
Nightdrive quietly

    South China Sea

for years the synchronicities
and now the youtube voice

I sent away my poetry
but I am not James Joyce

idealism is a curious thing
go ask Josiah Royce

cosmic goes American
can coincidence be choice?

Yo soy un isolato
I like the quiet
But sad dad sad

My boys are my joys
I thank you, O Life!

Timor Mortis Conturbat Me

Por favor into not out of.
  
                Xie Xie.

grey day rain and ice
no Carolina blue

passed this time for sushi
but Pokemon for you

deer park in Nara
the Buddha taught not-two

snow in Kamakura
ever ancient, ever new

Charlotte is a pretty name
She warbles as she flies
She and Bob in Tokyo
Smoke gets in your eyes

If I died in Paris
You could go to Notre Dame
If I died at sea
You could Ishmael your mom

I want to go to Germany
Have a Bavarian pretzel
I too know anxiety
Just do your best, Ms. Emily Wetzel

Moby **** in my car
Mr. Markson on my shelf
In Seattle Green Arrow
In London Legolas the Elf

Nuclear war is likely
The Apocalypse of Fire
Shakyamuni indeed correct
Suffering is caused by desire

The Zen Center is silent
I bow and bring my tea
Hagia Sophia
Please let the future be

              Correspondingly

adrift in a meaningless world
         Tom Joad (but not the Pearl)
                    sea green seashell swirls

                                 ghostliness.

Donovan Mitchell goes for 71
Hoopin' up the night
Gonna see Zion with my son
Jan. 9th in sight

I was 3 in 72
A child in yon Taiwan
Milk tea, xie xie ni
Dragons fly at dawn

           Dragon Song!

18 times 4 is 72
Gal Gadot - 1 fine looking Jew!
Just wanna do the best I can do
Istanbul: Will I see U?

              Satellite Beach
              See me threw!

I am not sexually attracted
To the male body

But I notice I am deeply attracted
To the gay male mind or spirit:

A.E. Houseman
Dr. Thomas (my favorite teacher at JMU)
Richard Rodriguez
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Cardinal Newman
Ludwig Wittgenstein
George Santayana
Etc...

from the churches to the jails
      prisons produce wails
          hope desperately...

        to set the prisoners free.

death always wins,I play my losing hand

at night I sing along with the rockin’ band
   against the Trumpists and the hate
           I make my surrealist stand

alone, unknown, twilight zone -

                   and yet, the Quest is grand.

The Buddhist practice is compassion
Life as misery
He sits alone in silence
I eat som tam as well

She's a Chaos
Protect her
LaoTzu
Ishmael

          Rivendell

Maybe I wanted to be important
Baby, it's a good thing I am not
Gratitude for Ry
Train games for Scott

Little Sage Ridge School
I teach Julius Caesar
Dr. Cohen is correct
Only the women are noble

Bangkok to Siem Riep
Mysterium Tremendum
Saturating *** and religion
Walking Angkor Wat

Lovely Ms. Kathryn Orr
Sacramento Heather
Please good things for Mark
Gracias, Casa Roble

              Esperanza

My friend Steve killed himself
Because he caught his wife cheating on him
One more 'Mercan *****

I drive an hour
Park my car
Walk around Baltimore

In Medias Res
She mentions to me
She had the child though poor

Buddhist logic
Shunyata
The way of neither/nor

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