Every moment ʇɐɥʇ I am gifted
Raise all these awkward questions
How, from nothing, is consciousness lifted?
(I'm grateful for existence's notions)
#SelfiePoem

These Angels can be inconvenient
Reminding people of right & wrong
At times we want to be lenient
(They appear to help make us all strong)
#SelfiePoem
#angels
#WoodsideQueens
#NewYork
@woodsideheightsartmuseum

Angels Wings, pigeon wings, carcass

There might be angels everywhere
That we ignore because they're drinking
Or smoking standing dirty, to near
(Heavenly beings just inspire thinking)
#SelfiePoem
#angelswings

#MyTaxDollarsatWork on #TheWrongSideOfHistory please help @MelindaKatz @NYCMayorsOffice @x (@twitter) banned my repost #theresnofreedomofspeech #freedomofspeech

We have created an addict culture
Hooked on petrochemical ease
Where only the rich have any future
(Current modernity's only sleaze)
#HeadlinePoem
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?
zirk.us/@JazzyKindaF...

Yet, if not for the unwise justice seekers, the world would devolve into a hellish pool of crap.

The earth laughs in flowers ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sadly this is the same country ʇɐɥʇ is bombing #Iran, #Gaza & #Lebanon #MyTaxDollarsatWork #AmericanTaxDollarsAtWork on #TheWrongSideOfHistory

With Threat to Wipe Out Iran’s Civilization, Trump’s Rhetoric Goes Beyond Bluster.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
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Remember when he threatened genocide? Me too.

"The wise man does not seek justice in an unjust world, but the wisdom that enables him to adapt to the harshness of life."
— #ArthurSchopenhauer
#Comic
#odaat

Full moon through barbed wire fence

I need to somehow escape desire
Gratitude is incompatible
With consumerism's bright fire
(I don't think this debatable)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?

We have created an addict culture
Hooked on petrochemical ease
Where only the rich have any future
(Current modernity's only sleaze)
#HeadlinePoem
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?
zirk.us/@JazzyKindaF...

Existence is full of torment
I am, although, indistinguishable
Present in my life at this sad moment
(Ashamed I was once incorrigible)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?

So, I do my functions quotidian
Grading, writing, reading, & preparing
For future classes that are yet to come
Day's illumination not yet daring
#SelfiePoem
#DawnPoem
#GradingPoem
1/30/19

#SelfieSonnet #SelfiePoem

My classroom became a seance instead
Where I am communicating across
The thin line between the quick & the dead?
(It is easy to forget who is boss)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?

Cui bono?
www.axios.com/2026/03/25/t...

I wonder if I'll ever get over
The obnoxious need to be understood
By people who others' freedom smother?
(Maybe if I surrender I could)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?

Here I am, awake, alive, & conscious
Fortune has provided me with today
I am grateful but not obnoxious
(I am hoping to gratitude display)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?

I want to be grateful for my problems
Shortcomings & defects can be blessings
Teaching me how to solve some things
(So when things go wrong there's no cursings)
#SelfiePoem

SelfieSonnet (3-30-26) curiosity
I grandiosely frame my nosiness
As a form of curiosity:
Obscures my artistic lousiness
(That's ego's impetuosity)
#SelfieSonnet
#SelfiePoem

#PostalArt

Alas, somebody in a library
Has retreated from the loud street
Avoiding one's itinerary
(Any life, dumb or smart can't be beat)
#SelfiePoem
#philosophypoem
x.com/athenaeumbc/...

I'm desperately searching for some noise
To distract me from reality
Finding these algorithmic toys
(That merely cover banality)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet

Like carbon dioxide I'm low
Barely heavier than oxygen's air
I tell you this so ʇɐɥʇ they can know
(Who the f•ck told you ʇɐɥʇ life was fair?)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?

Nobody really gives a flying f•ck
About none of my concerns or beliefs
Nevertheless I'm here on Bluesky stuck
(Fighting algorithmic time thieves)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?

I am hearing a noisy urban bird
Squawking & cooing for a mate
He is louder than G_d's written word
(It seems for ʇɐɥʇ carnal love he is late)
#SelfiePoem

One the Six Devas around the Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau Island by Hong Kong. I took this photo while visiting there a number of years ago.

somewhere

below language

the first shape

begins

not in light

but on the other side
of seeing

#poetry