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/...

The tragic hubris of Republicans
Is merely the human species id
Their unchecked testosterone goodness bans
(Someday we'll look back the bad they did)
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#EndOfEmpire

The difficult & disturbing years
With abundant struggle & failure
That have caused some angst & many fears
Are the times where we grow more mature
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem

People, alive, clean & sober today
Have the ingredient to fight dismay
#SelfieSonnet
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#ObituaryPoem
#couplet
#odaat

Emotions are like my resentments
Conjured out of imaginations
Immaterial timeless enchantments
(Endless self serving qualifications)
#SelfieSonnet?
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#ObituaryPoem
#VickiAbt
#odaat

Pity those of us choosing hatred
Violence & other insanities
The society’s becoming vapid
For Social Media Vanities
#SelfiePoem
#philosophypoem
#headlinepoem
www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/14/o...

All people only have today
& most of us fail to enjoy their lives
Primping & preening their public display
(In experience humanity thrives)
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#ObituaryPoem
#VickiAbt
#odaat
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/a...

“It’s the nature of the wise to resist
Pleasure, & the foolish to be [its] slave
[For certainly the good must persist
(& the weak to hide in luxury’s cave)]”
#Epictetus
#PhilosophyPoem
#ComicPoem

“Pecuniary emulation drives
Consumers to spend more on displays
Of wealth and status symbols, [to prize:
(]Opposed to more useful commodities[)]”
#ThorsteinVeblen
#PhilosophyPoem
#PecuniaryEmulation
#SelfiePoem
#ComicPoem
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorste...

Good poets are anachronistic
Believing in antiquated values
Often to “comfort” antagonistic
(Artists’ must observe existence anew)
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
¿#SelfieSonnet?
x.com/outlawspoeti...

“Those who… make you believe absurdities,
Can make you commit atrocities.”

― #VoltaireCouplet
#PhilosophyPoem
#PhilosophySonnet
#ComicPoem
@sagan.bsky.social

“Unexpressed emotions will never die.
They are buried alive and will come forth
[Somewhat] later in [much] uglier ways
[(The smiling repressed are actu’lly course)].”
— Sigmund Freud
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
@philosophors

This alleged meritocracy
Has been redesigned as a hard filter
That dulls people for the bureaucracy
(The rich have our system off kilter)
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#meritocracy
@Prof.CarlSagan
@NoamChompsky

The works of human imagination
Indeed might be our only Deity
The bastard child Faith’s correlation
Is a result of ingenuity
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem

"The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination."

- Paul Dirac
@physicsinhistory

"You will never find justice in a world
where [the] criminals make the rules.
[For in this insider system is swirled
Venality ʇɐɥʇ is dressed up with Jewels]"
#BobMarley
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem

The world is filled up with misfortune
& some people can no longer accept
Favoritism’s injustices’ tune
(Modernity is making us decrep’t)
#HeadlinePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#SadnessPoem
nypost.com/2025/11/11/u...

America is evaporating
The digital stream of zeroes & ones
Is this patriotic land exploiting
(All our money & work goes to rich bums)
#SelfiePoem
#philosophyPoem
#ComicPoem

We are plumbing suicide’s bottom
Self immolation is better
Than an AR-15 at schools rotten
(By mass-produced egos we’re fettered)
#SuicidePoem
#HeadlinePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/23/m...

Modernity ascribes meaning
On generations of our ancestors
Forgetting that looking back’s demeaning
(Evéry Soul’s trapped in today’s course)
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
#HistoryPoem
#SelfieSonnet?

@rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy

Anybody & Evérybody
Will go to evéry & any length
To dodge & evade, all things G_dly
(The modern soul seems to lack strength)
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
#ComicPoem
@philosophors
@QuoteJung

In this society our consciences
Suffer from the virus affluenza
It is because of unfair excesses
Preached from wealth’s greed’s Basilica
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
#Kierkegaard
#affluenza

www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1...

The mechanics of this blue planet
Offer significant consistency
But we are too caught in our selves, damn it
(We can’t work out ev’ry contingency)
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem

Today’s sad Byzantine insanity
With crooks’ pardons & exchanges
Highlights our moral inanity
(Looking down, G_d’s sphincter cringes)
#philosophyPoem
#HeadlinePoem
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

The Deity has constant expressions 
That sometimes show up as patterns 
Fibonacci had tracked these gyrations 
As do the trees spreading seeds governs 
#PhilosophyPoem 
#SelfiePoem 
#FAITH
#ODAAT
#TropicOfStupid
@timdorsey

I am having trouble keeping up with
With the pathetic skullduggery
Be-knighting New York City under this
Un enlightened reign of thuggery
#HeadlinePoem
#PhilosophyPoem

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells

•The Invisible Man’s• an albino
Universalizing haughty whiteness
Part of today’s criminal dynamo
(Our culture celebrates the flightless)
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
www.gutenberg.org/files/5230/5...

“A younger student than you were, almost an albino”

"Not Dropping the Pilot".

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #workshop #philosophypoem #descartes

“What We Know About a Passenger Plane Crash in Western India [that erased
The lives & dreams of humanity plain
(All Hope is temporarily placed)]”
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#PhilosophyPoem
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/w...

Crippling individuality
Is a criminalizing evérybody
Modified by rank modernity
(This world is becoming so shoddy)
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#HeadlinePoem

I have been finagled into thinking
That somehow my opinion matters
& these thoughts might keep the world from sinking
($ocial ₩edia my psyche batters)
#HeadlinePoem
#SocialMedia
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...