My husband's poetry

Category: War & Politics

  • Infinity rockets

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    We write of the V2 bombardment of Britain, the desperate inhumanity of Axis partners, the horror of innocent victor/victims. If Teutonic archers had won the war, all the documentaries would herald the brilliance of their scientists. But instead, we snuck them out and built bigger, better weapons of war during peace. When World War III…

  • After the downpour

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    All day and all night the rain washed pollen from the air. Maybe the world will breath a little easier. In the downpour frogs still call, “Over here, over here, I am all alone,” sounds of love within the flood. Listen to the thrashing in rain, while Dow Jones swirls in the drain on its…

  • Haiku Spring

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    in spring governmentagents hide behind masks likecommon criminals 4-8-25

  • Reading the news

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    some days I feel like I may survive the calamity, if those who want to heal me would use love, instead of lacerating my arms and bleeding the world’s sickness from my veins 4-3-25

  • Freedom ain’t free

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    The house I grew up in was not the house I was born in so I have no lullaby memories, just themes songs of Romper Room, Howdy Doody, Captain Kangaroo and Sunday morning hymns in four part harmony. I weeded momma’s garden, took care of siblings, snuck out at night to run the neighborhood and…

  • Dear Doge

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    A booth at the street fair market sells hand-crafted rings and bracelets untouched by corporate greed and advertisements for big box fancy stores joy and happiness for under $20. It’s not where a road leads, but how it’s built that grows community. If theft is the purest form of flattery, your tongue in arse flattery…

  • State of the Union

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    reading the reviews of last night’s speech I imagine parrot shit dripping down the back of his shoulder and try to discern if he is a pirate attempting to sink the ship of state or a Southern Civil War statue pontificating in the park 3-5-25