Poem - Roomlight

...band names
children,
recipes, mandolin,
reading and travelstapled and taped

My teenage room
never saw the light
of day, only fir cone
filtered sun right
under deck bones
orange, unkind, and bright.
A basement room?

poem - Peace Party

...band names
children, recipes, guitar,
reading and travel stapled and taped together

Fight fabulously for freedom, or against terror -ism

a soldier said she missed the orange juice

please play politely impassioned parents intoned

she likes orange juice too

too long en-toured soldiers missed

too long lips un-kissed

and upon returning, families finding

mental health un-wound

impassioned freedom against terror fighters

finding mental health and care without

and pittance for pay within

the nation's notices of terror narrated

noisily, unnecessarily,

now unneeded (not unheeded) the place for speech as

“from within. Do not seek it without.”

Famous faces narrate needs for fighting

not re-counting families uniting

worrying about paying the lighting

and having orange juice

when, or if, they are coming home.

The quote is from Sakyamuni Buddha who is speaking about peace.

Written for the 2008 Weekend of Peace