Fr. Greeley was really unique
Novelist, sociologist, columnist
Never seen another priest like him
Chicago. Tough Chicago.

I can't believe in life after death
But I remember Fr. Greeley
Beggar Girl of St. Germain
Juliet not Iago

                      hope!

Desafortunadamente
My favorite Spanish word
Coastal California
Just a bit Absurd

Tidal pools in Monterrey
My boys still so young!
Steinbeck. Aquarium.
Young sons sung

              Sung!

I'm grateful I got to live in Ireland
Rode the Dublin bus
My son and I and basketball
Just the two of us

I'm afraid I'll die alone
Abandoned and forsaken
Please courage at the end
For the road not taken

Wish I was a rebel
But I'm just a geek
Wish for just one kiss
With lovely Susan Meek

                     Ah!

I declare my love for my sons today
Gratitude xie xie
Please protection in the Night
Y un pequito play

                 Yea, verily. Yea.

Taught Robert Frost to the tweens
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Red Pine's Chinese Hermits
Silent is the Way

Crying spells, Anxiety attacks
Wanna read 'em and weep
Endurance. Persistence.
Promises to keep

Camus at JMU
19 years old
       Absurd

Grateful when peace comes
           Quiet dailiness
                   Slow

O those French Cathedrals!
Our Lady in the air
Rick Steves in Burgundy
Travel can be prayer

Camus at JMU
The Rebel and the Plague
More to admire than despise
Doomed like those who beg

Paris on my honeymoon
Walked the beach in Nice
I still like Amelie
Pink Panther police

Reno to San Francisco
Snow along the way
The beauty of Lake Tahoe
Basketball to play

San Francisco Zen
Silent is the Way
3710
Gracias xie xie

Tens of thousands of poems
Does one break through?
Yes, Life is Absurd
Camus at JMU

Un Escritor
The best that I can do
1 for Susan Meek
Horton Hears a Who

                Do you?

I barely scrape on by
I am a troubled soul
1 foot in philosophy
1 in Rock n' Roll

I like Michael Clayton
Star Trek and True Grit
American Decline
Trump is full of ****

A lot of little poems
Does she love me? No.
Kamakura Buddha
Kamakura snow

                   So...

I'm kinda ridiculous
I'm aware I play the fool
William Shakespeare in Staunton
And at Sage Ridge School

Fondly, fondly Reno
Open big blue sky
Rodeo, O rodeo!
Paul Simon: Lai la Lai!

Dr. Thomas was quite funny
I miss him decades later
Snowfall shunyata
Lonely in the night

Embers
City of Ember
All the King's Men
Gatsby's sweet green light

                     Alright!

Not a leader, Not a follower
Do my best. A little sleep.

             fatherhood!

Rick Steves in Berlin
And in Munich too
Me in little Reno
Susan Meek not Sue

Chinese food tonight
Weather going cold
Star Trek and Joan of Arc
Both of them go bold

True Grit on Facebook
I like Mattie Ross
Aging. Relentlessly aging.
Decay, decline, and loss

              Endurance.

France on my honeymoon
Notre Dame reborn
In my solitude
Lonely and forlorn

French cheese and bread
A little creme brulee
The Grand Chartreuse in snow
Walk the silent Way

               I want you to Stay!

So I know a little Spanish
But I've never been to Spain
I know two pretty women
Give them Purple Rain

The hope is in the living
Please protect my sons
Fondly little Reno
Please give up your guns

                    Ole!

the immense violence of the world
                         luck
                         hope

Women are more interesting
Dangerous as well
Smoke on the water
Call me Ishmael

Who knows where we're headed?
Ain't no tongue can tell
The Highway of Regret
I travel with Adele

I reach out
But I can't reach
55 and falling


London Calling!

Academic theology
Pretty removed from life
Hope springs eternal
Wisdom in the strife

Silent meditation
San Francisco mist
Susan Darlene Meek
Ah! Just one kiss

Won ton soup tonight
Snow falls in Seattle
Tecumseh the Shawnee
Prepares himself for battle

3 prayers for Chicago
Dinner in Irish bars
Maybe Trappist 1
Exoplanet stars

     this love that we call ours ...

DC for basketball
Take the Metro train
My son and I together
Maybe Purple Rain

A little won ton soup
Barcelona, Spain
1 prayer for my mother
Her name was Sally Jane

                   Quietly

I wrote a few poems
Traveled the world a bit
Fell repeatedly
But I didn't quit

Try again tomorrow
Sleep perchance to dream
In my solitude
I play for my team

            Silent Scream

Discovering David Markson
Truly one of a kind
Bangkok in the rain
And the Buddhamind

I've been to New York City
Wicked with my sons
Scarlett Johansson is pretty
Please give up your guns

A little won ton soup
A little Asian rice
A little Susan Meek
Don't have to ask me twice

I might die alone
I might die at night
Protection for my boys
Courage in the fright

         Gatsby's green light

I majored in philosophy
Religious studies minor
Carolina Inn
Nothing would be finer

I've got an atheist in me
Albert Camus at JMU
Also got a monk
Also Pondicherry Zoo

Grey day blues today
Kiss her once for me
Once Toledo, Ohio
3333

                    Si

Maryland is ordinary
Eating, driving, sleep
Snowfall shunyata
Promises to keep

Do the best I can
Ready for the snow
Life goes on until it doesn't
Hidey hidey hidey **!

The country is in trouble
Christmas arrives again
Dr. Banks, Col. Weber
Arrival be my friend

                     Amen.

Thankful for my sons
Slowly through the day
More than a little driving
Basketball to play

My youngest is a wonder
Protection please xie xie
Quiet in the night
Silent is the Way

The Episcopal churches are quaint
Grey stone in the rain
Never get to Heaven
Never been to Spain

Florida has the beaches
The thunderstorms, The pain
Music on the radio
Jane! Jane! Jane!

Once I was an English teacher
Read books to the tweens
Now it's disability
But I still like Things Not Seen

Dr. Thomas was quite caring
Billy Graham was mean
I'm Carolina blue
But my Irish eyes are green

                Bruce Springsteen!

Dylan in Orlando
        Twilight
             Yo

Troubled. Anxious. Worried.
Take it easy, Take it slow
Sleeping in the Night
Kamakura snow

Just to do my best
Hidey hidey hidey **!
Then to take my rest
Nevermore to know

         pero yo espero

Susan really is that wonderful
I really am a geek
Wish her well, Ishmael
Sonnet 130 seek

              Ms. Meek

No one important
I get too tired
Talk to my sons
Sleep. Sleep.

Promises to keep.

I like to read of history
But I'm not nostalgic
European mystery
Ride a bus through town

So much of America is ugliness
I'll die and be forgotten
High School. Sweetly high school.
Off like a prom gown.

Weaknesses. Proclivities.
Trouble in my mind
55 and falling
I hope you treat me kind

No life after death
The years flow swiftly by
In gratitude for fatherhood
She makes me wanna cry

A little miso soup
A little pecan pie
A little poetry
The hummingbird does fly

                         Aye.

I really liked the traveling
Jerusalem, Japan
Quiet Copenhagen
In Oakland the E Street Band

55 and falling
Hang out with my sons
America, O Americans!
Please give up your guns

One eye on the ancient world
Two feet in bullet trains
Better a thimble of luck
Than a barrel full of brains

                   Toledo, Ohio
                   Toledo, Spain

Beauty perishes in life
But is immortal in art
I like Dash Incredible
Not Napoleon Blown Apart

No woman, No cry
New York City nights
La Florida the Land of Flowers
Gatsby's green light

Ring the bells that still can ring
Try, try again
There is no perfection
3710

                        And then ...

Reno, fondly Reno
Big blue sky
Sage Ridge School
Maybe Life of Pi

Some good thing
To do before I die
Something for my sons
Aye! Aye! Aye!

Just the little poems
Lonely in the Night
Carolina blue
Gatsby's green light

I was in Poland once
Just a few days
Warsaw Saw War
Life is a kind of Maze

We never do escape
Except perhaps in death
2nd Noble Truth
Each and every breath

My son works tonight
Thanksgiving soon
I just sleep and rest
Might rewatch Dune

         Dr. Chong Kun Yoon

Dumbfucks from my high school
Vote for Trump again
America is Ignorance
Libraries be my friend

I like Canada
Vancouver in the snow
Mr. Bryan Adams
A few days in Toronto

Vegetarian burritos
Cranberry juice with lime
University of Toledo
Tick tock time

                     I'm ...

Another world to live in
But it never comes
San Francisco fog
Dum dee do dum dum

Went to malls in Bangkok
Saw Bladerunner 2049
Tired, so often tired
I hope you treat me kind

Thinking of the Spanish Empire
California snow
Down and delirious in Mexico City
Probably never know

See my sons soon
Live to talk another day
Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Silent is the Way

                     xie xie

Bangkok in the rain
   Motorcycle taxis
          Som Tam

It's just religious emotion
I have it too
Comes and goes, overflows
Pondicherry Zoo

Hold my children dear
Live the dailiness
Whisper in your ear
Try to do my best

2 years of Latin
But I wasn't very good
Rome on my honeymoon
And in my neighborhood

Sunt lacrimae rerum
And in my mind as well
Thanksgiving coming soon
Call me Ishmael

David Markson
       Gracias
         Selah

Rabbi Nahman
Tormented Master
Human history
Relentless disaster

Little Reno
Sage Ridge School
Francis of Assisi
Holy fool

Carolina Inn
Outdoor fire
Thomas the Twin
George W. Liar

         Higher!

Un pequito Spanish
California snow
55 and falling
Solamente yo

Denver, Colorado
Susan Darlene Meek
Drifting toward death
Yo soy un board game geek

I find *** tormenting
Mostly live alone
All these little poems
My little black cell phone

The Old Man and the Sea
Noble Santiago
Romeo and Juliet
Othello and Iago

                     Reno!

So I'd like to be a shaman
But I'm born too late
Just a bipolar roller
Worry. Worry for Cate.

I like universities
But just to walk around
Everybody knows
I am the newsboy of this town

Kamakura snow
In Dublin meant to be
Corpse to the Fire
Ashes to the sea

              Finally free

Not much going on in Harrisonburg
A good place to study
William James, Josiah Royce
Meister Eckhart, Albert Camus

Took a class on Dante and Milton
I was too young for it
Female Episcopal priest
Fondly JMU

                       ' tis true

Down and Delirious
In Mexico City
Leaves L.A.
Explores

Bangkok:
Monks
Traffic
******

History: Endless Wars


           lotus flower!