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!

No one important
I wash a few dishes
Agonia. Agonia.
All my hopeless wishes

Rome on my honeymoon
Florence, Paris too
Disability
Carolina blue

Rick Steves in Barcelona
Even in Iran
A long time ago, long time ago
When the world began

Grateful for good food
Indian buffet
Silent in the Night
Silent is the Way

                 Ole!

Just a few readers
To whom I say much thanks
Poetry in the Night
Snowfall shunyata

                Ah!

David Markson in New York City
Que selah selah
In London the women are pretty
In Tunisia they praise Allah

My long love of basketball
My chaotic family life
Romeo and Juliet
Baby, Cuts Like a Knife

Just read a bit now
Still love Things Not Seen
Dr. Thomas was quite caring
Billy Graham was mean

I love Rock n' Roll
Springsteen in Chapel Hill
Her dancing and the whisper
O! What a thrill

                   Memories!

There is no perfection
There's barely even goodness
Trouble in my mind
Take it easy, Take it slow

Libraries are quiet
Movies in the night
To sleep perchance to dream
Kamakura snow

She's one stress mess
Please keep the boys on track
3 prayers for Iraq
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

A little Robert Frost
A little Emily
Edgar Allen Poet
Mother Mary Let It Be

A lot of little poems
My lonely little life
Sleeping in the snowfall
Wisdom in the strife

In but not of America
Resisting at my best
Falling at my worst
Do I pass the test?

                Guess.

Long talk with my son
             Midnight
                xie xie

All that Bangkok rain
All that Seattle snow
All these little poems
And I'll never know

3 beautiful sons
Gracias xie xie
Silence in the Night
Silent is the Way

In Taipei noodle soup
In Taipei Din Tai Fung
My boys still so little
Young sons sung

I'll die and be forgotten
If you read me carry on
Hope for the Flowers
Rome. Paris. Gamla Stan.

                     Amen

I miss her in the morning
Lonely cool before dawn
I miss her in the evening
3 deer and 1 fawn

I liked being a teacher
I like getting new books
My oldest son is 18
He drives, he works, he cooks

Kamakura snow
Suffering is caused by desire
He's gonna be an astronaut
Try to take us higher

                George W. Liar

I like Rick Steves
European travelin' man
I've been to Paris
And I've been to Japan

American red states:
Dumbfuckistan.
Ozymandias
All that sifting sand ...

There is no life after death
Is there life before?
2 gentlemen of Verona
1 ******* in Elsinore

Shakespeare in Staunton
Exit 222
Julius Caesar in Reno
Only the women are true

             Carolina blue

Life is mostly ordinary
Eating, sleeping, rest
Once I was a teacher
Tried to do my best

Traveled to Japan
Rode the bullet train
Never been to Heaven
Never been to Spain

Been to California
San Francisco Zen
Susan Darlene Meek
Ah! What might have been

Seattle in the snow
Reno big blue sky
Something noble true
Before my time to die

              Lai la Lai!

Flight from Jerusalem
3 days in Vienna
St. Stephansdom above
Me solo below:

hot chocolate, bookshop, snow


Yes, Dr. Freud - to love and to work.

You've heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?

Morons.


:)

Maybe decades more
Maybe late along
Quiet in the night
Bruce Springsteen songs

Denver, Colorado
Susan Darlene Meek
I wish I wish I wish
I seek I seek I seek

      Geek. Geek. Geek.

Yes, Mr. Markson

Weak resistance
Sporadic at best
Troubled soul
Proclivities

**** Trump!
The little way
Please not Fate
Destinies

        Cosmic Seas!

All that Bangkok traffic
All that Asian rain
Rick Steves in Barcelona
And in Toledo, Spain

I have known anxiety
Hospitals and Jail
Life is suffering
And the inner wail

GMU today
Paris on my mind
Yo soy un isolato
I hope you treat me kind

Call my youngest son
Grateful for the phone
2 years of Latin
Honeymoon in Rome

            American Cosmic!

Boston in the winter
Icy Charles River
Me in Taipei, Taiwan
Teaching again the Giver

Basketball with my son
Gracias xie xie
Taipei 101
Silent is the Way

Leonard Cohen in London
Quite late along
They don't let a woman **** you
Not in the Tower of Song

Big blue Reno sky
Fog on the Golden Gate Bridge
I miss being a teacher
Give my best to Sage Ridge

Bangkok has the rain
The monks, the cars, the ***
Nearly 40 years later
Still thinking of my ex

Kamakura snow
In Dublin meant to be
Chicago for the scholars
Stockholm for the sea

Me and Susan Meek
Horizontally
But I live all alone
Hear my silent plea:

                  We!

Teaching Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay
New England in the Fall
My sons: callooh! callay!

Missing Susan Meek
Just a fantasy
Ordinary life
Please protect my 3

                  Si.

No one important
Live and die. Live and die.
Wandering the library
Wondering how to fly

Mr. Charles Darwin
Exoplanet sky
Mr. David Markson
New York City try

Ms. Susan Meek
So alone am I
My hand upon your cheek
Your gentle saving sigh ...

I'm not the Prophet Mohammed
I fight no religious wars
I struggle to survive
Tempted by the ******

Quiet little libraries
Reading alone again
The silence is eternal
Silence be my friend

Read a little Salman Rushdie
His story of the knife
Moby **** kabobs
My truly troubled wife

Life is isolation
I drift I drift I drift
Texts to my dad
Thank you kindly for the lift

                            Ole!

Got to see my son
Basketball at night
Downtown DC
Wizards in the light

I once read theology
Now I take a bath
Pythagoras of Samos
The philosophy of math

Should I drive to Mason?
Should I see the school?
Cordelia is truly noble
Harold Bloom was a fool

Moby **** kabobs
Hummus, bread, and rice
Susan Darlene Meek
Said I'm strange but nice

               La Florida!

Perplexing proclivities
Lonely in the day
Gunmetal gray the sky
Silent is the Way

High school is a blur
Dawn goes down to day
Basketball tonight
Watch the Wizards play

                xie xie

Reno to San Francisco
Fog upon the bridge
Basketball in Tahoe
Coaching for Sage Ridge

I'm kinda California
Sacramento child
Lovely Ms. Kathryn Orr
Curiosity running wild

San Francisco Zen Center
Teacher from Japan
Senyorita bonita
I wanna be your man

Tidal pools in Monterrey
My children still so young
That was a happy day hey hey!
Young sons sung

My sons keep me connected
For them I give much thanks
Please keep them protected
Guardians in the ranks

Quiet in the night
Silent is the Way
Gatsby's green light
Won ton soup xie xie

Rick Steves in Berlin
And in Toledo, Spain
Thomas means the Twin
Let fall the Purple Rain

              Bullet train!

........not much hope.......
drifting toward the end
            my sons!

Just one year in Chicago
But it's haunted me ever since
Two years in little Reno
I don't try to convince

Trump will go after the migrants
Dangerous escalation
Daoists in the mountains
Silent meditation

55 and still a bit shy
Grateful for my sons
I hope they get back some day
To Taipei 101

         Please give up your guns.

motorcycle taxis in the rain
         monks in sandals
                    traffic
                       me

I was led to 17 lines
She was just 17
I'm Carolina blue
But my Irish eyes are green

Once I was a teacher
Read books to the tweens
Now I'm just a dad
Still love Things Not Seen

Alone in the night
Miss my sons and brothers
Nearly 24 years later
Still miss my mother

Quiet Conversation
Dialogue with the Other
3 prayers for Chicago
3 prayers that hover

          Exoplanets. Discover!

A little won ton soup
Vegetables and rice
When it's time to go
You don't have to tell me twice

Slept most of the day
Depression is a *****
Trouble in my dreams
Have you seen the Wicked Witch?

Hope to talk to my sons
Quiet in the night
Boats against the tide
Gatsby's sweet green light

Baby exoplanets
Maybe alien life
Save me, Midnight Special
Also save my wife

                     strife...

Or maybe baby I'm not anything
Just live my little life
Lonely as the rain
Wisdom in the strife

Gratitude for my sons
Live to write another day
Vegetarian tacos
Basketball to play

              my my hey hey

Or maybe I'm a Daoist
Silent is the Way
Won ton soup and tea
Gracias xie xie

            Red Pine!

Am I a Catholic Buddhist atheist?
Or an atheist Buddhist Catholic?
Not really sure
It doesn't really matter

Tyranny rises in America
An essentially racist nation
Post cards in the mail
One Dark Knight

                Gatsby's green light

                             Flight!

Depression yet again
             Slowly
              Sleep