Even the famous fade to nothing
What do the non-famous do?

Lay awake and ponder zero:
72 - 72.

Chesteron in Kensington
  Fr. Greeley in Chicago
        Anglo-Irish!

I don't really have friends
Politics portends
Life goes on until it ends

                    Reno!

College Partnership Program
         Taking attendance
               Hello Clarice

At the edge of paranoia at times
My bipolar mind careening
The need for humility
Take it easy. Take it slow.

Predatory terror
But also midnight blue true teening
Ocean waves in darkness
Softfall cedar snow

Time is not a line
The past is not forgotten
Delicious panang curry
37 below

The blue to black to moonlight
Moonlight glowing yellow
Stars come out to play
Yoko yo yo yo yo

                  Whoa! :)

Once upon a time
They lived happily ever after

Not much happened
But they knew much laughter

The American Abyss
Years and years leading to this
I laugh as I resist ...

                Impeach that *******!

Boonsboro is also blue
1837
Villanova's Kevin
In Charlotte Dr. Maguire

I wait to go postal
Need to read indeed
Yo estudio
My chance y my desire

I asked for mystery
So I now give thanks
River Eden mist
In Tokyo the train

37 and 72
Ever ancient, Ever new
Still not sure what to do
Adam Raised a Cain

               !

Didn't do too well in Chicago
Seattle is cedarsnow
Ferry boat to Alaska
37 below

Please possibilities for Susan
Her gentle caring grace
Satellite Beach, Florida
Aliens in space?

                   Chase!

It's just gonna be annihilation
             Here. Gone.


              Gamla Stan!

Readers are plentiful
Thinkers are rare
If you encounter the latter
Reader, beware!

The vegetarianism mostly Quixotic
The animals get slaughtered and slaughtered
Predatory terror
Life as horror story

Buddhist monks in forest
And temple
And palace
And hut

A poet of place
Her face!
Her name
O glory!

The imaginary becomes real
She dances
She sings
She teaches

                      What?

The vegetarianism mostly Quixotic
The animals get slaughtered and slaughtered
Predatory terror
Life as horror story

Buddhist monks in forest
And temple
And palace
And hut

A poet of place
Her face!
Her name
O glory!

The imaginary becomes real
She dances
She sings
She teaches

                      What?

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Is really good for Art
Just ask Claude Monet
Not Napolean Blown Apart

I went to Giverny
Gave the garden Cary's ashes
When she wore no makeup
O God! Those eyelashes

Dublin, Wendy Darling
Gethsemani Trappist Abbey
Episcopal is Catholic Lite
Not too shabby!!!

         Long live Mr. Keating...

It was clear
Tesla is for him
What Springsteen is for me
Drivin' home tis evening
Bee 3333

Memories return
Toledo, Sacramento
7 Spanish Angels
Olives, no pimento

Let the mystery play
Time is not a line
Hints of a deeper order
Women wake the Wine

Let the mystery play
Along the River Shannon
Every night in Jersey
George Thorogood y John Hammond

               Who Do You Love !?!

The therapist tells me
90 percent of the things we worry about
Do not come true.

               So why can't I relax?

American history is a horror story
How to overcome?
But I do love American movies
One Dark Knight

See my son today
Tired, exoplanets
In my solitude
2 green lights

          European flights

alienation sets me running
alienation, December drumming
doesn’t work, but puzzling strumming

alien nations - could they be coming?

Mr. Shiva
My bipolar
Injection
Thank you very much

All these little poems
Like a diary
Daily life
And such ...

Gratitude for fatherhood
My boys
My joys
My hope

Marguerite Porete
Giordano Bruno
Mr. Meister Eckhart
Hispanic female Pope

              Nope?

I wanted to write something beautiful
The best that I could do

Now I miss my boys
Young sons sung for who?

The pen isn't mightier than the sword
But is the Internet mightier than
Nuclear weapons?

The short drive to the cemetery
Remembered by very few
At my best, at my best
The best that I could do

My sins die with me
And my proclivities
Charleston at night
Wind in willow trees

Monterrey with my children
Tidal pools on the beach
Once I was a teacher
But now I have nothing to teach

Vienna in the snow
San Francisco Zen
Reno far below
3710

        I die and disappear
                 But when?

the strife, it never ever ends
         enemies and friends
I often wonder what perhaps portends

  but  love and hate, like life and Fate
                 Impossible to comprehend.

No hope of life after death
Little hope of life before

Darkness closing in
Closing as well the door

Nothing seems quite new
Yet nothing comes once more

I wander lonely as a cloud
What do I explore?

What's gonna get through?
                137732
                     U.

I admit I'm intrigued by the email

                        ?

Mark and I
Weird Science in Satellite Beach

Long distance from Sacramento
But friendship true does reach

I've read a lot of books
Searching for the Unknown

Professor Pasulka says she's living
In the Twilight Zone

                Are we not alone?

The American war machine keeps churning
Garrisoning the planet

I once knew a Juliet
Never knew a Janet

Staunton in snow calls to me
The Tempest keeps on raging

The plays are better seen
Better than turn the paging

Life is meaningless
Still we have to live it

God is Forever Silent
Do you think you can forgive It?

Born too late for God
The terror of non-being
Snowfall Shunyata
Dahlgren Chapel at night

Patience with myself
Therapy again
San Francisco Zen
Eckhart, not Sein und Zeit

A little Puritanism
City on a Hill
Dr. Robert Coles
From Florida in flight

Wicked in New York City
No good deed
A pal's last need a thing to heed
Please purpose in my plight

                    Susan?

Sometimes the silence is sadness
Sometimes the silence is wait
Sometimes the silence is pregnant
        Who is She? I meditate.

It's a painful, lonely, maybe meaningless life that ends in death forever.

Then why is it still so dear?

Atheism: a very persuasive response
To the Night.

Faith: Silent, mystic flight

Can both be right?

I read a lot of books
But they don't do much
For the Void within
I wish I could relax
Distress. Distress again.

Now they say it's UFOs
NASA does begin
Metallic orbs. Crash landings
Water
Aliens

                      Fins?

A lot of guilt
A lot of remorse
Still married
No divorce

So often sad
Rolling Stone
Galahad
Life alone

   Unknown?

Maryland is kinda quiet
My son plays basketball
Korean grocery store
All Walls Fall

Midnight Train to Georgia
I hope she understands
53 and falling
E Street rockin' band

Mystical graces come
Mental illness too
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Muslim Christian Jew

I keep writing
Keep posting
Keep sending
But I don't know what to do

                    Do you?

Irish Green
Things Not Seen
Susan Darlene

           ?

Shakyamuni and Yasodhara
Socrates and Xanthippe
Jesus and ?

So the question is:
Does she trust me?
No way now
For me to know

Invisible threads connect
Simple Man
Robin Williams
Reno snow

Rain came down came rain
37 below
Icy Charles River
I've got the will, Lord

     If you've got the toe.  :)


               On we go

Childless joys
**** ***
Fervent fears
No time to text

Dr. Boykin Sanders
Malcolm X
Saturday
Solarplex

I wait in wonder
Cornel West?
Robins fall
Back in the nest

Sacramento
Doubly blessed
Als Ick Kan
Then take my rest

           Next?

Escape from America
But where? Where to go?
Bangkok monsoon rain
Seattle cedarsnow

Libraries are quiet
Saint Thomas More
Night Train Lane
Verona, not Elsinore

Drifting toward death
Drifting. 54.
In my solitude
Adios, Senyor

             Or ...

The Buddha right about marriage
A mistake. Big mistake.
But my children are not Rahula
Qualyxians, Lady of the Lake!

Mostly gray today
No synchronicities
Frodo has to say goodbye
Not many leaves left on trees

Walnut Heights, Ohio
Still when I was playing
Disappear forever
All Walls Fall. Just saying.

Catholic, but not orthodox
I ride the Tucson Train
In my solitude
My sickness and my pain

Brown hair is quite beautiful
Got a book by Wendy Mass
One of theses crazy nights ...
But probably not, alas.

                  If I ask? ...

travel and travail
      time passing prevail
             eternity entails ...


                                ?

Will I become books?
        Irish cooks
         Gadzooks!

I told her the poems came
In an almost involuntary way

That's unusual, she said
Transmigration day?

It looks like just one life
Then nothingness forever

Chicago in the winter
Ireland's No, Nay, Never

What does India know?
Avatar together?

There is no afterlife
And I'm 54 years old
Not in good health
Can I see the End?

           A friend???

Rock stars live after they die
But maybe not middle school teachers

I wrote and told of nights in cars
But I could not really reach her

I like music in Irish bars
But I'm not much of a drinker

Exoplanets, exomoons, and stars
They can turn you into a thinker

                            ???

Eternity as sleep
     No more tears to weep
             No more **** to peep
                     No more laughter leap


                          annihilation?

too much despair in air
to truly moralize

but the truth of her brown hair
in this world of lies

sent me letter sending
much to her surprise

maybe never ending
because I did not disguise

         but was it wise?

I die alone? at night? in a hospital?

             snowfall shunyata

The Republican Party is racist ****
Can we break on through?
Desafortunadamente
Doo Wah Diddy Do

Goin' back to Miami
Read a few good books
Even the teacher got no idea
Just how mean she looks

Tired, sad, lonely
Years flow by like rain
Good times pass quickly
Lingering is the pain

I believe in gratitude
Thank you for my sons
Women are cruelty
But I'm Taipei 101

             Red Pine!