Dedicated to Chuck and so many others
#COVID #haiku #poetry
This zombie nation Always glued to our smartphones Doesn’t make us smart
From the early 1980s when he won the NCAA tournament with a jump shot to NBA championships an Olympic gold medal
As Putin the Terrible sends his Russian troops Into the sovereign nation of Ukra… We must make a commitment to assist our democratic partners
Everyone will have a best summer o… Even if they won’t know it at the… There will always be the promise o… Even if they will never quite mate… Everyone also has a last summer on…
We have come to equate “fortune” w… as in “that outfit must have cost… but its real meaning is more abstr… Whenever the Roman goddess Fortun… it meant that things went well for…
When a person achieves fame and then handles it by resorting to drugs and alcohol in prodigious amounts, they’re actively trying to
That fucking groundhog Saw its damn shadow today Thanks a lot, asshole!
Our sense of comfort in existing s… Cannot be denied, and yet There’s always something more out… Just beyond our comfort zones. Do we dare to seek it out?
I shall dance no more with rhythmless guilty feet. The saxophone played. George Michael’s “Careless Whisp… Will haunt us all forever.
Dozens of face masks In varied sizes, materials, and co… Were shoved into a coffee can Over the course of the pandemic. Tossing them into the garbage toda…
Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River… was published more than a century… Its enduring popularity derives fr… telling truths about the human con… The most compelling message of all
Chicago’s party of the summer is the Pride parade up north It’s boozier than St. Patrick’s… Less explosive than the 4th Lots of people dance and play
He’s a professional athlete a person with wealth and notoriety and an avid supporter of the patri… A Catholic college in the Midwest brought him in to speak to their g…
As I was growing up I envied other kids who had what I thought were “normal” middle names: James, Thomas, and
Poetizing moods Don’t come along too often So don’t let them pass!