ALL ONE (a united world)
[caption id="attachment_1817" align="aligncenter" width="368"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [All One][/caption] I tried it alone, but it came out all One And I wondered if that’s how God felt To be alone and needing...
DOCTORS OF TRUCKS (of unemployment and corruption)
[caption id="attachment_1806" align="aligncenter" width="316"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Doctors Of Truck][/caption]I know of a place where our terminal degrees are reduced to mere papers and its holders become artisans, confined to man some...
UNTITLED (of politics and politicians)
[caption id="attachment_1794" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] They are the talented thieves of our time, Innocent sinners who claim to commit no crime. For ages they have fed us with truthful lies,...
SANS SERIF (on priding self)
[caption id="attachment_1789" align="aligncenter" width="286"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Sans Serif][/caption] Why carve me thus - Sans-serif lettering, Unadorned? Now I receive the spittle Of mocking lips! Why was I made On a day...
LITTLE THINGS [of kindness, and loving]
[caption id="attachment_1783" align="aligncenter" width="329"] Little Things[/caption] I sat silently in the middle, Surrounded on all sides, By my homeland walls. Turning, I faced the North. So much blood bathed my...
ECHE (a dirge for a dead brother)
www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry I sprawl under the grey umbrella of an avocado tree Counting time in the dull eyelashes of the sky, Watching the buffet of whirlwinds snore in gentle rhythms, And...
I KISSED THE HAND THAT KILLED ME (of unconditional love)
[caption id="attachment_1754" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] I kissed the hand that killed me. I washed the feet that kicked me. With my hair I dried your legs... Sweet ointments, I spread...
GONE ARE THE DAYS (of the death of humanity and morality)
[caption id="attachment_1730" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] Gone are the days When children would converge at moonlight t and listen to the old man's stories Marveling in rapt attention to every word Of his...
ARE YOU A TRUE WITNESS? (a religious awakening)
[caption id="attachment_1715" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] Is it the one who wins the arguement Or the one who is theologically accurate, Much as the one who speaks the truth in love?...
FORGIVE ME LORD (prayer of a contrite heart)
[caption id="attachment_1710" align="aligncenter" width="212"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] Forgive me Lord, for I have spoken Where the balm of silence would suffice. I have snared darkened paths for a token And my tongue...