General Social Observation Poetry

Algorithm and Blues (The blues of the modern world)

Hiding In The Peanut Butter (What we can learn from giving our dogs medicine)

Life's A Screen (On losing privacy)

Outside Sherwood Forest (On going to where heroes might live)

Use-By Date (When a human starts to slip past their prime)

Mr. [Redacted] (On errors protecting individual information in government materials)

Captain Footnote (On dying relevant historical superheroes)

Treadmill (Life's only true figure of speech)

Hey, St. Peter (On St. Peter's job)

Back To The Couch (On seeing cast-offs)

Moral Panic (Modern society)

Tortoiseshell (On having a tough exterior)

The Dying Purple (America as only blue and red)

Feeding The Mouths (On following the media)

Everybody's Laboring (Labor and Labor Day)

Wakes (The havoc people leave in their wakes)

Red Flags (When a hire never happens)

The Emotional Tollbooth (Emotional exhaustion)

Yield (Concrete poem on yields of all kinds)

Trickle (The effects of COVID on nursing shortages)

Self-Study (Individuals should be accredited)

In Flames (The Aging Firefighter) (Watching fires burn out of control)

Life On A Curve (Trying to support people in difficult times)

Breathtaker (On Trevor Bauer)

The Weeks I Can't Get Back (Time wasted on stupid stuff)

Perpetual Cannons (When the battles are everywhere)

Isthmus (While no man is an island, he is often an isthmus)

Social Economy (Relationships)

A Coronavirus Carol (In This Time Of Hope)

                Series on COVID

. . . And The Horse He Rode In On (Death returns)

Back At The Stable (Pestilence returns)

Warhorseman (War returns)

The Lost Horseman (Famine returns)

The 19th Ward (COVID and health care)

19 Seconds (COVID and animal control)

19 Swipes (COVID and dating)

Retired 19 Jerseys (COVID and sports)

Educated And 19 (COVID and education)

Close (To The House) (First thoughts as COVID takes over)

                  Older General Poems

Coxcomb, Codpiece: The Full Motley (On wanting to play the court jester)

Sunshine (Reflections on winning and losing)

I've Been To The Top Of The Mountain (When you hit lows in life)

Raise (On raising children)

Three Probes (Three probing poems)

Dodge The Bullet (Another way of saying one man's trash is another man's treasure)

Imposter Stockholm Syndrome (Stuck in a rut)

The Smug, The Lying, The Clueless, The Whining (Dealing with jerks)

 Heavier (On the weight of life)

Swell (The emotional rollercoaster of lost loved ones)

Your Sin On My Tongue (Sex and sin)

Longhand (Decrying shallowness of modern thought)

Your Place In Hell (On people who live off of creating discord)

Verbalizing (Poem on the usage of sunset as a verb)

Low Sink, Oh (When public figures bottom out)

Spiral-Bound (Holding strong in stormy social climates)

Clerestory (When belief becomes dangerous)

Empty The Room (When the boorish drive away any supporters)

It's What We Do (Doing the little things to connect with others)

Truth Stalking (On the desperation of having others see you as you see yourself)

Poltergeists, Not Poets (Ugliness of public discourse)

Campaign (Poem on power of evil)

Tilt (On going after windmills)

In Your Bed (On strange bedfellows)

Dear Anonymous (On spineless trolls)

The Wall is Down (Third of wall trilogy)

Another Brick In My Wall (Pt. II) (Second of wall trilogy)

I Do Love A Good Wall (First of wall trilogy)

A Path to Heal (Responding--or not--to the ugliness of the modern world)

The Labor of Division (People's struggles with difficult concepts)

Institutional Memory (Importance of memory)

The Lovely Dance (Difficulty of maintaining a good marriage)

A Vent-I Please (Poem of venting)

Departure and Cowardice (Confronting ugly departures)

Swimming Against the Riptide (Combating dissonance in the workplace)

Networking (Social media and lack of connection)

Middle School Concert (Self-explanatory)

The Man Going 'Round (Evil impersonating good)

FeINar (Living in fear)

22nd Release/3rd Offering (Kid bullying)

A Dog-Gone Sonnet (Feeling like a dog)

Villainelle (On a Villain)

My Doe (On watching a lame deer cross the road)

Sisyphus' Dream (Sonnet on life's difficulties)

How Cruella DeVille Recruited Gary Busey For The John Birch Society