Friday, October 9, 2026

Love

Love

I was looking for a can of discount beans
Stretching out in my tight blue jeans
When I heard a whistle from behind
I turned around to look and find
Mister Perfect looking at my ass
I said
“Damn, you’re cute, but can you get a little class?”
He smiled, his teeth complete and pearly white
“Can I take you out for dinner tonight?”
Well, anything is better than cold canned vegetables
So I said, “Yes, I am willing and able”
Together we walked to his Mercedes Benz
I knew then we’d be more than friends
Off we went with the tires squealing
Girl, I can’t tell you just how high I was feeling
I was some place between zero and infinity
And a supernova was in my immediate vicinity
So we had a meal of steak and surf
With a table on the bay on the fisherman's wharf
I was watching the sun set over the sea
Wondering about the possibility
If this could be more than two ships passing in the night
So I decided that I’d had better play my cards right
Right away I ditched the deuce
It wasn’t wise to be loose
Sure I might have an orgasm or three
But the night would end, and out of the door I’d be
So I decided to play the King of Clubs
As I contemplated my future hub
“I said, hey baby, I’d really like to go have a dance”
“Could you, would you, should you take a chance?”
He said, “Hey babe, don’t you know that dancing is my thing”
“Not only do I hustle, but I also sing”
Then like thunder in wide wonder I came into the know
I whispered softly, “You’re Barry Manilow”
“Yes,” he said with a nod as the bill came to pay
“I had to do something to convince the world I ain’t gay”
Well I wanted to get angry, but that would have been a sin
Love is a game, sometimes you lose, sometimes you win


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Poet To The Poor


Tuesday, October 6, 2026

I Was a Navajo

 I Was a Navajo


I was a Navajo

A million years ago

I herded sheep

And got little sleep

I knew the name of each member of the starry host

 

I was a Navajo

And walked Mother Earth below

I knew secrets deep

Treasures to keep

Now I walk the scarred surface an anguished ghost

 

I weep I wail

My courage does fail

When I see greed and lust for power and control

An endless drive with an ambiguous goal

Never to achieve never to receive

Contrasting

The simple blessing to those who believe

In Love

 

In one night of my life there was more joy

Then in all the angry years of those who destroy

 

 

I was a Navajo

And you will never know

The beauty of the night

And what is right

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Monday, September 28, 2026

Fool Am I

Fool Am I

 

The jester was short with a contorted face                            

He preached that salvation was by works not grace              

Jokerman had files from the palace to the slum                    

More than the queen was under his dirty green thumb          

 

Tell me what kind of fool am I

I make the good women lie

I make the bad women cry

Tell me what kind of fool am I

 

I was reading penthouse letters in the attic

There were some true confessions from a fanatic

It was there the jester first came into my mind

How secret lovers discovers life ain’t kind

 

Tell me what kind of fool am I

I make the good women lie

I make the bad women cry

Tell me what kind of fool am I

 

She was wearing nothing except her golden crown

The jester commanded baby let’s go downtown

A smile crossed her face on sweet lips ruby red

She cackled pretty soon were all gonna be dead

 

Tell me what kind of fool am I

I make the good women lie

I make the bad women cry

Tell me what kind of fool am I

 

Well the king had three wisemen who listened before they spoke

They knew the jester was something more than a running joke

We don’t recommend the nuclear option unless it’s an extreme

They said push the red button and we’ll see if life’s but a dream

 

Desperate the king challenged the fool to a duel

The jester wasn’t strong but he was plenty cruel

The queen couldn’t lose she had spread out all her bets

Swords flashed egos crashed blood spilled with no regrets

 

Tell me what kind of fool am I

I make the good women lie

I make the bad women cry

Tell me what kind of fool am I 


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Slipping Into A Blue Sky

 Slipping Into A Blue Sky

 

I have a secret alphabet where new letters abound                            

I dream all day of new ways to say I Love You                                

The salad’s a kiss I’m hungering for the main course                       

Peace is flowing like a river and the Good Lord’s the source           

 

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

I’m slipping into a blue sky heaven’s so high

I’m slipping into a blue sky let’s give love a try

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

 

Sipping Champaign I hope it’s plain the special way I feel

Allow me to explain that my Love is genuine and real

Put forever in a bottle pull the throttle to full speed

Whatever your desire I’ll light the fire for all you need

 

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

I’m slipping into a blue sky heaven’s so high

I’m slipping into a blue sky let’s give love a try

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

 

Mellow my mind I find a new universe gentle and kind

Come take my hand understand destiny planned to leave all behind

Past the moon soon we’ll be sailing beyond the farthest star

To a place of grace of leather and lace called Jupitar

 

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

I’m slipping into a blue sky heaven’s so high

I’m slipping into a blue sky let’s give love a try

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

 

One and one makes one when all is said and done

Making love all night the morning light’s just begun

With certainty eternity is a time much too small

God bless what I possess I give you it all

 

Time is merely a cosmic flow melting into supernal tide

We don’t gotta run forever I know where we can hide

Arm in arm safe from all harm a paradise built for two

Slipping into a blue sky a high made for me and you

 

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

I’m slipping into a blue sky heaven’s so high

I’m slipping into a blue sky let’s give love a try

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

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Sunday, September 20, 2026

Sunset Sonnet 9

Sunset Sonnet 9

 

It’s getting late Syl the clock is ticking

I isolated penning poetic verse

You playing your game the keyboard clicking

A few words back and forth so we converse

Tomorrow is the Lord’s Day praise His name

Six days for men one for the I Am

Twenty six years on my path free of shame

The water’s of wickedness God did dam

We shall travel to the inner city

Newark a place in decay forgotten

But I know from high to low God is with me

The first shall be last so seek the bottom

In glorious voices our praises ring

Glory to God and glory to the King 


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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Train Wreck

Train Wreck

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

 

Running down the line looking so fine

A hell of a train called make it all mine

Iron and steel it’s a fire of fury

Get off of the tracks it’s in a hurry

A world away it didn’t seem true

I fell in love like young girls always do

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck a world of pain

A train wreck life’s insane

A train wreck coming in vain

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck and it’s coming again

 

Mother picked my man before I was born

Between custom and Love I was torn

Outcast I rode the plains with Crazy Horse

The elders would not let me divorce

We were free as the sky never knowing

It all would end with a whistle blowing

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck a world of pain

A train wreck life’s insane

A train wreck coming in vain

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck and it’s coming again

 

Liquor lies and soldiers ready to fight

So much for us making love all night

I kissed him hard as we said goodbye

I knew we were through I broke down to cry

Our hope was just to live our own way

Before the iron dragon had its day

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck a world of pain

A train wreck life’s insane

A train wreck coming in vain

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck and it’s coming again

 

Like the Buffalo we are no more

We won the battle but lost the war

Like my people I am of the past

Love stories have no choice but to last

At six every morn the train rolls by

When something is born something must die

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck a world of pain

A train wreck life’s insane

A train wreck coming in vain

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck and it’s coming again

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

 

I ride the plains you can still hear my cry

When something is born something must die

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh 


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Sunday, September 13, 2026

Now I See

Now I See

 

Farm Road was a dusty trail

With a creek and a bog

Quick Mathew would catch a frog

And we’d keep him in a pail

Tadpoles would flourish in the stream

Wiggly and slimy in hand

We were living in a dream

And we did not understand

 

There were woods thick with bush

Branches, twigs moved with a push

All around lost in bliss

Of Mother Nature’s wilderness

The river shallow with slippery stone

Mathew and I crossed it alone

Trying not to get wet feet

As if soggy socks signaled defeat

 

Now the stream is dark and void

The frogs, the fish all destroyed

Farm Road is paved like all the rest

Houses built where there was forest

Progress they say I want to scream

I see your progress, progress be damned

We were living in a dream

And we did not understand

 

No rocks to turn to see a millipede

Our refuge of nature is now gone

A victim of man and his greed

Yet still life it must go on

There is little in us worth to redeem

The world goes on as Satan planned

We were living in a dream

And we did not understand  



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Poet To The Poor