Category Poets

Gather quicklyOut of darknessAll the songs you knowAnd throw them at the sunBefore they meltLike snow.

We will take you and kill you,Expendable. We will fill you full of lead,Expendable. And when you are deadIn the nice cold ground,We’ll put your nameabove your head— If your headCan be found.

They will let you have dopeBecause they are quite willingTo drug you or kill you. They will let you have babiesBecause they are quite willingTo pauperize you—Or use your kids as labor boysFor army, air force, or uranium mine. They…

When the cold comesWith a bitter fragranceLike rusty iron and mint,And the wind blowsSharp as integrationWith an edge like apartheid,And it is winter,And the cousins of the too-thin suitsRide on bitless horsesTethered by something worse than pride,Which areaway, or bar,Or…

Playboy of the dawn,Solid gone!Out all nightUntil 12—1—2 a.m. Next dayWhen he should be goneTo work—Dog-gone!He ain’t gone.

What shall I leave my sonWhen I am dead and gone? Room in hell to join me When he passes on.What shall I leave my daughter,’The apple of my eye? A thousand pounds of salt For tears if she should…

God, in His infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise—So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God by surprise.

The street lightOn its lonely armBecomesAn extensionOf the Cross—The Cross itselfA lonely armWhose light is lost. Oh, lonely world!Oh, lonely light!Oh, lonely Cross!

I look out into the YonderAnd I don’t know where I go—So I cry, Lord! Lord! Yours is the only name I know. Some folks might say Your ear is deafTo one who never called before.Some folks might say You’ll…

IOh, God of dust and rainbows, help us seeThat without dust the rainbow would not be. III look with awe upon the human raceAnd God, who sometimes spits right in its face.