I want a world more Pissarro than Picasso
More the sum than a piece
More the glory of all of it
Than cubes of us at our least
Gene G. McLaughlin 2020
I want a world more Pissarro than Picasso
More the sum than a piece
More the glory of all of it
Than cubes of us at our least
Gene G. McLaughlin 2020
The world is on sale
and also on fire
30 percent off all you desire
gifts under the tree
are the world’s pyre
-Gene G. McLaughlin 2019
Today was like dust
Floating away from me
The reason I saw it at all
Is because it danced
In rays of morning sun
Promising a confidence
If I didn’t look away
I barely moved my eyes
Yet the secret was withheld
Promised in due time
Relegated to a future moment
Gene G. McLaughlin 2017
When God looked outside himself
He did not see love hate
Water fire sulfur salt
He saw possibility
In all its infinite glory
Gene G. McLaughlin 2017
I cannot ease your pain
Include suffering in your expectations
Conscious existence in full contains
Elated joys and sorrowful lamentations
Gene G. McLaughlin 2017