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
Tag: twitter poem
The Sprawl
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
Fluctus Virtus Defluxit
Rome had elements
We now call by different names
We judge them harshly
Assigning their actions blame
Are the sounds of Nero’s fiddle
And strikes of the golf ball the same?
Gene G. McLaughlin 2017
The Long View
I cannot ease your pain
Include suffering in your expectations
Conscious existence in full contains
Elated joys and sorrowful lamentations
Gene G. McLaughlin 2017
MLK Day 2017
Beyond the tight binary loops
That bind and divide simultaneously
Beyond the preselected groups
Driving us toward homogeneity
Beyond the demarcation which dilutes
The resilient strengths of humanity
Lie the path to love’s roots
The beginnings of equanimity
Out of which shoots
New growths of solidarity
Gene G. McLaughlin 2017
The Other Guy’s Version of Empathy
The subject was pain
Not related to you
Only what me
And mine
Have been through
Empathy is
My needs met
With little
Or no
To do
From you
Gene G. McLaughlin 2016
When I Was A Ghost
When I was a ghost
Songs sounded like sorrow
The aural recognition
Of time fading away
But
When love shaped my form
I knew the song was melody
The joyous exclamation
That then is always now
Gene G. McLaughlin 2016
The Subtext
I wish I could show you what
I see
But
It lacks impact
Without context
But
As a hint
Love and light
Are the subtext
Gene G. McLaughlin 2016
The Terroir of a Thought
When I am struck
By a feeling or emotion
That is not consistent
With what it once was
I recall
The terroir of a thought
Includes time
An instigator of change
Gene G. McLaughlin 2016
Red Raw Orlando Sun
Red raw Orlando sun
Lays our failures plain
Kneeling all as one
Souls burdened with pain
Filtering words of sense
From the anger soaked insane
Gene G. McLaughlin 2016
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