New poem: "The Flip-flop"

 

The Flip-flop

 

They don’t know why it happens,

but a very strange thing can happen

to the human psyche commonly

referred to as “the flip-fop,” when

an otherwise normal person becomes

the opposite of what they used to be,

like the podcaster Tucker Carlson

who now baffles his friend Dave

Ruben; but it’s not a mystery, really.

Their false shadow self just came

out to play, and it will not go away

until it has had its day.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Sunday, December 21, 2025

 

New poem: "Nature's Most Complete Man"

 

Nature’s Most Complete Man

 

“Man must complete what nature cannot

finish,” said the mystic philosopher George

Ivanovich Gurdjieff; but how far can man

evolve on his own? “He has to be the most

complete man that Nature can create,” I said

to myself, as I listened to President Trump

speaking in Pennsylvania as he launched his

campaign for the midterm elections; and what

came to my mind was the poet Goethe’s famous

line from his play Faust: “Two souls, alas, are

housed within my breast; and each will wrestle

for mastery there.” Jesus said, “the kingdom

will come when the two will be made one.” But

I saw no wrestling in Trump’s proud chest as he

spoke about the economy and what he had done

so far to make America safe, strong, wealthy,

and great again. What I saw instead was Nature’s

most complete man who spoke for both souls

in his chest, neither one denying the other the

right to be heard; and the longer he spoke,

the more I fell in love with the wonder

of Trump’s paradoxical nature.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

 

 

New Poem: "They"

 

“They”

 

The troubled soul is literary gold,

and literature will never run out

of this mineral. Calling herself “they,”

she alchemized her grief away in

ardent verse. Listening to Gabrielle

Calvocoressi on the New Yorker

Radio Hour, my favorite writer John

Updike’s favourite magazine, I

was moved to say, “It’s going to be

a wonderful day, knowing that life

is always mending the troubled soul

with the wisdom of poetry.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Sunday, December 14, 2025

 

New Poem: "Trump Uncensored"

 

 Trump Uncensored

 

Not that they were always on, but

President Trump has taken the gloves

off for the midterm elections, as he

clearly demonstrated when he launched

his first rally speech at Mount Pocono,

Pennsylvania, talking about that “stupid

son of a bitch”— which was better,

“sleepy or crooked Joe Biden?”—who

was ruining the country, and not allowing

any more “garbage people” from those

“shithole countries” like Somalia. Trump

uncensored was a joy to listen to, and

I laughed my heart out listening to him

speaking to his fellow Americans who

voted him back into the Oval Office

to make America great again.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

New poem: "A Realist and Not a Racist"

 

A Realist and Not a Racist

 

When the billion-dollar Somali fraud scandal

in Minnesota’s social service system broke,

the radical left wing of the Democratic Party

branded President Trump a racist for calling

Somalia a “garbage country” and not wanting

any more Somalis in America when in fact

Transparent International, a non-government

organization, through its annual international

Corruption Perception Index, consistently rates

Somalia as one of the most corrupt countries

in the world; proving yet again that Donald J.

Trump, self-made billionaire and 45^th and 47^th

President of the United States, who has the wit

and wisdom to cut through the crap and get

to the bottom of things, is a realist

and not a racist,

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Thursday, December 4, 2025

New poem: "Is Gurdjieff Still Relevant Today?"

 

 

Is Gurdjieff Still Relevant Today?

 

Is Gurdjieff still relevant today,

the mystic philosopher who influenced

so many and broke the hearts of more;

the charismatic teacher of the Fourth

Way Teaching, the Work, the System, 

“esoteric Christianity,” and the “way

of the sly man” who believed that we

are not born with an immortal soul,   

that Nature has done all it can for us,

and that we have to take evolution into

our own hands to create our own soul

and complete what Nature cannot finish,

is he still relevant today with all that

information online on healing our

broken spirits with past-life

regression therapy?

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Thursday, December 4, 2025

New poem: :The Lens of our Perception"

 

 

The Lens of Our Perception

 

When we look at life and see the good

and bad in people, it’s the lens of our perception

that determines our understanding; like the way

we see Donald J. Trump, the billionaire President

of the United States who continues to puzzle

the world with what he says, some people seeing

a morally corrupt egocentric out for himself,

and others a monomaniacal President hell-bent

on making America great again. Good or bad, it’s

the lens of our perception that determines how

we see the 45^th and 47^th President of the United

States; and when he meets St. Peter at the pearly

gates of Heaven, he won’t be asked if he was

good or bad, but if he fulfilled his promise

to make America great again.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay. Southcentral, Ontario.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025