Author Archives: CitizenPoet

Unknown's avatar

About CitizenPoet

Writer

What If the RepubliCants Were in Charge?

  I wrote an earlier version of this poem on a friend’s blog a few weeks ago. I finally had time to do a bit of editing and publish it here.   What if the RepubliCants wonAnd a new Dark … Continue reading

Posted in Political Folly | Leave a comment

Cows and How; Who Gnu?

                   Massachusetts smells like roses             According to the EPA.             Explains the pricks I see each day.                                                     –http://bit.ly/auKgRi

Posted in News and politics | Leave a comment

The Oysters of Apalachicola Bay

    When I was a young reporter working for the Panama City New-Herald sometime back in the last century, I used to take my dinner hour at a small bar where I could buy a pitcher of beers for … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Three Who Came

  There were only three. The first, a gray, a stillness, and held to fall to me; this, the first of three. The valley was still, and dead, By God and man, the last And though I raised my yearning … Continue reading

Posted in Introspection | Leave a comment

Reflections on Memories Only Half Fulfilled

  I was thinking . . . about what I wrote last night, about what remembered, about what and why I write . . .   The pen conquers dark writing of light. Conquers death by writing of life.  

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

A Travelogue in Time

  Paper and pen. Write. I don’t recall how or why. Came the glare. The light.   The short haiku-styled poems that I ofen write for The Poetry Blog such as yesterday’s entry and A Visit to New York City, in Hiabun, on … Continue reading

Posted in Introspection | Leave a comment

Does She Exist?

  Intelligent men Believe in God. Assuming God believes in them.

Posted in Introspection | Leave a comment

A Million Plus Days Since Rome Began

  Today marks 1,008,888 days since the traditional founding of Rome on April 21, 753 BCE.     History written is a chronicle. History viewed through the prism of poetry captures the essence of lives lived and events experienced, reflecting … Continue reading

Posted in Introspection | Leave a comment

Brightside – Haverhill Goes Green

    I introduced a new song yesterday at Brightside’s Haverhill Goes Green fair at Winnekenni Castle, an enviromental and earth-themed festival where more than 2,000 attendees strolled through tents filled with exhibits on alternative forms of energy from solar … Continue reading

Posted in Music | Leave a comment

Fueled by FOX, Fooled by FOX

  Two really big scandals have plagued FOX during the past week and put the lie to their fair and balanced nonsense. Sean Vannity was caught shilling in a Cinninnati Tea Bagger Fund Raiser and was yanked out by furious … Continue reading

Posted in Political Folly | Leave a comment