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Poetry from G to I

gaia sings

earth goddess
whirling dervish
early songs
without words

global face
could be
anywhere
italy, peru

soothing voice
om melodies
her causes
easy on ears
Picture
fame and fortune
but spins too fast
with guys in band
serene solo

​shy eyes
see everything
hypnotize
mesmerize
​
fans flock
to lady buddha
natalie
merchant
gandhi

i am gandhi
on couch
in landfill
of political forums

wrinkled
and red-faced
wise
but angry

at least
the couch 
Is comfortable
gargoyles

​weeks of torment
by noisy neighbor
woke at five by
soft yellow light

high on wall
monster faces
one after another
one with glowing eyes
one a lion-man
​gargoyles protecting
my cathedral
of sacred words

or demons purged
from my soul and
set loose on world

gargoyles disappear
neighbor disappears

five a.m. now inner light
remember dreams
​write poetry
Picture
ghouls of zion

blood libel
bela lugosi
star of david
show cross
to bar jew

world war z
zionists
against
zombies

hold back
hordes
but arabs
inside the walls

finally
mummy
unwrap corpse
of forgotten
covenant

atum gift
of commerce
kephri gift
of art and science

but at a price
ra at noon 
pogrom
never say
never again
Picture
gigi

girls just want
to have fun
women just want
to have husbands


the glamorous life
without love
it ain't much
​

nineteen hundred
nineteen fifty-eight

american 
belle époque

doo-wop
pat boone
it’s a bore

Picture
a green horse

cairo street
arab spring
revelation
pale green horse

other side of
shimmering veil
eternal crusade

no renaissance
no enlightenment
eternal dark ages

saladin in saddle
here to retake
palestine

saladin saladin
where do you roam
saladin saladin
far far from home
happen again

false prophet
trail to the west
true prophet
trail to the stars

all this
has happened before
all this
will happen again

bleeding kansas
rehearsal for
great war
bleeding spain
rehearsal for
great war

dada
found object art
warhol
found object art

nineteen fifty-two
left-wing useful idiots
serve the kremlin
​
twenty twenty-two
right-wing useful idiots
serve the kremlin
Picture
white sun on black flag
viet cong legacy
white sun on black flag
​jihadist legacy

yoko ono
split the beatles
took mate
to america

meghan markle
split the royals
took mate
to america

first british
invasion
beatles
rebels against
nixon

second british
invasion
duran duran
rebels against
reagan

the circle turns
rebels on the right
there’s murder
by the roadside
in a sore afraid
new world

wild boys
wild boys
proud boys
proud boys
hawking

stephen hawking
hovers over
scared scarab
blocking sun
of khepri youth

wings clipped
khepri free
beatles thrive

hawk crippled
ra divided
good half hawking
bad half davros
evil trapped
in wholand

miracle longevity
disease time slowed
as hawk nears
black hole

died on day
galileo died
einstein born
astronomy
plus physics
astrophysics

passed on pi day
irrational number
cuts down hawking
irrational leaders
cut down science
hillary

god against hillary
new year
twenty sixteen
tv schedule magic

her rosy versions
the good wife
madam secretary

replaced by
undercover boss
limitless


boss trump offers
undercover deals
limitless lies

god chose trump
not to save
but to damn
america
holywood

dream creativity
if available in waking
would make every man
a dante or shakespeare

wrote frederic hedge

but dream writers
in heaven not earth
with producers
actors and
audience of angels

drawing on your
memories and any
faces they choose

die and become
star in mortal dreams
star in holywood

earth time is
not dream time
many minutes
of rem are few
in heaven

dream
as screenplay
one page
​one minute
​industry

if many sex partners
need protection
if many trade partners
need protectionism

otherwise get
acquired industrial
deficiency syndrome

service sector fat
replaces
manufacturing muscle

body vulnerable
to parasites
derivatives traders
hedge fund managers

young cells struggle
as energy directed
to the old and dying
isaiah

left blind to
life in womb
depravity
criminals of color

right blind to
climate change
voting rights
police brutality

isaiah six ten
ignorance
meant to be

make the mind dull
stop their ears
shut their eyes

until cities lie waste
houses without people
land desolate
in disunited states

old testament
wrath of god
new again

my blindness
still thinking
people will
change their minds
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Images  Natalie Merchant in 1984, Tandemracer at Flickr, CC BY 2.0; Bela Lugosi as Dracula, public domain; Gigi theatrical poster, public domain; Cairo horseman © Euronews, fair use; POW-MIA flag, public domain; ISIS war flag, public domain
​Robert Urbanek grew up in Southern California and earned a BA in journalism from California State University, Long Beach, in 1973. He has more than two decades of experience as a writer and editor for community newspapers and medical and legal-related publications, which included several years each with the National Notary Association, The Doctors' Company and CCH Incorporated. The author lives in Vacaville, California. E-mail: rsurbanek@mail.com
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