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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

​gentle eyes
see everything
hypnotize
mesmerize
​
fans flock
to lady buddha
natalie
merchant
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
khepri gift
of art and science

but at a price
ra at noon 
pogrom
never say
never again
gone girl
​
girls who are boys
were one
in two thousand

girls who think
they are boys
now one
in twenty

abortion
trans
formation

cutting
and chemicals
to erase fetus
become
cutting
and chemicals
to erase female
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
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. Copyright © Robert Urbanek.
 
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