"Redemption"

The quest for redemption

   (no matter the price)

Pursued without exemption

   (leads not to paradise).

September 8, 2026

"Cry"

Will you fix me a homemade muffin

At the start of my day

Will you cry o'er my coffin

When they put me away?

September 8, 2026

"Without"

When I won the County Fair Poetry Prize

They sent over a hummingbird

When I asked her, What does it pay?

She flew off without a word.

September 8, 2026

"Quit"

It's not "either or"

It's "both and" 

So quit keeping score 

   (and give us a hand).

September 1, 2026

Mars

How great could Mars life be 

Without a single Starbucks 

Though in your effort to be free

You spent a trillion bucks.

August 29, 2026