The man
Of the sea,
Swallowed
The sea,
The woman
Of the forest,
Swallowed
The trees,
And that’s how
The legend
Of heaven and hell
Started.
Stephen Nesbitt ©
From “This, That And Other Things” www.StrangersAndPoetry.com
7:00 AM August 30, 2016
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Multi-Monday
On Monday
With multi-million
Dollar deals dropping
All around,
Oh yes, the Chinese
Have arrived,
They’ve done Vancouver
And the major centers,
Now it’s The Island,
On Monday
Stretching to squeeze
A multi-thousand
Dollar deal together,
One puts things
In perspective,
It’s simply a matter
Of zeroes
And the Dollarama line-up
Generates multi-faceted
Smiles and grins.
Stephen Nesbitt ©
From “This, That And Other Things” www.StrangersAndPoetry.com
3:52 PM August 22, 2016
Jam And Tea
If I were you
And you were me
We still would be
Like jam and tea,
Cause that’s the way
We’ve always been,
No matter how
We spin and spin,
Our love never
Goes away.
Stephen Nesbitt ©
From “This, That And Other Things” www.StrangersAndPoetry.com
9:43 PM August 18, 2016
Cal Glass Guys
Mean spirited guys
With fat ugly wives
And lives as miserable
As their thinking,
Dumped a boat
And garbage
On the LRT Road,
Who knows the whys
Of these low I.Q guys
Or the Cal Glass lies
They are linking.
Stephen Nesbitt ©
From “This, That And Other Things” www.StrangersAndPoetry.com
9:01 AM August 16, 2016
Short And Long
Life is short,
Some stories long,
And unless one is
New to the planet
Or a raving idiot,
One doesn’t believe
Everything
That newscasters babble.
That’s written on Facebook
Or in the National Enquirer,
And one is never surprised
At what people do,
But sometimes surprised
At who.
Stephen Nesbitt ©
From “This, That And Other Things” www.StrangersAndPoetry.com
9:21 PM August 15, 2016
To Think
Have you ever wondered
Why a so-called
Intelligent, educated
Society of readers
Elect liars and contrivers
As leaders,
Could it be
That we have been
Coerced and manipulated
Into what to think,
And have lost
The ability
To think.
Stephen Nesbitt ©
From “This, That And Other Things” www.StrangersAndPoetry.com
8:44 AM August 11, 2016
Never Enough
I was listening
To Bird On A Wire,
So Long Marianne
And mulling over stuff,
Thinking about muses
And lovers and how
There never really
Is enough
Time in life
To really fly.
Stephen Nesbitt ©
From “This, That And Other Things” www.StrangersAndPoetry.com
8:15 AM August 7, 2016
Scribbles
If born you’ll die
Is no lie,
But a muse
Never dies
As long as
The poet’s pen
Scribbles.
Stephen Nesbitt
From “This, That And Other Things” www.StrangersAnbdPoetry.com
11:55 AM August 5, 2016
Just Asking
In this day and age of media manipulation,
Do you listen to what someone says
Or do you listen to someone else
Tell you what they think someone said,
Are the more educated more susceptible
To mental conditioning than the less educated,
In Brexit did the less educated save
Britain from the control of the E.U.,
Will Monica vote for Hillary,
What will Hillary do to you,
Will Trump meet the same fate
As everyone who has escaped from
And returned to … Plato’s Cave,
You don’t know about Plato’s Cave …
Are you less educated than you think you are?
Stephen Nesbitt ©
From “This, That And Other Things” www.StrangersAndPoetry.com
12:11 PM August 3, 2016
Blind
It doesn’t take
Many decades on the planet
To realize that most people
Don’t see past yesterday,
Those who see what’s coming
And dare to tell are often branded
Fools or black souls by the blind
Emboldened by the tenets of religions,
Tenets asinine at the best of times,
Tenets far removed from universal love,
Tenets interpreted, contrived, put forth
By the psychopaths among us.
Stephen Nesbitt ©
From “This, That And Other Things” www.StrangersAndPoetry.com
11:09 AM August 2, 2016
