Eucharist and Other Poems

This book containing a collection of my poetry is now available.

Right-Wing Planet Earth

The planet earth is basically right-wing. By that I mean we are basically looking after our own interests, and that’s totally natural, as has been so well proven lately by the American Republican Party.

We’re in for Nasty Weather

There’s a new video on YouTube, that I’ve watched a lot. Apparently Tom Jones and the British band The Cardigans have a hit with the old Talking Heads song Burnin' Down the House. To my mind the best version of that song is found in the great concert movie, Stop Making Sense, by Jonathan Demme. It includes what I consider the definitive version of Burnin' Down the House.

Recent Poetry, November 2024

To the Trump Voters

For him you voted? You’re a fool.
You’re a Nazi, and you drool.
He plainly said what he would do,
If elected. Naught for you.

A dictatorship we soon will be,
Because you put in power he,
Who knows not how our systems work,
A moral imbecile. A jerk.

Christ Is Risen!

A few weeks ago, it was Pascha. The Eastern Orthodox version of Easter (usually later than the Western Easter—never earlier—and the most important holiday of the year, more important than Christmas), at which the above greeting and its response (Indeed/Truly/In Truth He Is Risen!) is called out, along with the troparion, about a zillion times, and, at least in the parish I used to go to, in many different languages. 

Recent Poetry, July 2024

What’s True

It’s all quite new: what’s everywhere around us.
It’s also old, but that should  not astound us
There’s no dividing line between the two,
Or aught else either. And that much is true.

Recent Poetry, May 2024

Compassion

Our notion of love’s just a misconception,

Gaining, at last, from the “other” some affection.

We’re wrong. There is no “other” that’s not you.

Love’s just seeing that. Knowing that it’s true.

My Last Post on Homosexuality

OK, I did not expect this blog to be about homosexuality and the Orthodox Faith, but it has become so. And this will be the last post from me on this topic.

A Traitor to His Class

 The above is the well-chosen title of H.W. Brands’s biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The idea was that Roosevelt, who came from Old Money, behaved in an unexpected way, given his high-class background. His wife, Eleanor, could dabble in extreme left-wing causes, because that was a result of her education, and she was a woman, after all.

The Holy Trinity

I think it’s about time that we finally admit that the Triune Godhead is not found in the Bible, that we got it later than that. Especially because the evangelical heretics now taking over the Orthodox Church are pretty clearly Trinitarian, even with their view of the Bible as a sort of rule book.

Recent Poetry, April 2024

Gatha

When I lose my balance,

Which happens fairly often,

I vow with all beings,

To question one thing in relation to others.