CONFESSION ZERO

N.H. governor signs gay marriage bill Strolling through the violet forest, bonnets of green, sleeves of red and caps of brown  shake their hips to the breeze. Born there, grow old there… die there.  They've not much say in the affair. Born red. Born green. Born Brown. Living. Breathing. Crying. Laughing with the wind. New Air France debris found, explosion unlikely Steadfast in this expanse, uncovered and brazen like a worrisome thing, undeniably fixed upon its hesitant horror. When did all catastrophes become suspect terror?  (We need end our addiction to fanatical dread.) GOP Rivals Hint at Runs in 2012 Wherever sorrow travels they come running, breathing hard, waiting for an opening, a moment of glee to place their gloom   and echo the masters of doom- “Let me lead you there, away from where I led you before.” Don’t follow, turn away from its wagging lips. Obama Touts Muslim Roots O show compassion for mankind. Raise him up, bring wate...

Obama pays call to King Abdullah It is as it has been this closeness with kings. It is as it should be these gestures of goodwill. It is as it shall be the backside of reason. Truth be told, we need keep them closer. Bagram: Obama's new Guantanamo? New, fresh and haunted? The siren song wafts over Bagram, calling for warfare without anguish. Someone needs it this way, new. Fresh. Idealized. Cheney Defended Interrogations O! I’ve no room for this fear monger’s bluster! I've more to do, more to add than trembling cures. We've a bright and long-lasting peace to build, assembled from the stacks of bleached bone. 'Artery' Exhibit Prompts an Art Attack in Arkansas Town These controversies over art give me little pause. The paintings aren't flamboyant, crude or outlandish. They’re the artists thoughts, subjective, and that is all. One would think they depicted the deceit of mankind, but that particular work of art...

Killing puts abortion foes on defense In worship he found his cause, in prayer he found his score, in murder he found his god. Obama hopeful on Mid-East peace How simple it must sound, this wistful, wishful flight among the fragile beams of stone and foul hatred. Search Is On for Wreckage of Missing Air France Jet Among protea, cycads, and pincushions and the stunning breath of petals they surely float? The jagged Drakensberg Peaks, like broken teeth shimmering edges, dark lines, not bones, but fractured meadows? Judge: Release Gitmo Docs We say we’d die for our beloved country, we proudly wave her colors and cry at the thought of promised freedom, say we’d descend into the grave of valor... but what of our torture? 4 Troops Killed In Bomb Strikes In Afghanistan In the next battle, the next black mound of sand to blur our vision, will be war against the heart above our gut of reason. We will reach up and touch the fold of four stars. U.N. human rights investigators ente...

Last survivor of the Titanic dies The vessel that for so long held our imagination is finally free of our living. To its rest now. May she be a reminder of man’s arrogance, his gleeful dalliance with nature’s teeth. This is what grows from the seeds of hate The testament of our breathing’s riddled with slaughter. Gruesome weapons made of man’s intolerance walk the world without a home- a grave nomadic betrayal. The assassination of freewill is the irony in this riddle. After Many Stumbles, the Fall of an American Giant It is time for lights out, time to sleep, to dream.  “Hush now. Everyone is weary. Hush.  Drift away to your mind's eye, the olden days.  You are not alone in your grief, your failing",  at least there’s some throbbing comfort in that. North Korea may launch intercontinental missile: report Not the first, not the last to frown upon man’s stage, his unending quest for power. But it’s the unknown end,...

Car bomb blast kills 41 in northwest Baghdad The skin of the beast drips with sweat as it hovers over the sand, perplexed at the people’s will to survive, even as blood pours around them. Rain, despite a ships call for help, will continue to fill an angry sea. Guantanamo inmate transfer blocked Our green hope, our red fury, fear is still our emperor, sovereign of land and liberty… Iran Announces Missile Test Hi ho and a rat a tat tat! Listen for the war drums in that! Hi ho! And a thrum and clank, metal’s whir of a rolling tank! A rat a tat tat and hi and a ho, time for us to lock and load. Thrum thrum thrum thrum… Feinstein: Bring Detainees to U.S. O something cries down to us. Something boldly calls out, awaiting fear to abandon our ears. U.S.: Airstrike deaths 'likely' accidental Shhhh… Maybe no one will notice, when a missile falls in the desert and no one's around to hear it… © 2008 mrp/thepoetryman

Democrats in Senate Block Money to Close Guantánamo There is no spring, there's everything within- the brown skins covering the human frames remain damp with winter. Many die in Indonesian air crash Another and another tossed down! Roaring breath standing tall like some wayward missile screeching past. Democrats Defending Pelosi Arise to arise and arise there among the pack, solemn predators allegiant to their stripe and howl with no hesitation or consideration, but one. If one shall perish, they all perish. Illinois Man Arrested in Murders of Wife, 2 Kids There is too much of this, the orchestration of blood, like a dance that grabs us before we know we’re moving. Murder is a dance, a slow movement of unwilling partners. © 2008 mrp/thepoetryman

Probe: Taliban used civilians as ‘human shields’ Since the mighty have blistered with fire, since so many homes have been crushed, since all that’s left to grieve is death, since so many lie hushed in their graves, since unknown journeys have yet to come, children, mothers and fathers rise up with full and shaking tongue and lash this god-awful hatred and war from the earth! Speak, shout, stand among the dead and be their song… Pope warns of misuse of religion “Misuse of religion”… redundant utterance, synonymous dripping out of man whose lips know both their uses only too well. U.S. says civilians killed in west Afghan strikes Savages made of metal flesh of which affluent men and women, a killer wage, with war as their principal business, CEOs of death’s commanding brigade. Pelosi Aide Told of Harsh Tactics A two headed monster beckoning the impatient to come and listen to her melody of woe, how love had forsaken her, left her lonely and without companionship, smiled as the...