12-20-16 Drowning City Haiku

Time is running out
Water levels are rising
Subways are flooded

12-19-16 Last Flight To Mars

Intelligent design
Dropping bombs
Melting your face
Laying down grooves
New culture crews
Radical radiation
Join the cult group
Find the family star
Picture yourself
On a greater scale
Drinking champagne
Out of a golden grail

12-18-16 Pictures Of A Love Story

We've been eating
Off of these same dishes
For as long as I remember

These same old songs
Play on an endless loop
Throughout the decades

That mirror has seen
Everything between us
In our family tree

Sitting around the table
Laughing and loving
A snapshot frozen in time

12-17-16 Into The Eyes Of Destruction

Our planet
Is being
Destroyed
By pollution

Mother Nature
Is being
Killed by
Human Nature

Take a minute
And do your part
To save the Earth
From Extinction

12-16-16 Let Your Spirit Shine

we love your smile
don't let the world
make you frown

we love your passion
don't let the man
get you down

we love your energy
don't let life's hassles
stop your fight

we love you always
don't let those bastards
darken your light

12-15-16 Watching You Watching Me

I know you are watching
I can see your eyes
Hiding in plain sight

You'll only see what I show you
You'll never understand inside
You'll never stop watching

I can give you what you want
But I'll give you what I like
Read between the lines

12-14-16 A New Sign Of Hope

Purveyors of hate
Who dominate
Will suffer their day
We will spit on their graves

The lies they have told
Will become their new truth
When the wars they create
Come to burn down their home

Preachers of evil
Will eat their own words
When light overcomes darkness
Things are going to easier

12-13-16 Cassette Life

Rewind fast forward play
Record and press pause
Stop the tape then eject

12-12-16 Subway Snooze

Long subway ride
Stop and go too slow
Late for work again
Crowded train anger

Dark tunnels frozen
Time to sit and think
Get to know yourself
Congestion up ahead

Signal malfunctions
Broken rail conditions
After an earlier incident
Fares are going up in price

12-11-16 Diamonds In The Midnight Sky

Breathless up in the mountains
We follow the moon into morning
As the last star in the sky fades away

The smell of fresh evergreen trees
Awakens the senses like a kiss of mint
Winter dreams take over until summertime

The night sky sparkles and shines
Shooting stars sizzle trails of light above
In a dazzling display of true cosmic beauty

12-10-16 Movie Of The Week

Drama queens and dreams
Holiday sun on the beach
Dance to a funky groove
Snowstorm in the summer

School is out for a few days
Monsters fighting mad robots
Waste some time at the mall
Shuffle down the busy sidewalk

Destroy the world with pollution
Sad romance in a tragic situation
Blow hard on a pinwheel spinning
Divine comedy in outer space

12-09-16 Ghosts Of The Jazz Age

deep down underground
inside the old catacombs
where ghostly spirits dwell
ancient feelings are stronger

music echoes from long ago
classic jazz musicians jamming
unlimited hours of vibrations
are all still present in these walls

12-08-16 Alternate Ending

In an alternate universe
Those tragedies never happened
We fought the wars and won
The robots never took over
Extraterrestrials didn't colonize
The animals never went extinct
And humanity survived the apocalypse

12-07-16 Inside You

A drop of blood
Awakens the vampire
Inside you

A drop of whiskey
Unleashes the beast
Inside you

A drop of water
Quenches the thirst
Inside you

12-06-16 Holiday Magic

These biscuits with butter
Are absolutely delicious

This tree is the biggest one yet
It smells like a pine forest in winter

Nothing could compare
To a giant Santa Claus

When we got back home
We decorated the tree

Someone opened a window
Then a chilly wind blew in
And it swept a decoration
Right off the tree flying
Out the window crashing
Down onto the sidewalk

The anxiety is unbearable
Stress is killing us slowly

Unwrapping your gift
It was exactly what I wanted

Believe in magic
It's all we have left

12-05-16 Cable News Sensation

Factual misinformation
Digital indoctrination
Distorted intoxication
Political  masterbation

Trains in the station
Military occupation
Feel the vibration
Birth of a nation

12-04-16 Lite Brite

Don't let
the lights
shine so
bright that
they blind
you from
the things
in life
that matter

12-03-16 Nothing Sweet

Syrup drip drip drips
Whip snap snip slap
Blip blip bloop blob
Corn on the cob

12-02-16 When I See You Again

When I see you
It's like no time
Has passed since
I last saw your face
And your voice
Sounds the same
And your smile
Lights up the room
Until I awaken to find
It was only a dream
And you are still gone

12-01-16 Peace Of Pizza

a fresh slice
right out of the oven
dripping cheese
sloppy sauce
on crunchy crust