Thank you to Mark Antony Rossi for publishing my poem in the May issue of Ariel Chart.

https://www.arielchart.com/2020/05/looking-beyond-steel-machine.html






Looking Beyond the Steel Machine



Who should we curry favor with

in this age of science and steel?


If we must agree

there are useless things,

do not let those things be:

Spring’s hand 

waving nostalgic forest fragrance

into the air.

Scarred hills

reminding us of the trampled wildness 

of the land when we trod too heavily upon the Earth.

Silken love passed between

spouses,siblings, and parent/child.

Blissful sleep enjoyed while

candles’ wicks are softly bowing.


We’ve allowed the fate of time

to fill our yesterdays, 

and shape us in ways 

we were not meant to conform to.


Must we sleep until our futures melt away? 

And yesterday’s tomorrows 

become tomorrow’s yesterdays?


We must hope to never be frightened into corners,

seeing the world through fearful eyes,

creating a new religion of the steel machine.