From the Muck

 

In memory of Lee Kuan Yew

From the muck, against

All odds, rose a splendid sheen, 

A southeastern star,

She set the bar for her kin

And close neighbors to exceed.

Gary Edward Geraci

Horizontal Callie

 

I am vertical, 

my characters, 

horizontal.

Poets are 

horizontal and

God, vertical.

Callie lacks free will,

she’s of my mind.

But in my poem, 

her actions have 

consequences. 

My mind found 

free will,

my mind found 

Callie.

Actions with consequences,

there is nothing without God.

Gary Edward Geraci

On Hiatus with a Praying Mantis

 

On hiatus with a praying mantis,

Lured by the Light, hands pressed in front of us,

A meal we seek: may mine be Glorified,

With snap and pop his falls electrified;

God’s creation, nothing superfluous.

Gary Edward Geraci

Jefferson Port

 

Bygone,

Steamboat steam stacks

Tall topping old shore pines

Blowing through a chocolate bayou,

Bustling.

Gary Edward Geraci

Weeping for Lazarus

 

You wept for mankind;

Scanning your twelve followers,

Your fate was their fate.

Gary Edward Geraci