Poetic News Network (PNN)

Every twelve months a year turns new. All else is older, including you. Babies born, soon become one minute old. After fifty weeks, there are in an aging mold. * Time dies slow, or never at all. Humans try to cheat it, and continue to fall. Make peace with reality, and be true to that. It's a process ... Read More

Christmas has driven pass, the hearts of many today. No family, friends, or food, and they'll continue to pray. A fifty gallon drum, and a blazing fire of planks. Taking occasional handouts, and returning heartfelt thanks. * Little ones' dreams drown in nightmares, and empty tummies. Scattered ads of toyful hopes, make a bed for tattered jammies. America eats it young, and hints concerns of ones' grandchild. Christmas ... Read More

The price of Black Gold, Sweet Crude is up today. A homeless man sleeps near a gutter drain. CEOs and fat cigars, celebrate a fat payday. Hopelessness, cold rain, and drenched in the shame of pain. * Around every corner, in nearly every town, A family of four, a car, and luck has run aground, Have lived in their car ... Read More

Potential Presidential candidates, why are you running? Is your message of substance, or just for "funning"? Are you running to or running from, The problems of America, and problems to come? * Campaign for the homeless, at their cardboard abode. Smile with them to the world, remove their shameful load. Promise their better days, expose their plight to ... Read More

Imagine if you will, a lonely eleven year old, A lazy shower, trembling, lonely and cold. Its nakedness coerced, by a Sandusky adult. Innocence at stake, child sex abuse the assault. * How can eye witness Mike McQueary stand tall, Locking eyes with Sandusky, as young scared eyes call. Six foot four, and with reason to be blind, An eleven year ... Read More

Your hair upon you shoulder, so tempting and down. Stars shine bright, so bold, so far. Sweet inhalations of straw do surround. Two unionized bodies roll neer' a scar. * Caught by your toes, a blade of straw or two. Trapped in the evening your feelings aglow. A natural mattress lays a tickle through and through. Down to your undies, the ... Read More

Don’t subject your supportive necks,  To the constant strain it does maintain. Without harvesting the fruits in untold pecks  The knowledge within that miraculous Brain * That curly mass, behind bone, flesh, and hair Will see, fear, and hear for you, Bring tears, pain, and bouts of despair. Relax, take the ride, its there for you. * Never doubt the power, ... Read More

An uneasiness did fall upon, some invigorated social movement. Segments of society, reactions determined frenzied for some. The election of Barack Obama, a historical new day had come. Someone's agenda derailed, a multitude of discontent. * When hate trumps the ability, of anyone to reason, The incensed soul would rather, painfully starve or die. Spewing anger and disdain, instead of giving love a try. Work out your ... Read More

Salaries will never again, be raised or guaranteed, Until you have addressed the urgency's, of your constituents need. If by chance there's unemployment rates, of a percent of ten, Politicians agree to salary cuts, yes, an honorable trend. * Just call this an incentive, showing mettle and dedication. You can recover pay, by making that association. Live and eat, like the ... Read More

Looking as far as any eye dares to see, For a glimpse of "Intelligent Life", as said to be. Does this Life run in packs, and migrate in herds, Or flock together like so many birds? * Animalistic behavior, don't dare deny, That rightful distinction, don't even try. Trails of blood, often at your every step, Red finger prints abound, many ... Read More