Category Archives: Other poetry

To the one insisting “All Lives Matter”

Posted on July 12, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

You have made a protest, albeit a small one. I am listening. I am listening. I am waiting to hear what is required of us. If all lives matter, then surely we need to be outside the immigrant detention center, … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: from “The Epic of Muhammad Ali”, introduction

Posted on June 6, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

Speak, Muse, of the one who was the Greatest, tell of how he stole glory from the gods, punched the lights out of heaven and made us all see stars. In this corner, show the odds against the black man … Continue reading →

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The People Who Have Been Good to Me

Posted on May 30, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

I would be more cynical, I suppose, except it feels unfair to the people who have been good to me. My life, as I look back, has been littered with kindnesses. Once, a woman made me tea. Asked me if … Continue reading →

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The Castle Ruins

Posted on April 11, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

The crabgrass towers over the dirt at the castle ruins. The children trample it down, in freewheeling approximations of massacres past. Only the echoes, only the hints of the shadows of the echoes, are made to last. The hostages run … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: We Wore Red

Posted on February 8, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

Others wore blue that day, but we wore red. We gathered in mass at our holy shrine, sang hymns of common praise, cheered us instead of hopeless failure ‘gainst the mill of time. We fought as one: the old, the … Continue reading →

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There is a bar in 1970s New York right now

Posted on January 11, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

There is a bar in 1970s New York right now where David’s looking outta sight, as always, & John Lennon’s dreaming into his beer. The sunshine has been let out a long time ago, like an tourist from Iowa, staggering … Continue reading →

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The Children Herald the Bombardiers

Posted on November 10, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

The children herald the bombardiers, as they march through the town, resplendent. The children offer the bombardiers their drawings, their scrap iron, and their kisses. The children step like bombardiers, near the recruiting station (for the children will be the … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing: three nature tanka

Posted on August 10, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

God’s eternal love lives in the heart of a mosquito, singing praises of communion. Those morning birds can’t shut up about how beautiful everything is, robbing me of my moment to myself. Flowers don’t know their own names. Sky keeps … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: The present spirit

Posted on February 2, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

Your Monday Blessing: (with apologies to Mr. Dickens, and wishing him and his a happy 203rd birthday) “Come in and know me better, man,” the winter giant roars, He’s crammed your hearth with mistletoe while you were filled with snores. … Continue reading →

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Isaiah 1:4-23 – an interpretation

Posted on December 5, 2014 by bobjanisdillon

Woe to this sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken true power, they have despised the Holy One of all lands, and turned their backs on mystery. Why … Continue reading →

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