rationalized

Galloping horses 

 brought up short by the barbed wire 

 alarm clocks warp dreams

pause

the belt of time slipped
stranding two breathless lovers
in eternity

acerbic

sour relationship
she expresses affection
as criticism

ayn sof

ask each atheist:
"in which god don't you believe?"
it gets interesting

greeting and salutations!

for Ukrainians
"we'll meet under the table"
is merely polite

free will is given

yetzer haTov, tov!
yetzer haRah tov meod!
yoked to heaven's cause

"not our problem"

sufferers with Aids
mobilized as lobbyists
who speaks for TB?

put your money where your mouth is

WholeFoods, like Walmart
keeps unionized Labor out
buy what you value

lossy medium

tonal languages
roughly sketched by pounding drums
baffled explorers

hidden assets

California parks
never had to fire rangers
they're not the problem

the fist grasps at air

Assad's armed forces
still dominate Damascus
the rest is Allah's

over the rainbow

in the Multiverse
William Paley's Watchmaker
must exist...somewhere

portentious

Prokofiev's Fifth
scored the end of WWII
or Armageddon

unspeakable

beneath the surface
"Hunger Games" is about class
Jonathan Swift's heirs

the horror

why bury bombers?                     Antigone knew
hang them from the city walls       even in direst wartime
for the sport of crows                 the gods claim their due

I lift my eyes unto the mountains

2k over launch
Shasta breaks the horizon
gazing North from Hull

Justice for some

cowardly Congress
won't impeach a president
even for murder

goals

room for improvement
I thought I was climbing well
'til Mike cored through me

dumb-stick

a powerful mage
co-opts lesser minds as tools
by pouting her lips

free form

stop fretting, and sing!
just miss by a whole octave
call it "harmony"

teleology

Archaeologists 

 impute religious import 

 to what's inutile

liar

Governor Romney 

 promised that he would protect 

 women's Right to Choose

doublefun

Within the constraints 

 an ambiguous haiku 

 makes each word count twice

the dawn of the Modern

Crediting Leibnitz 

 with the multiverse concept 

 would cheat Spinoza

bias

French economists 

 traced all wealth back to the land 

discounting labor

Orwellian

for FoxNews viewers 

 causality is reversed 

 Wealth creates Labor

Less green than they look 

 golf courses still fertilize 

 next to Lake Tahoe

dazzling

Comet Swift-Tuttle 

trails a long scarf of stardust 

 Perseid showers

tact

Nth rule of courtship 

 never call a bitch a "bitch" 

no sense of humor

qui bono?

Geithner's agenda 

recapitalizing banks 

 out of our pockets

statist

Bashar al-Assad 

 has killed fewer than Stalin 

 so is no problem

tough

Lance Armstrong's cancer 

 couldn't curtail his spirit 

 the man still has ball

the mind runs wild

Romney's cover-up 

smells worse than what it conceals 

what's the big secret?

wink wink

Mitt Romney's blind trust 

 was a mere "transparent ruse"

 to use his own words

star-struck

Dylan amd Knopfler 

 mutual admiration 

 keeps egos in check

bigot

Sheriff Arpaio 

 faces a federal case 

alleging bias

not our problem

Sufferers with AIDS

 mobilized as lobbyists 

 who speaks for TB?

value

WholeFoods and WalMart 

keep unionized labor out 

 buy what you value

anyone on this frequency?

Tonal languages 

 roughly sketched by pounding drums 

 baffled explorers

not that kind of green

California Parks 

never had to fire rangers 

they're not the problem

bounded by a nutshell

Assad's armed forces 

still dominate Damascus 

 the rest is Allah's

demiurge

In the Multiverse 

 William Paley's Watchmaker 

 must exist. . . somewhere

disruptive

galloping horses
brought up short at the barbed wire
alarm clocks warp dreams

RedQueen's race

Epigenetics 

 keep apple seedlings diverse 

 to deter the bears

modernist

What he called Nature 

 sufficed Baruch Spinoza 

in the place of God

back-up

Were I to go mad 

 impressions of my psyche 

 would persist in verse

letting go

Farmer Maggot's dogs 

 loomed in Frodo's memory 

 grown great on his guilt

bang!

Since the beginning 

 isotropic expansion

 there is no center

predictive power

Eddington confirmed 

gravitational lensing 

 Einstein's name was made

epistemology II

One can never know 

 what's in the mind of a bat 

 or a teenager

desertification

Until Mulholland 

 the San Fernando's water 

made the Owens bloom

utilitarianism

Useful idiots 

 served Lenin's revolution 

 then he had them killed

E-teamers

Two Socal pilots 

 launched Walt's despite the South cross 

 short unpleasant flights

liar

Romney's new flip-flop 

 misleading the SEC 

 is a felony

epistemology

Sonar and hormones 

 keep us from knowing bats' worlds 

 or teenagers' minds

manipulative

‪Scientologists‬ 

 provoke other to anger 

 to prove . . . God knows what

teleology

Archaeologists 

 impute religious import 

 to what's inutile

the good ones are all alike

Ask each atheist: 

 "in which god don't you believe?" 

it gets interesting

poor tool

Lame-ass lime squeezer 

no better than my right hand 

 and less versatile

strategic concession

Chief Justice Roberts 

 neutering the Commerce Clause 

 dubs the Mandate "Tax"

obstructionist

Vying to do less 

to rule from opposition 

 Congress is broken

needy

Yasir Arafat 

 needs to dominate headlines 

 even when he's dead

private idiom

Sour relationship 

 she expresses affection 

 as criticism

choosing schism

Since Martin Luther 

no Pope's been as outrageous 

as Joe Ratzinger

testament

Yaakov chose Yosef 

 whatever Yehudah got 

wasn't his blessing

false metrics

Patriot Missiles 

shot down their SCUDs everytime 

cameras were rolling

timeless

Unself-conscious youth 

Michaelangelo's David 

hyacinthine curls

you shall not pass

Red Hand of Ulster

looms at the intersection 

claiming the Beachhead

can't keep a bad idea dead

Hard Currency kooks 

 arise each generation 

 this year, it's Ron Paul

shortsighted

Too fastidious 

 to dig a sewer system 

so they live in filth

spiel

Ishtar and Marduk 

 feature in the Purim Spiel 

in disguise, of course

package deal

Food hypocrisy 

 veal's implicit in dairy 

 unless you sort sperm

conservation of energy

Water polo drills 

burn a lot of calories 

 heating up the pool

deep time

Emperor penguins 

still nest where they always did 

 it's the world that changed

something new

Roger Federer 

wins first Wimbledon indoors 

whatever it takes

judgement reserved

In public speeches 

Morsi‬ makes the right noises 

 let's see what he does

tight

Dicey connection 

through the airport terminal 

 sprinting like OJ