names and titles

i have earned

the name of a noble many times

for my disapproving the big

stronger man bullying boy small

struggling stealthily, still growing

they permit me to retain
the title saint
despite my not disapproving
superpower invasion of Vietnam
Grenada, Iraq, Afghanistan, again Iraq

names are given
and titles bestowed
only for action in my backyard
and my silence in affairs affecting
the living men and women in world

henry victor      14.04.2003

parked or abandoned?

just above on a higher elevation

but in front of that Wayne Gretzky Drive

i sit

watching cars, vans and trucks

life

all moving at 80 kilometers

per hour, or even more

over speeding for sure

i also notice a single car

parked, or abandoned

on shoulders of the same road

am i this car doing poetry?     

henry victor     31.07.2002

a prophet is born

when my mind refuses to accept

absolute power in a single person
like a Constantine collecting church
and chisel a creed to control the masses

or persons amassing together to present
pretentious democracy promoting untruth
and crazy inefficiency my heart and soul
join to protest without weighing my cost

or visualizing gain in heaven, letting loose

poetry giving birth also to a prophet in line
of Moses, Amos, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah
John, and last but not least, Jesus of Nazareth

© henry victor           20.05.2002