Monthly Archives: July 2014

Oh, John Galt, he was a master With a master’s master plan; He stood aside to let men go While crazily they ran. Oh, John Galt, he was an angel, He gave men their desires, And stood and watched while … Continue reading →

It is a movie about a young Jihadist who goes on a killing rampage and is shot down dead. We see him transfigured—his wounds are healed, his young, muscular body is radiant with the glow of health. As he ascends … Continue reading →

If I could speak in silence through the dim dark night, I’d be a moonbeam riding, gliding, through sleep’s sight. If I could sing in murmurs that are felt, unheard, I’d flutter in your dreamland like an unseen bird. If … Continue reading →

Butterflies yellow, and violet, white, Fluttering fellows of soft delight, Why do you follow, following fair— Backward and forward, here again, there— Nothing, it seems nothing in view? Everywhere fluttering, light and true, Nowhere particular, happy in flight, Butterflies yellow, … Continue reading →

Above the love of being there is naught to go, And being that is reason is a height to know. And higher than a thinker who in act is true Is nothing but accomplishment of ends seen through. The happiness … Continue reading →

If I, as bird, did fly around your waterfall Of silver-shining hair to see your twinkling eyes And stopped, a-hover there, so much amazed with all The wrink’less beauty of a splendid lover, oh, Would I not sing such piercing … Continue reading →

If I could change the world I’d do religion in, And all that’s altruistic I would make a sin. If I could change the world I’d change all governments To rights protecting bodies of rational good sense. There’d not be … Continue reading →

If I should carve in block of purest marble stone My perfect body made of you and I, alive Within my mind, alive in you, although unknown; If then you saw me kneel in worship, face alight, Forgetting you were … Continue reading →

I went composing music through the foggy night; I went composing music, and it was all right; I went composing music till the wind did spring And all came out all round about, and I did sing. A fence stood … Continue reading →

Strong rebel ‘gainst authority is Monica the Brave Who, with such independence, her lover’s life will save. High virtues all are on her side, and great will’s light, As she inspires and instills the strength to fight. The facts come … Continue reading →

If I could write a sonnet-song of verses oh so fair That wound around, and in and out, like birds through air, And mesmerize with melodies of child-like speech, When every sound is perfect sound in round lips reach; If … Continue reading →

When walls swing in on either side To press you there, between, With virtue push them back in pride Till they are no more seen. When lightnings crack, and thunders roll, And waves of rain wash down, Swim with the … Continue reading →

If I could paint a beauty-hue to magnify the sky, ‘T would be the blue of very you that’s in your eye. If I could paint a glorious sun a more glowing golden gold, ‘T would be your hair of … Continue reading →

A father second, husband first, And all around and in between The independent man we’ve seen. Onward go ye, unreversed, Sure petal to the metal “Now” To climb that future in your brow!

New wife, new mother, New life—none other! I wish you gladness Beyond all sadness, And may each day see A happy baby, And love up-reaching In learning, teaching, As reason riots In thinking diets! For yours and your way Widens … Continue reading →

May Phil/Amanda, uniting two in one, En-gold with gladness, and with high-light cheers, The daily trophies of triumphant years. Fate’s waves do rise before them, but they rise, too, To sail their freest, open best, and brave on through. With … Continue reading →

Sunlight on your hair of gold Marks you there: This fair behold. Love of light that sparks your eyes Tells aright: This fair is wise. Light of lip and brow and cheek Sunrise gives to all who seek. Altogether all … Continue reading →

Love laid her sleepy head On a rose-red perfumed bed, And her eyes blinked tears unsped, And her lips were gleaming red. And scorn and sorrow and fear Steered inward to disappear Till the day rose full of cheer And … Continue reading →

To delight in the brightness of light As it catches hard metal and gleams, When man’s competence wrought it just right As it leaped in his thought out of dreams, Is to love the inventor’s first ways And the hardness … Continue reading →

Oh, let’s be altruistic and give up our pay To all who are standing for handouts today! The self has no meaning, the ego is ill, We’ll give all we’ve got to whomever we will. Poor people are coming, and … Continue reading →

Fair eye-love of sweet being, Past highest fair I know, Whose lips and eyes, agreeing, Give Fairer’s sweetest show, Whose voice and hands, rejoicing In sweet infillment strong, As purer in glad voicing Of glory-soaring song Than all the sweetest … Continue reading →

Four hands that come together While four lips press, Then push away for never, But cling and press. Four eyes of intertwining With love full caught In laughter all bewitching Of light-heart thought. Four ears that hear the gladness A-gasp … Continue reading →

This evil Obama, evil-loving thing, Who schemes at evilness and laughs at fools Who flat their minds beneath his feet, that he May squish their cheers to hysteric cries While they do scream and know it not; this vile Altruist, … Continue reading →

On, Israel, on! Destroy Hamas! Wipe Gaza out! Cripple Palestine! On, Israel, on! Beat these bragging bastards down! Blow their staging upside down! Make them rage with ragged breath In the justice of their death! Give them rightness, give it … Continue reading →

Who worships heroes on a canvas painted Herself has made a heroine self-sainted, And for purity of rapture her we praise Who shares her heroes that we all may gaze And be uplifted, too, with what is high and true. … Continue reading →