I’d like to announce my poem “Platitudes” has been published at Gobblers by Masticadores. I’m grateful to Editor Manuela Timofte and her staff for sharing this poem with their readers. Thanks so much, Manuela!

“Platitudes”
(c) 2024 by Michael L. Utley

“the yoke of burdensome veracity
does not comport with those whose vapid souls
would congregate toward lies like moths to flame
and frenzy-feed on poison from the troughs
of those who wish to lead all men astray

thus in the end your heaven’s impotence
could not redeem this unabating hell
and all your pithless ersatz platitudes
lay shattered in inconsequential heaps
the dross of feckless minds and futile means

and though you crow
This truth I know!
as you insist
you ken the gist
of edicts straight
from heaven’s gate
your craven heart
betrays you…”

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I’m happy to announce my poem “When Ivory Kiku Bloom” has been published at Gobblers by Masticadores. Much gratitude goes to Editor Manuela Timofte and her staff for sharing my poetry with their readers. Many thanks, Manuela!

“When Ivory Kiku Bloom”
(c) 2024 by Michael L. Utley

“it’s my hope in time to come
when ivory kiku bloom
you’ll remember me
as I remember you

those days so long ago
in absence of joy
fraught with fear and agony
you gazed into the abyss

what did you see in the din
and darkness of depression
what peered back at you
shattered your very soul…”

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I’m pleased to let you know my poem “Still I Toil On” has been published at Gobblers by Masticadores. I’m grateful and indebted to Editor Manuela Timofte and her staff for sharing this piece with their readers. Thank you so much, Manuela!

“Still I Toil On”
(c) 2024 by Michael L. Utley

“my old hoe is dull
and the weeds
resist its blade
still I toil on
iron sharpens iron
rust begets rust
the crucible of life
makes or breaks
which shall I choose
do I even have a choice…”

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