The lights you see
I built them for me
To guide me wherever I go
If far from home
I'm never alone
As long as I see them glow
Wherever I tread
Or rest my head
Inside, I'll always know
I'll be alright
Cause I see l the light
I built so long ago.
– SR Romney 2023
Ice pick eye
Sharp and stunning
Make my vision sparkle
As my brain starts burning
Electric shocks
Convulse in my head
As light becomes fire
Thought becomes hazy
Darkness falls
As I close my eyes
With little relief
I drift away
– SR Romney 2022
Oh no! A skull raid!
A pillage of my ideas
Thought has gone missing
Nothing left to do but sleep
New thoughts will be drawn from dreams
– Shaman Romney 2021
Lazy Sunday afternoon
Laying in the sun
Letting myself drift
Leaving the important things
Laying in the sun
Loving the peace and quiet
Laying in the sun on my
Lazy Sunday afternoon
– SR Romney 2020
Narcissism is a hell
You don’t even know you’re in
You don’t notice all you lose
You only see when you winYou aren’t able to grow
Life unable to flower
The only things you can know
Are perfect in your towerYou are cursed to see it fall
Screaming your rage at the sky
Not seeing the world at all
Just yourself, until you die.
– Shaman Romney 2019
On opposite day
Wouldn’t it be fun
If people had to defend
the beliefs they hate most?
The Christians could decry God
The atheists, praise Allah
The femenists could argue
The virtues of sandwich making
While the misogynists
Take a pay cut
The white supremacists
And the black supremacists
Can take turns
Being owner and servant
If for one day
We could argue
on behalf of our enemies
Imagine how much we’d learn.
– Shaman Romney 2017
You missed paying your rent
Stand Tall!
Your paycheck’s all been spent
Stand Tall!
You bills will never dent
Stand Tall!
You still live with the ‘rents
Stand Tall!You do not want to work
Stand Tall!
Your friends think your a jerk
Stand Tall!
You have a sneering smirk
Stand Tall!
You’re lazy; it’s a quirk
Stand Tall!This opinion you exalt;
Stand Tall!
“It someone else’s fault!”
Stand Tall!
Your moneys in their vault
Stand Tall!
Your wounds are full of salt
Stand Tall!It can’t be that you suck
Stand Tall!
You’re just down on your luck
Stand Tall!
You’re not a stupid schmuck
Stand Tall!
You’re just a little stuck
Stand TallNo, you’re not the dick
Stand Tall!
Its them; he is the prick
Stand Tall!
With his opinion politic.
Stand Tall!
So time to throw the brick
Stand Tall!
-Shaman Romney 2016
Half minute haiku:
When you need a poem done,
And need it done now.
– Shaman Romney 2015
Certainty is false
With no absolutes in life,
Keep your mind open.
Shaman Romney 2014
Shame on The Universe 