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Rayn Roberts

Rayn Roberts

Poetry, Poets, Writing, Readings, Etc.

Category: Youth

August 17, 2020August 17, 2020Rayn Roberts

What it Takes to Make Peace

No Truth / No Justice No Justice / No Peace No Peace / No Balance Balance Truth in Clarity Clarity / Reflection Reflection / Detachment Detachment / Humility Humility / Humanity Humanity / Practice Practice / Persistence Persistence / Balance Balance Justice in Truth– Peace does not happen It is studied, crafted Handmade with care, […]

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August 16, 2020September 13, 2020Rayn Roberts

Advice for Younger Writers

I have always written for my own pleasure without regard for what the critics say. what I write is always about me; what I know, feel, see in you, nature, the news every and any thing that touches me– learn, read, hone your skills, fuck critics just write, that’s it, writing, exploration Discovery If you […]

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August 3, 2020Rayn Roberts

La Feria de Abril, Sevilla, España

  What the old know the young don’t believe the wiles of youth are not lost on the wise: as a busy farmer sees a fox does not call his dog or get a gun the old allow freedom, turn a blind eye The young wonder is life always like this, the elders say, not […]

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July 28, 2020July 29, 2020Rayn Roberts

Shades of America

Shades of America White Supremacy, where is it? What every American needs to know about White supremacy Interview with W. Kamau Bell on the Tonight’s Show W Kamau Bell, who is he?   Feature image credits:   (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)  

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July 20, 2020July 24, 2020Rayn Roberts

Has It Really Come to This?

The story has been told and retold:  Ben Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when a lady asked him…. “Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy? Franklin, “A republic, if you can keep it.“ But that’s not the end of the story which most […]

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June 28, 2020August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

Senior Complaint

I have an underlying health condition cause unknown, like addiction to Aunt Nora or Widow Jane, a thing always out of reach, yeah seeking either as I’m a dealer, is insane. but when deprived I feel something, something’s seriously wrong with this ragtag raging world we made. Oh sympathy, I have that too, for all […]

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June 25, 2020June 25, 2020Rayn Roberts

Antifa is NOT coming to your town.

Anitfa doesn’t want to come to rural or small town America.  That’s the nutty  online rumor; (believe me) — I repeat, they are NOT coming to take over rural America.  If it wasn’t so pathetic, it would be funny, but some people believe in make-believe like it’s reality.  It’s total bullshit.  But check it out […]

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July 31, 2018February 10, 2020Rayn Roberts

The Danger of Transgender People

Why Transgender People are Dangerous   Never mind the roller coaster ride,             you’re on it now, can’t get off It’s gravity’s got a terrible side             got nothing to do with God at all God doesn’t really give a toss             if you die next week from a simple fall God damn gravity that […]

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July 29, 2018June 20, 2020Rayn Roberts

What the Cicadas Are Saying

There’s a method in the music, the buzz Filling the trees, a sizzle, a scream The clicking and the ringing of cicadas. Where some leave off, others pick up The cantos of love, a hum like a dream That is all of summer and seventeen years: “Here, here, I’m the one, I’m the best, Here, […]

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July 14, 2017July 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

What is There?

What is there in the end but forgiveness And forgiving one’s self. What is regret when we cannot go back To change anything? We only move forward To more change, the slow breakdown Of the body, aging and death There is that, of course– The quicker one can do it the better: Live so the […]

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