[Prefatory Note: These three recent poems of mine are published here as a humble seasonal offering that is both alarmed by the ambience of darkness and encouraged by glimmers. Poetry is also my mode of speaking when normal language is stymied by unspeakable happenings. For me poetry–whether read or written is a valuable resource for me. I self-published a book of poems a few years ago with the title Waiting for Rainbows. I find myself still waiting. Read with gentle eyes.]
The End of the Road?
I yearn to know
the future
and yet
my dreams
seem grayer
than an overcast sky
crystal balls
roll toward
the sea
clouded over
of no use
a captivity of time
thou shall not
pass this gate
now never
thou shall not
KNOW
Condemned to die
At this gate
barring entry
ghosted by
eternal
curiosity
What is to come
will be foretold
after a light
from above
or within
shines green
by day
and night
through all
seasons
at the end of the road
where you
will be
waiting
and only
for me
Richard Falk
Yalikavak, Turkey
August 19, 2025
Rev. December 15, 2025
Aspiring Royalism
As if a crown prince
impatient
for a crown to
fall from heaven
a dark miracle
landing on his head
Not accidentally
Nor dynastically
The American way
stealth and wealth
overt crime
as needed
Upending history
is part of the story
after all
if the Confederacy
is reborn
Why not the American Revolution
an outworn pride
to restore the worst
to renounce the best
Keeping the pomp
hiding the circumstance
indulging in state dinners
while being indulged
By the ghost royalty
of a dying kingdom
and dying king
the pageantry
alone survives
This is America
where kings ascend the throne
by stealth and wealth
No need for coronations
or dynastic entitlements
in MAGA Amerika
Enough to glow
in pale light
cast by reigning
oligarchs
Reinventing
the glitter with guns
swag and swagger
of salutes and sheiks
Farewell to nightmares
of freedom and equality
diversity inclusion
remembering forgetting
At this time
once proud citizens
bend their knees
comply by plunder
This is not America
This is the New America
Like the New Middle East
The sun no longer rises
Over deserts of the spirit
Darkness prevails
glimmers of light
here and there
signposts of hope
Awaiting coronations
of evil before
the next dawn
s
Richard Falk
September 21, 2025
Yalikavak, Turkey/Rev. December 15, 2025
Advice to a Novice Poet
Why waste words seeking truth
or beauty
on these arid
starless nights
My ancient brain
instructs
My heart shuts down
as storm clouds
Gather above the earth
hauntingly
Dooming human destiny
endangered
As never before
even more
As endangered as
snow leopards
With no church bells ringing
stillness seems better
Hanging out in gardens
clinging to solitude
On lookout for wildfires
here and there
Daydreaming about truth and trust
amid lies and bluffs
While mighty men play losers poker
with our future
Grifters who rarely smile
preside prevail
Claiming their toxic farts
a rare perfume
Always performing
partying at gallows
Satanic antics beneath
a blood-stained moon
Richard Falk
August 16, 2025, rev. December 15, 2025
Yalikavak, Turkey
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Global Justice in the 21st Century 
Dear Professor Falk,
I hope you are doing well.
I came across this article.
Mohamad Safa Resignation: ‘You’re sick to want war’: Diplomat accuses UN of preparing nuclear strike on Iran, quits role – The Times of India
I hope other World Leaders Follow Spain’s and Italy’s lead to close their Airspace the illegal war operations of the Trump Administration.
The grave issue is that under Hegseth’s “leadership-shit-show”, they bombed civilian targets while they were in a diplomatic process — THAT IS A VERY SICK ACT OF ILLIGAL AGGRESSION — that is truly like acts of those wild and mad hogs and dogs that we read about in the Gospel. They bombed the school with little kids in it — only diabolical fascists do that
He is the same nut job (religious nut-job) that the criminals who were allowed to join the military during the Iraq war, and who have committed International War Crimes under delusional individuals such as Colin Powell, and his diabolical legacy in the Vietnam — to Iraq, and there afer.
With the Israeli’s racist, diabolical legislation for death penalty for Palestinians that they have been accusing falsely, abducting, and imprisoning illegally. Their fascist national project is without any human restraints.
Also, recently, Israeli have opened the sewage water into the Wadi Gaza
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on top of all the poisoning of the water for the Palestinians
Gaza’s water turns poisonous as Israel’s genocide leaves toxic aftermath | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
They are committing Crimes, without any human restrains because they are in diabolical consciousness that is in diabolical seals due to the Abuse of the Ancient Church Order
They are collectively diabolical fascists in diabolical seals, without human conscience, and it is in their generational blood, and that is a fact:
The Kundalini Spirit has Invaded The Church Masquerading as The Holy Spirit !!! BE VIGILANT! – YouTube
They married saloon whores, and became the wealthy man, bitterness in disguise — they continued with the tarr, and feathers. Then the old man came and said, “What’s left?” Days to number, the pain to counter. The tears ran down his right eye as his heart stood still, in the eye of his soul.
Saloon whores bore the children — a life on its own.
I hope that they can’t fool any longer descendants of the Ancient and Apostolic Church and Descendants of the Ancient prophets, and all other humans in human consciousness
K.F.