February 22, 2021

Poem

Carl Wade Thompson is a poet, memoirist, and the graduate writing tutor at Texas Wesleyan University.

"...no thought is left to him...just a vengeful ghost..."

"...their souls stretch -- famished, rice paper thin in the wind..."

"...only the Dharma Wheel remains..."

"...A ghost's cry rings hollow..."

"...Each dawn, I let him go..."

We begin a new column in the Piker Press, observing the world and what's happening in it through a poet's eyes.

"...How many years have passed..."

"...poisoned speech drips in our ears..."

What happens when you forget to react?

"...an icon of the times..."

"...do they not count as well..."

"...against a common foe -- one last time..."

"...there is no food, no help or aid to come..."

"...Exceptionalism when it comes to death..."

On the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, USA...

"...the Rohingya flee -- no place to go..."

Considering news reports of the killing of drug addicts in the Philippines...

"...What put them in this place?.."

"...an angel that has strayed far from God's grace...

Essay

Carl Wade Thompson is a poet, memoirist, and the graduate writing tutor at Texas Wesleyan University.

Opinion

"...the way it's always been."

"...Double-speak is the way; Orwell's prophecy comes true..."

Another look at the results of drug use in the Philippines...

Ongoing genocide of the ethnic Muslim minority, the Rohingya...

Who have we become?

Regarding the hate crime in St. Louis: the desecration of a Jewish cemetery.

Fear doesn't always have its origin in foreign lands...

The impeachment of the corrupt South Korean--South Koreans celebrated by having chicken for dinner, a play on the word chicken, which rhymes with the president's name in Korean.

"...The time has to come to hurt the voiceless..."

Aung San Suu Kyi brought about hope and peace to the people for the people, but those hopes have been dashed for her lack of sympathy towards the Rohingya, who are suffering from government-sanctioned genocide.

The horror of chemical weapons in Syria...

Looking at the recent terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan...