Long Picard Poems

Pssst ...
Hey kid, 
I heard you came into a trunk load of cash
Can I ask, do you know how to manage it?
Moving from poverty to wealth
is a big deal
Everybody you know,
a little piece they’re gonna...

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Created a little ditty about hypocrites and 
double standards, racists with drawing boards. 
Media dinners with dubious 
double meaning placards.
The Spade of hearts. 
The Jack of Swords.
An adversity of diversity, 
assorted stuff for their hating,...

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Please Pogo music, wake me up. The night, now reduced to warm laptop light, is inching toward dawn. I pray to the patron saints of writers - is it Neri or Ávila? Whichever is on...

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It was not my intention to lose all my hair,
But then who ever said that life always is fair?
If there be silver linings in clouds, here is mine:
He's an actor named Stewart whose ship goes...

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a place of peaceful rest
from cursing…reversed
in Paramount Plus

gun slinging verbiage —
trashing the Most Holy’s name

in Star Trek IV, Nimoy
was given his lines —

exposé of colorful language
not heard of in their age

now Picard is old
and the...

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Stream-ing in the Time of Covid-19

we are in mandated private isolation
my preoccupied muse and I
even though I plead and threaten her
not a single poem will she try

she is silent and stubborn, my arrogant muse
refusing to...

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Things Captain Picard Didn’t Dare Say

By Elton Camp

Commander Richer, quit pretending you care
I know full well all you really want is my chair

Counselor Troi, I’ll throw you in the brig for real
If you ask again...

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Pixabay Image

Enterprise, man's quest exploring the unknown.Make it so!
Nomads of space in cryo-sleep
Time has little meaning as decades pass
Eerie atmosphere is computer dependant
Rrobotically maintained humans sleep
Perilous solar storms and asteroids navigated
Rampant chaos of earth light...

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