UC Poika : Writing

What is on our Lips

What is on our Lips

A Poem by UC Poika


In hoping a little but not too much, privately yearning. But you never know what is on our lips. That's the acrostic part, the rest is the sonnet pa..
Old News

Old News

A Poem by UC Poika


A factual account of my first awareness of racism.
Far Out Love

Far Out Love

A Poem by UC Poika


From a god's view the irony of birth control, a Dairy Queen Blizzard (really living), after having quit smoking leads to joining in the eating by eati..
Seeing the Same Thing

Seeing the Same Thing

A Poem by UC Poika


The best of lovers and the worst of criminals see the same thing each in their own way, the one disapproves the other forgives in sonnet form of cours..
Putting the Cart before the Horse

Putting the Cart before the Horse

A Poem by UC Poika


A poem on the false perceptions that plague a person in the midst of a mental situation wherein they were arrested for cruelty to animals though they ..
A Normal Woman

A Normal Woman

A Poem by UC Poika


We've all seen her in high school or at the U, but she has a different body each time and yet the same one as last time with a different dress or lack..
White ... Native ... Homeless

White ... Native ... Homeless

A Poem by UC Poika


The Food Shelf gave me some food and I shared an apple with a homeless lady on the steps of City Hall without realizing it wasn't always like this. T..
I am not Physical

I am not Physical

A Poem by UC Poika


Ever feel aloof to this world, like your arms and legs and even brain aren't really yours but like protective gear in a radioactive tank.
Broken Winged Eagle

Broken Winged Eagle

A Poem by UC Poika


True story about a young bald eagle we saw on the Leach Lake Indian Reservation an open reserve protected by state and reservation personnel and the f..
Thanks for Hell

Thanks for Hell

A Poem by UC Poika


What God really chose for the oppressed I guess.