Intimidator

won’t be intimidated –

supreme injustice

~

How can they support

a judge whose very judgement

is outweighed by arrogance?

Blindness trumps mere pain

When it comes to late night drives.

‘Bout now, I’d prefer blindness.

~

If only thinking

could be trumped by not seeing –

oh wait, it already has.

You’d think all this rain

could fall somewhere else. It’s worn

out its welcome here.

~

At the very least,

could clouds not contain their rain

‘ til above some arid plain?

When energy ebbs,

and somnolence settles in,

is it just the equinox?

~

Maybe, but it could

 mean you’ve done too much and need

to rest and just be. 

I wish I could say

I’d live to see the day he’d

lead with reason and fair play.

~

In this troubled age,

roiled masses vent their rage

by maligning every sage.

Measures of success

often, inadvertently,

speak volumes of our failures.

~

Each accomplishment

carries with it the burden

of relinquishment.

School’s back in session.

Learning resumes – except in

certain Washington quarters.

~

Some folk still belong

in remedial classrooms,

study halls, and detention.

Outrageous orange,

salmon, scarlet, and sanguine:

this post-storm palette on high.

~

Aftermath beauty

a natural solace for our

exhausted, storm-weary souls.

Even the weather

is teasing us – one minute

the sun, the next, a downpour.

~

This twisted weather,

so, so unpredictable,

No global warming! Trust me!

Cloudbursts and lightning,

gales and inundation; just

more adolescent weather.

~

It sounds like you’ve been

reading some of the latest

presidential tweets.