Now that July is
finally saying goodbye,
what would be a good send-off?
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Whatever we try,
it will be with a dry eye,
giving July the brush-off.
Month: July 2015
Sweet Indecision
Which do you prefer,
After the rainfall’s ending
Or before the coming night?
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It is hard to choose
between afters and befores
when both can be so sweet.
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Relative Viewpoints
Ambiguity
reigns, don’t you think, with phrases
such as “There’s no place like home.”.
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Relativism
Is hardly ambiguous;
It’s the American Way.
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Signs And Signals
How can you tell the
honest explanation from
callous justifications?
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Often brevity
or tone signal the speaker’s
authentic intent.
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Common Profit?
Tell me, my poet
friend, do you think folks mostly
do the best they can?
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Good folk do their best,
but greedy folk make their buck
at the cost of all the rest.
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Dylan and Seeger Point the Way
Pray tell me, will you,
in this era of sound bytes,
where have all the Statesmen gone?
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The answer, my friend,
is blowing in the wind
along with all those flowers.
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Ala Preston Brooks
Why do they call it
“common courtesy” when it’s
all too uncommon?
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Irony perhaps?
But “Congressional Restraint”
seems more Oxymoronic.
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Dueling Questions
In early morning,
when the bed’s summons beckons,
is it pointless to resist?
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To such a question
I can ask an equally
pointed one, “Why do you ask?”
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Professional Courtesy
How many hornet’s
nests can one politician
kick before he’s badly stung?
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The courtesy shown
lawyers by sharks may save that
politician from the sting.
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To Heed Or Not To Heed
When the wind rises
and storm warnings are posted,
must we all seek safe harbor?
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Prudence is itself
an act of valor often
underrated and unsung.
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A Time To Rest
Tell me, dear poet,
what do you do when your muse
is on vacation?
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Eat, drink, and relax.
A vacationing muse sings
a peaceful healing ballad.
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Back To The Basics
When the weather cools
during this blazing season,
what is the best reaction?
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When blazing days grow
cool, don’t pause to ask questions,
just answer with gratitude.
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Minute Actions; Giant Impacts
If you had a chance
to make a real difference,
where would you begin?
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Every one of us
will make a real difference
in all the lives that we touch.
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What Remains
Truth and opinion
both clouded my history;
how can we know what is what?
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Truth is what remains
when everything cloudy has
been allowed to drift away.
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And The Truth Shall Set You Free
Why is it so hard
to hear the truth when spoken
from the mouths of enemies?
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We are conditioned
to believe the enemy
always lies by bad leaders.
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Grim Reapers
When in the course of
Human events,misanthropes
Grow grim, and do what?
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What they don’t do is
pledge their Lives,Fortunes,and their
sacred Honor to each other.
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Where?
Where oh where has my
young son gone, where oh where can
he possibly be?
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Grown old and jaded
everyone, bitter and
salty, as the sea.
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Would Grow Woods
What if money did
grow on trees – would we change our
currency to leaves?
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Smarter people would
invest in groves; the greedy
would denude the whole forest.
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Ways Of Knowing
If delusion is
belief despite evidence,
what then could faith be?
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For some,trust in what
can’t be seen is delusion;
for others it’s simply faith.
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Silent Night Senescence
What is it about
the sound of crickets that stirs
such simple longing?
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Like punctuation,
crickets chirping lends structure
to timeless, silent evenings.
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A Logical Question
Where does logic go
when desire ventures out
from beneath that heavy rock?
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Logic wants to know
what desire was doing
under that rock anyway.
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Marching Weather
Could you tell me why
we have to have July with
its heat, mosquitoes, and flies?
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So we can look back
with longing fond affection
once August invades in force.
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A Slow Release
Given this horrid
summer inferno, how do
we refrain from eruption?
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If every day we
let off a little steam, we
might prevent an eruption.
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Different Paths
When we seem to be
going nowhere fast, should we
switch direction or change speed?
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Changing direction
or changing velocity
will not change destination.
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All We Have
When lives fall apart,
how do we reconcile
what is with what was?
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Sometimes willingness,
courage, and grace are all we
have to see us through.
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Many a Truth…
How might we look past
the ridiculous and find
the truly sublime?
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The subliminal
message is often hidden
within ridiculousness.
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Self-Evident
How can we declare
Our independence from blind
demagogues and their dogma?
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If we acknowledge
our interdependence, we
will see independently.
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Seeing Clearly
If we can’t see out
far and we can’t see in deep
why do we bother?
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Foresight and insight
shine in contradistinction
to insidious hindsight.
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If A Tale Falls In The Forest…
But why must we hear
all of these bogus tall tales
from the mouths of candidates?
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They can tell those tall
tales, but nothing says we have
to take the time to listen.
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Listen and Learn
How long must we wait
until we’re willing to hear
everyone’s story?
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Not all tales merit
an ear but the sooner we
listen, the more we can learn.
Mondo Sedoka 