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Strength In Surrender

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When the need to be

right is so strong, how can we

ever admit we are wrong?

~

When we surrender

ego in the name of peace,

we demonstrate divine strength.

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Aug·31

May It Be So

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Can we, together,

like a band of brothers, stand

united despite wedges?

~

If that band also

includes sisters we can stand

united despite wedges.

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Tagged equality, purpose, resolve, strength, unity

Aug·30

Covalent Bonding

Posted by 2garrabrants

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What helps us open

our hearts when the first thing we

encounter is pain?

~

Water is made of

hydrogen and oxygen;

likewise love and pain make life.

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Aug·29

Round And Round It Goes

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Why do ladies dap

their wrists and necks with drops

of whale regurgitation?`

~

Why do gentlemen

persist in asking foolish

questions such as this?

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Tagged amber gris, beauty, Chanel, Coco, industry, perfume

Aug·28

अनाहत गाइड

Posted by 2garrabrants

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If we don’t know if

we’re coming or going, what

exactly is it we know?

~

Listen! Your heart knows

emotions differ between

motion to and motion from.

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Tagged anahata, direction, guide, heart chakra, map

Aug·27

The Fullness Of Being

Posted by 2garrabrants

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If agony serves

us as proof of life, are you

living to your fullest yet?

~

Living life to its

fullest, we experience

both extremes and the middle.

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Aug·26

Plumbing Social Depths

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When someone asks, “How

do you do?” is it ok

to let them know that you don’t?

~

A “Howdie do” can

be courtesy or question.

Which can be hard to fathom.

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Aug·25

Enough Is Enough

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Must we always rush

or can enough be enough

so we can enjoy the hush?

~

UnAmerican 

questions such as these are proof

we need to guard our borders.

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Aug·24

Things Best Adandoned

Posted by 2garrabrants

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 As we look ahead

to a new school year what would

be better to leave behind?

~

Car accidents and

shattered cell phone touch screens and

chronic procrastination.

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Aug·23

Overblown And Overheated

Posted by 2garrabrants

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How can flowers bloom

buffeted by ceaseless gales

mired in this vile sludge?

~

Is it our current

political climate of

which you poetically speak?

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Aug·22

Roads Less Travelled

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Has anyone tried

to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge

lately and did you buy it?

~

I would rather buy

a “bridge to nowhere” than one

that would take me to Brooklyn.

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Aug·21

Far Out Or In Deep?

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Will happiness be

found in some abandoned place

far from internets and memes?

~

What if it turns out

we are the abandoned place

where happiness lies waiting?

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Aug·20

Mired in Minitrue’s Memory Hole

Posted by 2garrabrants

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It’s Twenty Sixteen,

but why does it seem more like

Nineteen Eighty- Four?

~

Now, is the hour

of our discontent, beneath

Big Brother’s scornful scowl!

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Aug·19

Heat Soak

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Does summer’s swelter

only saturate the skin

Or also soak the spirit?

~

Summer saturates

and simultaneously

inflames, but what can we do?

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Aug·18

Non-Monetary Honoraria

Posted by 2garrabrants

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If there’s no money

in it, why do we poets

not cease and desist?

~

We poets scribble

just because we are alive.

We’ll desist when we’re deceased!

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Tagged paltry, payment, pen, plenty, poet, praise

Aug·17

Homecoming

Posted by 2garrabrants

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What greater pleasure

than awakening at home

after those lengthy travels?

~

Perhaps the heartfelt,

tail wagging, joyful greeting

from four-legged family.

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Aug·16

Changing The Dimmer Switch

Posted by 2garrabrants

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How many Donald

Trump supporters does it take

to change a light bulb?

~

More interestingly,

how many does it take to

make that dim bulb bright again.

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Aug·15

Working It Out

Posted by 2garrabrants

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As the work week nears,

how can we suppress the dread

of that approaching grindstone?

~

There are those who say

to embrace the dread instead.

Do you think they’re fey?

 

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Aug·14

Carpe Tempus et Aestus

Posted by 2garrabrants

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If time and tide wait

for no man, should we women 

go ahead and seize the day?

~

Perhaps you women

can seize upon the rising 

tide, turning time’s tiny hands.

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Aug·13

Can We?

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Can we take this peace,

in which we have been basking,

with us when we re-engage?

~

 We’ll know the answer

when the rubber hits the road

on the drive back home.

 

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Aug·12

How Do I Trust Thee?

Posted by 2garrabrants

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How do we betray

ourselves? Can we count the ways

or should we simply deny?

~

From our darkest fears

and with infantile faith,

we place our trust foolishly.

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Aug·11

A Little Tad Will Do Ya

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Did you enjoy it?

Abdicating to the young,

watching him pontificate?

~

It’s not the young I

find hard to take. Nope, it’s those

who claim to be well-seasoned.

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Aug·10

Hearts Beating

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Have you noticed how

time expands and contracts with

the changing beat of our hearts

~

Rhythms of nature

manifest in the pulsing

of seasons and ebbing tides.

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Aug·09

Lost And Found

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Is the quietude

that we both are finding here

affecting our attitude?

~

In this quietude

I let myself lose my voice

in order to find it again.

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Aug·08

Heed the Deeds

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Amid the endless 

flurry of words, how do we 

find our way to clarity?

~

Flowery verbiage 

and fiery rhetoric

are designed to sway the mind! 

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Aug·07

Three R’s Minus One

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Shall we write, basking

in sun warmed sands, seeking

serenity, or just read?

~

Just so it doesn’t

involve arithmetic, we’re

sure to find serenity.

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Aug·06

Carpe Litore Receptui

Posted by 2garrabrants

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If we were able

to seize the day, what would we

catch? What would we do with it?

~

Today, I would seize

a much needed vacation:

catch warm sun and cooling breeze.

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Aug·05

Make Mindlessness Great Again

Posted by 2garrabrants

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How do we foster

motivation for mindless,

merciless, miscellany ?

~

First we hire Trump,

a specialist in mindless,

merciless, miscellany.

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Aug·04

Cursed Cud

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Don’t you think by now

brown cow would have learned how or

at least asked for help?

~

She’s been longing to,

but her tongue’s been tied with grass.

So, her wish goes unheeded.

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Aug·03

We’ll Write The Book

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Might this election,

someday, be chronicled as

our nation’s bildungsroman?

~

If votes are cast from

love, not fear, this could well be

a coming of age story.

 

 

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Aug·02

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