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United We Stand

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Enemies unite

when faced with a common foe.

Gravestones righted; bigots fall.

~

Humanity shared

rights wrongs perpetuated

by all bigots everywhere.

 

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Feb·28

What We Want

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Could it be that we’re

looking for leadership in

all the wrong places?

~

Perhaps leadership

isn’t what we’re looking for

when we select our leaders.

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Tagged goals, leaders, leadership, parties, politics, purpose

Feb·27

Self Made Nation

Posted by 2garrabrants

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How does a nation,

cowering behind its walls,

differ from a prisoner?

~

Such a nation is

truly a prisoner of

its own making.

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Feb·26

Huddled Safe Inside

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Do walls keep all that’s

new out so that the old can

pretend nothing’s changed?

~

They build parapets

so they can deny their fear

of open societies.

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Feb·25

An Immigrant Afraid

Posted by 2garrabrants

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If he’s too afraid

to buy a cup of coffee,

how’s this the land of the free?

~

We must not forget

our immigrant ancestors

came here to thrive and be free.

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Feb·24

Let It Ride

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When governing proves

hard, is turning to twitter

and golf the best he can do?

~

He’ll just double down,

like he has so many times.

Time to call his bluff.

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Feb·23

A Work In Progress

Posted by 2garrabrants

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What can parents do

when children don’t do homework

and teachers begin to gripe?

~

I guess you begin

with who’s the grown-up in the

room and go from there.

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Feb·22

Precious Metaler

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Leap before you look

seems to be our president’s

momentous reframe.

~

Why should he bother;

with his golden parachute

and silver boot in his mouth?

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Feb·21

Hot Air Chills

Posted by 2garrabrants

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As days grow longer;

vacillate ‘tween hot and cold,

what but flowers grow confused?

~

The whole planet knows

something’s up except for those

whose motto is “deny and die”.

~

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Tagged change, climate, confusion, seasons, weather

Feb·20

America The Apathetic

Posted by 2garrabrants

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What if we took all

the words of “America

the Beautiful” to heart?

~

What if we even

bothered to remember more

than first verse and the refrain?

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Tagged america, apathy

Feb·19

If At First…

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When the strikers struck

and no one seemed to notice,

what will be freedom’s next move?

~

We must wait and see.

Freedom’s work is incomplete

but its workers do not rest.

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Feb·18

Up To No Good…

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When improvements don’t

improve and enhancements don’t

enhance, what are we up to?

~

Perhaps replacements

will replace when enticements

fail to entice change agents.

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Feb·17

All The World’s A Stage

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Ignorant actors

fumble across the world stage

resembling circus clowns…

~

On our own small stage

may we perform wise acts of

kindness, reason, and constraint.

 

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Feb·16

Up Hill Battle

Posted by 2garrabrants

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In difficult times,

how is it that some folks

are still able to find joy?

~

Schadenfreude works

but at a steep moral price;

better to seek other ways.

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Feb·15

A Valentine To The World

Posted by 2garrabrants

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On this day of love,

Can we hope to find some peace

from this angry vitriol?

~

We must not only

hope, we must do all we can

to bring peace into being.

 

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Feb·14

Fighting For Peace

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Can we find peaceful

solutions when our hearts

and minds are at war?

~

If we drop our guard

in the face of tyranny 

we’ll find the peace of the grave.

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Feb·13

Heavenly Readings 

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Comet and eclipse:

are these dire auguries

inscribed upon the heavens?

~

We read into things

heavenly what often lies

within our own souls.

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Feb·12

Turning Up The Heat

Posted by 2garrabrants

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What is this hot air

that blows across our nation,

stifling our every breath?

~

Perhaps it’s because

Presidential odium

is causing global warming.

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Feb·11

Long Division

Posted by 2garrabrants

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“Separate but Equal”,

more than just a catchy phrase;

how could they have forgotten?

~

The problem is those

who push that phrase have never

forgotten their ill intent.

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Feb·10

Come The Revolution

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Is what we’re seeing

civilization’s fall or

the privileged’s last gasp?

~

Privilege may survive

when the revolution comes,

but many will surely fall.

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Feb·09

Fools Rush In

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When a liar says

the media lies instead,

will fools trust their hearts or heads?

~

Fools trust neither hearts

nor heads. They place their trust in

those who lie instead.

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Feb·08

Common Grounding

Posted by 2garrabrants

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What helps us see the

common humanity of

those with whom we disagree?

~

It’s easy to see

another’s humanity

if we share reality.

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Feb·07

Here We Stand

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Why should we truckle

before the irrational

bluster of a narcissist?

~

It would be best to

 stand by our deep values and

keep an open heart. 

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Feb·06

Follow The Lemmus 

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Sometimes “Follow the

Leader” can take a nation

right over the cliff.

~

Following leaders

will never lead you astray;

just don’t follow this lemming.

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Feb·05

Why Wait?

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Must we daily wait

in dreadful fascination

for his next vile dictum?

~

Let’s turn our sights toward

those who are profiles in

courage and reason instead.

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Feb·04

A Victim By Any Other Name…

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When we justify

the unjustifiable

what have we become?

~

Tools of the machine?

Unwitting accomplices?

Lamb’s being led to slaughter?

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Feb·03

Soul Lessons

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Thus it is revealed,

the consequence of honor,

in a soulless madman’s world.

~

It’s better to be

banished from such a world than

to fuse with its soullessness. 

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Feb·02

Iustitia Stands Firm

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When leaders confuse

liberty with license, what

becomes of morality?

~

Some people stand up,

often to their detriment,

for liberty and justice.

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Tagged Iustitia, justice, morality, oppression, Sally Yates, Themis, tyranny

Feb·01

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