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Priorities

Posted by 2garrabrants

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With summer almost

upon us, any advice

for kids and parents?

~

Find the time to break

away from work and go play

together sometime each day.

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May·31

Seasonal Delight

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Oh, the aroma

of peach and hickory smoke

rising slowly from the grill.

~

A time of year filled

with enticing smells making 

mouths water and stomachs growl.

 

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May·30

Celestial Battles

Posted by 2garrabrants

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 Who do you think will

ultimately win this late

spring tug of war, sun or rain?

~

Although wind and rain

may seem to carry the day,

in the end, the sunshine wins.

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May·29

The Pleasure Of Displeasure

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Any brief reprieve

from welcome summer swelter

may bring unwelcome relief.

~

Masochists welcome

summer swelter and bewail

relief even if it’s brief.

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May·28

Reach For The Sky

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

When an attack on

the press becomes physical,

brutality trumps reason.

~

In Big Sky Country,

brutality is common

frequently without reason.

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May·27

Consider This

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Must we educate

our children to fear and hate

instead of to love and care?

~

Fear and hate stifle

curiosity, deaden

the souls of teachers and taught.

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May·26

Maybe or Maybe Not

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Maybe it’s better

to lay off when my mondo

partner is laid low.

~

Wasting breath on verse

even to one’s dying gasp

is a mark of high regard.

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May·25

Crudulity And Other Woes

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When the crud’s creeping,

smothering each breath beneath

wheezing, what is one to do?

~

One rests, takes prescribed

medication, types their post,

struggles with crudulity.

 

 

 

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May·24

Welcoming Arms

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

How many guns do 

we have to sell in order

to buy hearts and minds?

~

Hearts and minds are bought

by offering open hearts

and holding our minds open.

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May·23

Arm Chair, Smarm Chair

Posted by 2garrabrants

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It’s easier to call

all the shots from your arm chair.

Have you found this true, Donald?

~

He doesn’t sit still,

they say. He shoots from the hip

as he slithers, tweets, and twitters.

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May·22

Simple Machines

Posted by 2garrabrants

1

Do those in power

have the heart to do not what’s

expedient, but what’s right?

~

Power is heartless.

It requires direction

to produce meaningful work.

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May·21

Ah, That Ego

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

How far can you push

a bruised and fractured ego

before all reason tatters?

~

Also how far can 

such an ego push before

national patience shatters?

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May·20

America’s Alabaster Asylum

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

A diagnostic

field day has been graciously

provided by our president.

~

Leaving armchair shrinks

ample room to speculate

on the madness of the chief.

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May·19

Hope Springs Eternal

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

With Mueller mulling

over all sins great and small,

will we learn the honest truth?

~

For the first time since

this season’s sins began, hope

for an honest outcome springs.

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May·18

Whole Lot Of Shaking Going On

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Amid all his tweets

and twitters do you ever

get the shakes and shivers?

~

That twittering tit,

such a narcissistic nit,

leads us to shivering fits!

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May·17

Black Hole?

Posted by 2garrabrants

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At this hectic pace,

is it any wonder we

crave a hole to hide within?

~

If we want our world

to slow its spin, it’s about

time we look within.

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May·16

Ironic Ideology

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Ok, let’s review.

What is it that happens when

good men do nothing?

~

Evil has a chance

to reign triumphant, at least

that’s what tea party signs say.

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May·15

Renewed and Released

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

This glowing sunset

renews the weary spirit

after a day of showers.

~

So mesmerized was

I by sunset’s renewing

glow, I let all worry go.

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May·14

Repainting Pied Pipers

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

What do we do when

we’re waylaid by wandering

minstrels of untruth?

~

Strike up the band,

play them an honest ballad,

and sing them right out of town.

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May·13

Impossibilities

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

The fastest sprinter

can’t outrun a tsunami

if he can’t find the high ground.

~

And neither can he

plumb the depths if it turns out

no depth can be found.

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May·12

Not Just Any Apprentice

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

What fires is he

trying to put out when he

fires his fire fanner?

~

Perhaps he just likes

the sound his vocal cords make

when he utters, “You’re fired.”

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May·11

Explanations Galore

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Why must some stake out

little bits of turf and fight

to the death defending them?

~

If we could figure

out the why maybe we would

not need the why and wherefore.

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May·10

PAY ATTENTION

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Have we elected

a wizard as president

or have we merely gone to Oz?

~

Just so we pull back

that blasted emerald curtain,

it will all work out!

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May·09

Short Term Blessing, Long Term Curse

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Eyes deceived by nose.

The fragrance of privet lends

luster to a wilted rose.

~

In time our eyes will 

see what that sweet smell conceals –

 privet’s take-over attempt.

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May·08

Low Water Mark

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

What can we do to

stay afloat when the House of

Reps threatens to sink our boat?

~

We can stay afloat

if we all get out and vote

in a tide that lifts all boats.

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May·07

Haiku 6 May, 2017

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Amorous chorus

Echoing though the forest 

Treefrog serenade

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May·06

Long, Lonely Climb

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

If there is no good

and neither is there evil,

upon what can we rely?

~

You might ask Nietzsche,

alone on a mountain top,

beyond good and evil.

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May·06

Poets Love Something

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

 Frost said, “Something there

is that doesn’t love a wall.”

but what does a poet know?

~

Some poets know much

both of love and walls they say

“Good fences make good neighbours.”

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May·05

True Grit

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

On this sunny morn,

with these delightful breezes,

how can one be grim?

~

Ah, if one really

tries, grimness is only a

few negative thoughts away.

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May·04

On Babel’s Wall

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

What might a poet

and a politician have

to say to one another?

~

Whatever they say,

neither one will comprehend

as they speak in different tongues.

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May·03

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