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Though Dylan Thomas Would Refute

Posted by agarrabrant

0

Whoops! Time grabbed my mind

and took off down memory

lane, leaving today behind.

~

Omphaloskepsis

is a most worthy pastime

as the twilight approaches.

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Jul·31

Trapped Within That Twisted Maze

Posted by agarrabrant

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Those incessant tweets?

Only a rat infested

mind could be composing them.

~

Soon, the only rats

left will reside in that head,

all the others having fled.

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Jul·29

Absence Does Not Make The Heart Grow Fonder

Posted by agarrabrant

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When there’s work to do,

kids are sure to alert you

with sudden, welcome, absence.

~

Perhaps they learned it

from watching Congress and Trump

leave town when there’s work to do.

 

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Jul·28

The Biglyest Is Bestest

Posted by agarrabrant

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When appeals to love

and reason are ignored, is

all that’s left self-interest?

~

When love and reason

fail to sway the hearts and minds,

go fetch a great big hammer.

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Jul·27

The Tell

Posted by agarrabrant

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Is “gullible” stamped

in neon across my brow

such that labors are assumed?

~

One look into your

caring eyes, my son, and folks

have got your number.

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Jul·26

Deafening Choruses

Posted by agarrabrant

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Could that toad that came

to our door be telling us,

 “Go back where you came from”?

~

Toads frequently say

horribly offensive things,

certain they’re closet princes.

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Jul·25

Freedom From Fremdschämen

Posted by agarrabrant

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When laughter fills our

throats and shakes our bellies, there

is no room for hate.

~

Since Schadenfreude

will keep us in this wicket,

maybe mirthful mudita?

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Jul·23

They All Are The Best

Posted by agarrabrant

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Was Yeats prescient?

“The Second Coming”

seems to have arrived.

~

The Center, devoid,

can not possibly contain

those convictionless slouches.

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Jul·21

No Contest

Posted by agarrabrant

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Soft morning birdsong

a joyful daily greeting-

so much nicer than the news.

~

Morning birdsong beats

the news AND those annoying

tweets from you-know-who.

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Jul·20

Beyond the Pail

Posted by agarrabrant

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Life invites us to

its grand sing-a-long even

if we can’t carry a tune.

~

We can all carry

many happy merry tunes-

but some of us need buckets.

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Jul·19

Food For Thought

Posted by agarrabrant

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Tables of strangers

who are, somehow, family;

and familiar anyhow.

~

There’s something about

sharing a meal together…

differences can be tabled.

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Jul·18

Fertile Fields

Posted by agarrabrant

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How creative we’d

 be if each generation

left its box, breathed some fresh air.

~

For the last four years,

have we not been proving that

different blooms cross pollinate?

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Jul·17

Alternating Currents

Posted by agarrabrant

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Penetrating heat;

a, briefly welcome, respite

after hours in A/C.

~

When we get too much

of one thing, we begin to

long for the other.

 

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Jul·16

Still Waters

Posted by agarrabrant

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What’s a good way to

handle the rising heat – both

internal and external ?

~

Seek the quietude

of shade beside still waters

and soak in that cool embrace.

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Jul·15

Vales Of Rest

Posted by agarrabrant

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Lazy afternoons

in these summer mountain vales

harken back to simpler times.

~

With no place we have

to go and nothing we have

to do, we can catch our breath.

 

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Jul·14

Silence Is NEVER Consent

Posted by agarrabrant

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Unspeakable acts

must be spoken of. Silence

perpetuates harm.

~

Despicable deeds

by deplorable dastards

demand denunciation.

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Jul·13

The Carver And The Stone

Posted by agarrabrant

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Both perseverance

and perseveration are

facets of the same hard stone.

~

  Though they share a base,

one facet is carved from free

intent. The other is not.

 

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Jul·12

Now Hear This

Posted by agarrabrant

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How would things change if

we treated each moment as 

a friend who needs our presence?

~

Ulcers would abound,

all those moments demanding,

rudely, our rapt attention!

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Jul·11

Quantitative Metrics

Posted by agarrabrant

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More often than not,

quantitative metrics fail

to demonstrate quality.

~

How many folks does

it take to change a light bulb?

More is not better.

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Jul·10

Foreign Climes

Posted by agarrabrant

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Though I’m here in my

native land, I feel I’ve been

transported to foreign shores.

~

Sometimes a stranger

can find oneself in strange lands

without even leaving home.

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Jul·09

A Cyclical Lament

Posted by agarrabrant

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These hot July days

don’t feed my spirit or warm

my soul. They just burn me up.

~

Not so long ago,

we lamented winter’s chill

and wished, fervently,

for heat.

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Jul·07

Teleprompter Voodoo

Posted by agarrabrant

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It’s all perspective-

one person’s horrible flop,

another’s high water mark.

~

Those teleprompters

work their magic, they say ,come

hell or high water.

 

 

 

 

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Jul·06

A Timely Reminder

Posted by agarrabrant

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Guests from distant lands

remind us that our fellowship

transcends all earthly boundaries.

~

 These united states

of fellowship connect us

to ourselves and each other.

 

 

 

 

 

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Jul·04

Ah, That Abyss Again

Posted by agarrabrant

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Staring long into

that dark, bottomless, abyss,

willing thoughts to manifest…

~

It’s every writer’s

fate to sit at that abyss

and wait, and wait and…

 

 

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Jul·03

Singing A Song Without Words

Posted by agarrabrant

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The day got away

and my mind fled town. What can

be done, my fine son?

~

Revel in the likes

bestowed on our empty page;

our fine wordless poetry.

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Jul·02

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