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Principal Concerns

Posted by agarrabrant

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When you’re more concerned

for principles than people,

your naked face will show us.

~

He who shall not be

named doesn’t care for either.

 He just cares for number one.

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May·31

Essential Ingredients

Posted by agarrabrant

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Fighting the good fight

in not for the faint of heart;

it requires fortitude.

~

Love strengthens the heart,

 faith fosters fortitude, hope

looks forward – we need all three.

 

 

 

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May·27

Nevertheless We Persist

Posted by agarrabrant

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When your body aches

and your mind can not focus,

it’s hard to craft a poem.

~

We may be weary

and worn, but we right ourselves

with daily writing.

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May·25

Supreme Rule

Posted by agarrabrant

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Is it his intent

to break Federalism?

Seems he’s off to a great start…

~

 Autocracy is

that to which he aspires –

one embodied by liars.

 

 

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May·23

Chilling Reality

Posted by agarrabrant

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Does this rainy chill

make global warming a lie?

Liars would have it so.

~

Some of us believe

what we want to believe, slant,

twist, and prune facts to that end.

 

 

 

 

 

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May·21

What Old Blues Men Knew

Posted by agarrabrant

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Lately we’re singing,

“Where , oh where has caring gone

four long years passing?”

~

 A damned long sentence

this nation has had to pull

for the crime of apathy.

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May·20

Rainy Days and Mondays

Posted by agarrabrant

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Rainy afternoons

fail to dampen the spirit;

same can’t be said of clothing.

~

  Gentle falling rain,

clothes dryers, and the lilting

 song of birds keep us serene.

 

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May·19

Questions Of Gain and Loss

Posted by agarrabrant

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What have we become

when reopening we ask ,

“What’s ‘acceptable loss’?

~

Are we willing to

lose our humanity for

a monetary profit?

 

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May·17

Oy Vey

Posted by agarrabrant

1

Our super-duper,

stable genius president

touts super-duper missle.

~

Mere words just can not

convey my total dismay

in any meaningful way.

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May·16

Proudly Worn

Posted by agarrabrant

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When feeling the heat

of presidential ire

becomes a badge of honor…

~

Truly an honor

in the age of unstable

Trump and narcissistic rage.

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May·15

Tastefulness

Posted by agarrabrant

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A taste for privilege,

though easily acquired,

takes a lifetime to escape.

~

If one develops

also a taste for service,

there is no need to escape.

 

 

 

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May·13

Obvious Questions Follow

Posted by agarrabrant

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In this universe,

often what seems obvious,

is just a grand illusion.

~

So how do we pierce

the illusion of what seems

obvious and find what’s real?

 

 

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May·11

Pensive Reflection

Posted by agarrabrant

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The weather’s running

hot and cold, mirroring our

unstable genius in chief.

~

Whether he’s running

hot or cold largely depends

on the face in the mirror.

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May·10

The Fault, Dear Brutus…

Posted by agarrabrant

0

Our capacity

to tolerate suffering

may well be our undoing.

~

 Indifference 

and mistaken tolerance –

 betrayers of hearts and souls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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May·09

Peckerwood Woodpecker Make Big Noise

Posted by agarrabrant

0

Is that woodpecker

just drumming his life away

or does he have mouths to feed?

~

Feeding family’s fine

but why can’t that peckerwood

peck somewhere that I can’t hear?

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May·08

There For All To See

Posted by agarrabrant

0

If you must go out

and choose not to wear a mask,

freedom trumps humanity.

~

 Bare-faced assertions

of freedom reveal who comes

first and who doesn’t matter.

 

 

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May·07

Casting Call

Posted by agarrabrant

0

We’re characters in

stories we will someday tell

about when everything changed.

~

So, who will portrait

me in the movie version

of this grim horror story?

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May·06

Whole Lot Of Peeing Going On

Posted by agarrabrant

1

Periodically

procrastination exacts

proverbial pounds of flesh.

~

Much like when we were

young and got so caught up in

play, we peed our pants

 

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May·05

Professional Skills

Posted by agarrabrant

0

Infinite patience –

a strong requirement for

filling out government forms.

~

 Private provider

paperwork’s plenty tough too

and mostly pretty pointless.

 

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May·04

Shamdemic or Slamdemic?

Posted by agarrabrant

0

Listen up, old friend,

Covid is no shamdemic!

Neither’s flagrant lunacy!

~

People will believe

what they want to believe. Facts

are irrelevant.

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May·03

Thy Brother’s Blood Crieth

Posted by agarrabrant

0

Time is not all we

have on our hands; we also

have sanitizer.

~

If we abandon

social distancing too soon,

add the blood of innocents.

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May·02

Pence Et All

Posted by agarrabrant

0

Hey! You… in this store?

What the hell are you thinking?

No mask! No gloves! …. No loved ones?

~

The unmasked, ungloved

ones say they love denial

and their freedumb most of all.

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May·01

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