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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What have we become
when reopening we ask ,
“What’s ‘acceptable loss’?
~
Are we willing to
lose our humanity for
a monetary profit?
Our super-duper,
stable genius president
touts super-duper missle.
~
Mere words just can not
convey my total dismay
in any meaningful way.
When feeling the heat
of presidential ire
becomes a badge of honor…
~
Truly an honor
in the age of unstable
Trump and narcissistic rage.
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.
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?
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.
Our capacity
to tolerate suffering
may well be our undoing.
~
Indifference
and mistaken tolerance –
betrayers of hearts and souls.
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?
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.
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?
Periodically
procrastination exacts
proverbial pounds of flesh.
~
Much like when we were
young and got so caught up in
play, we peed our pants
Infinite patience –
a strong requirement for
filling out government forms.
~
Private provider
paperwork’s plenty tough too
and mostly pretty pointless.
Listen up, old friend,
Covid is no shamdemic!
Neither’s flagrant lunacy!
~
People will believe
what they want to believe. Facts
are irrelevant.
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.
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.