Can’t meet in Rumi’s
field when a wall of harsh words
restricts our access.
~
People who build walls
clearly have zero interest
in trying to build bridges.
Can’t meet in Rumi’s
field when a wall of harsh words
restricts our access.
~
People who build walls
clearly have zero interest
in trying to build bridges.
Long weekends working
leaves little time for thinking
lyrically in language.
~
The language such long
working weekends produces
is expressive nonetheless.
If you lie like there’s
no tomorrow, you still can’t
erase the truth of today.
~
Despite denials,
all your lies of yesterday
can still wreck your tomorrow.
Preparing for storms
is often a daunting task;
more so when the winds begin.
~
Daunting though it is,
taking time to prepare does
beat getting caught unaware.
Unconventional
and conventional wisdom
gone missing at RNC.
~
That’s not all that’s gone
with the wind at that event;
so too, it seems, a platform?
Two poets asleep
at the switch and the delayed
dual response is just this.
~
If the heart is not
willing, the eyes won’t see
what is right in front of them.
~
Seeing with the heart
sometimes requires blindness
to what some call obvious.
Our capacity
for exercising patience
requires frequent practice.
~
Fortunately, life
gives us numerous chances,
not always welcomed, to learn.
What gives with those who
don’t give a damn, but simply
take and take and take?
~
A giving spirit
gives up material things;
instead seeks intangibles.
Some people proclaim
that better late than never
is not axiomatic!
~
Could those someones be
contrarians who like to
flee from static certainty?
When we disagree,
let’s do it civilly and
form a vital harmony.
~
Point and counterpoint
must exhibit some restraint
for us to hear the descant.
Droning Cicadas
and peeping of those tree frogs;
sounds like Congress in session.
~
The sounds of tree frogs
and cicadas have a point –
Congress not so much.
It is what it is
except when it isn’t. Then
it’s fake news from Trump’s White House.
~
Some people reject
objective criticism;
embrace denialism.
Throttlebottom! Rake!
Unmensch! Meshugga! Pisher!
No greatness recipe here.
~
Name calling is his
special talent. You can’t match
it. Don’t even try.
Huge Pound and small Pence
walk into a dirty Barr,
suffer bankruptcy.
~
Having sold their souls
earning moral bankruptcy,
a dirty Barr harms them naught.
It’s Monsoon Season
in this once temperate land
suddenly more tropical.
~
Things are heating up
because cooler heads are not
able to prevail.
Faced with a problem
he can’t solve with lies and tweets,
he blithers and bleats.
~
Pompous blustering
and prevarication don’t
prudent public policy make.
I don’t have to lose
in order for you to win.
Life’s not a Zero-Sum Game.
~
One and one makes two.
It doesn’t have to be me
or you. There’s enough for two.
Let us not divide
and conquer. Instead, may we
unite and prosper.
~
Since long divisions
are the only math some know,
let’s teach them new equations.
An exposure by
children of friends of our friends
may present our greatest risk.
~
We must learn how to
be friends to ourselves as we
meet in friendship with others
Time and tide wait for
no man as Chaucer said so
many years ago.
~
Hope the ocean sends
gentle waves of poetry
my land bound, staycation way.
~
The slow, stately, swell
pushing ever westerly,
will bring harmony in time.
Sometimes poets need
a reprieve and thus one has
been duly granted.
~
Perhaps we could learn
from sunflowers how to thrive
in the heaviness of storms.
~
No ceaseless down pour
can effectively dampen
a sunny disposition.
It’s tough to focus
in this world of constant noise
demanding our attention.
~
If we were able
to transform the noise into
music, we could dance.
Sometimes an answer
appears to a question we
never thought to ask.
~
But sometimes we seek
the deep and burning answers
to questions that escape use…
Have we forgotten
cautions in our Holy books
against graven images?
~
We turn away from
the mystery and create
idols in our own image.
Sometimes the weather
is a quick change artist and
leaves us mystified.
~
And sometimes weather
changes quickly for better
leaving us all misty-eyed.
Responding to change,
though often less than pleasant,
is a skill we all must build.
~
Outer change occurs.
It can take a while for
our inner self to catch up.
Pride and prejudice?
Sense and sensibility?
Which is it going to be?
~
Austen? No…Dickens!
A Tale of Two countries with
low expectations!