The sudden stillness
after the big wind left us
wondering what was to come.
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Like a hurricane,
that sudden calm just may be
a pause before the second wind.
The sudden stillness
after the big wind left us
wondering what was to come.
~
Like a hurricane,
that sudden calm just may be
a pause before the second wind.
As darkness deepens
and the winds begin to howl,
all wise folk seek out shelter.
~
Riding out the storm
is the first step followed by
assessment and cleaning up.
So, three point one four,
once essential for building,
is now just about dessert?
~
Son, your reference
to pi and the Bloodhound Gang
is just not family friendly.
Let’s not be out trumped
by muskiness, Surely we
can reverse the tide.
~
Of course he’s the Don!
And Musk’s what, his enforcer?
Casa Bianca’s all mobbed up.
That man can subfusc
the brightest of spring mornings
with his joyless agenda.
~
His governance
by shenanigans brings out
darkness everywhere.
To look busy, they
found nonexistent problems
and dashed around solving them.
~
As an afterthought,
when their actions made things worse,
they blame their predecessor.
Wanton disregard
has become this president’s
essential requirement.
~
His associates
mirror his own essential
quality quite precisely.
No one ever said
“Compassion is the killer.”,
but the term’s barely begun.
~
The real killers are
already loose: hot heads joined
with ice cold disdain.
All that windiness
is not nature’s doing, but
comes from heated rhetoric.
~
Heated rhetoric
may not cause all climate change
but it sure is blustery!
It’s the standing snags,
long dead but not yet fallen,
that fool us with hollow strength.
~
Leaders pretending
to care, but whose hearts are dead
deceive with displays of strength.
When those at the top
ignore the needs of those at
the bottom, Musk and Trump beam.
~
Old trees with deep roots
weather this chaos with ease
while beaming old men are felled.
Ninety-nine minutes
and the needle never moved
fans and opponents unswayed.
~
What did move was his
lying tongue and his waving
hands seeking an audience.
Where are our leaders
as our national light starts
to flicker and die?
~
Hiding in the dark
in terror their own party
will feed them to the Wendigo.
How much evidence
will it take ‘til some believe
that guy’s just up to no good?
~
Misplaced loyalty
blinds some from seeing all that
they don’t wish to see.
When you don’t know how
to negotiate, you just
bully and berate.
~
The Art of the Deal
involves insults and shouting
for an artless narcissist.
Surely all must call
this benighted second dose
national recrudescence
~
Another outbreak
of crudeness has descended
upon the White House.
February ends
on a sunny note as far
as the weather is concerned.
~
This sunny weather
and our grey uncertainty
stand in stark contrast.
Sometimes a delay
is all it takes to derail
the public’s health and safety.
~
It seems their interest
is not in health and safety,
but in showing their power.
In this currently
cold national climate, we
welcome sun’s display of warmth.
~
The Sun’s or any
hint, or semblance, of warmth
would cheer this desolation.
Will our Nation’s soul
survive stuffing their coffers
full of House made Soylent Green?
~
Greed will kill the souls
of coffer stuffers, but not
the souls of true patriots.
Just when you begin
to think reason might prevail,
His Majesty speaks.
~
And reminds us all
that, by gift, from his good friends,
the emperor has new clothes.
To the witless clown
who adorned my door handle
with that chewing gum, you suck.
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Wonder what’s eating
that clown that he’d resort to
passing on his chew to you?
I may be old, but
I can see well enough to
recognize bullshit.
~
This bullshit diet
means to desensitize us
to the horseshit yet to come.
Always something new
toxic and mean~spirited
to keep them off their balance.
~
An old trick used by
power hungry tyrants to
distract and control.
The cats and I watch
the snow fall, content to be warm
and sitting inside.
~
And I go trudging
through the snowy woods chasing
a small dog bounding for birds.
Are some so hungry
for change they will consume
all this patent medicine?
~
Popping a pill for
an effortless fix always
has a huge appeal.
The quiet work of
introspection is not work
valued by those with loud mouths.
~
No one can be seen
to be working hard when all
the labor is internal.
Where has justice gone
when police assume a crime
driving by at fifty-nine?
~
Assumption became
fact to a mind resolved to
find his criminal quota.
Most admonishments
apply to admonishers
as well as the admonished.
~
That old rebuttal
we learned as kids still remains
true: “It takes one to know one.”.
Let’s demand those we
elected to open their
closed hearts this Valentine’s Day.
~
Perhaps Cupid’s bow
will strike home unerringly,
opening hearts by arrow?