Senate Repubs: “Let’s

 perform magic and make truth

and justice vanish.”

~

It seems preordained.

Like the trial of those fiends

that cruelly murdered Emmett Till.

Beneath Winter’s stars,

surrounded by frigid earth,

iris and crocus emerge.

~

An invitation

to remember even in 

the heart of winter hope springs.

A cold, rainy day

and here I sit warm and snug,

a good book not far away.

~

I was standing line

in the ninth circle of hell…

the Virginia DMV!

I had a passing

thought I thought I’d want to share

but somehow it escaped me.

~

Sometimes those thoughts we’d

like to pass on pass through so 

fast they leave no trace.

Is playing golf his

version of fiddling while

our country goes up in smoke?

~

With all these irons

in the fire, how can we

hope to find the time to write?

~

Hope springs eternal

that we’ll make the time amid

demands infernal.

Poets sometimes hide

themselves so deep inside that

we forget they’re even there.

~

And, alas, sometimes,

in body, mind, or spirit,

they’re not really even there.

Feelings sometimes hide

themselves so deep inside that

we forget they’re even there.

~

And sometimes they climb

right out there upon the sleeve

for the whole wide world to see.

Discomfort tends to

sharpen lazy mind’s focus

and promote action taking.

~

True, but sometimes we

choose denial and divert

ourselves with quick remedies.

In this seventy

degree, January heat,

we need a cool assessment.

~

This is Virginia.

If you don’t like the climate,

wait a minute, it will change.

Sometimes arrows miss

their mark leaving archers to

blame the wind or sun or bow.

~

Blaming, though easy,

doesn’t help us hit the mark,

but a calm assessment can.

In relationships

we learn which matters more – to

win or to connect.

~

 The greatest failures

are those who value winning

regardless of the expense.

Supergiants tend

to burn bright for a brief time

before they supernovae

~

Tend to the core lest

there be an inner collapse

and then a big explosion.

When did we become

 the Polarized States

of America?

~

“Make America,”

his slogan may as well be,

“Balkanized instead.”

The Captain must go

down to Davy Jones’ locker…

more so when he sank the ship!

~

He may be counting

on being airlifted by 

his staunch followers’ prayers.

Isn’t it time we

say, “You’re fired” to him who

always fires from the hip.

~

If Americans

lack the will to reign him in,

someone will surely geld him.

Experience improves

performance across the board.

Remember come November.

~

It can if it’s joined

to a willingness to learn,

but that’s not always the case.

The whole of nature

calls out to us to not let

our small minds destroy the whole.

~

One man’s destruction

might be seen as creation

through the eyes of sycophants.

Can you please explain,

after waiting two decades,

why this week seems eternal?

~

New Millenniums

seem to promise so much, but

can be slow to deliver.

Whether we will skip

or crawl in the coming year

remains to be seen.

~

I imagine we

will skip, slog, and crawl in turn

as this new year progresses.

Here we go again

getting likes on blank pages!

Is this our niche audience?

~

Ah, on a blank page

so much can be projected –

the wisdom of emptiness.

As the old year slips

away, what have you learned that’s

worth taking into the new?

~

Years; they come and go

as, in my experience,

do all things, both fair and foul.

NOTHING stays the same

in our stunning Universe.

Bad news for Conservatives.

~

Still, some things are worth

conserving: integrity

 and the earth to name a few. 

With the clock ticking,

our anxiety grows great.

Will we act in time?

~

There is always hope.

That other clock’s been ticking

seventy-five years so far.

What’s this nausea?

Is it a stomach virus,

or is it just politics?

~

It’s a systemic

virus. That we know for sure.

Let’s take the steps for a cure.

The impossible

takes a little longer, but

some of us want it right now.

~

Is it possible,

as we await perfection,

that our wants might change?

Conspicuously

absent in our government;

from whence will three wise men come?

~

This time around we

 should be looking for three wise

women and the gifts they bring.

On this day of His

holy birth, may compassion

at last take root on this earth.

~

Render unto man

all the manly attributes

espoused by the NRA.

Negativity

very rarely yields results

of a positive nature.

~

But what if what you’re

seeking is not addition

but just subtraction?

Could it be that these 

two, Franklin and Lindsey Graham,

are, as the Brits say, crackers?

~

Fissures dating back

to earliest childhood

yield fragmented brittle men.