Flying in the face

of all logic and reason,

some remain convinced they’re great.

~

Disconfirming facts

must be ignored for the grand

illusion to thrive.

Healing is furthered

when hearts and arms open wide

and mouths sometimes remain shut.

~

Perfect recipes

can yield distasteful dishes

if ingredients are missed.

Let’s give Trump a wall

and put him and his cronies

safely to bed behind it.

~

That would be one wall

every rational nation

would gladly pay to erect!

Even fools know when

statements are tightly scripted.

Free men don’t say the same words.

~

At a loss for words,

 dear fellow poet, but as

a free woman I won’t use yours.

There’s always room for

improvement, but why must that

room keep expanding ?

~

Feckless leadership

demonstrates, by example,

just how huge that room can be.

The hour has past

for one of us to begin!

It must be a whole New Year.

~

 Thanks for picking up

the thread I dropped and making

things right as you often do.

A New Years Party

found less than satisfying;

All doctors, nurses, and me.

~

 May you leave behind

the pain of the old and find

healing in the new.

The end of the old,

the beginning of the new –

what is up for you?

~

Elevated ire

on the closing of the year

breeds a rage a wise man fears.

There is no justice

when pain rears it’s ugly head

in this season of joy.

~

Justice there may not

be, but love abides and drugs

remain to remove the pain