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Category: Politics

“If” – A Grateful Nod to Seuss

If I ran the zoo (hey, you know what? I do!)

cancel culture, family, parenting, Racism, Seuss

Thank you, Numbers. Thank you.

So, have a good life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

erasure poetry

Another Land

Yo soy de otra tierra

States of Matter

The Freezing comes and goes

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, freezing, global warming, seasons

Circular Wars

It’s easy to rise on the called-for occasion…

choice, circular firing squad, integrity, take a stand

beware of dog

signs don’t help.

#Merica

Still. Way. Too. Many. Limits.

White. European. Straight. Cisgendered. Wealthy. Males. For them – the sky’s the limit.

glass ceiling, oppression, privilege, systemic injustice

can’t we all just get along?

There once was a day they stormed Congress.

anarchy, Joe Biden, laws, limerick, Trump

bottoms up

we might’s well drink the brew.

2020, coming out, COVID-19, perspective, quarantine

tempore vanitatis

measure the passing of our existence

days, eternity, meaningless, pointless, time, vanity, waiting, years

God is not dead

God is not dead, nor doth He sleep

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, longfellow

sunless solstice

celestial cycles don’t control all darkness.

depression, moon, night, solstice, sun

worthless gods

If only Coleridge had given Okeonos to that Mariner of olden days…

Coleridge, curse, gods, impotence, Rime of the Ancient Mariner

stupid is as stupid does

If this is hate,then I guess that’s where I’ve fallen. In ‘Murica these days,can’t suggestmy good friends to the north(south, … More

#COVID, 'Merica, 'Murica, COVID-19, Facebook, Hate Speech

ennui

Yeah, I guess. Gotta go.

#haiku, ennui

it happens to everyone…

He worked hard to look strong

#limerick, funny, limerick, Politics

Echoes

what will it be when we listen?

history, perspective

Sonnet XII – the dying of the light

Perhaps it’s in the dimming gloam we’re best.

bad, complexity, dark, dusk, gloaming, good, light, oversimplified, twilight

know-nothing

it’s heavier than it looks.

irony, know-nothings, Twain

on communication – vii

can we trust that they are true?

#communication, #election, #haikai, #haiku, #peace, #tanka, #war

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