12/25/2020
Weather advisories
To the lowest and highest degree
People that were mean and nice to me
It's just how life can be
Getting rid of anxiety
I'm climbing trees
And flying free
Across the shining sea
They say timing's key
Take hold of your life, you're in the driving seat
Struggling to stay irie
It's been icy
And fiery
A struggle with sobriety
Just another cog in society
Yet all around me, folks take briberies
Fueling the fire for ongoing rivalries
Nearby small and giant trees
Why must we?
Always be on different sides it seems
Hieroglyphics, so difficult to decipher these
As well as objects from long ago of notoriety
I love the variety
Shoutout to Ebony and Ivory
Words hope to be kept privately
Locked inside of a diary
Got read during an invasion of privacy
If you choose to act out violently
Then you will meet your karma, no matter the irony
Too focused on what the bible reads
Instead of survival needs
This is it, finally
A few days ago, I was at my daughter's place some 10 minutes away.
In seeking to comply with COVID-19 advisories, I can't remember when
I last hugged anyone other than my wife. So while visiting with my
19-year-old granddaughter, I made no attempt at showing affection
beyond verbal greetings. Of course, I had done it this way for the du
ration of social distancing rules because we live in different homes,
and my daughter works in a daycare center.
Notwithstanding, upon this visit, my granddaughter reached out to
embrace me, and I quickly hesitated. She immediately detected my
reluctancy and said, "Really, grandpa?". We then embraced for the
first time in weeks. I tell you, when it comes to family, especially
my grandchildren, this quarantine season is ripping me to pieces.
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Weather forecast so frightful, so scary
It removes from this season the 'merry'
Howling winds and blowing snowdrifts
Force your car off the edge of a cliff
Visibility of less than half and inch
Makes an experienced aviator flinch
700 flights canceled in and out of O'Hare
Frustrated travelers curse, cuss and swear
On bridges and overpasses icy conditions
Blackening every commuter's disposition
Travel advisories constantly warn of the worst
For those on the road in this accursed cloudburst
Oh, that I'd been created as a great big black bear
~ So I could tune all this out -- fast asleep in my lair
11/21/16
As far as I can see
Mindlessly
Been battling with sobriety
Extreme weather advisories
Over land or by the seas
Many multi-floored wineries
Producing product of the same or different varieties
Animals and humans living within or outside of societies
Where things may happen fairly or unjustifiably
World renowned notoriety
Obtained solo or through a dynasty
In all entirety
A world full of opportunity and vibrancy
All though there is irony
Happening loudly or quietly
Individuals and groups continuing to act defiantly
Showing their own true colors, undeniably
Never did I have much piety
Because it was religious, and something I always looked at undesirably
Is the cycle entirely
Spirally?
Or finitely?
Still to this day occurs piracy
And illegal sales of guns, drugs and objects like ivory
Corruption and briberies
Events carried out publicly or silently
Something well known, now viewed unrecognizably
And indefinably
By: Dalton Ogletree
The tide is high and I'm holding on
But the waters are to my neck
I can't feel the bottom
And I can't swim but somehow I'm not drowning
I'm holding onto something but I'm not sure what
I know it isn't my hope because
My hope has swam away
Not even looking back once
My self inflicted wounds burn because of the salt
water
The current is getting stronger
And the steadily rising rip tide isn't doing me justice
My advisories are just below me
Ready to devour me
I don't want to fall prey
Was this it?
Am I as good as dead?
Is this how my life ends?
At the hands of my advisories?
The storm intensified
The waters began to roar
The surrounding mountains began to shake
The earth began to rumble
My advisories began to chant
The wind whistled and blew away my faith
I let go
I am no more
"Well done my child, Lisa right?"
I awoke
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