If a “friend” cancels you like a stamp, they never were you
friend in the first place!
Friends give people space to be themslves! They welcomed you,
and trusted you in their heart’s space,
Moreover, not one of us wants a friend, that thinks they are a god.
A Mr.or Mrs, stuffed shirt, an inelligensia of know it all?
A friend need not be a Ph,D to us, nor flash her or hishatred in our face.
That is an inhumane, arrogant disgrace!
Just someone who truly cares about us, who and honors us as we are!
With understanding, grace andd gentleness, of and compassion beyond par!
And always remembers.. we all part of the human race,
By God’s most kind and generous holy grace.
Hatred and genocide in any, a hideous and ugly face!
1/26/2025
Categories:
cancelling, feelings, friend, friendship, loss,
Form: Rhyme
It is snowing! It is snowing! It is SNOWING!
Three children I usually have to drag out of bed are heading for the front door.
I say “don’t forget your bookbags! Don’t you want breakfast?”
Mom, it’s SNOWING! Says the middle one. No school. Right?
I begin to laugh. This is Minnesota. We don’t cancel school here.
An abdominable snowman could be eating busloads of kids,
we would not cancel.
An avalanche could bury six cars on the school road.
We would not cancel.
MINNESOTA I remind them.
We used to live in California where they would cancel school for rain.
They begin grumbling, put their pajamas on, and try to feign illness.
Too late, I say. I saw how fast you got dressed and got those sleds out.
I hear grumbling all the way to the bus where other kids are yelling “Snow!”
Categories:
cancelling, school, snow,
Form: Narrative
Iv'e heard there are some, who wish to do
A cancelling of 't' the very first letter; at the
Beginning Of true.'
I got into a puzzle of thought; and guess.?
Till upon inquiry there was help no less'
It seems, there is afoot?
A sort of plan' if it's removed from 'treason'
Some won't carry the can!
Categories:
cancelling, change, character, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Lock down.
Long lines at McDonalds and Home Depot
Politicians-big pharma getting cozy covid rich.
While thinning out the Christian crowd.
Mask on-mask off mask on mask off.
Kamala's bobbing at the border
What the H happened to law and order.
Uncle Joe is a pastel in the rain.
At the drop of another career thug's whim
Summer cities will burn again and again.
Cancel this- cancel that -cancel-cancel-cancel!
Cancel both the bitter and sweet.
Cancelling a million viable dreams.
Wish they would cancel violence or cancer.
Unbridled violence-fentanyl-child trafficking,
Wish they would cancel, cancelling.
Categories:
cancelling, death, dream, new year,
Form: Free verse
I can picture a reindeer all harnessed and hitched
I can understand the concept of jolly old St. Nick,
I can listen to Christmas carols playing all day long
But reports of cancelling Christmas make me sick!
Yearly some grinches delight in debunking Christmas
With upsetting stories appearing in the news on TV
But what they plan to accomplish by this deception
Muddies my reception and remains a mystery to me.
written December 7, 2021
Categories:
cancelling, christmas, conflict, culture,
Form: Light Verse