Holiday Irony Poems

   Everything's a 'crisis' nowadays
   
     'cept 'Paying Attention's' on holiday...

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Two holidays extraordinary
    bookend a day - simple, ordinary
  How is that unfortunate day viewed
    sandwiched between the...

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What this life full of competition,
A simple fault could result to miserable condition,
In the world's race of perfection,
Calmness and steadiness is no more a perception.

Be...

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Messages, messages pounding my brain
                Messages wanting to drive me...

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The lowest branches get lights,
decoration,
adulation,
attention.

Upper reaches sway, snap in the dark,
break and turn loose their leaves.

But never receive a mention....

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Sea alongside where they are, where they go
    Undercurrent of cover, keep upset under wraps
    Run a watertight routine...

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In the summertime 
On a summer holiday
The north wind doth blow

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Line one - Ray Dorset.
Line two - Bruce Welch/Brian Bennett.
Line three- Unknown/traditional.

8 March 2021
Contest: Life...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Potatoes

At dinner the other night, 
mom fixed our favorite. 
She baked them, 
broiled them, 
cut them up,
 and fried them nice. 

She told us,
this was...

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Cockleburs

Small green weeds, 
with little seed pots, 
that stick to your socks. 

They travel with you, 
to the next place, 
that God wants them to...

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Fear of Acceptance

The queen called her jester, 
and requested a joke! 
He had nothing to say, 
He just sat there, 
as he had already choked....

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Tis the Holiday Season
To shop for no good reason
It is for Him,  we are told
But those tales are getting old.
They want you to actually...

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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy
leafless boughs;"
                  ...

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Yucatan, etc.

Cortez, DeMille are gone.
It's now the locus
of postgraduate honeymoons,
urban fugues, a minor literary genre.

Knowledge and ejection predispose us
to technological parody--
antique busses, burros, plumbing, pyramids--
as...

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Wow, Mrs. Claus’ mood change was surely swift!
Hmph, a rift just cause she must wait to use her gifts …
Ho, Ho, NO!  Time out?...

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