Special Counsel will run the United States?
Are they the Puppet-masters or more stooges?
Will we see the ones who hate America,
first hand?
We know Joe will not make it, that Kamala
cannot fake it.
Distraction from Putin affirming the Deep State
plus (CIA) runs things.
That they blew up Nordstream.
Chance for Obama to shake the tree
and get timely figs-figured, cured.
Is it tit for tat, as Somalia's Omar is censured.
Now Kenya's boys activate their
wondertwin rings.
Election doubts waiting in the wings.
Changes in weather are mostly to cold.
So much harder to do as we grow old.
When done, we regret not doing it sooner.
Dillydallying, a renowned late-bloomer.
Change is oft forecast as a gentle breeze,
Refreshing our spirits, setting at ease,
Offering rewards of a brighter dawn,
With lives uplifted, with good hope reborn.
But change can be fierce, its tempest untamed,
Shattering the foundations, leaving hearts maimed,
For the quest for self, leaves others behind,
Well beyond what changes you had in mind.
What's forgotten is changes' daisy chain.
All the forget-me-not strung out to blame
You for the chain reaction that change brings
With its bunch of unintended bad things.
Remember that in the change are keepsakes,
That can get blitzed to pulp in quakes and shakes.
If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hated him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner
we know who they are
do we L - O - V - E love them
could be
all the buZZ
we are after
becAUse
they shake our insides
out, make us think,
make us shOUt
others join in the madneSS
raLLy the cause
pick up pitchforkS
grab the torch
foLLow your lead
why is it dark?
who shut the door?
7/21/2022
Not aimed at anyone. Just came to my mind. Enjoy!
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
received a little shake-up
when in '68 they turned on
'Abraham, Martin and John' *
Moses, Muhammed and Jesus
No longer seem to please us
'Environment, Equity and Energy'
Causes now spiritually seize us
The U.S., Britain and France
a ghost of a NATO alliance
The mantle of peace they don
faced with China, Russia and Iran
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*a hit song by Dion de Mucci about
Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr.
and John F. Kennedy
February 14, 2021
'3 Poetry Contest'
Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco
So sorry, Pluto! You cannot be deemed
“ninth planet” anymore because there’s been
a redefining that eliminates
you from the list of planets. Since you’re kin
to the remaining eight, you will be called
“dwarf planet.” This downsizing of the list
must be a blow to your esteem. Please know
some people will be shocked, and you’ll be missed!
You’re really little, smaller than some moons!
There’s no choice; you must be reclassified.
So much has changed since your discovery
in nineteen-thirty. Science can’t abide
your presence on a list where you just don’t
belong! It’s sad to strike so hard a blow
on one far from the sun and always dark.
Your time is up. Now, off that list you go!
information from nineplanets.org and solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/Pluto
Date: October 8, 2017
Contest Title: The Cosmos
Sponsor: Thvia Shetley
Illness
casting shadows
over a persons view
making or breaking them slowly
shake up.
25/06/17
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