The stone will still need rock solid support,
arms that wrap so tight you forget to fail.
A surefire partner with whom to consort,
they will steady you during a strong gale.
Living to create an old fashioned tale,
something immortalized in that statue.
Please take solace in the aligned virtue
that has allowed you to find each other.
With the initial path conquered you knew,
you’re meant to truly transform together.
Retirement’s made up to look rosy
‘Look back on a life lived well’
Pardon me for being so nosy, but
that's a surefire prescription for hell
Nothing to do but ‘look back’
paves the way for a future pitch-black
Look forward, make plans, stay connected
Avoid the road to becoming dejected
Love grows deep within one's heart
Let us all just come together instead of growing further apart
We must not allow hatred to become the norm
Let's send out waves of warmth and happiness to weather the storm
If we all just work together we can make the world a better place
We only have one choice to make for the survival of the human race
A better world awaits if we could just stomp out negativity along the way
People you interact with smile at them and tell them to have a nice day
Bureaucracy and constant red tape stop things from getting done
Someone might want to ask the Egyptians how the pyramids got build in the scorching sun
Working together is the only recipe for success
A surefire way for getting us out of this mess
We have all been given the greatest gift that being life itself
Let's pick up the pieces and put them back on the shelf
I'm no legal expert, I'm the first to say
Nor do I live in Israel, though I'm a citizen anyway
But it's hard to watch a proposal tear my country apart
So I'll write a few lines here, straight from my gut and my heart
What if Congress could overrule the US Supreme Court's every decision
It seems a surefire path toward unprecedented division
Imagine Roe vs. Wade subject to Congressional wrangling and supervision
The resultant laws, a recipe for chaos, scorn and derision *
So, that parallels what's been proposed in Israel's judicial revisions **
~ likened to an axe making the finest of incisions
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*With every change of power in Congress, (almost every election these
days), Roe vs. Wade would be revisited and redecided. Heaven help us!
**By a majority vote of Israel's Parliament (Knesset), Israeli Supreme
Court rulings could and would be overturned. (And with each shift in
the ruling majority's composition, a fresh round of overturning could
and would begin).
A recipe perfected over time,
going for a long walk with my headphones;
Severe melodies make me feel sublime,
lightened up by all of those luscious tones;
Feel good movie that warms me to my bones
surefire way to leave me with a wide grin;
Tacos and pizza are always a win
I am able to relax for a bit;
They taste better eaten by the ocean;
The main ingredients of my calm kit.
winners
surefire, lucky
honoring, crowning, notifying
achievers, success, non-starter, failures
compensating, voiding" lowballing
hopeless, disgruntled
losers
Date written: 12/27/2022
When amidst broken equals, we approved,
Ere a freed grain of nomadic sand slipped,
Melancholic surrendered, whole reproved,
Monitor the saved life single and stripped.
Two separate paths once joined normally,
One courses happiness, opposite naught,
Depraved, unprincipled, lived lukewarmly,
Blossomed languishes, internally fraught.
Provocative commencement surefire fade,
Arrangements, invites, sent cancellations,
Heartbreaking embattles a soul betrayed,
Evoke mother's "time out", do causations.
Solely talks like being ere his gravestone,
Passersby ask he says, "Gauging my own."
Each passing second your Love
Etches its seal on eternal slates,
Proving fleeting affections drear,
Yielding warmth that never sates.
Infinitely warmer and soothing more,
It trounces fickle throbs of mortal kiss,
Eclipsing legends' amours of nymphs
Hugged by knights into hollowed bliss.
None comparable to fabled stories
Lauding mimicking flames of yore,
It permeates envy's diamond walls;
Caressing loneliest canyons below.
Your caress's unlying promise heals
Rude adder's strikes ignorance deals,
And balms vipers' capricious stings;
Surefire cure beyond temporal flings.
Whatever the problem
Whatever the weather
A surefire remedy is ~
To complain all together
Told what to think
what not to drink
what we must eat
mostly vegan, never meat
We resort to apps to buy our cars
to find our way to open bars
We rely on them to find a date
Surefire way to seal one's fate
Parents once guided our consumption
Social media do it now with gumption
Is there anywhere we still breathe free
ubiquitous screens ~ wily eyes on you and me
So much to say that the words just evade me
So many thoughts that can lift or degrade me.
All of this trauma is the creator that made me
I'm fighting harder and harder every day.
I find myself getting lost on my path to my truth
I try to look forward though I grieve my own youth
They say looking back is not the way to self soothe
But my comfort is the result of my way.
Sometimes I divert, just for a little break
From this path full of obstacles that lies in my wake
Just sit in the darkness and forget what's at stake
Being alone is what revives and restores me
I never expected what I was expected to expect
My tendency is naturally to rebel or reject
It's not right or wrong or even mild disrespect
The truth is the truth whether known or unknown
I am what I am. It is what it is.
There is so much to know to even understand this.
Acceptance is one surefire way to find bliss
But I have to figure it out on my own
I am what I am. You are what you are.
But if we look up we see all the same stars.
Each one unique to itself and galaxy
Painting one sky for all of us to see
The pitcher toes the rubber, then steps off for a bit,
Wipes his brow, sets his cap, pounds the ball in his mitt
As he peers in for the sign sixty feet six inches away
Where stands the batter, dead set on wrecking his day.
The ump gives a shout: "Let's get on with it; time to play!"
The fans stir restlessly, yearn for action, come what may.
The hurler's into his wind-up, cocks his arm, lets it go,
The pitch is on its way; he's heaved a mighty throw...
The crack of the bat, the flight of the ball,
The timing of the fielder, who leaps over the wall
To snare an out from the jaws of a surefire home run---
Gasps of silence, then applause's tumult rains down.
Baseball's magic is unique, squeezed into seconds of play:
Seconds to shape a long summer, each and every day.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THEE I SAY
GOOD JOY, GOOD CHEER, SINCERELY WITH LOVE, ALL THE WAY
YES, WE ALL HAVE OUR UPS AND DOWNS
INDEED, WE ALL HAVE HAD OUR BLUES THAT CAUSED MANY FROWNS
NEVERTHESS, I CONFESS, GOD HAS CONTINUED TO BLESS
HE RELIEVETH THE WEIGHT, THE HEAVINESS, AND THE STRESS
WHEN THE RAIN FELL HARD, GOD KEPT US DRY
WHEN ALL RESISTANCE WAS LOW, HE UPLIFTED US BACK TO HIGH
LIFE HAS A WAY OF RUMBLING ONE TO CRUMBLE
I GUESS THAT IS WHY GOD BRINGS FORTH THEMATIC SITUATIONS TO HUMBLE
WHETHER IT IS A SLIGHT FALL OR AN INTENSE TUMBLE,
YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO HEAR GOD'S BELLOW, MURMUR, OR MUMBLE
IN ALL THANKSGIVING, ASSURANCE IS ONE OF THOSE SUREFIRE THINGS
WHILE STARING IN AWE AT THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, I GIVE THANKS TO THE KING OF KINGS
FOR WITHOUT HIS GUIDANCE AND HIS DIRECTION, I WOULD BE LOST IN THE FRAY
BY THE INSPIRATION OF HIS STRENGTH, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THEE I SAY
GOOD JOY, GOOD CHEER, SINCERELY WITH LOVE, ALL THE WAY
C-an't-miss move is done,
A-iming to win the battle;
S-atan's army is all over,
S-o be vigilant against the peril.
A-s the can't-miss action
N-ever fails in the fight;
D-ay fifteen of warm July,
R-eady-made plan sets things
A-right.
V-ery certain measure
E-nds the war with success;
N-egative thinking turns
I-nto optimistic process.
D-evice a surefire armor, to gain the crown of bliss;
A-n eternal life is yours, for your faith is can't-miss.
slowly she presents
i just let her do what she feels
it is no rush
everything is unexpected
egos are not syrup drenched
narcissism does not exist as a definition
space is the comfort zone that we create here
she is the queen of surefire subtlety , and i am the king of pure patience
slow and thorough is the new fast and furious
she is my dream, and i am her platform
with a cool appliance, she works her carefully constructed art
i just smile bashfully and appreciate her simply wanting to do so
it is in this moment when i think of all we men can sometimes take for granted because of masculine arrogance and uncontrolled selfishness
it is then that i realize that once again this good woman is teaching me yet another lesson
i then become a model student....while at the same time some other man is bleeping it up for the rest of us....again....
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