Category: War & Politics
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Dear America
Next week is Thanksgiving And I believe words that rhyme Should have similar meanings, but English language professionals won’t listen to me. Even though cobble and gobble share five letters They have little in common. To push my false belief and narrative I am forced to run for President in 2024. The Russians and Saudis…
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Buying stamps
My wife texted me from the Post Office The clerk offered new stamps with Nancy Reagan’s portrait She laughed, is that the best You can do and asked for ones with flowers 7-8-25
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haiku for No Kings protests
we’re all immigrants mother kicked us from her womb leave and don’t return 6-15-25
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21st Century Mother Goose
last night, you dreamed of a mud dauber wasp nest above the chamber door, papered corridors of babies waiting to bite, a Supreme Court packed with Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eaters and a blindfolded lady swinging her scale at a pinata filled with surprises (you hope she wins) 12-20-22
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Christmas in Ukraine
I know brilliant things will come from children born from loving in a burnt out basement in midst of war …and that gives me hope 12-27-22
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Carousel pony
“And Merlin said quietly, “Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.” John Steinbeck _____ Dinosaur bones in need of a good story St. George appears, slays dragons, becomes a superhero, patron saint, a pundit for cable news, a priestly knight jousting on a carousel pony never unhorsed, never…
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The last big freeze
New Year’s Day, high overhead behind partly cloudy skies jets rumble. On muddy banks turtles return to sun. Dark shells absorb energy, waken dreams of summer. Unbeguiled by a change in the weather, I mourn the ones that did not make it through the last big freeze and the citizen survivors of another missile attack…
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haiku for the mycelium within
deep within hard ground something desires to be free open up, let it out 5-29-25
My husband's poetry 