Plants

Every

Tactical decree sends minds deeper

Into the darkness

Of fear and not knowing;

Lacking light, they

Assume supremacy,

Turning white,

Efficiently

Doomed to blindness.

Designer

Craziness runs all

Helter-skelter

Amidst an insidious, well-

Oiled agenda: distraction

Satisfaction.

We stand

Reason

Encourages us to

Stand firm against what our

Instincts as criminal confirms: their

Self-absorbed, sinister, ruinous plans

To make this country once again grand.

The Year of the Cock

Chaos follows in his wake; he’s

Out strutting his bill in the air.

Clever are those who will outfox him.

Know this: they’re everywhere.

What's at stake

When bordering on

Aggression this way, his

Lies will

Likely make us all pay.

Blather

Tangling his agenda

With non-facts

And tripe, he

Dances

Deception on this

Land’s Stars and Stripes.

Enough with his foolish, unfounded gripes!

Common

Coughing and/

Or blowing a nose all day

Leaves one’s head in

Disarray.

Muck

Gunk, slime, sludge – or by any

Other name – still

Oozes thickly, slickly whence it came.

Another randomly suggested word. Thanks, G. 

Welcome to the Stellar 60s!

Clapping our

Hands with

Energy, we

Extend congratulations; we

Raise a glass to her

Sixty years. Dear friend, our salutations!

Happy Birthday, Shelly S.

Voices continue

One day gone and

Ninety-nine to go,

We’ll keep

Answering their reversals with a

Resounding NO!,

Determined NOT to lay low.

Sisters march

We shall

Overcome, united in this

March, the powers

Engendering fear and hate, and

Negating our integral part.

The bird entrails speak unfavorably

Unfortunately this

Newly elected head is not

Accepting what’s being said by

Untold numbers, even among the

GOP – he is that

Unfit for the presidency. His high

Regard for lies

And distraction generates chaos,

To his great satisfaction.

It is his goal to undo all

Of the good for which this

Nation, indivisible, has stood.

Rounded outlook

Alas, if

We pay

Attention,

Regarding

Everyone and everything, we will

Not so readily

Experience

Self-absorbed

Singleness of purpose.

Trumpeteers

Can such

A group of men

Be truly

In touch with their

Nation’s health,

Especially considering

Their personal wealth?

Way above the boiling point

Gushing high and hot from the

Earth, Old Faithful in

Yellowstone has quite a girth.

Strokkur in Iceland now

Erupts frequently;

Recently unblocked it

Spurts magnificently.

An early 20^th century earthquake had blocked Strokkur’s conduit. In the 1960’s this blockage was cleared. Strokkur now erupts regularly.

Just

Every citizen must

Question WHY in these

United States many

Are still persecuted;

Lies only perpetuate

Indignity, fear, and hate.
The truth is,

You and I together must decide our country’s fate.

When we don’t see the whole picture, we cannot possibly understand what is really going on. We’re focused on our own reality. We’re directed by what we have learned, without questioning it. We trust others’ views; we trust them to make decisions for us. If we want to consider ourselves just and honorable people, we must question.

Artful play or playful art?

Palette covered with

An array of hues

Is playing with paintbrush, and the best of

News is that

They’re getting along with the artist’s muse.

Thank you, Eric Anderson!

Or oxymoron?

Puzzling over the antonymous

Aspects of campaign

Rhetoric,

A punctual

Doctor told a colleague

Of the

Xenophobic pricks. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umlBrQoG6xk


  

The point is...

Printed lines can be

Erased, but this was

Not always so; it was actually a paintbrush

Centuries ago. Back then, the ‘little tail,’

I read, referred not to graphite or to

Lead, but rather to something all men know.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12350/dirty-etymology-9-everyday-words

Inner struggle

Pretending to

Render happy

Our lives, we

Strive, but then are

Perplexed when

Even the best things

Reduce us to tears.

Yes, we can!

For

All these eight years, this

Renowned leader, this

Emotionally, socially intelligent president

Was authentically here for

Everyone.

Let us honor his

Legacy. 

THANK YOU, President Obama!

Single-minded

Nuts, for example, over

Electronics and diodes, he

Rambled on

Down alternating one-way roads.

Wellness

Hale and whole is

Everybody’s want,

A daily aspiration for a

Life in response

To good decisions and

Hardy determination.

In good taste

Referring to an

Eclectic mix of flavors

Left behind, this condiment

Is a complement, as a

Savory

Hiccup or belch will remind.

Appreciation

Sublime flavor

Attracts the favor of

Various foodie types;

Or maybe it is just a case of a

Rise in media hype?

Thorny issues

Covered with

A spiny hide, these

Courageous plants

Take the desert

In stride.

Path

Trekking through the

Rugged woods,

A hiker dragged her

Imagination and only once completely

Lost track of her location.

Prepositioned

Forward to a place in

Reference to a source, it

Originally meant 'away'

Movement on a given course.

Ancient cold

Nose to the rising sun,

One then looks left and

Right there on

The hoary

Horizon the very air is cleft.

"...one with the Force..."

Resisting inaction, some

Of the Rebels

Go to Scarif,

United in hope, to undermine the

Empire’s Death Star.

Couldn’t resist playing with this word today after seeing the movie.

Happy New

Yay for new pages of

Ever-changing days,

A chance for greater

Rationality to play.

And entertain rationality we must. As of January 28^th, this will be the Year of the Cock. Too ironic!