Of a more solemn nature

Beseeching

Esteemed deities,

Accompanied by a string of these,

Delivers a

Sense of serenity.

As in Dungeness

Sticking a long,

Pointy earthen tongue out

Into open water, the coastline

Takes a slow, refreshing drink.

"Charmed, I'm sure."

Glitzy, glittering galas

Lavish on the eye

An alluring,

Mischievous enchantment – an

Opportune alibi? Escape? The

Unfortunates might see their

Reality as cake?

Honoring Ida Lewis

Brava you!

Ever ready to rescue

A floundering soul;

Congratulations

On being so bold, so bright as

Never to bow to fright.

https://www.google.com/doodles/ida-lewis-175th-birthday

Please note: this wooden boat is totally unrelated to Ida Lewis and her efforts.

Snow day

Blasting cold and snow across the

Land,

Its fury, its

Zing

Zaps

Any living thing in its path.

Remain safe indoors till the

Danger has passed. 

From the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources:

"Mar 14-16, 1870, blizzard struck northern Iowa and SW Minnesota with up to 16 inches of snowfall. First use of the term "blizzard" (from boxing, meaning volley of punches) by the Esterville, IA Vindacator newspaper. The term blizzard was not used by the U.S. Signal Corps Weather Service until 1876."

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/summaries_and_publications/winter_storms.html

Discovery

Exciting maybes of

Xeno-beings

On seven earthlike spheres,

Plying the skies thirty-nine

Light years

Away,

Now provide a brief

Escape from hashtag

Trumpetfear.

Hold one another

Our primal instincts

Belong to tougher times.

Seeing people with

Empathy

Reminds us to

Value every being on

Earth.

Plank

That board

At which one or more might sit,

Breaking bread, writing, reading, is

Like a raft in this game of life,

Especially when the rules are misleading.

Divided, we ALL fall

Take an

Open stance;

Gather, in an

Effort to work

Towards a

Harmonious

End, excluding no one.

Risk the relationship.

Bleached reefs

Colorful, sea-bound coelenterates

Organize and try to

Regenerate themselves

As best they can, despite huge

Lapses in reasoning of man.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160321-coral-bleaching-great-barrier-reef-climate-change/

https://phys.org/news/2016-12-great-barrier-reef-dying-australia.html

Moral...

Circles of mindfulness

Overlap around the world,

Meditating and measuring the

Pace of days, the pearls of wisdom the

Ancients purveyed:

Share unconditionally,

Showing equanimity.

Another take on calm

Censure the

Amygdala’s reptilian sway and
Let the rest of your

Mind save the day.

                                                

I wrote and posted a different acrostic on the word ‘calm’ on March 25, 2016. In this time of upheaval, it’s good to recognize what is at work in our brains as we react to the new administration’s corrupt games.

“A Day Without Immigrants”

Publicly

Resisting his

Odious policies,

The workers all

Exit in

Solidarity.

This IS a country of immigrants!

http://www.startribune.com/day-without-immigrants-protest-has-many-twin-cities-businesses-closing-on-thursday/413875823/

Gag

Falling back on Rule 19, the so-called

Leader claimed that Warren,

In her quoting King, his good buddy would

Maim. How weak can this

Senate be to play such blatant games?

Yes, indeed, these good old boys are lame! 

http://fortune.com/2017/02/08/elizabeth-warren-jeff-sessions-senate/

Beware the arrow

Crafty little

Usurper of hearts, you

Ping your darts of fire,

Inciting all kinds of

Desire.

It's all relative

You say “so be it!” as a positive

Expression, though, to what it refers could cause

Some depression.

Welcome, ‘ge’ (pronounced like ‘Gee, why didn’t we think of this before?’)

Gender neutrality succeeds!

Enter the new pronoun ‘ge.’

A particular English pronoun promotes inequality. Throughout history, the pronoun ‘he’ has been the go-to reference following nouns such as leader, student, teacher, etc. Many writers and speakers avoid the cumbersome ‘he or she’ (and yes, usually in that order) and replace it with ‘they.’ Grammarians cringe at that switch to the plural. I propose we add the pronoun ‘ge,’ thus offering gender neutrality in the English language. To show even more fairness, when it’s the object of a verb, it is ‘gim’ (as jim) and its possessive form is ‘ger' (jer).

Thank you for inspiring me to think more deeply about this, Rose A.

Standing together

Safe

And assured, only

Now

Could

They

Unite with family,

Aided by

Rational, caring people like

You and me.

http://www.themedcitybeat.com/opinion/2017/rochester-minnesota-sanctuary-city

Fearmonger

Because of the command of

A so-called chief, this

Nation is suffering serious grief.

From weary to woe

All is

Lost

And at

Such a cost.

I was reading Leo Lionni’s Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse with a student. We came across the word ‘alas’ and I wondered about its etymology. 

Circle of life

We take for granted this

Handy machine with its

Ever ready axle, the two

Enabling all kinds of work;

Let us be humbly thankful.

All-embracing

Early philosophers

Chose

Little gems of doctrine from

Every system, assembling a

Compendium of diverse

Thought – their conclusion: Variety

Is the spice of life,

Centering on inclusion.

Thank you for this word, Amanda S., and Happy Birthday!

Wintry mix

Granular pellets of snow, little balls of

Rime,

Accreted crystals

Unidentifiable with time – this kind of

Precipitation

Exacerbates conditions at

Low and high elevations.

Foil

Timely opposition to

His highness’s lowdown

Ways is blowing into

A

Raging twister of legality and emotion

These days.

It's true

Broadly grown throughout the world, this

Ever loved source of protein is

A venerable

Nutrient, with spices swirled, that helps

Sustain our well-being.

I just finished reading Jennifer L. Holm’s excellent historical fiction Full of Beans. Ten-year old Beans shares the effects on his life of the Depression and the New Deal era restoration of Key West. These are desperate times, especially in his town. It got me thinking about community spirit and the elements that bring people together. Thank you, Beans, for your inspiration.

Itchin' for a fight

Because he believes

Effectiveness is achieved by

Letting go of all reason, by

Leaping into a fight, he’s

Indeed a great leader, a real

Crowd pleaser; they’re proud

Of his courage and might. He’ll

Start a war without a thought; consider

Each cause his power has bought.

Six more weeks

February’s the month when

Out of his hole comes a wise old

Rodent named Phil.

Everyone

Claps

As though he can

Say whether winter will be with us still.

Thus he predicts six more weeks of chill.

POV

Hear the tale, keeping

In mind the teller.

See the evidence

To discern the facts.

Open your mind to

Reckon the whole of

Yesteryear’s rose-colored wax.