Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

day dreaming

reverie broken

memories wet on my cheek   

a dream in a tear

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Thanks to Putting My Feet in the Dirt and to Fandango for two great ideas that worked perfectly together.

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Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

transformation

As part of Fandango’s Flashback Friday, I’m posting this haiku from 2/21/2019 inspired by Sue’s Write Photo challenge (photo below).

Resolute they wait

Imprisoned in time and space

Anticipating

Today, I’m a little less hopeful, thus an updated reflection …

time’s transformation  

quiets anticipation

as it erodes hope

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Link to Original Post entitled Anticipation

Haiku & Other Poetry, History, Random Rants, tutto e niente

like sheep

Like sheep we follow

Ignoring the other’s cries

Till they come for us

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After this past week, I fear (even more than I did before) for the survival of our democracy. When we allow the president to act outside the law, how can we claim to be a nation of laws. When we actively persecute people who are not “appropriately” straight, adequately white, and the “right” kind of Christian, then how can we claim to be exceptional? When we support (or ignore) an administration that consistently places profit over the health and safety of humanity and they very survival of our planet, how can we claim “greatness.”

I fear.

Thanks to  Ronovan Writes for the venue to vent. Our words this week are “sheep” and “weep” for which I substituted ‘cries.’