Two Mondo’s Contemplating Winter

Perpetual Soirée

Winter of masking

care and stress everywhere

When will better days arrive?

~

This bitter distress

Masquerading as winter

May caper long into spring

and

Winter Bloom

Alabaster fields

Feel desolate as deserts

And yet, they harbor hope

~

A lone flower stands

One bright spot against the pale

Perhaps a brave garden’s start?

A collaboration between Kristen @rhode-reads on Instagram and Andy @agarrabrant on Instagram.

Spread Wide

Pathos was the last

emotion I expected.

Furious disgust

seems much more appropriate,

considering the offense.

To jeopardize everyone

with no justification

screams of a sad hollowness.

Snow Day Exodus

Exodus Chapter 2 Verse 1-5

1. And lo, ye shall encounter many more obstacles
   
2. And try as thee might, the locust wood shall not succumb to thy saw.
3. Thou heavest mightily against the bough and yet it remaineth obdurate and immobile before thine efforts
   
4. And yet, brother, despair not, for thou hast a dutiful village
5. And the Lord hath endowed them with the power of the mighty Kubota.

Foreknowing Foreboding

How’s the holiday

he asked, if somehow dreading

a frank and honest answer.

~

It’s been quiet now

awhile as we gather

our breath for the next outrage.

Holiday Escape

Dashing through the woods

and across the bay we go,

going far from Grandma’s house

for a Christmas get-a-way!

Worst What Ifs

How could I move on

Past the anger- the fury

Most certainly to eclipse

All the love we hold

From this, long, life together

Lost to your intransigence?

And what of your son

needlessly deprived of you

When he needs a family most?

All he has is me,

A hollow and hobbled shell

Hardly able to hold him.

Tacitus In Verse

All Those Lonely People

Everybody stars

in somebody’s fantasies

but they’ll likely never know

unless somebody tells them.

UN-AMERICAN? EXCUSE ME?

Though we disagree

About this country’s problems

And about the solutions

We both remain patriots!

Homo Hedera Helix

There’s one rakish attribute

Those Ivy Leaguers share

With the floral hallowers

Of their ancient, sacred halls…

They’re both invasive species.

Always The Way

Insistent demands

Seem to be

The currency

Changing hands

This Father’s Day.

Full Measures

Can any yardstick

Take the measure of a man

Without finding shortcomings?

~

Must those whom we laude

Be unblemished specimens?

Can’t we see them, worts and all?

The Trouble With Time Travel

It’s funny how a sudden smell

Carries us cross time and space

To a person and a place

Grateful we’ve not forgotten.

~

Sadly, though, it’s also true

That same scent can carry you

To a place that’s best forgot

Sparking ancient pain as well.

Florida Man…

A fat, bald, white guy

sporting third degree sunburn,

Speedos, and Ray-bans

and driving his Jag:

Donald Trump for President

twenty twenty four.