With the palest pink
these summer Myrtle showers
litter my sidewalk
Author: agarrabrant
Haiku 21 Jun 2022
One golden hour
transforms endless grey days
to a silver sheen
Buffaloed
Here we go again:
one more white supremacist,
hopped up on Tucker Carlson,
popping off in nurtured rage!
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The price of fatigue
and indifference must be paid!
Shall we sacrifice the weak?
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When booms turn to dust
Those who are the least exposed
Are also those best prepared.
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Why am I dreaming
about the damned DMV?
Nobody needs night terrors!
Listen Up!
When the onus
on a penis
is no less
relentless
than the stigma
on a vagina,
men may have the option
to discuss abortion
but drafting legislation
to govern procreation
must remain the mandate
of those who have to gestate!
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
They cry, “Liberty!”,
but as far as I can tell,
the only freedom
they respect is the freedom
to tell her what she can’t do.
Knots
All thorny Gordian knots
begin as minor tangles,
inconvenient, nothing more,
until some damned blind fool
decides that he, and he alone,
can somehow see the right of it
and thus begins to pull,
with all his sanctimony
and self-righteous might,
upon some random thread,
all the while oblivious
of the end result!
The harder that he pulls,
the tighter that new knot becomes.
Until, in the end,
the knot becomes so tight,
It will likely take
decades of concerted work
from many patient, caring souls
to undo the damage
wrought in but a moment
of unthinking haste
or uncaring arrogance.
“Who Is”
Andy
Garrabrant
Descendant
handy
Brandy
fondant
Decadent
candy
Shandy
inebriant
Garrabrant
Andy
Beyond Genes
One Poinsettia
succumbs to their base neglect,
while its sibling flourishes
in the same environment.
As with children too, it seems,
in some there is resilience.
A Melancholy Spring
Songbirds bring no joy
for all their urgent chirping.
Leaves collect, unraked,
along poolside patio.
Grass leaps joyously
skyward, mower still garaged.
Winter deadfall lays
untended about, unburned.
Daffodils came; went
unseen and unphotographed.
Irises glow now
in varicolored splendor
yet scarcely noticed,
in passing, by a weary
soul, slowly, recovering.
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Sausages parade
March in orderly arrays
Straight into the mouth of war
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As the light mist shifts,
Relief carving slowly morphs;
Raging Bear: Regal Lion.
Aroil in Pain 