Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Laureate-Tree of Life

Tree of Life

If base roots are both deep and firm,
and feeder roots with milieu blend,
ill winds can but assail what’s frail...
the rest have all they need to fend.


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Saturday, April 25, 2015

The Laureate-Malfeasance (taxes)

Malfeasance
(VA and Lottery monies, et al)

It seems to often recently
politicians and their aides
use tax, Gov. bonds improperly...
malfeasance now parades.
To use our tax for perks,
or pleasure trips abroad,
turns pols to perps, and candidly,
they should be jailed for fraud,


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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

The Laureate-Earth Day


Global Warming
 (Care Not who’s Ox Is Gored.)
From iceberg’s thaw to ethanol
our pundits offer keys.
They claim they know the where-with-all
to salve our fears and needs.
Yet, seldom few seem to imbue
the logic we now need…
when any fool with minuscule
gray matter has agreed
it does not matter who’s at fault
when crises tend to rise.
It matters only that we halt
what makes our boat capsize.
It’s time that we ameliorate
the problems that we face…
make known to all, “Our plight’s too great…
Nature has long pled Her case.”


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Thursday, April 16, 2015

The Laureate-Endangered Species

When species are endangered,
what good are local bans?
Rather than save a bird, or plant,
we should make august plans.
If we consider honestly
why wild creatures die,
in every case, we all embrace
more than our share from Nature’s pie.
We’re now the tyrants of our orb,
and like despots never sated.
Unless we learn to share with all,
Man’s end anon is fated.
(we are now one)



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Monday, April 13, 2015

The Laureate-ISIS

What is your fame? What will most see?
What will you leave your progeny?
You kill and maim, trash history...
soon like the czars, leave naught but pee.




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Saturday, April 11, 2015

The Laureate-To Tend Our Gates

We fight in Afghanistan...
though hard to tell the friend from foe.
We pressure ISIS and Iran
because of where their tactics flow.
Yet, these terrors cross the globe
while perps our borders overflow. 
Better that we tend our gates...
not combat all that enervates.


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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

The Laureate-The Boston Bomber

Tsarnaev blames his brother,
says he was then a naive teen.
For me he need not bother...
because no cause can wash gore clean.



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Monday, April 6, 2015

The Laureate-AZ Laws

(Home Builders’ Protection)

Where in the Republic of Plato
did pols conceive laws using Play-Doh?
The clay may be used to create...
but minds of our pols are fallow.



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Thursday, April 2, 2015

The Laureate-The Bear Market

Again the Bears are at their play.
The Market dithers at their say.
‘Tis best the rest avoid their toy,
and pray the perps soon Piper pay.


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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

The Laureate-April Fools

April First…a day for play,
when fertile minds with humor stray
and those who fail in mental duels
are mockingly called “April Fools.”


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