Pristine Halloween

It is that time, All Hallows Eve,

when minds run free to make believe.

But pause that garb you choose to wear...

may bare blithe soul and no one scare.

{Let this day be gay and fear stay away!}

 

Limerick

Here is to the politico!

Don’t lie for votes, then waste our dough.

We ask that what you do

succors not only you...

or you may get the old ” Heave Ho.”

 

Dalai Lama {Morphed to Zen}

Take into account!

Great love and great achievements

can involve great risks.

Phony History 

Whenever you read history

treat it as if a mystery.

What is written may not be true

and truth is often known to few.

{Just like The Don and Putin lies

they both will truth disguise.}

 P

 

Your Future

You can influence your future

to what you deem tolerable.

But you must know you best not err

if Time must make your life blissful.

 

Remember that many morrows

for all your acts to date

have brought joy or sorrows...

morphed that you now await.

 

You can’t revise your past...

the present is held fast.

If you would affect the future,

help Time make good days last.

 

 

Laws

If laws would make the balance just,

they that leave the boundaries must

   restore more than they have despoiled

and not enriched by breaching trust.

From my book, Rubai

Humor Helps{Rhyming Senryu}

When nits get you down

try this tip, become a clown...

let the humor whelm.

 

Memoirs

When you reflect upon your life,

you may thank God for plaudits stored.

For when tedium brings you strife,

acclaim can bring back sweet accord.

 

Applause can light the darkest days.

For memoirs from your days long past

tend to ease this day’s malaise,

and may ennui to Hades cast.

 

 

Truths Embrace 

If you believe that spirits talk,

then have another drink.

If you believe the dead can walk,

you're dumber than my ex-wife's shrink.

If you believe what red pols say,

you probably would with cobras play.

 

Boredom 

When days are rough and smiles come tough,

best turn off all the ads of pols...

 just hear one lie,  you’ve heard enough,

and ennui bondage starts to grow.

 

Let your mind flee from your TV,

 and ennui’s bondage be set free.

 

A Law Absurd For Those Disturbed

I can’t believe pols pass a law

to help disturbed souls buy a gun.

Then, when our children’s lives are lost,

can’t sense this flaw must be undone.

 

Pol Taint {Rhyming Senryu}

When it’s time to vote,

denier pols should denote

they’re of minute note.

Trump’s Georgia Call

 

The Don’s talk with Raffensperger,

Georgia’s Secretary of State,

tells us how far The Don will go

with use of power to dictate.

 

Trump threatened from his catbird seat...

on his long call he did browbeat.

Some red pols said Trump had that right,

Grand Jury might The Don indict.

 

                                                                        Deception

If fraud now sets the rules aside

and honor's code will not abide,

you must negate an evil state,

and do your best to turn the tide.

 

 

 

Darkness {Senryu} 

That which was perceived...

 best in no way be deceived

by what dusk achieved.

 

 The Poet

The poet has but words for paint. 

With proper tone, he stirs sans taint.

His biggest banes are lines that rein.

His foremost fear he's formed too faint.

From my book, Rubai Gems.

 

Beautiful Sunset

This day may never come again.

Best quickly, in the mind, append.

If Time perchance efface his slate,

the bliss is lost to heedless men. 

From my chapbook, Sunset.

 

When Liars Conspire.

How can Trump and Putin be friends

for they are both noted liars?

How can they know what each portends

when they don’t know if either errs?