A Quiet Place

 

Your mind must find a quiet place

where you can ponder at your pace,

but media and the milieu

cannot your inner peace displace.

 

So many channels on TV

invite you to watch their fare,

but advertisements you will see

will break calm spells and blare.

 

Computers and the telephone

will keep in touch with kith and kin.

Unfortunately, they oft are prone

to talk ‘til blahs set in.

 

So move into your library

with muff to quell all din.

Then read fine prose or poetry,

and you’ll find peace within.

 

Friday Senryu-Sadness

When your heart is sad

reflect on good times you’ve had...

qualms will be unclad.

 

It’s 2022

Red pols still saying what’s untrue...

how can these fools expect our vote

when on Trump’s lie too many dote.

Trump tells his lie repeatedly,

but his facts are really flimsy.

Best let him plod that foolish path,

but join him you’ll feel voters wrath.

 

Janus

(Namesake of January)

 How oft we will like Janus gauge.

        How oft we seem to lose our page.

           In Yore and vague tomorrow,

               wallow in our sorrow,

     when this day’s trials we must assuage.

  

Greet The New Year’s Baby

Let’s greet the babe on New Year’s eve

and pray he’s not like last years child.

The only goals he did achieve

made germs and nature too damned wild.

 

Let’s take this babe and be caring,

Let’s teach him what is right or wrong.

While coddling with our warmth sharing,

pray natures acts won’t get too strong.

 

 

 

Friday’s Senryu {At Day’s End}

Stay, in here and now!

The past is just history...

each day’s end is key.

 

New Year’s Bad Habits Cure

Bad habits that you try to cure

are like life’s changes you endure.

At first you cringe at the mere thought

‘till you find fear will conquer naught.

So solve them, or let them remain,

pray on your soul they’re but a stain.

Time will, with age, bad habits heal...

and shameful habits he’ll conceal.