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Saturday, April 30, 2016

cul-de-sac (2016 April PAD - Day 30)


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cul-de-sac
  
 
sometimes
a dead end
is just a good place
to turn
around

PSC / 2016

 Penned for Day 30 (the FINAL day) of Robert Lee Brewer's April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge.   
Assignment: a dead end poem 
 For more, check out his site at:  2016-april-pad-challenge-day-30

 
 
 
 

Friday, April 29, 2016

The Children (2016 April PAD - Day 29)

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The Children



They were raised             in a                                                                         totally
                haphazard fashion –
a most amazingly
random                                               
                                                                                                manner;

their education wholly un-
premeditated

a happy-go-lucky happenstance 

and yet, it served them
well.

They grew up
to become
the most wonderful
well-rounded, open
(-minded, -handed, -hearted)
people
anyone
could ever
hope to
know / love / be / clone

and
anybody
would be proud
to call
their own.

PSC/2016



Penned for Day 29 of Robert Lee Brewer's April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge.  
Assignment: a haphazard poem


 For more, check out his site at:  2016-april-pad-challenge-day-29
 

Important Not (2016 April PAD - Day 28)




Important Not

There’s too much trash talk going round
over wires, underground,
on the airwaves, cell, TV –
none of this feels right to me.

(Seems everyone’s embroiled
in someone else’s coil.)

Everything is so fast-paced –
cut and pasted –
and in our haste
(to spread the word)
the meaning’s lost,
the message wasted.

I think, he thinks, she thinks.
Far too many of these thinks
are totally ungrounded:
fabricated factoids,  information tangled
just to manufacture fear
while trust is wholly mangled.

It’s so easy to get snared
inside the drama of the day
the games that people play
the he said, she said,
I heard they said
hearsay.

Sometimes, peace of mind requires
you jettison technology
rely on your own biology
to avoid all further ravage.

Guts and gray matter’s all you need.
The rest is extraneous baggage.

PSC / 2016

Penned for Day 28 of Robert Lee Brewer's April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge. 

Assignment: "Important (blank)"
 For more, check out his site at:  2016-april-pad-challenge-day-28