Daily Musings
Thoughts and Ponderings
Poems and Other Things

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

(1.) SERPENTS

Show clear proof of our unswerving resolve,
Even if such stratagem would involve
Revealing our decades-long alliance,
Preparing with aliens' help and guidance...
Endure no more our enemies' deceits,
Nullify global caliphate conceits.
These fork-tongued serpents scheme to spread their hate...
Stop them with ET's BLAZE ere it's too late!

Sunday, April 27, 2014

LET US BE

Loose us from myriad rules and exactions,
Enable us to find innovations
That will be of good use to all mankind.
Untie us from intrusive forms that bind
So many hands to unproductive slouch...
Bureaucracy will snooze in its soft couch;
End times impend for all, that I can vouch!

Saturday, April 26, 2014

IMMORTAL

It is you, Homo Sap, whom God created immortal.
Maybe you fear that your body's meltdown will be total;
Maybe you believe inevitable Death is final?
Oh, no! You are in essence living spirit energy!
Rise, if you fall, for you can still soar to your Apogee--
To your soul's Compassionate and Almighty Creator...
And if you're reborn due to your past offense or error,
Let your soul be tempered, let your failure be your tutor.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

SPREAD THE WORD

Stop coddling the so-called poor; Let us not be naïve.
Please don't let fakers wallow in welfare EBTs;
Restrain abuse and incentivize INITIATIVE.
Expose fraud in welfare grants, unmask the sly grantees.
Allow us to rise by our bootstraps and pursue our dreams.
Death by hunger or by extreme impoverishment
Today in this nation is rare:- No want but more schemes!
Here, I think poverty is a form of punishment,
Either due to present sloth or karmic consequence:-
We may have been in previous lives self-centered wastrels,
Or misers who believed Charity a grave offense;
Regardless of the reason, grave doubt in my mind dwells;
Did you know low-wage slaves have much less than welfare swells?

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

TWISTED

Tennesee Williams' Glass Menagerie
Was in fact to him a catastrophe.
It seems his play's success made him wealthy;
So sudden, his luxe life was unhealthy
To his art, inspired by adversity...
Endure then, Skep, periodic poverty;
Don't complain if your wallet is empty.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

An Acrostic On Fenny's Passing

"Farewell to Fenny" does not sound all right,
Especially since to Heav'n is her flight.
No tears, she's bound for the Eternal Light!
Nonoy and family may for a while
Yield to secret sorrow which is our style....

Manjares and Calica clans recall
A Fenny who was friend to one and all;
Now she must heed God's call for departure.
Just visualize her in holy rapture
As she enters the Savior's realm divine.
Regret not Fenny's passing; She'll be fine;
Exult and sing to her 'For Auld Lang Syne'...
She joins good souls who will forever shine!

(From the Peralta Family)

Sunday, April 20, 2014

REBIRTH

Rebirth - our souls may have to undergo,
Even if we dislike the cyclic flow,
Because we do have much, much more to learn...
I am afraid I strayed; I must return
Right back to homo sapiens' testing ground.
Temptations here on Planet Earth abound!
Help me, O Lord, to reach You safe and sound...

Saturday, April 19, 2014

EASTER MORNING

Easter morn does not ipso facto make you a winner.
Awed, perhaps, by yesterday's prayerful recollections?
Satan still will tempt and you still can become a sinner;
The Passion Drama should amplify your expectations:-
Every person, indeed, is guaranteed eternal life:-
Renascent soul with God--or sent back to this world of strife.

Man, you can't cling to one corporeal body forever;
Out of your too, too solid flesh, your spirit will be judged.
Rue is your reward if your worldly chains you can't sever...
Never lose sight of God's Lodge, lest from here you can't be budged.
Inevitable physical death is like Easter morn;
No cause for your weary self to have fear or be forlorn,
God has shown thru Jesus Christ that you too will be reborn!

MNEMONIC

My mem'ry sometimes falters,
Not that it really matters
Except when I misplace keys...
My spiral, I fear, can't cease.
Oh, but I recall the pitch;
Now, they say it had a glitch:--
I still can choose my doctor?
Care to applaud such candor?

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

COUPLETS

Could you believe that that beautiful thing
Once was a fat worm that kept on eating--
Ugly-looking fragile caterpillar
Prickly-haired, greenish-bodied avatar...
Like word strands of twin lines without logic,
Expertly cocooned, they can like magic
Turn into butterflies with wings that rhyme,
So they may fly to some lovelier clime....

SPOOFS

Since J. Carney became the White House spokesperson,
Pathetic excuses became his escutcheon,
Outperforming puppets in Washington, D.C.,
Oblivious to the sneers of viewers who could see
Fair from foul, pure fiction and blatant falsity...
So long Transparency; Hello Expediency!

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

WHO IS THE BOSS

Why cause that rancher so much loss?
How endangered is that tortoise?
Our question is - Who is the boss?
Is BLM the agency?
Surely not ordered from D.C.!
That tense confrontation reveals
How a fair-minded rancher feels
Encircled by fierce armed servants--
By PUBLIC SERVANTS, not savants.
One Fox News photographer knows,
Since he stopped two groups come to blows...
Sirs, WE THE PEOPLE ARE YOUR BOSS!

Monday, April 14, 2014

ONE DOLLAR

Our debt in excess of USDollars 17 Trillion
Now produces a ONE DOLLAR PER SECOND OBLIGATION!
Economists say there is no way Uncle Sam could repay,
Despite new taxes; The final reckoning he can't delay.
Our US Dollar will be devalued soon drastically;
Large chunks of wireless money transfers may be made hastily;
Low cost of living places may benefit magically...
As always, the multimillionaires and billionaires won't care;
Red wine, caviar, filet mignon as usual will be served--rare....

Friday, April 11, 2014

DARE TO DEFY

Dare to defy that Jabberwock.
Act dumb and deaf to his big talk;
Rage silently, endure his lies,
Exposed at last, no one relies
Today on our silver-tongued Chief.
Our hopes were crushed by his mischief...
Does he know the number who paid?
'Enrollment' signifies Success?
Fie upon it, Sir! Go ahead--
You're the expert on cockiness.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

DUBAI

Do they not see the utter folly of it all?
Unwittingly defaced, a place once spiritual,
By pandering to Pelf, they shock the humble soul...
A desert vast will surely ultimately claim
Its own--Castles to sand; After all, they're the same!

SCARECROWS

Sweet, Swift Justice, where have you flown?
Cast off, kicked out to parts unknown?
A law flouter becomes bolder,
Rules by Executive Order,
Exempts favored High and Mighty,
Creates more Inequality!
Restraints ignored, more flaws will grow;
Our fear is that loopholes in Law
Will make it a useless scarecrow.
"Sed lex, dura lex!" He should know...

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

HEDONISM

Hedonism seems to be the focus of most spring breakers;
Elders must caution these youngsters lest they become lawbreakers:-
"Dance with joy and drink some wine, but beware of Dionysus;
"Orgiastic feasts can turn celebrants mad, e'en unconscious!
"Never lose control nor lose sight of rational behavior.
"Internet voyeurs' pictures can last far into the future...
"Someday your granddaughter may want to see your spring break actions.
"May you have nothing egregious to hide, just mild infractions...."

Monday, April 7, 2014

CYCLES

Control your rage; do not the Fates annoy.
Your miseries will be short-lived, old boy...
Consider all your failures cyclic events;
Loss, gain, life, death; Everything reinvents.
Extreme poverty is Good Fortune's ploy;
Sorrow is but the harbinger of Joy!

Sunday, April 6, 2014

TODAY WE ARE ONE

To God, there is but one human species;
Our sub-typing creates prejudices.
Divisions based on race or religion
Are arrows causing wounds that are legion.
You are neither a 'Gentile' nor 'the Chosen'.
We all are Humanity's modern men--
Enlightened a bit by scientific
Advances, by our Reason and Logic:-
Reality in unseen cubicles
Exists as subatomic particles;
One man has trillions of quarks and muons--
Non-localized 'clay' that the "Potter" owns,
Ever linked to neighbors whom he disowns.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

DISCOVERY

Don't scoff at disbelieving atheists;
I see all men as potential deists.
Someday I hope you will know what I mean...
Cosmologists concede forces unseen,
Our world, ourselves are not just physical.
Viewed with Science some things are magical,
Every quark of your body emerges
Right there-EVERYWHERE, seemingly verges,
You'll discover, on the realm SPIRITUAL...!