Social Commentary
Consider What If
If
Each and
Every
One of us
Just
Refused to
Hate
Together
We’d transform
The world
Into
A better place
One
Where love and
Tolerance
Closely interlaced
In
Countering our
Ignoble side
The stronger case
Would make
Ragtag Daily Prompt – What If
In A Nutshell #62
Respect for
You
Respect for
MeFor all things
Living
Land to
SeaIntegrity
To
Do what’s
RightThrough
Life’s travails
Day and
NightA
Healthy dose
Of
ResponsibilityTempered
By
A dash of
LevityCompassion
And kindness
To light the
WayIf in
Our hearts
Forever
StayA basic
Tonic
Fits the
BillAmeliorating
Many of
Our
IllsWord of the Day: Respect
Death By Convenience
Living
In a
Plastic
World
Tons of
It
In circles
Swirls
Around fins
And
Tails it
Curls
Corpses
In death nets
Do
Whirl
One Word Sunday: Plastic
In A Nutshell #58
Nothing
Was the least
They could
DoA proven policy
Through
And
ThroughDenial and
Complacency
Together
GrewBipartisan agreement
Without
Me and
YouPlacing
All living things
In the balance
TooNothing
Was the least
They could
DoRagtag Daily Prompt – Nothing
In A Nutshell #57
With so many
Living in
The State of DenialConcerning
Climate changeThose inhabiting
The Realm of RealityUnwittingly
May go downTethered to
The Ship of FoolsRagtag Daily Prompt – Incompetent
Stuck In A No Parking Zone
Never been
On Easy
Street
Eke existence
Week to
Week
Leaning
Up against this
Wall
Wishing to again
Stand
Tall
Spirit broken
Resolve
Weak
Nourished solely
By
Defeat
Bedraggled, dirty
Down on
Luck
Needs eclipse a
Few spare
Bucks
Eyes diverted
From my
Gaze
Locked up
In this purple
Haze
Rejected disciple of
The
Whole
Relegated
To Black
Hole
The secrets lie there
Within
Reach
Perhaps today I’ll
Find my
Feet
Thanks go out to buddy71 who graciously agreed to allow me to
write a piece in response to this image he shot in San Francisco.
Please view his original post HERE.
Polar Vortex
Innocents in wonder gaze
Polar bear in glass enslaved
Ponders was he really saved
Sonya’s Three Line Tales: Week 173
Burned By Indifference
Sun
looked on
With
Unsympathetic
Eyes
Mankind
Stood idly
In anguished
Cries
Earth
A fiery
Cauldron
Boiled
Too few for
Peace
Had seriously
Toiled
Kira’s Sunday Scribbles
In A Nutshell #50
The thief
It
Stalks us
Day by
Day
Primetime
Detritus
At our feet
It
LaysThe thief
It
Stalks us
Day by
Day
Tales of
Destruction
Death and
DecayThe thief
It
Stalks us
Day by
Day
Heart wrenching
Violence
And
Dishonesty
DismayThe thief
It
Stalks us
Day by
Day
Our
Peace
Of mind
Chiseled
AwayRagtag Daily Prompt – Thief