Wake up
Never too late
Find the joy
Participate
Life’s important
Not about you
But rather about
What you do
Dreams are safe
Not all bad
A wasted life
Now that is sad
So take the steps
One by one
Goals are reached
You have won
Stanski
January 7, 2020 ^
How many billion dollars
Over one and one-half
Plus the wooden pallets
Given to Iran
This was the foreign policy
Bribery for containment
This was the old regime
Making big decisions
Like drawing lines in the sand
The sycophants hailed this as genius
Then the game was over
An outsider came to town
Put an end to many dreams
Iran was not fooling many
Did not live up to agreements
Soleimani was in Baghdad
With plans to do damage
To American interests and
Take the lives of many soldiers
He had been confined to Iran
For several previous years
He had been responsible for
About a fifth of American deaths
In the country of Iraq
The President had him taken out
In a clean, precise strike and
Also got the second in command
Putting an end to an
Evil terrorist and gave a severe
Blow to the country of Iran
There has been restraint
Patience has been evident
No war is desired
But evil is evil and must
Be eradicated
If we cannot do this then
We should withdraw
From everywhere
The Bush Doctrine is dead
The Obama Doctrine is dead
The left is upset
Critics were appalled
How many body bags
Did they desire?
Theirs was the false choice
The right move was made
The left is worried
What about endless wars
The left is contentious
There has been caution
The right thing was being done
Quietly and efficiently
There was no hilarity
As when Osama was taken out
Or when Kaddafi was killed
No ho, ho, ho it is over
Nothing but seriousness
The world is not safe
But it is a safer place
With Soleimani in hell
Stanski
January 7, 2020 ^
I don’t know
what a dream is about
something mundane
possibly peaceful or
something causing a shout
Many possibilities
like black cats flying
or dogs on unicycles
maybe bored women
walking around sighing
Stay awake
try to think
moving forward
dare not blink
Is action better
than sleep-time dreams
Why do deer freeze
in auto light-beams
Their lack of action
can bring sure death
Our lack of action
may cause wrath
People will wait
give you a chance
Dreams or reality
You choose
It is your dance
Stanski
January 7, 2019 ^
The greeting card came
After the Christmas rush
I did not recognize the name
I opened and was given
The identity of the sender
It was the daughter of friends
I had be trying to track them
But had failed to do so
I sensed something was wrong
Quite a few months had passed
Since my last effort and as happens
They slipped my mind
She sent her greetings and
Then the sad information that
Her dad had died over a year ago
Her mom passed away in December
Of this year. They had been my
Late son’s God parents
I had bought my business from him
In 1963 when I was a young man
They moved to the East Coast area
He was in the Drug Detailing business
We kept in touch over the years, but
Not as often as when they were still local
I wrote a letter to Beth, the daughter
Covered all of the things I could think of
It was generous and thoughtful
They were a big part of our lives,
My brides and my own when we
Were young neophytes in business
You get used to not seeing folks as
Time has its way, but when I read her
Note the only thing I could do was cry
Stanski
January 6, 2020 ^
NO LAUGHING MATTER
150 Billion dollars. Given to Iran
Was this a bribe or simply a payoff
Maybe we needed a way
To dispose of pallets
Who screamed at this?
Nobody out loud because
Political Correctness
Was still in vogue
Osama Bin Laden killed
In his tent, just for watching
A few old movie tapes
Harmless and the
Commander in Chief Obama
Hailed as a hero
A serial terrorist named Soleimani
Planning an imminent combat
Operation against U.S. Forces
Is sent flying to hell along with
His second in command by a
Special operations drone and
The radical left goes nuts
If no action had been taken
With the information known
These radical liberals would
Have been fighting for the
Microphone to scorn the
Inadequacies of our President
The Fake News have had their
Field day and with no action
Would have had another
They like their cake and
eating it, too
Now the big payoff is void
All promises voided
Pallets will be burned
Along with our flag
Behind the scenes and
All the bluster many
Iranians are happy
A step closer to their freedom
It is no laughing matter
Stanski
January 6, 2020 ^
Steve Haarman 