Steve Haarman

Let us all wake up

Delve into spirituality

What make you feel good?

Being envious of others or

Looking into opportunity?

Helping and encouraging others

Put a cap on our ego

Remain respectful of others

Participate in good causes

No gloating at other’s misfortune

Accept reality for what it is

Attempt to make changes if necessary

Consider us all brothers and sisters

Realize that there is The Great Judge

The creator Who gave us free will

Do not consider walking away from Him

Remember His commandment

To Love Him above all things

And love our neighbor as ourselves

This is my credo

We should all wake up

Come alive and do good

The world needs people

Who can see the big picture

Stanski

March 12, 2021 ^

I wonder all the time

What those with the power

Are doing to our country

Everything was in flower

Many jobs available

Companies returning to the USA

Taxes lowered across the board

Plenty of time for play

Then the Chinese Wuhan Virus

Blamed on then President Trump

Bad policies by Comrade Napoleon Fauci

Actions like those of a sailor who is drunk

Wear a mask, if it makes you feel good

No need to even wear a mask

Then wear two masks said he

What was the thinking?  Was that his task?

The lock downs causing misery

Governors ruling by fiat

All to break resident Trump’s success

Then of course the peaceful riots

Now we have a new occupant

Who served 47 years doing nothing much

Then in 47 dismal days

Signed executive orders; as though out of touch

Why are those in power

Doing so much to destroy us?

If they could only see the light

But instead seek a country that is Marxist 

Stanski
March 11, 2021 ^

It is sad to watch
Our country falter
Spending trillions of dollars
Which we do not have
To cover the cost 
Of past neglect by
The legislatures and
Governors of various States
Unfunded promises and
Mandates closing and
Bankrupting businesses
For many other there
Is little hope that they
Can return to normal
It was sad to watch
The peaceful protests
And in the process
Injure or kill innocent 
People along with the
Looting, setting fire to
And outright destruction
Of buildings, especially
Those of minorities who
Were just getting their
Feet on the ground 
Sad to watch our borders
Open to hundreds of thousands
Of people who have left
Their own country in hopes
Of a free lunch, home, 
Health care and schooling
We cannot have a country 
Without borders or fair elections
Without voter Identification
Or pace with the debt, no matter
How much we tax our people
We are the sheep being led by the wolf
I pray for enlightenment for myself
And all of our leaders

Stanski
March 10, 2021 ^

My call is received 
Auto-answer
All of the operators are busy
If I know the number of
The person I am dialing
I can hang up and dial it
Or else hang on and
They will be right there
I am waiting patiently
It has only been ten minutes
Not bad for a large company
I listen to the music and
Am just getting into it when
The recorded voice interrupts
With the same message
How long can this go on?
I used to know the owner
But that was twenty years ago
I was not important then
And am sure that category remains
So, I will not mention the fact
When a real person answers
I need some information
The cost of some of their furniture
Which I purchased in 2011, 2012, or 2013
Just in case I wish to sell it, if
I were lucky enough to find 
Someone who would wish
To purchase it from me
It is like new in condition and
Has served me well over the years
But now it is not vital that I have it
Well its over twenty minutes now
I just received a call on my land line
My daughter from California wants
To tell me about her new job
We go on for over a half-hour
Now it is fifty minutes and 
After their closing hour, but 
The auto-voice keeps right on going
I hang up that line and then the other
The stress slowly leaves my body

Stanski
March 9, 2021 ^

I see the fence along the dune holding back
Or holding in; a personality all its own
Wonder is my only word; beauty there:  
Behind, before, above and forever
Give someone credit for the installation
Others may say:  make him pay
I grieve because of human conflict
Find joy in nature’s tolerance
The beauty will be forever
With or without mortal beings
We trust in the rising sun
I disdain the arrogance of fools
We will never sort it out
That is not what humans do
I will watch the fencing 
Between the waves and the shore
Give and take is the nature of that dual
There is no victory; there is no defeat
What remains is ecstasy which can’t be explained
You make of it what you will
There is no right; no wrong; no worries 
Change is a constant and 
Will remain long after us
Beyond the dunes the Piping Plovers agree
They have moved to new territory
We long for inner peace and
Want our journey to be serene
Hard-fast rules will get in the way
Live free:  observant of all you can take in
From glaciers to snow fence in 14,000 years
Does anyone need a guru?
Enjoy these fleeting moments
Acknowledge the romantic show
Be aware of wonder and appreciate
People are leaving old territories
Instead of working for their rights
We must encourage them to build 
Their own government of freedom
We cannot and must not invite them
To cross our fence for a free lunch or soon
We will all be hungry and without hope
The tides of evil must not prevail

Stanski
March 8, 2021 ^

Ugly is not pretty
But no one is ugly
Condition may be ugly
Everyone is beautiful
They may not feel it
Because they have been repressed

Don’t look in the mirror
Do not overdo defiance
You have a make up
When beat down one day
You rise with integrity the next

Let no one control your emotion
Never give them the power
The race is not over
Because the starting wasn’t fair
The privileged often collapse
They do not have the ability to sustain
Did not condition properly
Did not have to because
Everything was given to them

A rough beginning is one you honor
It is like a deity you serve
Each day it makes you stronger
And find a chord for a new song
You know you will soar without drugs

You keep taking the steps
Always with your goal in mind
Do not forget the real Deity
He should play an important role
Your go to for all things
He is there for you

Ask and you shall receive
On his terms of course
What do you do about ugly?
Look in front of you and act; chink away
Little by little you become king 
You become the man
Teach others how to soar 
In a blue sky or a cloudy one

We must manifest our truth 
Never be willing to give up
Or quit before completing
You have earned your gifts 
Use them wisely, my friend
Sing the chords you know 
Others will sing with you

Stanski
March 7, 2021 ^

If it wouldn’t be happening
We could all have a laugh
Dr. Seuss is not a racist
Just the opposite, however
He is being cancelled no doubt
Because he is or was so effective
We could laugh at liberal lies
But as we are being invaded
At the borders by illegals with covid-19
Illegals who are criminals and
Willing to be a part of the occupant’s promises
It is not funny to see our country
Being turned around into a socialist haven
We will be lost as a significant people
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could laugh?
At the richest people in the world
Who are doing everything they can
To cancel American
Amazon cancels what books may be sold
Bezos owns a newspaper in Washington
It aligns itself with the liberal media
The brotherhood of man should not be canceled
We could laugh at the stopping of the Keystone pipeline
Gasoline has gone up sixty cents a gallon since then
Which means that if I pump ten gallons
I have six dollars less to spend locally
We have to live in the past as well as the present
Reality is we cannot cancel the truth of history
Just so we can be remade by present concepts
It would all be funny if it were not so true
May God help us once again

Stanski
March 6, 2021 ^

What are they lying to you about?
Occupant struggles in regard to border
Twenty thousand beds needed
Occupant says he will handle it
At what point is this a crisis?
The lies of obscuring
The media protects; does not expose truth
Competition for jobs coming to a head
Decisions and executive orders
Exacerbates the terrible conditions
Who cares?  Not certain governors
The ones in the red states do
Texas is open one-hundred percent
Blue states are failing
But find excuses; know whom to blame
Citizens are foreigners; illegals are citizens
Doctor Scott Atlas defies leftist lies
Brings truth to lockdowns—they destroy people
Schools should be open—children are suffering
Suicides are greater than Covid-19 deaths among them
What kind of people are we?  This is not a game
Not my side versus your side
The data from all over the world
Says that children are low risk and
Do not pass the virus to teachers
Will the people wake up?
Leaders were wrong but they went all in
It is unacceptable
What are they thinking of?
Is sleepy ever going to be hit with the Light?
The light that overcomes all darkness
I pray for this 

Stanski
March 5, 2021 ^

 
 
 
 I love art in general; every little work
 Is someone’s creativity; it is true art
 There is also craft; it comes from concept,
 Creativity and the ability to repeat until
 Burn out, then on to a new project
  
 I have witnessed a review of artists in struggle
  
 Who loved their few patrons because rent would be paid, 
 giving them the passion to 
 Continue in spite of impending failure
 And ultimately in the end
 Their perseverance was rewarded
 For us more than them and so it is in life
 Ideas presented which will improve community
  
 Ego gets in the way; what could have been
 Never comes to fruition
 The potential for us all is stymied by the few
 The individual creators answer to themselves
  
 Those who decline progress are in fear of losing power.  
 Andy Warhol advanced creativity
 His work was out of the box
 Many cannot understand or else feel threatened, 
 but guess what – he wins
 Lichtenstein and Warhol
 Had two pieces in auction
 That sold for over forty million dollars
  
 So what do we know?
 Those who assume authority
 Make judgements contrary
 To the good of us all
 Shouldn’t we put our energy
 Into finding solutions rather than
 Stigmatizing certain conditions?
  
  
 Shouldn’t we be putting our
 Resources into the betterment of community
 If we do – there will be no regrets
  
 Stanski 
 March 4, 2021 ^ 

 
 
 
 Here we are
 Together or alone
 We are in this together
 By choice or default
 A mixed up administration
 An occupant who is in decline
 Still signing executive orders
 Handed to him by those in charge
 I pray for him
 Hope the Light will help him 
 Overcome his darkness
 He made promises
 Was elected fraudulently 
 Now breaks every promise he made
 Is putting people out of work
 Opening our borders
 We have a legal entry program
 That includes a path to citizenship
 What are these people doing?
 They must hate this country
 And have to be Marxist Socialists
 Socialism never works
 There will be legitimate anarchy
 We want our country back
 The way it was before the Wuhan Virus
 Before Comrade Napoleon Fauci
 Back when there was promise
 When order could be restored
 Before the civil unrest and 
 “Peaceful Demonstrations”
 Is that asking too much?
 Yes, because the Marxists are in the way
 Doing everything they can
 To bring down this country
 All kinds of fiats affecting
 Everyone except themselves
 Get rid of beef, but
 Fly my private jet because
 What am I supposed to do?
 Take a boat across the ocean
 To “important” climate meetings
 Which are a lot like going to church
 In a way it is a religion, an ideology
 A concept treated like a God
 By people who have sold
 Their souls to the devil
 Still worship their ideology and
 Will continue to do so because
 They can rub elbows with 
 Their Hollywood heroes who
 Although popular have no 
 Basic knowledge about the climate
 Other than it can be used to control
 The citizenry and keep them in fear
 What happened to Ted Danson after
 His prediction that Manhattan would
 Be under water by 2012?  Nothing
 The media never mentioned it again
 Now others are making bold predictions
 I will make one also
 There are special places in hell
 For people who bring misery upon others
 What can we do?
 Look at what is in front of us and take 
 Care of the little problems we see
 Make things right that we can affect
 Little things done correctly, repeatedly
 Lead to big things being done properly
 And finally everyone will wake up and
 As Leonard Cohen sings:
 “First we take Manhattan and then
 We take Berlin”
 It may be a metaphor but it rings true
 I like the sound of the music
 How about you?
  
 Stanski
 March 3,2021 ^