Gathering over
Go home
Live for another day
Expound upon
How great it was
Since you were there,
A part of the scene.
But what does it
Really mean?
It was just
Something you gleaned
Here’s what you do
Build your own platform
Make it nice
Because it’s what you do
Then dance all night
Devote yourself to others
This is real life
Doesn’t have to be
Make-believe
Stanski
September 16, 2020 ^
I just don’t understand how people cannot
see the truth and do nothing about condition.
Too many are passive; believe what they hear
and do no searching on their own.
They are not inquisitive; do no critical thinking and
have a capacity for criticism and finding fault.
Too many are suffering in a country where all
should be excelling if it were not for the evil
being encouraged by the opposing party which
has done everything in their power to remove
the president from office.
Swampers from both parties are fighting
the efforts of the President. He keeps working,
accomplishing what was said impossible; ignores the doubters.
He is a flawed diamond working with all he has against
what Aristotle called perfect pebbles.
The radical left wants to terrorize the police.
Antifa and Black Lives Matter lead them.
They are supported by George Soros, his ilk and
the Hollywood Elite. The peaceful protestors
do not know what they are protesting against.
They are anti-trumpsters and are cheering for
the breakdown of this country. They apparently
would prefer to live like the suppressed in Cuba and Venezuela.
Who is standing up in resistance? Not the Pope;
not the Bishops, the priests and ministers.
They remain silent, maybe not knowing
the Black Lives Matter Group is a Marxist with
the goal of defeating our country.
We know all that we need to know.
To remain silent is contemptable; to stand up require courage.
The swamp blames the president for the Chinese Virus.
How foolish; how divisive. The ignorant cheer while victims die.
We witness sheep running over the cliff.
Let us respond boldly. It is now or never.
Stanski
September 15, 2020 ^
Where is the truth?
About this or that
Einstein had a simple childlike question
How does the cosmos work?
A black hole is discovered, but
It is millions of light years away
How does your garden grow?
What can you really teach?
Does discipline mean anything
If it disrupts creativity?
How do you arrive at the center
Of things you know but don’t understand?
Does the collision of opposite forces
Explain the connection of light and dark?
Do answers come just by standing by
Or is intensive work and process in play?
When tulip bulbs are money
Should you weigh yourself down with gold?
Is a work of art a masterpiece
If it is never brought to light?
Where is the truth
In whom do you confide?
Don’t ask the experts, my friend
They will be wrong and then surprised
The mind is a work of art, but is
Not studied in “Appreciation”
Time will never run out if it is
Used judiciously in our endeavors
Sanctity for the truth, a necessity,
But then only for the wise
Stanski
September 14, 2020 ^
Farmer’s boots with mud all over
Fencing put up in the rain
Post-hole digging is tiring
Like digging a grave
A long day makes the whiskey quicker
No one looks anyone else in the eye
Nerves are half broken; bones don’t need to be
Drink up and leave
Horses to feed and still the evening chores
Which were always waiting
Children gleeful but careful; help where you can
Do not upset equilibrium
Tomorrow will bring whatever Saturdays bring
Men cleanup for dinner
Not much talk of the day
Wagon will be driven to town
The list is already written
Mother feels good except
tomorrow it rains again and will not stop;
day after day for over two weeks –mud—mud;
wetness and shortages not planned on
Children are happy; no school –play in the wet
Stay happy; work hard; don’t irritate
This is their life; sometimes good
Mostly difficult; now and then bad
They were secure in the knowing
This is how life was; plans succeeded or failed
The plains were not all bad
There were peaceful times
Secure times; sometimes fires wiped them out
But to their credit they emerged again
Too strong to lay own; too bright to
Remember the bad
They grew and prospered; built new schools
New towns and churches
They knew life and its meanings
They lived it, until it finally came to an end
Those left went on; they knew the answers
The rules of survival were obeyed
Stanski
September 13, 2020 ^
WISHING AND HOPING
I wish:
There were four
Instead of just three
Birds singing their songs to me
Each has its own ring and
While listening I
Desire even more
I should:
Say we when expressing
What I think everyone wants
Keeping it singular is indiscreet
When everyone I happen to meet
Seems to agree and addresses
Things so similarly
I complain:
When there is not enough rain
Sometimes when it’s too hot
If the mail is late; the car won’t start
There’s work to do or sometimes naught
The snow’s too deep and I’m low on fuel
Then someone asks, so I say I’m cool
I turn away:
When the answer is wrong and
I’m looking for the truth
When things aren’t done on time and
No one seems to care
I come up empty-handed
After I was so willing to prepare
I hope:
I don’t always feel so bad
When things don’t go my way
Or when someone has to leave
After only a short stay
There will be other times
When we take time to play
I desire
To leave an impression
Based on the truth
Difficult to do
When minds are made up
Unjust backlash
Then the walking away
Stanski
September 12, 2020
One wonders about all the lies
The truth should never hurt
But when the obvious is ignored
There may just be a day in court
A case is slowly put together
With murmurings of Russian collusion
After three years of boiling it down
It appears to be only an illusion
Trying to bring down the president
The objective from the beginning
But no evidence to back their claims
And still they think they are winning
Meanwhile the President is not idle
A tireless worker; he gets things done
Removes regulations; reduces taxes
Gets us out of wars that can’t be won
Manufacturing returns to our country
Providing countless numbers of jobs
Pulled us from NAFTA and WHO
Offered help to control the mobs
Rebuilt the neglected military
Gave relief to all of the soldiers
Challenged China on all fronts
Hard to think of anyone bolder
Elevated the life of African Americans
Did the same for Latinos
Lifted everyone in the country
He was action and not just show
Is building the wall on the border
In spite of all the resistance
Gets blamed for the cages of Obama
Keeps moving; his way of insistence
Works on rebuilding the inner-cities
Calls them impoverished zones
Looks to offer schools of choice
Wants successful individuals
Not a parade of failure clones
Moves our embassy to Jerusalem
Brokered peace with the UAE and Israel
All of this while under constant attack
By politicians who should be in jail
Stanski
September 11, 2020 ^
No more stupid wars
No more regime wars
Pull our troops,
Bring them home
Regardless of the
Constant push back by
Those who sense loss
Year after year
They purport resistance
Now the President says,
“So what”
We are getting out
Power seekers cannot
Go against status quo
Military personnel want
To climb in the ranks
President Eisenhower warned
Of the Military Industrial Complex
Back in the 1950’s
Blame it all on Trump anyway
The Liberals are unhinged
They hope the President fails
They wish to incite violence
And stoke diversion
Across the country,
If it helps them gain power
The President is trying
Even fighting to restore,
Renew and rebuild
Our great nation,
While the liberals are
Continuing to play politics
These do nothings do not
Deserve power
When they have had it,
It has been abused
If they achieve it
It will be abused again
Time to wake up
It is not your
Grandfather’s Party
It is now Socialist
Stanski
September 10, 2020 ^
Back in the days
When journalism
Still existed
I read in
The Atlantic Magazine
That free range chickens
Were better for you and
Tasted much better than
Chickens kept in a coop
From birth to slaughter
Beef kept on the hoof for
Three or more years
Had better marbling,
Taste and quality they
Those slaughtered after
Only one year and that
Grass fed cattle was
More desirable than
Corn and grain fed
I had six children at the time
And was working at least
Sixty hours a week
Jerry Ford was President and
The two parties were
About the same
Today the Atlantic
Writes horse manure
And calls it journalism
Lies make good copy
When they affect
The other guy adversely
The parties are not
The same today
Some are waking up
To this fact
As Aristotle said,
“I would rather have
A flawed diamond”, (Trump)
“Than a perfect pebble”, (Biden)
Speaking of manure, I believe
Horse droppings are about
A dime for twenty-two these days
Stanski
September 9, 2020 ^
The erudite speak. Nothing good to say
About this President. They go to Ann Arbor
For intellectual stimulation
Come back and spread foolishness
Like Trump is illegitimate. What has he done?
Covid-19 is his responsibility?
Almost 200,000 deaths.
Not really the truth; many false claims
Houston’s Hospitals are over-flowing.
No, not really, but the truth does not matter.
Terror and destruction in liberal cities
across the country. All his fault.
Defund the police, not his decision.
Prior to the Chinese Virus— many amazing records:
Lower taxes, abolished regulations, low unemployment
strong military, aid to soldiers, brought soldiers home.
Rejected the WHO and NAFTA.
Demanded members of NATO to pay their share.
Killed terrorists, did not begin wars,
brought industries back home.
Became energy independent.
Provided disaster aid where needed.
Do you hear the erudite speaking?
No, they are quiet. Only made up stuff
When asked what Joe has done for 47 years,
they are quiet. Can only hold up
an empty cookie sheet.
Then the Covid-19 disaster.
They return from Ann Arbor.
The piling on begins with anything negative,
the false accusations of the media.
They are brilliant.
They can carry water and must love socialism
They are the cheerleaders
Stanski
September 8, 2020 ^
It amazes me how the mind
moves faster that the fingers
holding the pen and how
Pulitzer thoughts are forgotten
before they can be recorded.
It is then when we recognize
the majesty of the Creator Who knows all
and allows all things to unfold.
I lay in bed listening to piano music which
is secular and full of a rhythm that
could lull me to sleep in short order,
if it were not for the fact that
I go into meditation and think of all
the wonders of nature and the Creator
and then at the feebleness
of all the nations who seemingly
with pleasure destroy all the goodness
which has been laid down at our feet.
There appears to be an urgency
to control and put ourselves as nations
above it all and then try to dominate
what is not ours to begin with.
The music speeds up and there are
a few drum rolls as though you have
broken through with awareness,
but in reality, the music is just saying
that history is constantly repeating itself
and we have much awakening to go through
before we will come to realize
that we are nothing and will eventually
as nations and individuals return to dust.
We know nothing of the millions and
billions of years that have gone by before us
and here we are high and mighty
thinking we know it all.
No one owns wisdom and
opinions are a dime a dozen.
My music ends; I open my eyes;
see no stars shining; too many clouds
so I cannot celebrate that gift
but can hear the music of nature and
realize we have so much to learn.
Stanski
September 7, 2020 ^
Steve Haarman 