Steve Haarman

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 One has hopes
 Spends hard earned money
 On totems of support
 T-shirts, sweaters, caps and banners
 This is the year
 The slate is clean
 A few victories
 And emotions run high
 Then a reversal
 Unexpected losses
 Depression
 The year is over
 All the hoping and effort
 Led to nowhere
 While things that matter
 Have been neglected
 What does it matter?
 Our world is over
 At least until next year
 Isn’t is sad
 Go team
  
 Stanski
 August 23, 2019 ^ 

 I like to listen to
 Those who speak extemporarily 
 Classic presentations
 Without notes
 Knowledgeable of facts
 Forthright – no hesitation
 No confusion
 Confident 
 Existential 
 They expose the lies
 Answer with the truth
 Leave no doubt
 In those with open minds
  
 I hear rebuttals by
 Those heralded by the fake news
 I listen to their utterances
 Proclamations read off of
 A prompter or notes
 Glasses low on the nose
 In a Hollywood way
 The lies are read and
 Nodding heads on the panel 
 Also known as talking heads
 Give necessary affirmation
 They leave no doubt to
 Those riding the wrong horse
  
 Stanski
 August 21, 2019 ^  
 
 
 
 
 

 The slip asked for the group leader
 I signed my pen name “Stanski”
 Someone asked who in hell Stanski was
 Do you believe in God, I asked
 What has that to do with it?
 It has a lot to do with it
 God has an angel in me
 The angel uses pennames 
 Sometimes they are my names
 This is one of them
 I believe in evolution someone said
 Then I can answer that, too
 Stanski evolved over the years
 First it was Stanislaus Kuperski the Firski
 Then Stanislaus Kuperski
 Then Stansberry McKricken
 Followed by A.H. McKricken
 Sometimes I used my own name
 Some people called me Stans
 Then Stanski evolved
 Pretty easy to follow, isn’t it?
 Yes, except the part about the angel
 I believe in angels and also in miracles
 I have been a part of small miracles
 Only angels can partake in them
 People have called me their angel
 What more must you know?
 The critics were all silent
 They knew they had been had
 There was no false worship, but
 They were not true believers
 Standing back they said, well 
 I guess that is it
 He made his point validly 
 Both the spiritual and the evolutionary
 Covered every possibility 
 Did it persuasively 
 That’s Stanski for you
  
 Stanski
 June 14, 2017 ^ 

Poet, muse, light, dark, bewildered, sensitive, instigator, arbitrator, thinker, jokester, actor, creator, angel, formulator, digester, hopeful, writer, reader, singer, doer, realist, prompter, optimistic, giver, promoter, advisor, builder, definer, defying, resistor, landscaper, father, grandfather, widower, brother, cousin, collector, believer, and humble.