Steve Haarman

BOILING IT DOWN

Where do we go and

who really cares?

Absence from your territory

for days or weeks

Return to find no calls

No one missed you, yet

When you say you might leave

Everyone resorts to grief

Don’t go; we need you

You are our man

Neglected or praised

You are the one who can

The one who acts

Asks no questions

Just performs

Breaks the rules

Judgement by the unicorn

My life’s a wonder now

Big stuff out of the way

Don’t know where I’m going

Will find my destination

Know when I get there

It will all be soothing

Don’t go away, but I can’t stay

Maybe we see each other

Along the way

Renew the memories

If there were any

Life can be superficial

Nothing that special

So why linger

Get me on my way

Wherever I go,

that is where I’ll be

People are the same all over

I find the joy and

Try to be a source of

comfort and support

Stanski

May 23, 2025 ^

Real life is hard

Even with good leaders

You feel an incentive

Which is more that meager

Listen my friends

I can play a few chords

Enough to lift you

Keep you from being bored

No scarlet letters

Saying you’re identified

Disregard the concept

You’ll be satisfied

No one is a victim

Unless you choose to be

Freedom is a precious gift

Like life I’m sure you’ll see

We live in a world bewildered

Power and control prevail

You must stick to your rights

When you do you will not fail

Gloom and doom exist

They are not the perimeter

Our right to stand up and fight

Precludes our right to falter

Our congress leans to the left

Help in creating the tension

The anti-Semitic leaders

Do not deserve their pension

Death and injury to the innocents

Is not something we behold

Let’s remember the origin and

Realize that we must be bold

Stanski

May 22, 2025

WOSE IDEA WAS THIS

The garden imagined

Nothing now except a jungle

Solutions speculated upon

Various ideas interjected

Other landscape ideas abound

Who really has the answer?

Blame comes into the picture

Previous caretakers

And their neglect

They were part of the problem

But easy to use as expression

There is no exasperation

Just the knowledge of much to do

So the day of reckoning

The beginning of the project

Difficulties overwhelming

The sun beating down

Work beyond comprehension

Whose idea was this anyway?

Perseverance plays its role

Work on that in front of you

Day one, two, and three

Things begin to take meaning

Reality paints its picture

Acceptable to all involved

So thankful there were no quitters

Stanski

May 21, 2025 ^

WHAT TO DO

There is always a way

Nothing is hopeless

Pause and reflect on

What you think is the problem

Who has the control?

Is it about power?

Or can we act and

Resolve our own situation?

That is the question

What can we do?

Cry out victimhood

Or get on our way

Involvement is an answer

A look into the mirror

Try to see solutions

And reduce your fear

Take a look around

There is always action

People taking steps

Some uphill; others down

Usually with no regrets

Patience and courage

Time heals our wounds

And courage allows us to act

Our reason flows with excitement

Maybe we can act and

Resolve what is bothering us

Stanski

May 20, 2025 ^

Many items are treasured

Family photos and heirlooms

All irreplaceable and

Understandably loved

They bring memories

That stir a peaceful soul

Tears, too, flow as we

Think about those gone before

Those are good thoughts

All very emotional

Very acceptable

Part of our humanity

We are encumbered with desire

Seeing beautiful

Things

We naturally would like them

Shiny new trucks and cars

The latest fashions

Clothes, shoes and outerwear

Advertising for jewelry is tempting

Five gold jangles looking good

With blue jeans and a tee shirt

Will look very nice with formal wear

And the cost as advertised

Is a little over 45 thousand dollars

So many distractions

Tempting our desires

What do we really need?

The feeling of belonging

Opportunity to succeed

The feeling of belonging

These are the important things

Along with accomplishment

Everything else is superficial

Still we are human

Bow to temptations, but

Finally resolve with love

Stanski on May 19, 2025 ^

FIGURE IT OUT

I can’t remember what I did tomorrow

I just can’t remember that far ahead

Yesterday is lost and won’t reveal

Something like a Ferris wheel

Spinning in reverse, creating a thrill

First it was up and then down hill

I vacillate and then hesitate

Truth must be yours to know

Sometimes I’m lost in petroglyphs

Interpretation of years old thoughts

An amazing formula for much of the way

Then a stumble, a crack and flow

Peers looking at me for something to say

Friends this is all a mystery

More complicated than a family tree

No sense for some of this

All the effort, why did I enlist

I’m happy, I’m nosey, a busy body

A piece of the action is the real jest

Almost a taste of victory, then it got cloudy

What can I do, I re-enlist

Will work as a team to decipher this quiz

We will all raise our cups to victory

No one will claim they were the whiz

We’ll remember what we did tomorrow

Forget all about yesterday

Complications do not need to exist

Spirits of the past stir us today

Stanski

May 18, 2018 ^

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