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Lacking Vision, for dVerse Poets

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(Lacking) Vision

Whereas in leaders, we seek vision,
alas, in ours, we got division!
His rich cronies buy support
for policies that they purport
are for us, because he cares..
but profit only billionaires!!!!

The wall, the pool, the usurpation
of earlier tributes that our nation
made to presidents we revered
are proof our ship of state he’s steered
into waters perilous,
good for himself, but bad for us.

Healthcare and social security?
Safety in our maturity?
Clearly, things not necessary!
His policy of cash and carry
meant only for his personal coffers
to pay for new investment offers.

Our ship of state, mentioned before
has become a ship of war
whereas our president of late
has a new conveyance of state––
a plane much more luxurious
furnished by China, not by us!.

So we’ll be seeing by and by
where his allegiances will lie.
His vision firmly fixed upon
his fortunes and the art of con.
Too many citizens, I’m afraid,
still thirsty for the Kool-Aid!

Ooops. I got carried away and forgot this was supposed to be a haibun. Mea culpa. Please forgive….

.For dVerse Poets, the prompt is “Vision.”

“Seer” for the Weekend Writing Prompt #443

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Seer

Her statement that she’d had a vision
was met by general derision.
They went west though she’d said, “Go east,”
and thus were eaten by the beast
or, overtaken by the flood.
died soaked in water or in blood.
So, the moral of this little tale
is heed your mystics or learn to bail
or run faster than the beast
lest you become his morning’s feast.

For Weekend Writing Prompt #443, the task was to write a 66 word story or poem on the subject of “Vision.”

Snowy Egret: A Vision of Maternity

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It would be hard to choose which sense is most stimulated by Mexico.  I’ve written a few times about the sounds of Mexico as well as her flavors, but for me it is the visions of Mexico that top my sensory list of thrills.  Time and time again, it has been color that has attracted the lens of my camera, but last week I exited Cafetto Saga and happened to look up at the monstrous “Egret tree” where egrets perch for the night and I was thrilled to have this opportunity to photograph  white––not only the snowy perfection of egrets, but to also find that I was in a perfect location to photograph this mother and her chicks.  The somewhat goofy appearance of the chicks offsets the elegance of the adults.  I especially love the one of the chick stretched out to caress its mother’s beak. In fifteen years, I have never lost my excitement in viewing these graceful, gorgeous birds.

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