Showing posts with label political. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2026

Ontario (prompt: geese)



Sailboats racing on Lake Ontario, seen from The Pearl Harbourfront's window, 2013.


Canada geese honk:

egotistical eagle

must accept defeat


Canadians keep 

their elbows up and

won't rename their lakes


Daily Haiku Prompt: geese


"Ontario" is an Indigenous word and is more than 400 years old. It means "beautiful lake" or "sparkling water."




Friday, July 24, 2026

An Ill Wind

The phrase, "It's an ill wind that blows no good," didn't originate with Shakespeare. Although he used it in Henry IV, Part II, it was used as a common proverb at least a century before he was born.

Its meaning is that even the worst calamity benefits someone, somehow.


Anyway, there's been a lot of bad stuff in the air lately. 

And as, usual, Voldemort is trying to use it for  his own benefit.

If Voldemort can threaten tariffs because of Canadian wildfire smoke, I suggest that Canada tariff the U.S. for sending their hurricanes to us.

They're both a lot of misdirected hot air.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI

Peter, Paul and Mary, Blowin' in the Wind

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Roses Rage

Rose Garden yanked out

replaced by a patio--

Jackie's ghost rages


lacking Jackie's taste and class

a modern-day Medusa


(Daily Haiku Prompts: roses, rage)


Sunday, April 6, 2025

Unfriended

 Tariffs, tariffs, everywhere.

Annex our country? Don't you dare!


A border formerly undefended.

But now you're officially unfriended.


Former allies, no longer friends.

Elbows up, we fight back. This is where it ends.