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  Jan 2021 Flatfielder
Janna B
Fast flowing messages
pinging back and forth.
Electronic endearments
cannot mean a lot.
Genuine questions and
invitations to meet.
Within myself
my soul calls for caution.
These men are ephemeral,
chase a photo.
My soul calls for real.
So, I joined a dating app.
Wearing a top hat and a straight
  jacket with a monocle and goatee.
  He owns everything like God does.
  Nobody will ever tell him different.
  He'll silence you and disappear you.
  He'll buy your friends and family.
  He'll define what's real and false.
  He's the man who bought the world.
  Our lives are in his cattle cars on
  our way to his indifferent endings.
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
-- Joseph Goebbels
Flatfielder Jan 2021
Three pine trees moving gently
In the new years morning breeze
I feel renewal sitting quiet
An old friend placed a call
We chatted laughed remembered
Old friends the younger years
Many passed others clinging
Stories never seized
I see the magic pinecones
Attached to the 100 foot pines
My neck stiffens when I look up
Dizzy focus towards the ground
A lone pinecone landed
On the fallen fluffy snow
My thoughts now interrupted
Joys and glory times
Stepping back with dimming memories
Placed with the pinecone in the snow
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Last winter on the farm
Flatfielder Jan 2021
Nourishing moment
Drop stuns a face
Rolling down a windshield
An amazing race
Earth's yearnings
For the nectar of Life
Witnessed on grey mornings
When hope wins over doubt
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Flatfielder Jan 2021
She gave me this smile
In the doorstep
Did cut through my distance
Disturbed any absences
While being approached
For discussion and fun
Games and companionship
While in self-imposed isolation
Will turf and disband
A new morning
When I shall return a smile
Again saved by her charm
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To my wife
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