1195 - The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier

The facts

Will never change

A mind,

Those numbers,

Graphs and words—

They just bounce right off

The boney wall,

Ignored, or worse,

Misheard.

So how

Can we

Be allowed

To call,

To convey

Our deepest fear

For the future of our kind,

To get past

The guarded ear?

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© 2019 J Cosmo Newbery

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1194 - Probably Not

Probably not.

Haiku Horizons: Sorry.

Words cut to the bone—
Even more than actions do.
Would a 'sorry' help?

Just another word;
So weak in every sense.
It cannot repair.
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© 2019 J Cosmo Newbery
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1193 - Predator

Predator
On receiving medical news.

Imagine a river,
Wide, inviting, shimmering
Calm on a quiet, balmy morning.

Every day, relaxed,
You strip off your cares,
Your dusty, soiled garments
of yesterday
and slip gratefully
Into the fresh waters
Of a new day.

Imagine this,
This daily ritual.
Refresh and renew.
The river of life.

One day, a local asks
"Did you know
There is a crocodile
In the river?"

Nothing has changed.
But everything has.
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© 2019 J Cosmo Newbery
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Peace.

1192 - Something has gone terribly wrong...

"Something has gone terrible wrong" 

LNP Party spokesperson, election night.

There is some comfort in knowing

That fear and greed and hate

Does not have the capacity

To win our main debate.

It's sad

But it was all they had.

And a pity

That they could just condemn.

But the end result was showing—

We're more mature than them.

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© 2018 J Cosmo Newbery

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For the international readers:
In Australia, the LNP are the repository of
right-wing religious extremists
and use the colour blue. 
Largely Republican in outlook.

The ALP is the left-wing progressives,
sometimes called Socialists
but a badge worn with pride here,
and use the colour red. 
Largely Democratic in outlook.

1191 - Sorry Honey...

Haiku Horizon's prompt: Smart

Sorry Honey...

You think you're so smart.
You think that you're the bee's knees.
A sure sign you're not.
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© 2018 J Cosmo Newbery
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1190 - We Never Learn

We Never Learn

Nothing
In this world
Is constant—
Change
Is the normal state.
Things begin,
Mature
And decay,
Create
And recreate,
Again
And again
And again.

This way
Mistakes
Of yesteryear
Can be the shadowy
Blueprint
For tomorrow's
Brave frontier.
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© 2018 J Cosmo Newbery
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1189 - Reflections

An all day meeting in Sydney finished at 12:30pm.
Couldn't change my ticket, so...
Reflections

A free afternoon—
Sitting around an airport:
Some time to reflect.

A long afternoon,
Just watching the passing parade.
Drink airport coffee.
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© 2018 J Cosmo Newbery
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1188 - Neanderthals

Mad Kane's limerick prompt: sent.

Neanderthals

The politics of the right are content
To return us to caves or a tent.
One hopes that the goal
Of the upcoming poll
Is that they don't just go but are sent.
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© 2018 J Cosmo Newbery
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1187 - Microsurgery

Prompt: Brain

Micro Surgery

A fellow who felt so  inclined

To offer a piece of his mind

Observed on reflection

That the cerebral dissection

Was a surgery he should have declined.

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© 2018 J Cosmo Newbery

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