A Guest: Three Poems by Deborah Lass
A Reigning Faith
By Deborah Lass
As the storm moves away
a bird nearby sings
God is
l am
You are
We are
Faith reigns
Freedom flows
Wind blows
We walk
We run
We stand
We sit
We come
We go
We are all of the same one
Good
God is good
God is love is hope is
Happy happy
Joy joy
FRACKING US
By Deborah Lass
what the “F” is going on here
I mean come on
FRACKING!?
WHICH BILLIONAIRE HIRELING THOUGHT OF THAT ONE
FRACKING…
“SHUT THE FRACK UP!”
“FRACK YOU!”
“NO FRACK YOU”
are they all on crack?
a cunning baffling powerful addiction
enablers everywhere
HOLDING HANDS WITH THE DEVIL
they’re fracking us
got us over a barrel all right
until
the entire planet implodes
or
unless
we say NO
to the MONEY GOD
A Word About Immigration To The United States of America
(or English only)
By Deborah Lass
KINDERGARTEN hmm German,not English
Patio oh Spanish not English
Chandelier wait a minute that’s French
we’ll need to create a new word for leprechaun
and we’d better hurry or we won’t be able to celebrate St. Patty’s Day
If we keep this up we’ll need a whole new Dictionary
maybe we could get Google to write it- remember when Spam was food in a can
you could slice it and fry it with eggs –
eggs and Spam- How Monty Python of me-oh now we’re talking English!
yet in England- a tinkle means I’m gonna call you on the phone
while in America a tinkle is a whole other meaning
we use the French word toilet in America (by the way this country
was named for Americus Vespucius,
the Latin derivative of Amerigo Vespucci,an Italian)
get my meaning
In The Beginning
there were the Algonquin,the Iroquois, the Ojibwa…
no one named Smith or Brown-wait a minutedidn’t a Captain John Smith mix it up a bit with a non-English speaking native before
America became America?
Debbie Lass was one of the first people I got to know when I moved to Norfolk. She is active in the writing community in the area and is well known for her kindness, her generosity of spirit, and her support of other writers.
When I asked her to write what she would most like people to know about her, she sent me this:
“I write and publish books–poetry, and children’s so far. I participate in book festivals and OPEN MIC events; my first book has been sold locally, in D.C., and in North Carolina. I have read with singers, musicians, and have been blessed to have read with the Friends of Tidewater Folk Music–the first poet to do so.
The summer of my 60th year, I played tennis for the first time in about 30 years and loved it. I enjoy the beach, kayaking, hiking, and road trips for a day or whatever. My favorite shopping times are Farm Markets, library book sales, craft shows, yard sales and thrift stores. I have a fondness for My Father’s Pizza, tomato sandwiches with cheese and ranch dressing on a croissant, potatoes–mashed, fried or roasted, and chocolate chip ice cream. I am grateful to God for the love of friends, family, neighbors, my most recent co-workers, and my support people. I am grateful for all goodness, grace, mercy, love, and especially for having had a change of heart, mind and attitude. And oh, I am a PBS fan!
Among my favorite books are hope for the flowers, by Trina Paulus; Around the Year With Emmet Fox; Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart, by Alice Walker; Fried Green Tomatoes, by Fannie Flagg; Zorro, by Isabel Allende; Red Bird, by Mary Oliver; The Earth Speaks, by Steve Van Matre and Bill Weiler; The Loop, by Nicholas Evans; The Zoo Keeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman; The Education of Harriet Hatfield, by May Sarton; All the Way Home, by David Giffels; and Spirit Walker, Poems by Nancy Wood and Illustrations by Frank Howell.
With a special thanks to The Shakespeare Fish and The Happy Goat.”
You can contact Debbie at
debbielass@gmail.com
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