JUST KEEP MOVING FORWARD

for Silas Lawson Lytle

Your mom says you were impatient to see

the world. Tired of being cooped up, I guess.

Mind set to welcome light, share memory,

sweet music, and your mom and dad’s caress.

On Facebook, I study your eyes (perhaps

not focused yet?), wonder what you wonder,

your hands raised to shoulders, as if to clap

approval with life. You’re a bit under-

weight I hear. In sports we call that “wiry

and tough”. We don’t sweat size, just measure faith

and action. We like quick wit and fiery

passion for truth, honesty (you know: Eighth

Commandment). We live our lives best through four words,

my friend Jody says: “Just keep moving forward.”

Roger Armbrust

July 10, 2016

SANITY AND SANCTITY

Sanity: accepting reality,

let’s call it. Law speaks of compos mentis,

mastering the mind. Sigmund Freud could see

males and females struck mad by the penis.

Fromm believed whole societies insane.

(He must have seen greed, guns and endless war.)

Auden knew our anxious age, just how vain

we are. Chomsky warns climate, nuclear

disaster will end us. Where’s salvation?

Pope Francis preaches sanctity for all,

not just for saints. Einstein’s revolution

in religion: pantheism (We call

it god in all). Let’s define sanctity

as honesty, seed of our sanity.

Roger Armbrust

July 8, 2016

TRUMP

He’ll save us all: He’ll

build a wall – wide, tall. Know what

Freud and Jung call that?