Dazzle Me Deeply

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Dazzle Me Deeply

“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance,

baffle them with bull shit.” --W.C. Fields

When I feel & hear the powerful razzle 

of twin mufflers from a 500 hp muscle

V-8, I get faint with macho joy.

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Reading another’s poetry, or even re-reading

my own, when I encounter those words, phrases

or images that dazzle me, I am fulfilled as

a citizen poet.

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In thirty years, my wife’s eyes, wit, & sensuality

have not lost one iota of their incredible sparkle.

I carry cheap sunglasses for protection. 

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The dimwitted Donald would like you to believe

that he possesses political razzle, though he comes

across like a carnival barker or grand wizard or

grimy grifter--but for many of us his ersatz dazzle

has all the sparkle of an enormous repugnant

mud pie atop a ton of chicken shit.

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Fall has the power to

razzle hearts, dazzle our eyes

and sparkle spirits.

Glenn Buttkus

Posted over at dVerse Poets Pub