Checkmate

You quote your “triumphs” tooth and nail,
song and verse, so well rehearsed;
you seek to have your followers align–
They hang on every word

as if you speak the Gospel truth
the epitome of Jesus Christ, defined.
Non-answers are your answer

attacking the attacker

you obfuscate while making an excuse.

And nobody is “winning,”

can we go back to beginning?
Those promises you made were just a ruse.

But kindness doesn’t shout
and never seeks the spotlight
it doesn’t boast of everything its done.

It doesn’t shun the world
nor treat others unfairly,

nor base success on what is lost or won.

While some are meant for greatness

clearly some are not
relevance is not found in some name;
yet when precedence is set

it's best you don’t forget…
that not all of us are subject to your game.

No matter how you try

the truth won’t be denied

you cannot bury everything you’ve done

How long will it take

until you make your last mistake?

I believe the countdown has begun…

© Ginny Brannan 2026

Political Cartoon by Nick Anderson Jan. 2025

How Did You Know?

 

naive and clueless,
I stumbled upon you

and you? witty, sharp
always the rebel

you cracked the shell

calmed the chaos
the 'yin' to my yang

bonded, yet alone,
we move forward

 …still (and always) becoming

© GB 2026

My attempt at minimalistic poetry. It may be too minimal, too vague, but again, that's the point. There is a story in this that comes full circle, timeline condensed. If you know, you know. With gratitude.

Honoring Our "Mother"

 

Emerald lands and sapphire seas
her wealth is in diversity,

we relish every sight and sound
from many, one; and so we’re bound.

Even those with smallest talent
take part in this precious balance.

So we make a covenant
before destruction’s imminent,

and seek the knowledge that we need

found inside her lands and seas.
Upon this fragile jewel we spin
and hold onto our hope, within.

© Ginny Brannan 2026

Honoring Earth Day 2026

Image: Piqsels.com

Existentially Speaking

 

traveling through space

small and insignificant
in a sea of stars

eight billion voices

our words do not hold meaning

where the silence speaks

lost in the vacuum

a single footprint in time

molded in the dust

we search for answers

inside hidden worlds and words
seeking translation

from darkness to life

we come into existence

searching for light

© ginny brannan 2026

Haiku day was April 17th.  

A few haikus, existentially speaking.

In Dreams

 

Implausible, or so it seems

but real or not, can you conceive

the truth that hides inside our dreams?

Where deep within such altered state

the past and present interweave.

and hidden secrets come to light
in rhythmic breathing of the night;

and all the things we dare not say

slip the confines of the day

to acquiesce. reshape, refine

and coalesce inside our mind.

Somewhere in this tug of war,

the soul cries out for want of more:

the long forgotten touch of skin

the ardor hidden in a look

a thirst, found quenched in our rapport,

the heat exploding from within,

new worlds to map, and to explore–

for now we tread this in-between

 and bide our time inside a dream.

© Ginny Brannan 2026

Legacy

God bless the man who stood his ground

and never wavered from the truth.

He stayed his course, duty bound,

exposing lies and travesty

enduring grave indignity–

honor bound in sacred pledge

to take the lawbreaker to task. 

A promise made, a promise kept

the leader, corrupt and inept;

a lawyer with no axe to grind,

leaves his legacy behind
unveiling the hypocrisy,
deception and delinquency,

the fraud and criminality

of the leader, now unmasked.

© Ginny Brannan 2026

Robert Swan Mueller III  8/7/1944 —3/ 20/2026



Robert Mueller was an American Lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2001 to 2013  He was a graduate of Princeton University and NY University. He served as a Marine Corps officer during the Vietnam war, receiving a Bronze Star for heroism and a Purple Heart. He later attended University of Virginia School of Law, and served under Presidents George H.W.Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

In 2017 Mueller was appointed to special counsel to oversee the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election and related matters. A total of thirty-four individuals and three companies were indicted by Mueller's investigators. Eight have pleaded guilty to or been convicted of felonies, including five Trump associates and campaign officials. None of those five convictions "involved a conspiracy between the campaign and Russians and "Mueller did not charge or suggest charges for whether the Trump campaign worked with the Russians to influence the election”. The investigation was, however, more complex. On May 29, 2019, in a press conference, Mueller stated that "If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that. We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime... 

A president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office.

 

Trump claimed the report “proved him innocent”

Source: Wikipedia