Poetic Justice (Don\'t burn the flag. Wash it!)Poetic Justice (Don\'t burn the flag. Wash it!)A political poetry blog. Original poetry, video and artwork. A dissenting verse. Articles
AN EYE FOR AN EYE OF SKEPTICISM
2009-07-09 22:33:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Historic Bible pages put onlineWill this tell us what we yearn to know;Ancient text translated into languagesUnknown to the earth?s mortal choir,Source of so much grief and slaughter?Biden: Israel free to set own course on IranFree will, sovereignty, liberty, independence-The words clang like a whore?s jangling thighs;?Free to look, but it takes cold, hard cash to Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Skepticism
THE LIMBAUGH PRINCIPLE
2009-07-02 22:30:00 Rush Limbaugh Compares Al Franken's Win to the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Vote Recount (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)O! From the foul wind blowing over AmericaComes this; a most colossal whore?s voiceScreeching another miserably worn-out minute!The irony of his deception belies an ignoble aimLeaving fools ready to lop off someone?s headAs the mythic shit-stain spews forth tired claims.He is no one?s Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com
SHAPED BY STARS (Head-Lines)
2009-06-29 22:29:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Quiet crackdown drains Iran dissidentsThey took off their shoes and plannedAnd their naked feet paced a new journeyWhich now stirs inside every room.Shoes cannot represent this moment,It?s feet and hands and the flame of a newborn star.Ready or Not, Iraq?s Military Prepares to Stand on Its OwnPrepare to make your way in the manner you see fitLike the depth and curve Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Stars , Head , Lines
WOUNDED SCAMP (Head-Line Poetry)
2009-06-26 10:27:00 Gay Exorcism VideoCome! Manifest thy vigorous and crippling glory,Spit thy upright venom atop my prone and uncleanSkin, rend it complete to partial bone and space,But above all, Lord, keep thy charlatans away.Michael Savage Threatens Media Matters StaffO Savage, steal your mask away, place your microphone down lowSo your sheep might not listen in??Take heed. They?ve already come for you,Seeking Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Poetry , Head , Line
THE HOWL OF CHANGE
2009-06-25 10:27:00 Support Health Care Reform that Addresses Needs of WomenShe basks in the slender bone of sun that has embraced her diseaseAs she lies upon the biddable afghan knitted by her only daughter.The birds of shadow have begun to fasten themselves `round her spirit;On this day the sun will commence setting much earlier than she imagined.Ask President Obama and his admin: Include the vision of a nuclear Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Change , Howl
FATHER AND TIME
2009-06-21 16:23:00 It is a wise father that knows his child. __William ShakespeareAll the clocks that surround us mark off moments as they dissolve;Steady drum of the second hand tick tocks like a time bomb,Vanished down beneath the rising rush Cast outside of reach of all that?s hereOr that frantic hands can seize or bear.Like time, we will travel forward as moments become lean and swift,Instances slipped within Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Time , Father
DRILL DOWN (Actionable Head=Lines)
2009-06-21 04:22:00 Call on Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute Bush-era torture, etcSeeing the old man who moved like a sloth across the parking lotStumbling a path waged in determination and loaded with angst,I began to see the future. A panorama of a rebellious reckoningWith a gnarly toothed reality of necks bent in disappointment.Our smugness, suffering tossed out like crumbs Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Head , Lines , Drill
TAKE ACTION (Head-Lines)
2009-06-19 16:20:00 Support a Cautious Response to the Iranian ElectionI am turning the lights out nowA heavy summer heat hovers over the ground.Before the morning sun lifts this crimson boilMany will have marched in solidarity on far off streetsWhile others watch with bewilderment, a mini shock and awe.Tell Congress to require legislation be posted on the Internet for 72 hours before debateThis rattling the cage Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Action , Head , Lines
MAY YOU... EVERMORE
2009-06-18 04:18:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Minuteman Leader Charged for Murder of Latino Father and his Nine Year Old DaughterO! The minute has come to address the rotten deeds of your foul-smelling, toothless fear!May you and your murderous brethren spend an eternity with only love in your heartsMemorizing every moment of the lives you ended and the hatred you encouraged.May your hearts be full of an Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com
WITHIN THEIR FILTH
2009-06-16 10:16:00 Eliminationist Gear at Café Press ? Scott Roeder is an American HeroThe pages are alive with lifeless gods and pale blossomsPainted with too much glee as if a child stroked the paperGrinning at his creation. Offerings of murky madnessThat scream unhinged slaughter more than glee or satirePosed as freedom?s rant; naive, normal, nontoxic furor;A bitter thought crawls up from infection to its Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com
ISRAEL'S (NETANYAHU) BOOKEND
2009-06-15 22:15:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Netanyahu accepts limited Palestinian stateIf you give up your guns and your rockets and turn your eyes away,You can live in what little space that is left for you to stand.If you accept this, your sentence, you?ll also acknowledge your fate?Crowds join Ahmadinejad victory rallyMajority rules on Election Day with its bright lights on.Save for the house arrest of the Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com
REVISITING A MANIACAL MELODY
2009-06-15 22:15:00 CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants U.S. attackedO! Love at first sight in bleak day.You?ve life?s gallant sun.The arid tempest swoons;Love. Hope. Joy. Doubt. Lust. Slaughter.Blood?s staining authority.The silver gorge croons to her,Breathing deep, conjuring worship;The grubby toothed grin of casualty.?My love, may I have this dance???Tis my honor most valiant knight!??Take my hand, my dear, Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Melody
THE CLEAN SKIN...
2009-06-14 04:12:00 More than some ashen membraneAre the clean skin.Tell me what they are?Oh! How beautiful are these alien creatures!They move with the windUnder cover of night and sun.Glowing and graceful they progressNearer my tenuous fear.Seen and unseen,Like I?ve just exited some dark room;Under the sun everyone?s a ghost.Phantoms, whose faces are washed away,And whose hands are sickly white,Blanched from Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Skin , Clean
WHAT IF...
2009-06-13 10:10:00 ...2009... Imagine life under these conditions: Living in limbo under a foreign occupier. Having no self-determination, no right of return, and no power over your daily life. Being in constant fear, economically strangled, and collectively punished.Having your free movement denied by enclosed population centers, closed borders, regular curfews, roadblocks, checkpoints, electric fences, and Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com
PLAY FROM YOUR HEART
2009-06-12 16:08:00 -Zoe Keating @ La Boule Noire Paris Oct 23, 2008/Amanda Palmer cabaret show.Play from your heartWhat's the point of anything if you don't?What?s to stop us from staying in the middle While hate?s tangled up in a half-baked peaceAnd love?s tapping out some half-hearted beat? Love?s not a liquid flowing between worlds-It?s now! It?s the curve of her neck as she turns to gaze at her children.It?s Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Heart
NOTHING BUT TALK (Head-Lines 6/11/09)
2009-06-12 04:07:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Gunman kills guard at U.S. Holocaust MuseumNo.I can?t imagine the foul deed set between this dog?s teethLeaning awkwardly against death?s unbending carry.There must be something- illusory power tethering murder?An unplumbed urge sitting in some bar with an open tab?Something that has nothing to do with killing a human being.There are other dogs howling his name, Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Talk , Head , Lines
WHO AM I AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?
2009-06-10 10:04:00 I was visiting an old friend, Graeme, on the net yesterday (Facebook) and he introduced me to the singer, Chocolate Genius and his song, "My Mom". I was very moved by the song and my muse began to scream, as she's in the habit of doing. Hours later, the next day, I was driving into town and listening to my Bright Eyes disc "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" track #1- "At the Bottom of Everything" and Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com
REALISTIC STORIES (Head-Lines)
2009-06-09 22:03:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Mercy plea for held US reportersEuna Lee and Laura Ling were not alone in their frantic plea.The parent?s gasps were sentenced to twelve years of labor-A heaving wave smothering freedom?s beacon;China?s Guantanamo.Crews find more bodies from Air France crashWind, rain, lightening, sky, wish?Floating now. Moving us down,A weight atop such laden grief.Wind, rain, Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Stories , Head , Lines , Realistic
LONG AND BROKEN TEETH
2009-06-08 22:02:00 Name That Racist Tune With Daniel Carver-Caution: Disturbing racist slurs and language throughout video-Hat Tip to We are Respectable Negroes-?Now he knows what the ?n? word means.?She bellowed through discolored teeth,Her vinegar lips pursing upon the dank breath of morningAs foul old men slurred about guns and their prideful obligation,?To use `em when times call or when we damn well please!?? Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Teeth , Long , Broken
SOMETHING IS PLEADING (Head-Lines 6/7/09)
2009-06-08 22:02:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Obama remembers bravery of D-Day vetsThey moved down into the valley of the shadowAnd found death there. They marched into its jaws,Quaking at its countenance with an eagles fortitudeLeaving their breath for it to commit to memory.They battled onward so this day could breathe,Saved this world that we might salvage our spirits,That we might remember what it meant to Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Head , Lines
BROKEN
2009-06-08 22:02:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage) U.S. contractors held in Green Zone killingInformation is temporarily unavailable.Iraq suicide attack kills man, hurts police chiefWar concludes, piercing the proof of silence;Influence spent, the station of splendor set,Undressed in stillness; an ambush on our union.But let?s not paint the words; let us just say it-War, for the warrior, never ends.War, for the Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com More About: Broken
MAKESHIFT PYRE
2009-06-05 10:00:00 Daniel James Murray Charged With Making Threats Against Obama In UtahFederal prosecutors have charged a man with making threats against President Barack Obama after he allegedly told a bank employee in Utah he was on a mission to kill the president.Johnny Bounds at 11:00pm May 31 Facebook?THE LAST MAN NAMED HUSSEIN THAT MESSED WITH THIS COUNTRY WAS HUNG IN PUBLIC, I SAY WE KEEP THE STREAK Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... apoeticjustice dot blogspot dot com
PAINTING THE FRONT PAGE (Head-Lines 6/3/09)
2009-06-04 10:00:00 Obama pays call to King AbdullahIt is as it has been this closeness with kings.It is as it should be these gestures of goodwill.It is as it shall be the backside of reason.Truth be told, we need keep them closer.Bagram: Obama's new Guantanamo?New, fresh and haunted?The siren song wafts over BagramCalling for warfare without anguish.Someone needs it this way;New. Fresh. Idealized.Cheney Defended Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Painting , Page , Front , Head , Lines
VIOLET FOREST (Head-Lines 6/4/09)
2009-06-04 10:00:00 N.H. governor signs gay marriage billStrolling through the violet forestBonnets of green, sleeves of red and caps of brownShake their hips to the breeze.Born there, grow old there? die there.They?ve not much say in the affair.Born red. Born green. Born Brown. Living. Breathing. Crying. Laughing with the wind.New Air France debris found, explosion unlikelySteadfast in this expanse, uncoveredAnd Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Violet , Head , Forest , Lines
IN THE FAMILY OF MAN (Head-Lines 6/2/09)
2009-06-02 09:59:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Killing puts abortion foes on defenseIn worship he found his causeIn prayer he found his scoreIn murder he found his godObama hopeful on Mid-East peaceHow simple it must soundThis wistful wishful flight among the fragile beamsOf stone and foul hatred.Search Is On for Wreckage of Missing Air France JetAmong protea, cycads, and pincushions and the stunning breath of Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Family , Head , Lines , The Family
A SURVIVALIST GUIDE TO PRO-anti-LIFERS (June 1, 2009 Head-Lines)
2009-06-02 09:59:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Last survivor of the Titanic diesThe vessel that for so long held our imaginationIs finally free of our living. ?To its rest now.May she be a reminder of man?s arrogance;His gleeful dalliance with nature?s teeth.This is what grows from the seeds of hateThe testament of our breathing?s riddled with slaughter.Gruesome weapons made of man?s intoleranceWalk the world Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: June , Guide , Head , Anti , Lines
MEMORIAL WHISPER
2009-05-26 09:56:00 Memorial Day launched its whisper to the skyand another lies in wait on the mountaintopbeneath the bleached mass of atonement.O! I am determined by our failingto nurture the patriot treeuntil we can climb near to God!Near enough to ask,?Is this your desire??...Near enough so that the questionneedn?t even be uttered,just near enoughto see the river?s flow.O! I am determined by our failingto Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Memorial , Whisper
A Memorial Moratorium
2009-05-26 09:56:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)When this moment, this now tortured momentWraps talons `round our grave limbs?This day floats down.When our breath is burdenedOf a heart grown weak of dreadFrom skies tight with fuming planesAnd steel beams bending from the sun?This day floats down.When grenades are tossed like flowersSo blooms might flourish in darkness?This day floats down.When our country begs Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Memorial , Moratorium
THE PLANTING SEASON
2009-05-24 09:55:00 3 US Troops Killed in Iraq Making April the Deadliest for US Troops in the Last 7 Months We planted the seeds deep downCounting the slain as we plowedWe can hardly recallThe first red memory of life,But we remember this war?s deadWe recall the smell in spoiled airRemember hearing,?They will treat us as liberator?And ?It?ll be a cakewalk?,And dreading the ?WMD??Our garden has been plantedLike the Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Season , Planting
THE PERFECT STONE
More articles from this author:2009-05-24 09:55:00 Gunman in Iraqi uniform kills 2 U.S. soldiersWhen I first heard of our current war,The occupation of Iraq,I dug up a beautiful rock from my yard, a buried wish.I picked it up out of the dirt,Polished it vigorouslyAnd held it up toward the bright midday sun.I then observed the starRudely abandon my offeringAnd round up the clouds; his cheerless band of thieves.I asked him why he was not pleased, Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Stone , Perfect 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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