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. 
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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
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 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
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
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
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
SACROSANCT ABYSS
2009-05-24 09:55:00 How a Supreme Court Case Tore the Republican Party in TwoParadox or HypocrisyThink You've Heard the Scariest Thing About Sarah Palin?Men and women out of the flames ascendRising like the cold grey breath of winter,Praising "God" and life and death.Their bones clack to Armageddon?s rhythm,Their eyes perceive the Day of JudgmentLooming steady the bitter death of man.Where is this rising of thy god? Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Abyss
...ILLUSTRATED...
2009-05-24 09:55:00 8 dead in nursing home shooting-5-U.S. deploys anti-missile ships before N.Korea launch-4-27 Killed as Gunmen Storm Police School in Pakistan-3-Key U.S. Allies Face Off in Iraq-2-Nixon, Khrushchev And A Story Of Cold War Love-1-Video from World War III Illustrated...HIGH INTO THE MOIST AIRthe thread is now barren, too soon,waving over the arid ground,it splits againand the cotton bleeds with the Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full...
BECKONING CONSUMPTION (Head-Lines 5/9/09)
2009-05-24 09:55:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Probe: Taliban used civilians as ?human shields?Since the mighty have blistered with fireSince so many homes have been crushedSince all that?s left to grieve is deathSince so many lie hushed in their gravesSince unknown journeys have yet to comeChildren, mothers and fathers rise up with full and shaking tongueAnd lash this god-awful hatred and war from the earth! Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Head , Lines , Consumption
MOTHER'S OF THE EARTH? (an ode)
2009-05-24 09:55:00 I think of you as the founders of peace, limitless affection for children as you look upon your own and upon those outside of your arms reach.(You would hold them, too,Press the quivering child to your breast,Conceal the innocent of any suffering orWar, away from the vile thievery of their soul.)I think of mothers as the final resting place for all those exhausted of spirit; the displaced, the Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Earth
CALLING OUT (Thursday Head-Lines)
2009-05-24 09:55:00 Car bomb blast kills 41 in northwest BaghdadThe skin of the beast drips with sweatAs it hovers over the sandPerplexed at the people?s will to survive,Even as blood pours around them.Rain; despite a ships call for help,Will continue to fill an angry sea.Guantanamo inmate transfer blockedOur green hope, our red fury,Fear is still our emperor;Sovereign of land and liberty?Iran Announces Missile Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Calling , Thursday , Head , Lines
My Muse Busts My Chops
2009-05-24 09:55:00 Sometimes it takes a headline to jolt the senses enough for my muse to rise up and begin to move me to write.I had her look at the headlines below and she smirked, rolled her eyes and said, "You've got to be kidding me? Those headlines aren't inspiring, they're, unbeknownst to their authors, friggin? rhetorical!" I responded incredulously. Really? You think so? I ducked and she began to furiously Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Chops , Muse
(Head-Lines 5/20/09) THE DANCE
2009-05-24 09:55:00 Democrats in Senate Block Money to Close GuantánamoThere is no spring thereEverything within- the brown skinsCovering the human frames Remain damp with winter.Many die in Indonesian air crashAnother and another tossed down!Roaring breath standing tallLike some wayward missileScreeching past.Democrats Defending PelosiArise to arise and arise there among the packSolemn predatorsAllegiant to their Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Dance , Head , Lines
A Journey with Genocide
2009-05-24 09:55:00 (Poetic Justice Photomontage)Grief doesn?t travel very far away,Scratch the surface and it?s all back again.(Triple car bomb strikes Baghdad)You see, love is like that.(Darfur Genocide and Ellison's Protest)If you love someone they?re eitherGone a long distance for a short whileOr a long while? But grief,Grief doesn?t travel very far away.(Holocaust Timeline)Winter's SoldierImmense shining Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Journey
SHRILL LIGHTNING
2009-05-24 09:55:00 -Right Wing Extremists Blaming Latinos for Spreading Swine Flu Across Border-Another Violent Right-Wing Extremist-Think About it (Support the Mathew Shepard Act)-Touché-Team Sarah on the Attack-The US and its ?Great? Leadership in Iraq-It's an Insult to Suggest Veterans are Bias Crime VictimsI?m appalled by all this shrill lightning,The stench of something recklessLike an oven broiling Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Lightning
AN EQUATION OF WAR
2009-05-24 09:55:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)The Mathematics of WarPulling raw numbers from the news, they plot the unnatural,The storm of shock and awe?s modernityAs it moves across the sand-Seeking answers within the whirl,Clues of how to temper the foregone tempest.Great numbers fall like the rain over their desire.Urgency swoops in like waves.This was long after the beast began to calculate;Crack its first Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full...
Beck's Dragon
2009-05-24 09:55:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)O Mr. Maudlin, it?s a shame you were born of such pitiable motivesAnd decrepit spine.You encourage such nausea; fetch such odium to the keepers of truth.You spin such possibilities.That?s all they are- No. They?re not even that. They?re white magic;Vile and superfluous.Tears of a clown. Fools play. Idiotic charades meant to lure the numb,The elector androids with Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Dragon
I CAN'T KEEP MY EYES OFF OF YOU...
2009-05-24 09:55:00 (A Poetryman Video production)© 2008 mrp/thepoetrymanMusic by Amy Kuney - "The Blowers Daughter" Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Eyes
FREEDOM...
2009-05-24 09:55:00 U.S. captain held by pirates rescuedPakistan militants attack NATO supply trailersU.S. general says Iraq attacks no reason to panicProtesters Swarm Thai CapitalSaudi judge upholds marriage of 8-year-oldThe freedom that he wanted couldn?t bring itself through the gatesSo he imagined it pressing its paws to the soil beyond the walls,That he heard it weeping plaintively just outside his tiny Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Freedom
DEPRAVITY
2009-05-24 09:55:00 Fas?cism (noun) [fa? shizzem]Authoritarian political ideology where all individual and societal interests are inferior to the needs of the state.Come!O ghosts of misery!Louder than the whole of God,more wordless than humiliationbreathing hard upon our backs!Bring forth your most depraved armyover the present carnage of man;red tongued and in the making!Come quick under the roaring skyand lock Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full...
DEVIANT DREAMING
2009-05-24 09:55:00 (Via Ben Heine Art)Too dirty! Too ungodly!Too iconic, like some unthinkableBeast leaping out a child?s throat,Wielding its claws as switchblades(Or bullets or bombs),Planting red lips upon the sleeping,Bringing innocence to its knees.Too much, God damn it!Too rich! Too immeasurableLike a pedophile?s rancid erectionPenetrating a child?s flaccid faithEtched within youth?s center;They?ll choose not Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Dreaming
ONLY FRAIL EXCUSES (4/19/09 Head-Lines)
2009-05-24 09:55:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage x 7)Obama awaits Cuba?s next stepsThe land draws nearer and nearer now, it is upon us.We can see moving forms, limbs along its edgesWaving to us as the seagulls spiral the welcome sky. U.S. to boycott racism conference over IsraelRight after the stars were replaced with sequinsAnd the moon had fallen from its perch,Readily replaced with a wad of Swiss cheese,We were Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Head , Lines , Excuses
AN ENDURING TORTURE
2009-05-24 09:55:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)??Because they are soft. They are weak people compared to our military service people and they would crack under torture. But al Qaeda, people who have devoted their lives to destroying their enemy, the people are willing to die in their exercises, they were all willing to die on 9-11. Sean Hannity thinks torture is going to work on them because he has never, never Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full... More About: Torture
TORTURE MEMO
2009-05-24 09:55:00 © 2008 mrp/thepoetryman(Torture Memo ) ...Song by Jonathan Mann Putting Torture Memos to Music - Mother Jones Please visit 'Poetic Justice' to read in full...
OUR IDEAS BECOME OUR REALITY (3/27/09 Head-Lines)
2009-03-27 09:02:00 Clinton Says US bears blame for Mexico's Drug WarThey scurry from cathedral to slum,Scuttle from high-rise to house,Under fences and over wallsOur culpable voice calls us out.Eric Cantor Went to Brittany Spears Concert Songless, shiftless, spiritless,And unreservedly deficient;Birds that cannot sing flock in concert.Pope 'distorting condom science' Because our mind and hearts are humanSomeone desires to drive a wooden stake through themTo keep us from breathing even a fragment of truthThat cuddles up now and again next to our naked flesh.Pakistani and Afghan Taliban Unify in Face of U.S. InfluxInflux certainly means upon our arrival or invasion.It seems we’ve failed to learn from our recent lessons.Maybe we’re blind beneath our war-painted faces?FOX - Five Sci-Fi Ideas That Became Reality 1. Cell Phones 2. Robots 3. Submarines4. Space travel 5. Home entertainment systemsIt seems, in their haste, they forgot about one- 6. Fox News Channel.Shoddy wiring 'everywhere' on bases i... More About: Head , Lines
SOMETHING SLEEPING THIS WAY COMES (3/24/09 Head-Lines)
2009-03-24 05:10:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Something Wicked (or good, depending on your perspective) This Way ComesO! It moves with such cruelty, such a violent gait,It seems to breathe of a bastardized conception;Less human, more beast, without love or teeth. 15 AIG execs agree to return bonusWhether millions is even comprehensible to us normal Joes isn’t the astounding thing...We’ll never see such weight, yet our handsHands of our living, Sagging low of struggle,Exhausted like a sea of promises at sundownTell a different story.Suicide attack on Iraqi funeralEven the wavering spirits, the dull heartedAnd brooding children are due a walk in the valley.The devotion of arid prayer brings even rainfall to grief.Accused "sleeper agent" pleads not guilty in U.S.In the slowness of our watch,Our startled and clatter filled livesEcho a self-imposed blunder Used to smash our prattling teeth. Sunni Fighters Say Iraq Didn’t Keep Promises on Jobs“Work!” cried the people covered in blood.“Tr... More About: Sleeping , Head , Lines
SUPER FEINDS
2009-03-20 06:35:00 Beck brought on his best Wingnut Super Friends, Michelle Malkin and Jonah Goldberg, to whine on Beck's Fox News show about the horrible torch-bearing mob that has been unleashed in the direction of those poor AIG executives. (H/t Crooks & Liars)(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)© 2008 mrp/thepoetryman
1-4 IT MATTERS WHAT WE DO (or don't do)
2009-03-18 18:57:00 It matters what we do.The liberation possesses usLike death owns our bones.While we beam a maw of daggersThe freeway writhes next to usLike a pit of angry snakes.A liberty bell protests pointlessly in the harbor,Some ashen patriot, or adolescent, must be torturing it…Let’s not conjure this painting further.Forget about the relentless racket.Forget about freedom for a moment.Think only of the terror stuffed deep downLike a wellhead pawing the ocean floor,Think only of ourselves and our callous skin,An opportunity to taste such bitterness;How acerbic and most foul to live without conscience…© 2007 mrp/thepoetrymanA New Foundation for GrowthPresident Obama submitted a budget to Congress that challenges the status quo and directly confronts the long-term threats to our prosperity.But it's up to us to make sure Washington knows that Americans across the country stand by the President's plan to invest in energy, health care, and education.Watch President Obama's message and get ... More About: Matters
SCATTERED DOWNTURN (3/12/09 Head-Lines)
2009-03-12 07:08:00 Downturn trims list of billionairesWhat remains for us to sing about when we’re alone?We’ve been left a tall rocking horse on the arid shoresWhose face is stopped in horror; fierce eyes, pale Mane, and a faded mouth filled with graying wicked teeth.It cannot be enough.Teenage gunman kills 15 in German school attackOne can sense the pallid bend of eternity as it tumbles headlong off the peak.(Have we been here before with an equally strange and untamed coldness?)Surely our minds will strike a chord and summon our better selves?Without doubt. Yes? ...Without a doubt...Israel Stance Was Undoing of Nominee for Intelligence PostThe land remains, the waves bite the shore with thunderLike shrill whores pacing outside a fortified gateIn a land gone mad of money, torture, war and death;a constant noise percolates in the greed-murdered flesh. Survey: Obama Team Gets Poor Grades on EconomyThe above survey is from Faux News,Unjust and unhinged.In other words, there’s no truth in it...The ... More About: Head , Lines
A RECKONING AT HAND (3/11/09 Head-Lines)
More articles from this author:2009-03-11 07:37:00 Alabama rampage leaves several deadStorm of the wounded, the quieted dead,Snuffed down under. What will we do,Drain ourselves of living? Where are we travelingIn the smog-stacked spaces of dread...Acidic seas fuel extinction fearsThe sea crept by a sunken oil tanker,Air bubbled out its blackened hullAnd called out, “In here! It’s safe enough!”The sea moved on without notice.Madoff faces life in prison on 11 criminal chargesEleven-One more and he’d be a disciple,One less and he’d be Moses,As it stands, death will find him there.CIA Torture: A Reckoning at Hand ?O agony has found his lover in this,With hooded face and shackled wrist,Naked, they shall move together as oneAnd assemble tombs in their offspring.Bomber kills 33 at Iraq peace conferenceThey had removed their shoesAnd sought a silence over the blaring stormThat shrieked across an engaged spirit,Their many scarves, like a morning dew,Longing to shroud the wounded world.© 2008 mrp/thepoetryman More About: Head , Lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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