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DOMI-NATION (Blog Against Theocracy Part 3)
2008-03-23 07:07:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)(click photomontage to enlarge)The Despoiling of America via The Yurica Report Theocracy...from their own mouths...~(George Grant (The Changing of the Guard: Biblical Principles for Political Action ) "Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ -- to have dominion in civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness. But it is dominion we are after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are after. Not just influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time. It is dominion we are after. World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish. We must win the world with the power of the Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less... Thus, Christian politics has as its primary intent the conquest of the land -- of men, families, institutions, bureaucracies, courts, and governments for the Kingdom of Christ." ~Leo Strauss, the father of t...
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THE WORLD HARVEST (Blog Against Theocracy part 2)
2008-03-23 01:01:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) (click photomontage to enlarge)Theocracy Watch..."This Republican Part y of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy." U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-CT, (New York Times 3/23/05)~Theocracy is derived from the two Greek words Qeo/j (Theos) meaning "God" and kra/tein (cratein) meaning "to rule." The Reverend Rod Parsley, a champion of theocracy, or what he calls a "christocracy," told his congregation at the World Harvest Church, located just outside Columbus, Ohio, "Theocracy means God is in control, and you are not." more ~The theocratic right seeks to establish dominion, or control over society in the name of God. The late D. James Kennedy, former pastor of Coral Ridge Ministries, called on his followers to exercise "godly dominion ... over every aspect ... of human society." At a "Reclaiming America for Christ" conference in February, 2005, Kennedy said:"Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. As the vice regents of God,...
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OUR SEPARATION (Blog Against Theocracy Part 1)
2008-03-22 08:22:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)(click photomontage to enlarge)The phrase "separation of church and state" is derived from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to a group identifying themselves as the Danbury Baptists. In that letter, referencing the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, Jefferson writes:"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."Another early user of the term was James Madison, the principal drafter of the United States Bill of Rights, who often wrote of "total separation of the...
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DIFFUSE NEBULA RISING
2008-03-21 00:35:00
This one is for my longtime blogging friend, QUASAR9, 11D Space Surfer.Yes. The poem is political, see if you can guess, but the beauty that Q9 brings to the blogosphere goes far beyond such matters. His blog is amazing, and I mean out of this world amazing!Quasar9Like to travel fast,almost at the speed of light,and dance with the Starlight... "Planetary Nebula NGC2371" via Quasar9 ☄ Swaggering great comet,Fire born, dashing the sky in hell’s dust,dazzling twinkles in your wake-ferocious smirkriding such turned up lipsunder graying komētēs.Great swaggering comet,atop your hairlike steeddeclaring triumph,declining downward like Rome. ~Out of the vast mist comes a new storm.Its radiance moves down where cloudsof its coming split the pillars of creationlike sunlight on the back of night.Far away, where birth glimmers dimly,Twinkling like an idea,a nebula rising tilts our minds skywardand at long last we see one another.© 2008 mrp/thepoetrymanDo yourself a favor and visit Quasar...

THE WIND
2008-03-20 06:38:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Would I hold my hand thus if I were such a murderous beast?Asked the wolf…Would I be thought a monster like you if I howled in horror?Asked the sheep…I howl for pleasure, little sheep! I consume to nourish my sorrow!Scolded the wolf…I do not mean to offend your howling or persuade your hunger, sir.Prayed the sheep….See my opposing thumb and how it can bring me such pleasure?Inquired the wolf…See my shivering hooves and how they frustrate me significantly?Echoed the sheep…The wind now wails its bitter speech as the wolf skulks nearer.Come! Let us sit next to one another and we shall drink a toast.Said the wolf…I shouldn’t. It’s not right to do so while so many continue to perish.Replied the sheep…Thou art afraid of me, dam? Me? A creature with such manners?Crooned the wolf…No. I- I- I just don’t think it appropriate to toast on this- of all days.Answered the sheep…But this is a day of triumph! Today’s the best day to drink to...
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3,2,1, 0... WAR ANIMALS (1 million dead Blogswarm)
2008-03-19 01:10:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)'3' Civil War (March 19th, 2006) I have traveled to the edge of IraqAnd peered over.She panted treacherously.It is not strange coming out ofThe stifled mouth of national war.It is not easily uttered, theseWords of internal detonations.It is not compliant, this lacerationOf autonomy `gainst thy neighbor.She beseeched the air.I have traveled to the edge of IraqAnd peered over.Lunged of war.~'2' Your Escape of it (March 19th, 2006)The nattering jaws are a hearse of warring witsAnd within their dry swamp thunders denialThey’re dropping the bombs!They’re lobbing grenades!They’re devouring in sneering laughterAnd consuming with their cynical smilesThese, our leaders, and their most pestilent fleshNow harvesting souls for kingdoms sportThey’re dropping the bombs!They’re lobbing grenades!They’re exterminating in sinister heartAnd demolishing the spirit’s sweet coreWe the listless are ingesting trepidation in thisAnd within our quagmire tormen...
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THE WEIGHT OF IT
2008-03-18 06:14:00
Put a single bullet in the palm of your hand…It lays there, obedient, glistening, motionless,Weighing no more than a thought.Sew all grenades into the sleeves of white dress shirtsMaking sure to leave the pins fully engagedAnd they shall never again need ironing.Gently lower all IEDs to the furthest depths of the seaAmong the amazing and peculiar mysteries of the deepAnd strange creatures shall dance to their silence.Place all the military tanks on the planet into large pots,Stoke all the furnaces and melt them down into a liquidAnd from them erect millions of rolling libraries.Hang all rifles and handguns from the surface of the moonLike an airplane mobile or a holiday tree ornamentAnd listen to the wind make a joyful noise.Sculpt all manner of bombs into enormous statuesWhose eyes look down and whose brows are furrowedAnd merrily stare back into their dreary faces.Place a world of peace in the palm of your hand…Feel it gently breathing, exhaling through your fingers,Weighing n...
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THE FOOD OF ONE
2008-03-17 20:54:00
"United" via Ben Heine - Cartoons "People Divided" via Ben Heine - Cartoonshttp://www.relaywave.com/pingRela yWave.php
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THE ENTHUSIASTIC
2008-03-15 22:19:00
O disheveled souls sent out to butcher spirits,Sightless boys placed down in suffering’s arid grasp,Do not go out unaided in this churning despairWith its tall and fickle beast slung over your shoulder,Its eyes within you ill equipped at channeling peace.The blood, reaching high enough, will sting your eyesAnd your host will move you in front of dreadDirecting you toward a manacled liberty unaware,Its love set to rip the flesh that holds your frown,Prepared to gleefully declare that peace is dead.The beast has its place, I suppose.War.Rattling war.Without end.What has been done.The carnage laid siege to the citiesThe way monstrous death inhales,Corpses growing into the soil like freshly sown seedsWith the enthusiasm of young men.That is the thing that is most troubling.The eagerness, the unbridled pleasure.The significance of thisMay well be our ruin.© 2007 mrp/thepoetrymanH/T to The Fanonite for the video "Home of the Brave"Rolling along "K"...Karen AKKarmalisedKatrinacrat BlogK...

TO THE CHILDREN (an ode for Lazare Ponticelli)
2008-03-15 07:24:00
"Aux enfants, je leur dis et je leur répète : ne faites pas la guerre."... "To the children, I told them and I repeated to them, do not make war."--Lazare Ponticelli, 110; the last surviving French veteran of World War I (previously known as "The war to end all wars" and "The Great War"). Read more... TO THE CHILDRENa poem by thepoetrymanO embrace the stillness, the sky, green grass, love.Place the goodness down… with plenty leftover;The tranquil face of a child smiling on future suns,Colossal portraits soaring over mirrors of blue water,Beautiful noise strumming man’s veteran tongue,Unmistakable truths spoken before the slaughter!To the children, I told them, I repeated, do not make war. The history of war need bend to our spirit not crush it.No one lives alone, it is death that finds them there.© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman A tip of the hat to Watching Those We Chose Rolling along "J"...Jade GateJoshing PoliticsJourneys with JoodJune Revolutionhttp://www.relaywave.com/pingRe layW...
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It ADs up to half a minute
2008-03-14 18:24:00
OBAMA IN 30 SECONDSRolling along "I"...I Was Just WonderingIf I Was God I'd Cry TooImpeach George W. BushImpeachBushInformed VotersIntrepid Liberal JournalIraq TodayIraq Veterans Against the WarIt's Morning SomewhereIt's My Right To Be Left Of CenterI'm Jus' A Lil' Dizzy!I'm Sorry Worldhttp://www.relaywave.com/pingRelayWa ve.php
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CACKLED SLUR
2008-03-12 17:37:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama assailed as "slice and dice" politics Geraldine Ferraro's assertion that he wouldn't be where he is in the presidential race if he weren't black...."Part of what I think Geraldine Ferraro is doing, and I respect the fact that she was a trailblazer, is to participate in the kind of slice and dice politics that's about race and about gender and about this and that, and that's what Americans are tired of because they recognize that when we divide ourselves in that way we can't solve problems," Obama said on NBC's "Today" show...."Reverse Racism" rears its ugly head via TampaBay.com..."I was talking about historic candidacies and what I started off by saying (was that) if you go back to 1984 and look at my historic candidacy, which I had just talked about all these things, in 1984 if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would have never been chosen as a vice presidential candida...

THE US of A
2008-03-11 19:25:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) The United States of America Home of the freeThe braveAnd the dangerously ignorant.© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman Rolling along "G"...Global Voices OnlineGodless Liberal Homo Group News Blog Grub Street Journal http://www.relaywave.com/pingRelayWave.ph p

MEIN WORTH
2008-03-09 20:54:00
The O’Reilly Factor: Karl Rove Points To McCain’s Adopted Daughter As Example Of McCain’s Worth iness... By: Nicole BelleIt is no longer possible to have your irony meter redline when Karl Rove appears on TV. He is so beyond the pale, so completely entrenched in his alternative reality that the only thing left to do is marvel at the brass cojones he must possess to pull off this appearance on The O’Reilly Factor. Now that the Bush administration has officially endorsed Republican nominee John McCain, Bush’s Brain tells Billo that there’s a lot about McCain that the public doesn’t know, and those things would impress them. For example, did you know that McCain adopted a dying baby from Bangladesh? (Read more...)(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) FailingPiercedDreadfulAgonisticThrust end to end ThrobbingCome menWithout a world© 2007 mrp/thepoetrymanRolling along "F"...Faith in Honest DoubtFaithfully LiberalFollow Me Here...Forever Under ConstructionForms Most BeautifulFreew...

SNOUT OF GOD
2008-03-05 15:49:00
(Glenn Beck and Pastor Hagee - Anti-Christ experts)First let me just say... Glenn Beck is a goddamned pathetic misery and Pastor Hagee's a real goddamned piece of shoddy work! Parasites, the both of them...(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)~Anti-Christ defined:In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or anti-Christ has come to mean a person, an image of a person, or another entity that is an embodiment of evil.The word 'Antichrist' is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek words αντί + χριστος ('anti + khristos), which can mean anti "opposite" (of) khristos "anointed" therefore "opposite of Christ" (the meaning of christ as the 'anointed one', having become secondary to its meaning as the honorific of Jesus of Nazareth) or anti "as" (if) khristos "messiah" thus "in place of Christ" or a substitute for Christ. An antichrist can be opposed to Christ by striving to be in the place of Christ.The term itself appears 5 times in 1 John and 2 John of the New Test...

THE FLIP OF A COIN
2008-03-02 08:31:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)(Click to enlarge) No Country for Old Men revisits themes Ethan and Joel Coen have used in Blood Simple and Fargo. The novel's motifs of chance, free-will, and predestination are familiar territory for the Coens, who presented similar threads and tapestries of "fate [and] circumstance" in those earlier works. Numerous critics cited the importance of chance to both the novel and the film, focusing on Chigurh's fate-deciding coin flipping, but noted that the nature of the film medium made it difficult to include the "self-reflective qualities of McCarthy’s novel."In The Village Voice, Scott Foundas writes that "Like McCarthy, the Coens are markedly less interested in who (if anyone) gets away with the loot than in the primal forces that urge the characters forward... In the end, everyone in No Country for Old Men is both hunter and hunted, members of some endangered species trying to forestall their extinction."New York Times critic A.O. Scott points...
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WINTER SOLDIER
2008-02-29 06:04:00
IVAW - Iraq Veterans Against the War From March 13-16th, U.S. veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan will testify to what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground in these occupations. To provide a preview, we've created this short film. The film features three members who will be testifying at Winter Soldier and includes videos and photographs of Iraq from their deployments. This video contains graphic content. We need your support to help make Winter Soldier a success. Find out more about Winter Soldier. WINTER SOLDIERa poem by thepoetrymanImmense shining chariots thundered across the heavens.Ghostly hooves burst and collapsed the living homesAnd the shock filled gasps of children could be heard......Years later a dole of doves is all that holds the worldAnd beneath the sand the shards of bone shift downMaking room for the next barren scratch of living’s cage.Giant, fortified wheels of chain roll upon the streets now.Death weary boots slog behind, eyes winked ...

FINAL JUMP (Dedicated to the memory of Lurch)
2008-02-26 07:43:00
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) GOODBYE, FRIENDby FixerToday is a sad day in Blogtopia. We have learned, through a detective with the local police, that our dear friend Lurch has passed away. We didn't receive any details, the information is privileged for family members, but the cop was decent enough to give us that much.I didn't know him that well, mostly through this blog and via email, but my wife and I feel honored we were able to break bread with him when he visited Long Island a year ago....What I know of his military service would fill a thimble, though I knew he served his nation with honor and distinction as an Army paratrooper during the war in Vietnam. Through his experience and study, he was one of the most knowledgeable people when it came to the workings of the service, strategy and tactics, and some of the best insight when it came to reading between the lines on defense issues. He was an invaluable resource as well as a friend. (More…) ~I never had the pleasure...
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DOUBLE UP
2008-02-25 04:49:00
You may want to read the previous post first...http://www.newsday.com/news/local /politics/ny-usdems0225,0,182939.storyNad er jumps in, creating stir amongst DemsBY ERIK GERMAN11:07 PM EST, February 24, 2008PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Consumer advocate Ralph Nader announced Sunday he's running for president, a move that isn't likely to put him in the White House but that could shave votes from the Democratic nominee in November's election.Nader, who ran as the Green Party candidate for president in 2000, announced his White House intentions on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.Hillary Rodham Clinton said Nader's bid would be bad for whichever Democrat ultimately faces likely Republican nominee Sen. John McCain in NovemberJOHNThis is my Kodak® moment! Go away sorceress of ruin, you’re in my last light!HILLARYStuff it you horses ass! I'm fed up with the way things are going as of late!JOHNYou’ve only yourself to blame for your bowlegged service!HILLARYYou’re one to talk of service; the ...
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JUST WORDS?
2008-02-21 19:32:00
Clinton, McCain Push Experience ButtonBy LAURA MECKLER and JACKIE CALMESFebruary 21, 2008; Page A10WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama is facing attacks on two fronts on one of the toughest issues facing his campaign: whether he has the experience necessary to be the nation's commander in chief.Both Sen. Hillary Clinton, his rival in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, are arguing that Mr. Obama, who has no military background and few foreign-policy credentials, is ill-equipped to serve as commander in chief. Both say he would stack up poorly next to Mr. McCain, a Vietnam War hero who has been involved in many foreign-policy debates during his Senate career. Mrs. Clinton also has some foreign-policy experience from her time in the Senate and as first lady. MCCAIN These feet have been unduly shackled to the ground as I flew!I am the mighty warrior tromping with my gun melded to peaceAs my limbs and brittle wits ...
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WAITING FOR IT
2008-02-19 17:35:00
READ THE POEM +/-Arundhati Roy on the Palestinian / Israeli ConflictWAITING FOR ITa poem by thepoetrymanWhy do they stay there, between war and peace?Sky’s tapestry doles out guns, bombs and rocksWhile flesh and bone swim away from the acheYet live on as the food for the murder of peace.Why do we hide from the truth as if it were an ogreWhile death makes a home inside their livingAnd war dispatches a raven to their door,Smirking with the teeth of empire?Why do we wait, stooped for another wink?The sky’s drapery has tossed down ample clues;Peace is breathing in harmony with war.(Roadmaps are useless to blind leaders.)Why do they hold there, hunched in the gloom?Hatred’s bird cackling with bereavementNeeds end. Are we not rightly dishonoredWhen we fill its trough with blood?© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman Sabbah's Blog http://www.relaywave.com/pingRelayWave.ph p
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PRESIDENT'S DAY (THUNDEROUS CAUTION)
2008-02-18 08:55:00
READ THE POEM +/-(Ben Heine - Cartoons)We, the mighty union, corporate suckling’s, do love this casualty, our blindness,our termination…We, the sycophantic mass, entrust this day to loyalty with an arched and listless celebration, a trivial breath and national arrogance in endless parade of glory’strampled rag…We to that yawning nation born must eulogize her leaders in ire filled mantrasto cleave `way our decaying conscience, and the pliable children the tauntof certainty…We must send out a message to the world that we’ve no intention of yielding;a thunderous caution `neath the mantle that shall end the stumbling arsenalsof horror…A dragon’s teeth so magnificent that no enemy’s voyage can come crashingthrough our streets of gold to murder our forgotten hope and steal the last lightof our imaginings…We, we the people, surely have more ruthless and wretched warring in us?More upon this national celebration, hunkered down `neath our sovereign dateof leader's praise...

MAN IS STANDING AT THE GATE THAT OPENS TO WAR
2008-02-15 15:34:00
READ THE POEM +/-(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) The Death Mask of War (Ad Busters - the magazine)War is also the pornography of violence. It has a dark beauty, filled with the monstrous and the grotesque. War allows us to engage in lusts and passions we keep hidden in the deepest, most private interiors of our fantasy life. It allows us to destroy not only things but human beings. In that moment of wholesale destruction, we wield the power to the divine, the power to revoke another person’s charter to live on this earth. The frenzy of this destruction – and when unit discipline breaks down, or there was no unit discipline to begin with, frenzy is the right word – sees armed bands crazed by the poisonous elixir our power to bring about the obliteration of others delivers. All things, including human beings, become objects – objects to either gratify or destroy or both. Almost no one is immune. The contagion of the crowd sees to that... a poem by thepoetrymanMan is standing...
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NUMBERS
2008-02-12 19:49:00
READ THE POEM +/-(Ben Heine - Cartoons)Why stop at 935 when an election is just around the corner?fromOpen Letters to George W. Bushfrom his ardent admirer, Belacqua Jones Dear George,Just as the sight of crocuses peaking through the soiled snows of March are harbingers of spring, so is the dealing of the Terror Card the harbinger of another election cycle. Once again, you are trotting out the strategy that has kept you in office for so long: If you scare the chickens enough, they will vote for the fox.It is a thing of beauty. First you create imaginary shadows, and then in every imaginary shadow you hide an imaginary terrorist skulking down Main Street America, ready to blow up the local soda shoppe where America’s clean-cut teenagers hang out.Your Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell says it so, so it must be so. And we must believe it is so, and our faith must be perfect, untainted by doubt, because if our faith is not perfect and it we allow the 935 lies that led u...
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LAST LOOK
2008-02-09 22:32:00
READ THE POEM +/-(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion -- some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture. The women are killed, police say, because they failed to wear a headscarf or because they ignored other "rules" that secretive fundamentalist groups want to enforce."Fear, fear is always there," says 30-year-old Safana, an artist and university professor. "We don't know who to be afraid of. Maybe it's a friend or a student you teach. There is no break, no security. I don't know who to be afraid of."Her fear is justified. Iraq's second-largest city, Basra, is a stronghold of conservative Shia groups. As many as 133 women were killed in Basra last year -- 79 for violation of "Islamic teachings" and 47 for so-called honor killings, according to IRIN, the news branch of the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humani...

ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY OF OUR SHAME
2008-02-06 02:50:00
READ THE POEM +/-(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Our Day of Shame On the anniversary of the day of our shameWhen homes rupture into flameAnd the warrior meets the peacemakerWill it not be a humble reckoning?Will not the nobility of man shine down upon us?Will this light not rumble at the door of freedom,The will for excellence and splendor come forth,Be a splendid ballet upon the stage of governancePirouetting over all the ornately cold and corrupt?O! Our day of shameBe gentle that our swollen eyes might shutOur day of shameBring our souls `round to enchanting musicOur day of shameSpring a fountain of hope and a child’s joyOur day of shameOffer wine instead of overflowing bloodOur day of shameBe a voice to the sky hovering in the heavensOur day of shameBe a builder, a carpenter of love and elationOur day of shameBe a consoling hand and offer it willinglyOur day of shameBe a martyr of peace with strength and willOur day of shameEmerge as peacemaker, not ravenous warrior. On our day ...
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AND ANOTHER AMNESTY!
2008-02-04 23:19:00
READ THE POEM +/- The soft wings of angelsMove me toward justice,A justice whose embers are readyTo burst forth of our mysteryCrumbling `neath our feet,Wet and full, awash over bordersAnd the citizenry of this world;Faithful, thinking, ready for healing...Might this be dawn of a needed peace;Less for sorrow and flagAnd more our song of kinship;Human love?http://www.relaywave.com/pingRelayWa ve.php
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AMNESTY! AMNESTY! AMNESTY!
2008-02-04 07:52:00
READ THE POEM +/- Surrounded by beautyFrom poets to manNestling near the unfoundAtop sweeping declarationsIn grandly penned rebellionWith such tempered existence;One, a visionaryThe other, merrimentEnsnaring the mind with raging-Thus plummets a star...http://www.relaywave.com/pingRelay Wave.php
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BRIDGING WORDS
2008-02-01 23:48:00
READ THE POEM +/-(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) There is going gradually insaneThere is even shelter from time to timeMaybe a canopy for the truth(plagued by frauds)Which is no one’s faultThey’ve only themselves to blameThen there’s underneath the bridgeWhich can be made to stay longer on the wayThis particular variety’s imaginaryThe idea is (was) to get homeless and insanityTo sound like the otherThe words themselves to feel like the otherRoll off the tongue unnoticedThat way it’s easier to press closerAnd everyone sounds madThen... create a subjective worldWhere insanity is like apple pieAnd only stares upon the gruntThe powers that be manipulating the machinationsShall inevitably end up completely insane themselvesBut with such influences upon languageThey’ll continue to mock the destituteThen… when all are reasonably and completely insaneWe’ll not be able to tell the damn differenceThis madness is the only kind we know© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman Homeless Vets Tackl...
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A CHARGE TO KEEP (Thievery's Slumber)
2008-01-26 20:00:00
READ THE POEM +/- A CHARGE TO KEEPThe Illustrated President"I thought I would share with you a recent bit of Texas history which epitomizes our mission. When you come into my office, please take a look at the beautiful painting of a horseman determinedly charging up what appears to be a steep and rough trail. This is us. What adds complete life to the painting for me is the message of Charles Wesley that we serve One greater than ourselves."[Bush] came to believe that the picture depicted the circuit-riders who spread Methodism across the Alleghenies in the nineteenth century. In other words, the cowboy who looked like Bush was a missionary of his own denomination.Only that is not the title, message, or meaning of the painting. The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled “The Slipper Tongue,” published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the S...
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