Winston Churchill..
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened."
"It is a sad day when the truth is just an obstacle in man's quest for power and a lie is his preferred entree for sustenance."
M. Beatty
Josephine Hart...
"A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth waiting to be discovered."
THE LIE REVEALED
Coiled and ready to strike
In the wicked weeds of deception
The truth is poised to bite
And reveal its resurrection
No amount of cover can permanently hide
What liars don't want to be seen
Truth waits patiently inside
To show itself and intervene
There will always be one to spill the beans
And betray the liar's trust
Truth was always there and has forever been
To ensure the liars are double crossed
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
THE MAKING OF A MAN
The slap on the butt that makes a baby cry
First steps into a mommy's outstretched arms
Waving sadly to daddy "Bye bye!"
Learning all too soon the ability to charm
Riding a bicycle, crashing a car
A first failing grade and the punishment
Over-encouragement that he will go far
And when he did, such astonishment
The first job at a pizza place
The first time fired from it, too
The first jilted girlfriend, the slap on his face
A month earlier the first "I love you!"
Each little noodle in a lifetime of soup
Every little pat on the head
Each little "man to man" on the front stoop
Hanging on each word his father said
All this and more is planted in his soul
It makes him the man he will be
Every incident, each word will make this man whole
Marked forevermore for his world to see
"To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell."
TOO BIG FOR MY BRITCHES
It is not all about me, you see
In the garden of life I'm just one little pea
Let's take a crane and move my ego aside
Tone it down a little, my selfish pride
Every little gun is not pointed at my head
If it was I'd be stone cold dead
Every Cupid's arrow is not aimed for my heart
I'm not the focus of anyone's art
Consider the world did revolve around me
I'd be the target of hate in all humanity
I'd be so overwhelmed by love and affection
No mirror could be large enough to hold my reflection
I'd be the blame for global warming
They'd say I set the killer bees swarming
I'd be the suspect for each murdered corpse
I'd be the hero of whatever the sport
I'd much rather be one flute in the band
One little grain of a beach full of sand
Totally ignored for much of the time
With just a little piece of life claimed as mine
" When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability...to be alive is to be vulnerable."
OWNING UP
A child will dream of independence
But arrive in the world of adult incumbrance
What little one would have ever known
Rules are stricter once we are grown
Play is scarce and work is plenty
Promises are broken or empty
Building castles on the beach
Is a fantasy that can't be reached
We never again would expect to see
Our childhood vulnerability
As adults we become more prone
That vulnerability is ours to own
"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battle ground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling." Madeliene L'Engle (1918-2007)
THE BATTLING POET
Sometimes I wish I could
Bask in the simplicity of it all
Ride the gentle winds, I would
Instead of tumbling down a waterfall
Then inside my head it comes
I become trapped in it once again
The whirlwind of creative eloquence
Will carry me off to way back when
I think in terms of flowers growing
Tides and mountaintops
The images my mind keeps showing
Never seems to stop
A poet's mind is never idle
I close my eyes and words appear
It seems that I'm incapable
Of competing with the likes of old Shakespeare
But then again I find my way
Amid the fantasy to which I'm entitled
In the words and rhymes I have my say
Not harnessed in, a steed unbridled
In my world the angels dance
Beasts are slain and left to die
Folk are caught up in true romance
And it never matters how and why
MEMORY LANE
The old lane is nearly overgrown
The board fence leaning towards the ground
This is one place I am pleased to have known
It's been so long since I've been around
In the old carriage house still tucked away
Is the old buggy great grandma and grampa used to ride
I had heard it was special back in the day
It's where grampa proposed to his bride
Dust and cobwebs drape over the buggy's fringe top
It has been decades since this place has seen much light
I guess there's been some where the ceiling has dropped
The stars likely peek in during the night
And there is the mansion, once so stately
Quietly finding its final place to rest
It hasn't been entered much lately
Now inhabited by ghosts, it was once picturesque
The old barn is still standing, but leaning a bit
Faded APACHE painted on an old stall
A rusted out tractor, alone still sits
Remembering the fields, she plowed them all
But in an overgrown patch of ground
Is what is left of what has my heart breaking
The remnants of the fire damaged caretaker's house can be found
It was once so quaint and breathtaking
I can still hear the laughter of the young family rising
Who started their married life in that cute little space
That the happiness lingers is not so surprising
It was so cozy to raise a family in that place
The deterioration is a sad thing to see
For one who held the place so dear
But somehow it finally comes to me
So many angels like to hang around here
I know what you mean by wanting things more simple. As I continue to purge things I think about how many times I have been through all these damn boxes and have thrown away so little. Meanwhile I continue to have boxes of useless items taking up space and complicating my life and know the day after I die Ryan will throw every last box in a dumpster.
THINGS
Memories packed tightly away
That I haven't seen for many a day
The same things that I can conjure in my mind
What is in my heart I can easily find
Musty boxes filled with scraps of what was
I just keep it mainly because
When it comes to releasing memories it's hard
To realize it is packed way safely in my heart
"SIMPLIFY! Life is so complex without even trying!" Sharon Krogman
SIMPLIFY
Life is so complex without even trying
We dig deeper in debt just buying and buying
Things clutter our homes and our attics and such
When is it ever too much?
Obsessive collecting of useless possessions
Bring clutter and chaos and family objections
What inanimate object means more than your peace
And trying to acquire things out of your reach?
When having just everything becomes such a lust
That once treasured items are covered in dust
If it seems you have more than a reasonable supply
Get your life back...simplify
M. Beatty
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
NEED
Want it, need it, crave it, bleed for it
Will the angst over having not affect you more
Acquire it, must get it, you can't forget it
Whatever the hell you are yearning for
Appreciate it, covet it, downright love it
Things often miles from your grasp
The lust for have nots you can't rise above it
And it spoils the gifts you already have
"If our life mattered to anyone at all, I guess it was worth it."
"Is it luck that when I died the people left behind spoke fondly of me? Or was it my own effort that made them remember me and smile?"
"If my life is spent to the point I am indebted to God, I hope I die broke from my amazing shopping spree of life."
"I hope people remember me as someone who shook hands rather than someone who went through life slapping faces."
"When the time comes I can no longer carry my own weight, let me lay down my worldly burdens gently and head off to dance with the angels."
"If I have any regrets, it will be for days wasted angry at someone or something I could not control."
"It is not always going to be sunshine, warm breezes, and puffy white clouds. Some days are going to be angry seas crashing to the beach, swallowing you up, only to come crashing back in to spit you out."
Quotes by Marian Beatty
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy." John F. Kennedy.
WITHIN A LIFETIME
Taken for granted, our days and nights
As we face a lifetime of triumphs with well scheduled plights
It all blends in to insignificance
After all, for most, it is a very long existence
Bravely we face our night's and days
Appropriately handled in many ways
Our own little world will likely take precedence
It's our own little family in our own little residence
We are soldiers wandering a battlefield
Not sure if our personal fates are sealed
Little skirmishes or full blown attacks
Sullen times we will never get back
We are knights upon a flashy steed
We are compassionate givers or prone to greed
Perhaps some will be heros to all mankind
But mostly we are all just marking time
Within a lifetime we'll all conspire
In search of peaks higher and higher
Were we honest to ourselves or did we lie?
To whom does it matter on the day we die?
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the depression and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense the yearning." John Huizinger
Depression
It comes from deep within me
The passion for the miracles around me
Perhaps if I did not so see things so bright
I'd not be cast into the darkest of night
Why do I appreciate love so immensely
Only to feel hate so intensely?
Can't there be somewhere in between to embrace me?
Rather than the highs or lows my emotions must place me?
I have it always in my mind
The world will fall apart if I leave it behind
Then again it may blossom and thrive
If I just live in the background while I am alive
When I'm happy and getting things done
My humor propels me and I bask in the sun
When in times of depression I fell
I have personally shook hands with the devil in hell
Again my brain is being sucked from my head
As I enter a world so close to the dead
And tears fall...
And fall...
As I fall
"Depression, suffering, and anger are all part of being human." Janet Fitch
"Perhaps it is true that depression, suffering, and anger are all a part of being human. But when the depression intensifies normal frustration within common suffering and anger, it means the Swiss watch that ticks in your brain that moves you forward is ticking back and forth from past to future and confusing the hell out of you." M. Beatty
"In a free society, standards of public morality can be measured only by whether physical coercion...violence against persons or property...occurs. There is no right not to be offended by words, actions, or symbols." Richard E. Sincere (researcher for Crises magazine)
"There are a whole lot of things said and done that are offensive to me. If we complain about what offends us, that is within our own right to free speech. If we demand that the offenders be silenced and reprimanded, we are edging ourselves out of a free society.". Marian Beatty
"What if you are offended by free speech or free expression of any kind? Do we not measure the level of freedom by what we are allowed to say or do within the reason of general law? If we display a cross in the middle of a desert and we offend someone and are forced to take it down what does it say about our premise of free speech. Where does free speech go too far and where should censorship begin? Do we protect those of a sensitive nature from pornography or visions of death? How far do we go when it comes to regulating free speech? How should Americans feel about being placed in free speech zones after receiving a permit to assemble for a particular cause. Just how much freedom have we lost because there are so many splinter groups who can't tolerate a different truth?" James Dixon
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" Tacitus (55-117 AD)
"While reviewing the absurd laws that were obviously implemented because something offended someone to the point they complained to the right people, it is obvious to me that we have been chipping away at our liberty for many, many years." Marian Beatty
WELCOME TO THE CLUB
When the brightest of light cannot break through the darkness
When you feel like you have bled to death with the tears you have shed
If there becomes no way to ignite your one vital spark
And thoughts of ways to end it keep spinning in your head
When the road you travel seems to be forever under construction
And friends have dwindled away because you are pleasant no more
If you contemplate instead of progress, pure and complete destruction
Then you cringe if someone dares to lay a knock upon your door
You shy away from mail, leaving all the bills sealed tight
Every sound is shrill and hurts your brain
There is something within you that just isn't right
Perhaps you have joined the ranks of the insane
Welcome to the club, we are all in here to invite you
In various stages of insanity we survive
Just looking for some mentor capable to reunite you
With the will we once had to stay alive
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom." Aristotle
"When there comes a time when punishment in the form of justice comes at every turn because of the cries of outrage by extreme factions...and retaliation exceeds moderation, that means that the government is tightening the reins of the free spirit of We the People. Liberty requires the wisdom of our representatives to rule in moderation, within reason, and not regulate the people back into the chains of tyranny." M. Beatty
"Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination." Harry S. Truman
IMPOSING ONE'S FEARS
As some yards need a fence
Some rivers need a dam
Sometimes life is too intense
With intrusive demands
Some people need a list
And at least a guiding hand
The insecure insist
On an oppressive plan
Some thrive on regulations
For fears they perceive
From the co-population
Who may be killers and thieves
They want as many laws
As it takes to feel safe
And let government claws
Invade everyone's space
As these insecure folks
Impose their insecurity on another
And their inability to cope
Affects their sisters and brothers
Their fear creates chains
That restrains a whole nation
They go to great pains
To impose laws and regulations
Can it be with such fear
They would wish themselves dead
Rather than go another year
Knowing there are pitfalls ahead?
Winston Churchill said..."Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."
"One can choose to wing it, go through life through trial and error. Yes, making mistakes can be a good education, but knowing your history and learning from another's past mistakes can leave you a much clearer blueprint for life with fewer do-overs and painful lessons."
Marian Beatty
George Santayana said "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
FORWARD PROGRESS
Take a walk through life
Meander if you so choose
Do it without a map
Wrong turns are progress you lose
Perhaps before you begin your journey
And at stops along the way
Review a bit of history
Avoid mistakes that make you pay
Forward progress is most desired
And can be handled appropriately
If you take the time to review
A bit of history
We have a couple lost generations who have no idea of history...even their own national history...so we wonder where national pride went. Where are the patriots? The new patriots that can speak of national pride? America has been engineered socially to the point where the only thinking going on is what information the government provides. Could this have something to do with the high drop out rates in schools? (Just a thought) James Dixon
JFK..."History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."
THE SEA OF KNOWLEDGE
The tide comes in with bits of knowledge
Gathered from the deep sea of history
It comes from the hard knocks college
And is an education that is free
Go to that beach and collect
The stonesj and shells of history past
The gems in this sand that you collect
Can put success into your grasp
"They can change what history is in the books, they can hide history from our children by limiting what oppressors wish to negate.
All I can say is talk to your children, teach them all the history you learned before oppressors began to alter it to fit their own agendas. Point out that truth about our history can be found in old books and on the Internet.
Maybe, if we arm ourselves with the truth from the past along with our patriotism and guns, we can thwart the damage being done by the re-arrival of the tyrants."
Marian Beatty
"If there comes a time when individuals fail to exist, when all the people think as one...the world as we know it will be done. Every civilization deserves its freethinkers. Every country can only thrive with the presence of rebels."
M. M. Beatty
The Liberals (left wing) are heavy duty in to COLLECTIVISM which takes away individuality so whenever you hear that word, RUN! But they will rarely use the word...it’s subtle.
Sharon Krogman
Free thinking seems to be taboo least we say or do something to offend some fringe group.
"I do think we can keep our souls and values and also our individuality and at the same time play the game at least until the game is so oppressive that revolt becomes necessary."
James Dixon
"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society for which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of society alone, but for the development of his self." B.R. Ambedkar
AND THE INDIVIDUAL EMERGES
Born into a world where seeds are sown
Unceremoniously mixed with the soil
Beauty and sustenance are eventually grown
But then also come the weeds to spoil
Raindrops falling into the sea
So seamlessly they merge within the waves
They lose their individuality
Within the depths of Neptune's grave
But people are much different, you see
Like oil in the puddle we stand alone
As we struggle with our personalities
No matter by whom we are chaperoned
As seeds are continuously spread and sown
And random raindrops miss the sea
The random rain meet seeds wind blown
And join to form flowers of humanity
The individual emerges among
The stately nature in its background
Each of us go one by one
Our own ideas to expound upon
"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man." Tacitus
BORN TO BE FREE
Inborn is the will to reject it
Chains and shackles, brutal oppression
It is my pride, you should respect it
Free to fly, it's my obsession
No color am I to be tainted
No respect am I to be denied
No creed of mine shall be stained
No vilifying me is justified
I'll twist your boot from upon my neck
Drop you unceremoniously if you try to stone me
You'll rue the day we ever met
If you, a tyrant, attempt to own me
"He who allows oppression shares the crime." Desiderius Erasmus
COME THE TYRANT
A tyrant comes to take the land
He leads the people by the hand
With punishment or threats and lies
To oppress the people he surely tries
He sucks prosperity through straws of taxes
To put more people in menial classes
He socially levels to lower status
He throws more regulations at us
Whoever will stand to watch it still
The oppression of people of their free will
Without lifting a finger or spending a dime
Is equally guilty of the socialist's crime
To turn a cheek or pull a punch
To abandon the citizens in a crunch
It is our elected reps we should indict
If they all surrender without a fight
"All oppression creates a state of war."
THE LITTLE PEOPLE OPPRESSED
See the little people sad
Give them time and they'll get mad
See the little people weep
Push them and they aren't so meek
See the oppressive government try
To demean the people and make them cry
See them knocking down the door
And hear the little people roar
It's time to settle up the score
The oppressed little people are waging war
"Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated units." Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) from the book THE UNDISCOVERED SELF (1957)
THE NEW PRIORITIES
Peek around the corner
Hide behind the curtain
Say nothing they can use against you
It's the NSA, I'm certain
Turn your pockets inside out
Report every cent as you earn it
Just so the IRS can pass it on
And the government can burn it
And then while they are at it
Target conservative groups
Deny them their deductions
How low can government stoop?
The land is vast and barren
Being put to very good use
By cattleman who feed us well
With the cattle they produce
Making sure to get their dollars
The B.L.M. endeavors to collect
Sending dozens of armed feds swarming
Is there an agenda to suspect?
Allow illegal immigration to continue
Border crossings raise our fears
Who is too busy commandeering
An American rancher's steers?
Water is at a premium
The California farmers felt
But the E.P.A. denies them
They must protect the smelt
And use our hard earned dollars
For environmentalist groups to funnel
Putting shrimp on treadmills
Giving Florida turtles a brand new tunnel
They see our ire growing
And it's only just begun
No wonder they are adamant
To confiscate our guns
Don't they work for We the People
As promised in our constitution?
Is the administration the pimp
In all this government prostitution?
"It concerns me, the battles our government has been choosing these days. More and more they seem against We the People instead of those we should fear."
M. Beatty
"To test for whether one is living in a police state is that those who are charged with enforcing the law are allowed to break the laws with impunity." Jim Roland Founder of the constitutional society
RANGE WAR
In they came, armed for battle
From a fellow American they take his cattle
Though his family's livestock grazed this land forever
The government was compelled to this endeavor
Day by day lawbreakers surge
Over the border into welfare they merge
Yet what battle does our government choose?
With an American cattleman, now I'm confused!
He works, pays taxes, and helps feed this nation
Has employs more cowboys each generation
Asks not for welfare to feed his own
He's doing well with all he has ever known
What brought this government wrath thrown down
Snipers perched, armed feds all around
Where his cattle has grazed for decades here
Is it really for the tortoise the government fears?
I suspect a hidden agenda within
This battle against these American men
Is this a preview of what's to come?
Government agents converging, brandishing guns?
What should be handled within a court
Turned into a brief range war
It may be, and I hope I'm misguided
Just the beginning our civilization divided
"Be tolerant of matters of the heart. Question boldly what matters in your mind. Be extremely intolerant of mindless acts that affect your life negatively." Marian Beatty 4/15/14
"Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always been bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things." E.M.
TIME FOR SOME INTOLERANCE
Since when is every wrong acceptable?
Why are sins and anti-social deeds ok.?
Too many folks are un- respectable
Let it be said whatever they say
It is about so much incivility
That has become tolerable today
Condoning irresponsibility
What's been said, whatever they say
Protesting crowds are a distraction
When property is damaged in the wake
We tolerate more lawless infractions
As we have put so much at stake
Why do criminals have more rights
Than the soldiers in the field?
Is our future looking bright
As legalized drugs are being revealed?
Why will we tolerate
That oversized soda laws are passed
While states are lining up to embrace
The lawfulness of smoking grass?
Worst of all we have our government
Riddled with ineptitude and scandal
It's time to stand and be intolerant
Of what put our country into shambles
Gilbert K. Chesterson had the right idea..."Tolerance is the virtue of the man without conviction."
INTOLERANCE
Go with the flow
Say you don't know
Chillin' with your time
'Cause nothin's on your mind
Don't want to rock the boat
Just believing hope will float
Although shocked at things that people do
You just trust it won't affect you
Your intolerance is so overdue
A buried head is not a virtue
"Global sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption, and set levels of mortality control" Maurice King
EXTREME MEASURES
It's an excuse, I say
Though based on a bit of fact
As human inhabitation puts
Our world on a negative track
Just as climate changes are gradual
Science can continue to explore
While human consumption of energy ebbs
Not the drastic measures put at our door
Changes that will put us in poverty
As costs continue to rise
Regulated surcharges for energy
Manipulation in disguise
Our consumption will be limited
To what they feel is for our own good
Sources of energy from fossil fuels
Will be banned in our neighborhood
But the most shocking cures hidden in their books
Will be that of population control
With abortions being mandated
And the death panels sitting in charge of old souls
When extreme measures overtake good sense
And make life a burden to bear
When with failure to trust science we focus on calamity
Is life worth living scared?
"Do not be mislead by what you see around you, or T%((M influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values, and false ideals. But you are not part QRQQ3 that world."
The way I see it is that although you live in a complicated world that is contrived with all kinds of deceitful means that seqqrnd you chasing the whims others impose on you, you also live in a world based on your own ideals and goals. It is best not to be fueled by the false "integrity" of others and discard your own ideals so easily as you see many do. Believe in what you have embraced on your own and be skeptical of false promises.
IN REALITY
Be aware what you will plainly see
May be a vision devised
By devils meant to make you be
Part of a scheme that is evilly contrived
Promised lies wrapped in an apple tart
Is easily injested due to mortal cravings
When promises are too grand to be real
They are likely to be that of evil ravings.
In our own true world of relevance
It is our duty to question bold
And live within the truth and evidence
That only reality can behold
Sai Baba, but he was actual born as Sathyanarayana Raju (Nov 26, 1926 to April 23, 2011)...One of his quotes sounds pretty good...Love all, serve all, help ever, hurt never."
THE SECRET OF SERENITY
Run through the field of wildflowers
Twirl in the refreshing rain
Bask in the sunshine of love
Surrender to the euphoria your heart has arranged
Open your arms to your brothers
Share your heart with them all
Be the one throwing the rope to a friend
When it is his time to fall
Your time was a gift from our Father
Your life comes from heaven above
Use it to serve many others
Who desperately need help laced with love
May your righteous deeds repel the pain
As the selfish will ultimately endure
Looking back on a life of unselfish acts
That this kind of life will ensure
Jon Voight the actor..."There is a real question at stake now. Is president Obama creating a civil war in our own country?"
TAKE NOTE
As our liberty is taken
We have so much at stake
Our history forsaken
The windshield is opaque
As we drive forward to disaster
Apathy becomes a crime
Obama's the ringmaster
He's tyranically inclined
Seeing division in the races
A broken foreign policy
Socialism he chases
He reeks putrid of dishonesty
Now will we ignore the scandals
The cover-ups and deceit
To bow to those in sandals
The sand beneath their feet?
There are thieves in the White House
And it's those who we elected
As our standing is heading south
Our power is being rejected
The flag we once revered
And our country we yearn to save
Is the viper's head now severed?
Are the liberals dancing on our grave?
Take note of how it happened to us
How we let our republic die
As we look at ourselves in sheer disgust
And dare to question why
THE HARSH TRUTH
Reality isn't always red roses
Each breath may not be fresh air
Life sometimes comes in bitter doses
There are times we feel life just ain't fair
Sometimes the lies come dressed in a beautiful gown
And facts are naked and cold
Falsehoods come bearing pleasing sounds
And sad, naked truth keeps growing old
All in all, despite the dressing
Lies bear an evil end
And there will be no second guessing
That honesty precedes a wholesome trend
"Our government teaches the whole people by example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it INVITES ANARCHY." Louis Brandeis
THE UPRISING
Faced with the lawlessness, lies, and deceit
Our corrupt government laid at our feet
How are appalled people expected to respond
Lawlessness in kind breaks with each coming dawn
Laws too absurd for our minds to envelop
Regulations forcing revolutionary thoughts to develop
One final straw breaks a proverbial back
Will retribution come in the form of attack?
Appropriate changes can come with our constitution, still
Without bloodshed we'll regroup if the people have the will
An army of patriots can rise to the cause
They are made to be broken, unreasonable laws
"And to say that society ought to be governed by the wisest and the best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest or the best?" Thomas B Macaulay (1800-1859)
Unfortunately, the wisest and best are too busy in their quest for success to be bothered with leading a country. Leading a company is much more lucrative
OUR POLITICAL MENU
Within these borders where are they?
Those with integrity, patriotism, and unselfish goals
Is it We the People who overlook them?
The potential leaders who can make this country whole
How is it that the corrupt are the ones willing to serve?
Is their "service" undermined by selfish desires?
Or is it the corrupt factions that groom the candidates?
Elections are a farce, they are shills we hire
Too few are those with the integrity we should demand
Far too easy for a country of voters to be swayed
So simple, the answer could be an informed constituency
Yet so many of us are too uninvolved for reasonable decisions to be made
A trip to the polls used to be such a moving event
Were we not proud to be the folks who made the choices?
Why do we even bother when the candidates are corrupt?
And they are groomed by those with very deep pockets and convincing voices
Our political menu consists of people like Obama and Pelosi
Puppets of Soros, inane mindless loons
Unfortunately our chosen entrees have been tainted
By socialistic factions and their ultra-subversive goons
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
Thomas Mann
IT'S GOTTA BE LOVE
Cupids and bows are senseless to some
Numbers and facts, in a mind like a sponge
Cannot compete in affairs of the heart
Love tears a reasonable person apart
Gut wrenching hours until his next call
Responsibility means nothing at all
Adverbs and adjectives are nothing they say
When your one true love has swept you away
It's gotta be love when the birds and the bees
Are able to take a scholar right to their knees
All the products of multiplication
Cannot compare to a heart's gratification
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann
TOO TOLERANT
We will tolerate tardiness
Or a slightly tasteless entree
But would it not seem heartless
To tolerate your loss of liberty?
In a sad transition of power
When tyrants strive for control
How many hours
Will we tolerate their role?
When we tolerate each little mandate
And accept each demeaning law
How soon will it all translate
Into our final straw?
Time will work against us
As we turn our spineless backs
How long can we linger with disgust
In the freedom we now lack?
Donald S. McAlvaney states..."Thus perhaps the most dangerous of all socialist attacks on America in the 1990's is the onslaught to register and confiscate Americas firearms. America cannot be subjugated to communism or socialist dictatorship until Americans are first disarmed. Poland had strict gun control, so does Cambodia, Russia, and Red China. Over 100 million people were brutally slaughtered in those countries, but first they were disarmed. The danger to the people when they can't own guns is far greater than any danger gun ownership can ever create."
AS WE ARE DISARMED
Pass laws to gain control of us
Line us up in rows
Has it become serendipitous
How socialism grows?
Scare us that guns will kill us
If left in our own hands
When bits of violence tell us
We are doomed to these bad lands
So they take our guns for our own good
Have we been out-foxed?
Own us, did you think they could?
Have they put us in a box?
Once We the People are defenseless
Once government continues to grow
Ultra liberals become relentless
As we watch our liberty go
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)..."Laws are like cobwebs which may catch many small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
TOO MANY LAWS
We have built our webs of law
Supposedly for our protection
It is America, after all
But is freedom a mere perception?
For every civil annoyance
A law is passed, we are restrained
Most are pure and simply nonsense
An insult to our brain
If moral standards were encouraged
If right and wrong ingrained
All these laws as a growing appendage
Could eventually be constrained
Too many laws to stifle
More reprimand to engage
When kings become our idol
Then it's time to turn the page
Fleet Admiral Chester Limits said:
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it's hopeless."
DETOURS
Journeys are not always by choice
Veering from the familiar path we walk through our daily tasks
Sometimes we must follow the orders of some disembodied voice
Blindly, with no questions asked
Be it to rescue some wayward soul
Lost in some deep dark place
Or to fight for the liberty some evil faction stole
And confront our enemies face to face
Yes, every road in life can drastically change
To some dark, bumpy, overgrown lane we had no intention to travel
But we must hold fast to that chosen goal, now temporarily estranged
As we endeavor to shed the demons we all find distasteful
"Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function." Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
BRING ON THE LAWS
I was given half a brain
And a full dose of tolerance
I find most laws simply insane
And their absurdity of abundance
If I pop a zit in public
And it annoys old John Doe
A 911 call from some psychotic
And it's off to jail I go
Then comes James Madison a few centuries later..."It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so VOLUMINOUS that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant change that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. LAW IS DEFINED TO BE A RULE OF ACTION; BUT HOW CAN THAT BE A RULE, WHICH IS LITTLE KNOWN, AND LESS FIXED."
James Madison could have been speaking of Obamacare in this quote. The whole thing was a joke from the very beginning, and its implementation is even more illogical.
THE AFFORDABLE? CARE ACT
How many ten thousands of pages to read
Yet attempt to understand
It contains too much that we don't need
Regulations impossible to comprehend
It is the one "accomplishment" Obama can claim
It was passed with mass deception
You'd think he would be embarrassed to share its name
It's been a joke since its inception
Pelosi said it must be passed
For us to know what the bill contained
With slight of hand , and partisan votes cast
Obamacare the law became
Why couldn't health care be adjusted an tweaked
To address the problems of cost and exclusion?
Instead of becoming a joke that peaked
Into impossible mandates with stupid solutions?
"Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection." Henry A. Wallace
POLITICS
Do they laugh about the lies they tell?
The swamp land they ultimately sell?
Is being deceitful a politician's art?
Is their truth and fiction that far apart?
The trophy for the biggest lie
Is to watch our beloved nation die
To put good people in the basement to give
Thanks for the meager life they live
"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed. For the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies." Adolf Hitler 1889-1945
THE NORM OF A LIE
It comes someday, the norm of a lie
When the people admire the falsehood creator
Lies perpetuate and seldom die
Truth rarely is the terminator
Slip in the the deck the one big lie
Amid the many little ones told
Convince them all as they stand by
Their naivety is bought and sold
The one big lie revolves around
The one thing that soothes their fear
Pump them up to keep them down
Label it Champaign, their cheap warm beer
They lie with a smile and a pat on the back
People will always respect the way he'll tell it
They stand behind the tainted fact
And dress the lie so they can sell it
No matter no more the size of deception
When truth can be manipulated
It becomes a matter of mere perception
Until wholesome honesty is overrated
Dessip, you helped me write a poem....
THAT'S LIFE
We go through life collecting our scars
While chasing our dreams and reaching for stars
We carry our ghosts, as burdens or fear
We wonder sometimes "Why are we here?"
Yet we find ourselves in awe of the beauty of the world
As patriotic citizens when flags are unfurled
We look into the eyes of a child and see
A sunrise that that proves how pure we could be
Some old fallen barn that stood one hundred years
Broken rotted pilings once a grand fishing pier
Farm boys listened to Gramps musing about his favorite old horse
Grandsons heard overblown fishtales, of course
Somehow our scars are stronger than regular tissue
We learn to roll with things we take issue
We find the courage to move on, most profits, they say
To receive the gift of another wonderful day.
"You have power over your mind...not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength." Marcus Aurelius
OUR STRENGTH
Control what you can
With what skills you have at hand
You can only define
What can happen in your own mind
Be open to the outside influence
And aware of your impotence
We can only stand behind
What we conjure in our mind
Our strength abounds from imagery
That is cooked within our chemistry
And the world will not be blind
To the power in our own mind
Will Rogers would say "The trouble with practical jokes is that they very often get elected."
APRIL FOOLS
When I turn on my TV
And the focus on DC
It is oh so plain to see
They are playing tricks on me
There is an illusionist in The White House
Making scandals disappear
He has turned our country into a mouse
Breaking bread with Vladimir
And let us not be forgetting
The clowns on Capitol Hill
Keeps all of us regretting
Our election choices still
We've got our speaker driven to tears
When Harry calls him out
Pelosi then volunteers
Her spoken round about
The media spews their fiction
About the right wing's bigoted hate
They are forever causing friction
Impossible to abate
When Jay Carney fields a question
He is forced to carry the load
He tells the curious pressmen
More lies as facts unfold
Now inundated with taxes imposed
And drowning in regulations
We the People are feeling thoroughly hosed
Within our government's new nation
When I turn off my TV
And ponder about DC
It is all too plain to see
What fools now are we
