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Fragments and the City

I’ve walked the city streets marveled at the night lights and majestic high buildings seeming to silence the sky a blot of darkness, for nothing is visible above the eaves-- top floors reserved for Penthouse gods and goddesses… I’ve witnessed the motion spoken to Movers and Shakers and have concluded that even death can be quite animate but there is only Life in Love… (God has no enemies but evil begets its own sows where the heart has left its vacancies) The past is a place we are all too familiar with for the present benefited or the victim-- the future our place for hope and dream, immediately blessed where there is abundance of faith and love… The world has gotten much smaller, too many eyes: no place to hide without snap snap click click not a word is said without leaving a recorded echo-- tigers and lions now our technologies, licensed to ambush and devour… Since when did News become Gladiators, good vs evil, excluding the facts? Not that I don’t like a feisty fight every now and then, but when seeking news I prefer the right—a clear and penetrating pure light absent the glaring egos we now call Anchors more A Ship of Fools.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 9/24/2019 10:49:00 AM
This reads like a collection of bijou op-Ed’s. All striking and interesting.i particularly like (= agree with) your final stanza.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 9/24/2019 2:24:00 PM
Thank you, Geoffrey; so pleased you stopped by. Have great day my friend!
Date: 8/29/2019 7:52:00 AM
I enjoyed this commentary, there is much to ponder here. I appreciate intelligent writing.well done poet.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 9/19/2019 6:28:00 AM
Hi Richard; thank you, my friend. Have a great evening. Blessings!
Date: 8/25/2019 5:11:00 PM
Thought provoking poem, you really have a way with words and how your thoughts are processed into poetry..
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Joe Dimino
Date: 8/25/2019 5:28:00 PM
Hi Si; I'm 72 now--I had begun to think that that was old, but I appear to be getting a second wind...so I'll just keep writing as long as I am able. Writing is something I do that seems to me just as rewarding and fascinating as always. Blessings my friend.
Date: 8/25/2019 11:02:00 AM
Snap Snap Click Click. Seems everyone wants a photo of evil. News is not news. It's a narrative the gullible eat like voracious birds scaring one another. News best be re-named VIEWS. Word Hobo's remarks are significant! Panagiota xx
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Joe Dimino
Date: 8/25/2019 11:09:00 AM
Hi Panagiota; love your comment! Thank you for stopping by. Don't even think they are Views--that would require eyes, ears and mind open to some meaningful, independent degree:)

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