Joe Maverick Poet Didactic

May it be done to you'

Oh Lord I am a sinfull man..Often lost not
In sync with your plans.' Yet you have taught me to try for better, life is in your spirit..Yet death it comes by the  letter .' I ache
For the Ostrich farmers and their flocks I
Cry out to you Lord, this should not be their lot.! Thirty years ago it would not be
Yet today there is a paid for judiciary.' 
May you part the dark clouds under your
Feet, send down like judgement poetic so
Take your due, extract as you will, these
Wasted pieces of human swill.' Make them food for the fervent worms.' Cast them down, control each twist and turn
Remove them from their habitations take
Them away, give the people new law givers who serve only in your Holy name.'

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sara Etgen-Baker November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM love the lead up to the last line....the 'ostrich farmers and their flock' is priceless...wow! Well done. Joe Maverick November 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM We are here in a world That is like a scene running past us..One that i anyway feel that i have stepped out of.' And cant enter back into.' I see the crazyness yet cannot intervene people pretending its understandable that they are ok with all the contradictions.' Only the Lord can be steadfast.'

Mickey Grubb November 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM Thank you, Joe, for your reply. There was a similar incident involving cattle near Parkersburg, WV. Everything came to light in 1996 after decades of complaints and investigation. Finally, it was determined that DuPont Chemical Company had been leaking chemicals into the Ohio River for many years, and that poisoned the ground water over a large area resulting in the death of hundreds of cattle. Thank you, Joe.

Mickey Grubb November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM Joe, your poem carries the weight of lament and longing with raw, prophetic force. There’s a biblical cadence to your invocation -- calling on divine judgment not just to punish, but to cleanse and restore. It reads like a modern psalm of anguish and hope, where poetry itself becomes the vehicle of reckoning. I’d love to hear more about what inspired the ostrich farmers as a symbol--there’s something deeply evocative there. Again, a great write!! Joe Maverick November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM Although the government claim that Dozens of them died.. to make a case I'm informed its just not the case.!!! Joe Maverick November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM Thank you Mickey, i beleive the truth is two Ostriches got sink And died 'almost a year ago' and since then the whole flock attained immunity.The cifa refuse to check with an anti-body test The whole flock as the farmers have been pleading for also the birds have been observed the whole time to further knowledge of virus reactions 'the cifa wish to burn any carcasses whuch will destroy bio Evidence WHY DIO THIS IF YOU WANT KNOWLEDGE? unless the normal immunity Is better than synthetic injections.?