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Midwife’s Muse

Midwife eyes see so many lives Slip through fingers despite try’s To give good care and medication Health care isn’t shared by the nation Some who have means will live long While the poor it seems are done wrong Then there’s the class that full of bloomers Doesn’t add up math for the baby boomer Generation that built and retired at home See penalties just because they own And worked to make American dream strong Don’t tax them at all leave them alone But big business like hospitals Will take their homes is so dismal We must find a better way To help our elderly with bills to pay If health care isn’t a right Like taxes take let’s give them rights When you get past a certain age No one should take your house away We pay the athletes but we can’t feed The poor or pay the teachers to teach We build new townhomes on raggedy streets If the city is strong we must meet all needs Each time a new arena is built I wonder if money was like a quilt Would it warm and stitched with care Or only if born in it will you share My muse tonight is a midwife She’s blue and sighs within her strife She knows that she will never give up Trying to solve the societal puzzle for us

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Date: 12/1/2024 10:03:00 AM
This is such a relevant and worthy poem. Thanks for your compassionate nature. A fave on this poem
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Karen Jones
Date: 12/1/2024 1:36:00 PM
Andrea you are so kind to fav! i am honored! Thanks!
Date: 12/1/2024 3:54:00 AM
Hi Karen it's all for the greedy and less for the needy, what a unfair world we now live in. xx
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Karen Jones
Date: 12/1/2024 6:49:00 AM
Agreed
Date: 11/30/2024 5:03:00 AM
Dear karen, this is a fave for me, you really have written one that flows so well with sublime rhymes and in such a seamless rhythm, and youv highlighted so many important points , ones we witness in so many parts of the world! I also love the lines “ I wonder if money was like a quilt Would it warm and stitched with care Or only if born in it will you share” so powerful! Everything about this poem is impeccable! One of my most faves from you . Pleasure reading you today. Sending you light
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Karen Jones
Date: 11/30/2024 6:02:00 AM
So honored you fav it Inky! Love and light to you and a fabulous weekend too! Hugs
Date: 11/30/2024 12:24:00 AM
It's all about greed lately, the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the king of heaven, many forget that. Enjoy your weekend Karen. Tom
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Karen Jones
Date: 11/30/2024 6:00:00 AM
Amen Tom! Have a blessed weekend!
Date: 11/29/2024 8:55:00 PM
You’ve spoken of personal woes of the poor. We hope for their blessings, fairness and security. Great write…
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Karen Jones
Date: 11/29/2024 10:51:00 PM
Kim thanks!
Date: 11/29/2024 8:04:00 PM
You've well addressed a problem. Let's get the burden off of home building
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Karen Jones
Date: 11/29/2024 8:06:00 PM
They build so many! And they never seem to fill them up as they are pricy!

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