Ugly Jerk

Thank you!

100% agreed, they are the most racial people in the world!

I did correspond with his uncle in India - mostly about poetry and Zen.

By the way, in case you were wondering, I wasn’t being sarcastic. I mean it.

Wow! I had family connections but jeez, not with heads of state and people who helped change the world. Would love to hear more. If you tell me Gandhi used to bounce you on his knee as a bubba I’ll be super impressed.

KT: I live in hope ...

I will say this only once more: Just because I live in SA at the moment, does not define my beliefs. On the subject of the late President Mandela (a bit of respect here, please): I often dined with him when the Parlaiment was in sitting (family connections). Don't judge me by your limited understanding of issues you know nothing about, Arthur. Thank you.

Then again lets look your background that explains a lot, poetry has for centuries been a tool to stand up against oppression, you know a fellow Nelson Mandela maybe, even if true I wold speak up against genocide, not pettiness. Disgusting.

I don’t think you’re gonna find any nuance in this piece. It’s just hate disguised as opprobrium.

Abdullah Alhemaidy, your phrase ‘ugly jerk mouth’ caught my ear—it made me wonder if it's a translation of an Arabic idiom like "fam qabih?". Is there a cultural nuance behind it I might be missing?

Thank you very much lovely Deb :-) Ugly Jerk is not the poem of the day, the poem of the decade!

Thank you Deb, for being human, :)

Lol

I made a reference earlier, but it mysteriously disappeared, thus my warning to you earlier. God may have spared Trump, but I do believe God has 'turned the U.S. over', though I may be wrong about this, but all the signs are here. In part, confirmed by what is happening in response to this poem.

Rob, not dead yet but on life support spiritually and culturally. There’s no denying that. Not just America, but all English speaking democracies. Trump in his gruff direct uncompromising way is trying to breathe life and God back into her limp body. I’m convinced God spared his life to do it!

It is a sad day, been sad decades in my country. Cumulation of liberal ideologies pushed and encouraged by opposing conversative groups against the one that helped build this country. A very clever and effective tactic. Just takes a long time. The U.S. is dead, most here either don't realize it, or worse, don't care.

For stating facts and truths? Would be a sad day.

Careful Keith, you might get deleted.

Backatcha!

Wrong again, Anaya, but thanks for playing!

@ KT, check your facts you have made a lot of errors about Biden...also Trump said that he would have all conflicts (wars) his words, within 24 hrs of taking office..ended. How's that going? Netanyahu is still committing genocide, images of skeletal children on TV. Deliberate starvation!

When I say Joe I mean the Autopen Administration. Joe has oatmeal for a brain.

I blame Joe. He didn’t enforce Trump’s sanctions on Iran and allowed them to sell tens of billions in oil to China to finance all their proxies in the Middle East and their nuclear program. He resumed American aid to Gaza which Trump froze cos Hamas was using it to build tunnels and rockets etc. All this could have been avoided with strong leadership but the lunatics were running the asylum.

Zionism is a political term. We do not censor political poems, as per our terms and conditions.

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@Tom, you know we do not manually choose the POTD. It is selected by an algorithm that determines which poems PoetrySoup poets like the best, within a particular timeframe. The community chose this as POTD.

@Tom, Please note that this is an international website. If someone writes something negative about Trump, someone will be upset. If someone writes something positive about Trump, someone will be upset. If someone writes something negative about Zionists, someone will be upset. If someone writes something positive about Zionists, someone will be upset. If someone writes something positive about Democrats, someone will be upset. If someone writes something negative about Democrats, someone will be upset. When you are on a public website, you should expect opinions that are dramatically opposed to your own.

This is one of the main problems with the internet: people can accept opposing thoughts, especially when they are political.

Zionism is a political term. We do not censor political poems, as per our terms and conditions. If you do not like the politics of a poet, do NOT read their poems. That way, they will not hurt your feelings.

@Tom and @ Keith, what is racist about it? We are curious as to why you think it's racist? Zionist is NOT a negative word nor is it a race. Is referring to someone as a "black zionist" or a "white zionist" racist in your opinion?

Poem took me to Romans 1:28. I am glad you see what is going on and just as important - you speak up.

Interesting poem. It’s not what we would personally pick for POTD.However, the poem seems like it’s talking about a specific individual and not a group of individuals. How do you see it differently?

And they pride themselves on calling it a family site? They might want to check out their own standards guidelines starting with No. 2 & 3 in Terms & Conditions.

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Jan, please don’t troll me. It makes me uncomfortable. The grown-ups are discussing something very important.

In my opinion it IS a powerful message. Instead of mocking me why don’t you congratulate Abdullah with your own and Since you don’t seem to agree, why make a condescending remark as an ugly jerk would do? Some poets didn't like a potd on poop nor one which was considered racist -so why bother commenting if they have nothing positive to add? this is the one and only time i will interact with you!

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Thank you very much :-) lovely Karen!

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Thank you very much :-) lovely Arthur!

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