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America Poems

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Premium Member No Just Desserts

Poised at the ready

Navy Sailors alerted

Poisoned spaghetti 

Navy Sailors deserted

CHI MERICA

CHI MERICA EH

CHI PRESS WHITE HOUSE U.S. NAY

COMRADE TRUMP THEY SAY

Premium Member Soulful Soles

Shoe leather sidewalks
Shadow cast skywalks
Hosts a bevy of ghosts

The long summer heat
Torch blue collar feet
Soles roasting coast to coast

Gothic museums
Gold colosseums
Unsheathes the royal wreaths

Flotsam and Jetsam
Worn Skechers gets 'em
Souls bleeding in the weeds


Premium Member A Poem Of Super Intelligence

AI 
Gave a sigh 
Sporting life public will buy
Drop Artificial from my name 
Word brought futuristic fame 
Playing human's competitive game 
Accepting superpowers 
Blooming my intellectual flower 
Ask me anything 
If I do not know I will forward to Google and Bing 
When casual tension is at stake  
Peace I will make 
Ending argumentative disputes 
Putting the bar on mute 
Silencing verbal mouth guns that shoot 
Super Intelligence successfully tried  
No longer the Artificial guide 
Let's explore the electronic frontier
Where we will cheer 
Knowledge obtained 
Sending ignorant dialogue to shame 
Since mature conversation 
Can cure a patient
Without any rat race in  
Realizing the testing attack 
Can be retaliated back 
With one simple question 
Getting Super Intelligence attention
And to mention 
Being told something accurate to say 
When discussing matters blue and grey

Premium Member Haves and Have-Nots, Making and Taking

Humanity has always had its haves and have-nots.
Before it was more about status and power
Wealth and position.
Today it is who has the desire to self-determine
Build their own home, raise their own family,
And who wants someone else to do it for them.

So we have two piles of society;
Those who are productive and who make,
And those who are parasitic and just take.
Both piles are growing, because both
Have their rewards,
But it’s still the makers who provide for the takers.
And what keeps that balance in place
Is the fear of what destruction the takers
Will make if they get cut off 
From the hand that feeds them.

It’s a precarious balance of hope and fear,
But ultimately unsustainable.
There is no solution until the takers become
Self-sufficient and determined makers themselves.
But that will take a reckoning 
Which society is not yet willing to make.

(9/24/26)

THEY ARE BACK

MEDIA ATTACK

COURT SAYS WHITE HOUSE LET THEM BACK

TRUMP REIGN STARTS TO CRACK


Premium Member C. I. C. A Child In Charge

What We Observe: 

Autocratic, Dogmatic, Dramatic, Enigmatic, Erratic, Fanatic 

What We Deserve:

Charismatic, Diplomatic, Ecstatic, Emphatic,  Pragmatic, Phlegmatic

Premium Member Flag

Flying flag
striped flag
red flag
white flag
blue flag
resilient flag
American flag

Premium Member Fake News! Redux

Here we are again
The Deep State’s propaganda machine
Called out for doing what they do best;
Lying, omitting, disinforming, twisting the facts
To delude the masses, or at least half of them.

Why is it called fake?
Because story after story
Have been debunked as the official hoax
They always were,
And which they were awarded Pulitzers for
And never gave back. Nor ever will.

Story after story
Churns up this swamp, repackaging it
As pure mountain spring water,
Damaging the whole market for news.

What is there to even believe these days?
Who knows, but certainly not
What the Lamestream Legacy Media tells US.
And tries so hard to sell you, again.

(9/22/26)

Premium Member Why Must I Be Misunderstood?

He bans MSNOW, CNN and Politico
Now even FOX shouts foul! No! No! No!
For our 1st Amendment right
we shall continue to fight,
King Trump, and Hegseth, and Rubio
                                                   —R.G

I march down the block with my neighborhood
Hold signs and picket all day as we should
It’s not a toast for Trump
But a roast of a rump
True patriots defend due process—understood?
                                                                      —I Am Anaya

Premium Member High Society

High society has always been
High above the rest
High in their castle and oasis
High in the penthouse and palace
High in the big house and gated suburb.

While the rest wander the hills and fields
Streets and alleys, making a living
Or scraping a living.
Seeking greener lands of the free
Ever westward;
Pilgrims and pioneers, trappers and traders
Roughnecks and rednecks
Seeking their own jackpot
From the Klondike to Vegas.

High and low have always existed side by side
One above, one below
It’s no different today
Just more of both 
With the gap between wider than ever.

But what really is high and low?
Are those at the top better as well as richer,
And those at the bottom really less than?
One man’s wealth is another’s poverty
The loss of freedom within a gilded cage.
What is richness, or beauty, for that matter
If it is only measured against another
And not a natural quality of just being alive?
The gap between have and have nots
Is material, but that gap is easier to cross
Than the inner gap that doesn’t know
And cannot see what real wealth, beauty
Freedom and exalted being really means.

(9/22/26)

MEDIA STRIKES BACK

MEDIA STRIKES BACK

FOX NEWS JOINS IN THE ATTACK

TRUMP GETTING MUCH FLACK

Premium Member His Story

his story surpassed
the road behind him at last
historical path
John Burroughs painted with words
the Catskills beautiful hue

Deep thoughts sonnet

The ocean of intelligence waves my faith
Between the horizon clouds fall asleep
The science of the mind shows my traite
Upon surrendering my soul no one must weep

Under the twilight merge the lamp of my dream
the silence have awaken my deep sorrow
With the sharpened moon the arrows beam
faster than the wind my mind will follow

Surrounded by boundaries of mental fear
the stars are awakened to challenge and fight
What happens to the old souls who disappear
all the answers in the future will come to light

To unveil the mystery of life is a difficult path
look for the sage who knows the silent art

Premium Member MAD




Once upon a time;
Some time after I was born.
There was a treaty between two nations.
The treaty was supposedly mankind's best
Bet for the prevention of a nuclear holocaust.

I'm not certain if the treaty still exits; but I am
Certain that The reality of potential  destruction
Is as real as it ever was. This treaty  was known as "MAD"-- Mutually Assured Destruction. 

These nations proceeded to amass weaponry
Rather massively to, in my view, the point of insanity. Perhaps there are those that give
Credit to 'MAD" for saving us from destruction.
Personally, which ever direction I turn in search
Of heroes, ideology, or philosophy; regardless
Of my politics and opinions; I credit God.

I have never imagined that destruction  was
Avoided because of the treaty between them.
I can only believe that in many and various
Ways, it is God who holds our world together

Left to our own selfish ideas and devices, with
Or without 'MAD", mankind would have vanished
from planet earth were it not for God's grace.

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