Crazy dreams cryptic holidays
Living floating above
It's a carpet or a rug
Living to forge forgetting to follow
But look in the streets
Love is still a companion
How do you find
Something you don't seek
Alice was a killer and as stoned as a pillar
I saw her I's right in the nav of her middle
Back with Jack
Follow the leaders but don't forget
To jump off the path
Where can we go
We all get 2 feet
Don't forget the influence er
Armed with a bat
Take it personal
Be the decision army
They say poets can be whiners
They say challenge doesn't turn panic into a disaster
There were bands I grew up with that I will cherish forever
But it was the love of nature
Always be the biggest thing to me
Never ask why
I is likened to asking someone to love you
I saw you in a basket full of dreams
They say don't do it
I say that's a good reason to
Forget to guard your heart
Make it a sport
Count the alpha-bet back to worlds
You own by rights
You are the only one
You still hit zero before once in a lifetime
Make it a habit
Change their opinion
Or at least
Follow the rabbit
Fifty years ago today
an attack was well underway
On Yom Kippur, October 6
Israel was in a fix
Egypt had invaded the Sinai
Syrians climbed down the Golan Heights
Arabs sought to recapture land
which they regarded as theirs 'by rights'
Three weeks later, Israel was up off her heels
at the gates of Cairo and Damascus
troops ready to seal the deal
But the US said No! Israel had to go
back to the preexisting status quo
2,400 died in defense of their nation
as Israel began to grow impatient
with their supposed Allies in the West
When on your holiest day, your enemies attack
Why should you give what you captured back
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The 2,412 soldiers who died comprised 1% of
Israel's Jewish population in 1973. A comparable
figure would be 300,000 American soldiers dying
in a four-week war in 1973.
Resignation
Dignity and courage defined by undeniable morality.
Integrity shown vividly within kindness.
Positive optimism outlooks mold cherish-able characteristics.
Resolved decorums cloak an image.
Traits one portrays internally.
Dumbfounded by social interactions extended more so throughout humanities entirety.
Lost by rights as wrongs pollute rights.
Tongue tied by disassociation; festering.
Hope resonates.
Life gets in the way.
People penetrate.
Misunderstood man makes judgmental mistakes.
Pity
Acceptance
Worry
Contemplation
Self doubt
Misunderstanding
Seclusion
Passive regrets
Hope
Resignation
10-9-16
The people of the state oppressed
should have a referdum by rights
God given unto them by speech
words draws the sword
To back anything worth considering
on this issue with the pros and cons
highlighted truth a must
Leaving nowhere for a reason to worry
exposing side affects
unto the genetic code nothing hidden
as this is an elitist group
Formed by bankers funding
Trying to muscle into world trade
with gmo foods and steroid filled beef
with ill regards to human fatalities
as money is the only agenda
That knows no status or good will
on the table that drives their engine forward
before health is taken into consideration
Villanelle: Only in democracies reigns surprise
Only in democracies reigns surprise
The majority cast their franchised rights
Elect CEOs who tell fat cat lies
In dictatorships the leader is wise
He elects himself and appoints his mites
Only in democracies reigns surprise
On election day leaders on the rise
By the hundredth day majority fights
Elect CEOs who tell fat cat lies
By end of first term majority dies
Wonders how they kept the leader uprights
Only in democracies reigns surprise
By start of second term the voter cries
Give us our oligarchy by rights
Elect CEOs who tell fat cat lies
In dictatorships people march in files
To show they don’t much care about rights
Only in democracies reigns surprise
Elect CEOs who tell fat cat lies.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
(Cont) Bill rapped twice on Lt. Griggs' office door. “It’s open!
Well if it isn’t Sgt. Bill Lipton. Come in, close the door and
take a seat.
I guess you heard there’s a vigilante on the loose.” Bill was
feeling a bit uncomfortable. He knew by rights he shouldn’t
have messed with thecase without the Lt’s permission.
“Seems you and thetwenty first already had a run in with him.”
“Yes sir. I kinda got caught up.. Uh ..in,,,”
“Never mind that. I don’t want to hear your excuses. It might
not coincide with what I heard and then you’d be in trouble.
Look Sgt. Lipton, you been on the force here three years as a
detective and you’ve already got a hell of a good crime solving
record in the works. Don’t blow it now because of some silly
mishandling of the regulations. I Knowsome of those rules are
chicken crap when it comes to enforcing the law,
but we’ve got to play by the book, get it?
“Yes sir ..I ..”
(continued on Bill's side 11 shogun series)
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