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My Home Virginia

Carry me to my home Virginia
Headed south through Arlington
We can stop off in Manassas
On our way to Lovingston

Take me back to the Peaks of Otter
Let's return to Mabry Mill
We can drive the Blue Ridge Parkway
From the Meadows of Dan to Charlottesville

We'll stop in Schuyler on the way to Richmond
Watch the trees on the mountain sway
Ride the backroads of Campbell County
And see the small towns along the way

We'll raise some cane out in Bedford
In a field over near the county line
Ride the rails to Appomattox 
And stop by Mama's at suppertime

We'll go cruise down the Eastern Shoreline
We'll lay a blanket out on the sand
Watch the ships sail out of Norfolk
And stroll down the beach hand in hand

Let's return back to our hometown
We'll float down the mighty river James
There we remember our favorite memories
And visit with old friends at a cafe on Main

Carry me back to little old Lynchburg
No matter how far I may roam
It's where I made my fondest memories
I'm proud to call Virginia my home

Loving Coincidences

Prayer poems of peace
Bore fruit this weekend - two times -
Washington and Charlottesville:
Peace showed greater heart ...
Nine-Eleven was birthday
I stopped. Mature joy returns


Time Is Running Out For President Trump

Trump is the power
The voice of a nation
A moneyman, no morals or ethic code
A narcissist born for a life in capitalization
A nuclear bomb Desperate to explode

Trump's time in office has been a terrible show,
His speeches have little words and little meaning
As a president he's been aggressive and poor,
He's shown which way his beliefs are leaning

Trump wont denounce the Charlottesville haters,
He refuses to denounce the KKK
He's now become a right wing dictator
His own men don't agree with what he has to say

Trump is losing support all the time,
His right wing rhetoric is falling on deaf ears
The whole world saw what happened was a crime,
He's taking the USA back to the segregated years

Time's running out for president Trump,
Impeachment is long overdue
Time's running out for president Trump,
Impeachment is the right thing to do

Texas In My Mind

In that darkest of time at Charlottesville 
When hate ruffled their minds
And madness erupted in kind
But dumb Trump bluffed in haste,
Hate, hastes, I was dazed, 
As wicked drove on Heyer in sour taste!
Both sides he claims to bait
Wait, is heaven in joy of our choice?
Or God in vengeance of Bannon grudge?
Albeit, or hell in bed rest?
Wall! Wall! Wall! He cried
Pouted as pig his anthem of division 
Then comes release of his bosom, Arpaio 
While in rage heaven dances in Texas
Tornado, hurricane and water flood
Our folks in need of our own
Donate to help Texans in pains
Think not of Brother's hater in our midst
Donate, brother's keeper you are.
Help before Trump turns us to nothing

Charlottesville

Robert e Lee was a treasonous ole soul
To defeat the republic his goal

Slavery was abolished the people were free
But only two third a southern decree

The republic with stood the brutal onslaught
Capturing the rebels stopping the plot

50yrs after the civil war
They put up a monument to lee's slavery once more

In two thousand and seventeen
They thought it was time the south came clean

Remove ole Lee off his high horse
But the white supremest and KKK had no remorse

They march on Charlottesville with torches a blaze
Singing Nazi slogans eyes filled with craze 

Their hate of black and Jews they proclaimed
Three dead and trump said no one to blame

All people just want to live free
But hate filled hearts and ignorant animosity 

Another day in racist America rose in Charlottesville
White Sheets and a rope looking for brother to kill


Name of Heather Heyer

Name of Heather Heyer

Name of Heather Heyer is magnified,
And we will finally feel satisfied inside;
Charlottesville,
Remembers her still;
In heaven daughter now does abide.

James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Bolivia, NC

Fake White Supremacy

Dedication: Heather Heyer, Paralegal (Charlottesville, VA)

A Governor named Terry understands fake Supremacy
Microcosm of America, terrorism in Virginia
In the Name of History and a Statue (of General Lee)

I was but eight, when I felt shame because of hate
My own: a girl at school (perhaps a victim) wanted to fight
We slapped each other in the classroom: It didn't feel right

No witnesses but some gentler spirit intervened
I have treated women as gently as I could since
My surviving daughters are angels; and I their prince!

Unless we love (or avoid hate), life is a vulgar walk
Stepping over slimy snakes here, vamp cats and dark
Things there ... putrid puddles everywhere; gone the idyllic park

How can reliving the Nazi way seem so desirable
And in America? Where Equality became Reality, the individual
Could be special, without royal blood, New World still available?

WRITTEN & POSTED ON MONDAY, 14 August 2017

Premium Member Charlottesville

I saw Nazis march yesterday
upon the streets of Charlottesville.
And, with swastikas on display,
crazed clansmen chanted blood will spill.

I saw Satan grinning with pride
at racial slurs shouted in hate.
And, bigots standing by his side
help the violence escalate.

I saw torches light up the night,
snaking through the black neighborhoods.
And skinheads looking for a fight; 
all that was missing were white hoods.

I saw white supremacists, proud
of drawing blood and spreading fear.
And a car plow into the crowd,
its intentions made all too clear.

I saw President Trump place blame
on both sides for this killing spree.
And, a shocked nation reel in shame
at how prejudiced he could be.

I saw the projected end of
tolerance and democracy.
And, mantras of hate replace love
with smugness and hypocrisy.


Quatrain


8/13/2017

Where Heads Butt

Where Heads Butt in the USA or

I Don't Believe in Bodily Harm

 

What we all did was to dilly dally

And our rear ends ended up in Raleigh;

Then later on back of little Billy Goat

Took a ride to somewhere in Shallotte.

 

We took another trip for a historical thrill;

Had an incredible tour of Charlottesville;

Went to Washington by way of Mt. Vernon.

To see the tree leaves which were turning.

 

We wanted to watch fish as they play,

So we both went back to Chesapeake Bay;

Up North again would go willy nilly 

Where John Wayne was with a pilgrim in Philly.

 

Ventured South to Florida to find a fantasy

In a world which was made by Walt Disney

And nothing could be finer or even greater

Then being in Carolina with an awful alligator. 


James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Bolivia, NC near Shallotte

jthorn5656@atmc.net

Superman

Today’s the day that Superman
Fell to earth and couldn’t stand
He lit upon his neck all wrong
And found he was no longer strong
His super powers gone all right
His horse’s name – old Kryptonite

Mdailey	5/27/11

Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) was paralyzed when thrown from his horse 
during a jumping event in Charlottesville, Virginia on May 27, 1995

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