Dear Fellow Poets,
I urge you to read the short paragraphs below, and if you are so inclined, to contact your congressperson immediately. YOU CAN make a difference.
Israel is dreadfully short of weapons and military equipment for the 300,000 reservists it has called up in the last 24 hours to counter the unprecedented terror attack visited on it for the past three days.
A communique to me from Rachel Levy, a liaison for Garin Tzabar, the organization which supports lone soldiers (like my son Daniel Wolf) in Israel, reports hundreds of soldiers being asked to report for duty with ordinary hammers, as weapons (!)
Unfortunately, no new U.S. funds can be authorized for Israel without a new Speaker of the House in place. (All legislation and appropriations are hung up, by the way, not just emergency aid to Israel).
So, please contact your congressperson today. Ask him/her/they to move with all possible haste to choose a new Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Thank you for your reading, and for any and all support forthcoming.
Blessings, Gershon Wolf
P.S. Prayers are extremely helpful as well. ~ gw
Congressperson Tlieb, what's going on
What's doing on the White House lawn
Oh, we're defending the Palestinians
They're being slaughtered like American Indians
The Israels know how to oppress and repress
Our people's requests meet no redress
Well, Ms. Tlieb, lots of luck with all that ~
Ditch Hamas, Hezbollah, Saudi and Iran ~ Then
We'll address all your problems in a brief little chat
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Congressperson who loves to preen
From Northern Georgia
A notorious reputation like Lucretia Borgia
FIRST PLACE WINNER
written June 28, 2021
exclusively for "A Brian Strand July Poetry Contest"
sponsored by Brian Strand
It doesn't matter if you write your senator or congressperson,
prime minister, king, queen or president.
It doesn't matter if you protest, vote or sign a gazillion petitions.
All of your efforts accomplish absolutely nothing.
I'll say it again,
All politics and politicians are immersed in corruption,
and are all absolutely incapable of solving any of the world's problems.
It's time for an alternative way of doing things,
by applying science and technology into the social system,
which could easily provide abundance globally to everyone,
but if everyone remains complacent continuing to not take any action,
I guarantee you, nothing better will ever happen,
as we continue yet again down a path of one more failed system.
Political News
Stump Fodder For Today
2/27/2018
Tom
There’s little, more depressing, than network news,
Much appears bogus or some politician’s spun views.
Many stories reported parallel an opinionated rant,
And each congressperson has his/her own unique slant.
Reputations are besmirched with untruths each day,
And lives destroyed by the salacious things they say.
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