No estate should be able to turn away health inspectors,
No estate should be able to turn away ambulances,
while bleeding internally,
No estate should need to employ so many muckrakers,
or bush lawyers.
No estate should hold so many water rights,
if they pour cold water over journalists,
who want to investigate,
No estate should hold so many gun licenses,
until shooting oneself in the foot is no longer endemic,
No estate should be given awards for mediocrity,
No estate should have license to print money,
to pay for influence.
No estate should be bereft of microscopes,
or access to an eye specialist.
No estate should hold so many contracts out of state,
to stifle competition,
No estate can survive without bread and butter
or an understanding that no freedom is absolute.
No estate can survive when it no longer sees the need to spellcheck,
and uses words covered in sauces past their use by date,
No society can survive when it has a fourth estate,
that no longer pays heed to the edicts of,
Walter Cronkite or his ilk.
Alexander the Great, Caesar and Napoleon too
Through military conquest empires grew
Pulitzer's Fourth Estate ruled the modern world
~ 'til Zuckerberg Facebook, then Meta unfurled
A Salute to Good Children in Classroms
Ususally, they are quiet and unassuming.
They contribute by their glowing humility!
And verily, are lessons for us all.
On how to be!
They don't act out as class clowns.
And~ have no need to be big bullies.
Here they come to your class.
Well kept, loving and most unassuming.
When the class goes berserk,
They ask, "Is there anything I can do?"
These are the children, who will clean
Your erasers and boards for you.
But sadly, we don't hear about them
On the breaking news media!
Only gang-bangers, killers and sex abusers.
These all get fourth estate attention.
Thus we, in our ignorance, believe the world
is falling apart!
When in reality, nations are filled with many
children of very good hearts!
Dedicated to my grandson..I love you.
Panagiota is a retired teacher from both the
Chicago Public Schools and the San Francisco
Unified School District.
Her paper, "The Classroom of the Now" was
used in Tinley Park Mental Health Center for an
Adolescents at Risk Program.
July 24, 2019
3pm PST
La Dolce Vita Part One
How sweet life is, indeed!
The air we breathe, our nightly rest.
Think back about your very first
steps.
You played games outdoors with
your nose not stuck to a screen.
You romped in the woods ever so
merrily.
Days of conviviality with no fear.
Just endless days and nights
with parents and friends, we held
so very dear.
Life was just beginning for us.
Most of us went to Church and
learned who created the Universe.
We learned the Ten Commandments
that applied to men and women...
one and all.
Our countries stood tall and
proud. We loved our countries
proud of its flag and song.
Leaders were respected not
humiliated or the butt of jokes.
Times horribly transformed..
When God was shown the door
and our country and leaders
we abhor.
The New Bible is the deceitful and
devilish fourth estate,
That has made us hate each other
without reason or debate.
The time has come my friends
To get a grip, return to reality.
Love all and create a new world,
That is ours and for those yet to be.
June 10, 2019
4:30pm PST
Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2019
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Today, we honor those whose lives were cruelly taken!
They suffered gruesome deaths and were inhumanely forsaken.
Frightening, how we heard from the fourth estate,not a word of this!
While Jews today are murdered, assaulted and eternally dissed.
Remember each poet reading this!
Assaullts on Jews are up 105 per cent_a fact not to be missed.
Buy some sunny, beautiful, yellow daffodils today.
In respect and in memory for all the children,the men and the
women sent too early,to ashy graves in the most heinous of ways.
Shema Yisrael
~~~~~~~~~
Panagiota Romios
5/1/2019
6:30pm PST
The Fourth Eatate~ A Warning
Smear Campaigners of this world.
What glory they derive in destroying anyone.
Democrats or Republican! Blacks or
Whites!
It's fatally unhumorous and lying is
a sin!
But if you don't follow the Fourth
Estate's commandments,
They are fearless and having no
integrity_hurt our eyes, ears and
souls with outrageous impunity.
Worse, this is an international
devastation,
Where lies pour like torrential rains,
On too many unconscious nations.
So, it you believe all you read in print,
Never forget the billions of dollars
and agenda behind it
The rampant negativity, the fraud.
Never allow the Fourth Estate
To be your beloved master in thought
Nor in fate!
Practice due diligence, if you have a
soul and before it's way too late.
Panagiota Romios
4/22/2019
5:25am PasT
In the lush beer gardens of New Berlin,
fräulein Democracy dalmatian died
giving birth to a litter of surrogate lies
Fourth Reich Vandals with mongrel desires,
now on a demolition blitzkrieg breathe
Wehrmacht vapors rising volcanic once again
Perfidious voices carried on a turbulent wind —
Fake news is the re-animated Goebbel slogan
being heard in the New Frankfurt ear taverns
Patented lies vilifying objective truth:
The Fourth Estate being labeled an enemy of the State ...
Stalinist propaganda spouting again clone foaming
Fear and conquest are the twisted twin belching ...
Capriciousness and bloodlust are Mind Kontrol policing
the corridors of discourse with concentrated stifling
Goebbel voices handcuffing the free press,
as the ministers of disinformation
feed citizens fermented swill that kills republic freewill
Jail those who dare choose to oppose ...
make them who dissent silently disappear
Kill every thought that don’t conform or give consent
Buried boots from a sordid past are marching once more,
drunkenly singing “Blood and Soil”
Prepare to be ere morality outgunned by the hateful noise
Twas Watergate which proved once more
The pen is mightier than the Sworn
With pomp and circumstance imbibed
The deed did not, they said, but lies
Though exile begs for sterner stuff
The cover-up proved quite enough
And with that vaunted victory
The fourth estate, filled with esprit
Entitled now to win them all
Does cover up their leftist flaws
Benghazi wrought a flood of lies
Unworthy of a bloody "Why"
Four fallen innocents ignored
Obama's press an undead 'corpse'
A video turned man to beast
So said the mouths of hillary
Without a thought for those accused
Of homicide based on a ruse
Though cover-up once ruled the day
With democrats in charge, that changed
Yet, if the shoe had shifted feet
They'd headline every word and deed
Benghazigate? Don't hold your breath
Truth won't inspire the mainstream press
And stealing secrets always trumps four deaths