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The Not So Great Debate

The not so great debate in America today
Is that even though liberal people fear for their lives
They dare not violate the progressive ethos
Of victim first
And so argue round and round
That everything is okay and only getting better.

The irony of course is this obfuscation
And soft-core tyranny is actually illiberal.
But words today no longer matter
Labels being fungible
On

The Great Debate

(“Citadel of Light Merit Badge”, 2016, original pen and ink)

The Great Debate

The great debate in buddhism
Specifically in ancient Tibet,
Was between the sudden and gradualist schools.
Even though the event is apocryphal
And never actually happened,
It’s a good and relevant story
Because it is the debate that happens to this day
Between students and teachers,
Dharma brothers and sisters
And within our

GATSBY

GATSBY*
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Gatsby’s my name, character of Fitzgerald fame.
Nick saw through the façade and my game.
     I partied and danced through the night,
     Chasing dreams that weren’t quite right.
Then there was Daisy, jazz’s grande dame.

I lived in a mansion that sparkled at night,
I threw bashes hoping to be Daisy’s

Great Dog-Demon

I surpassed father
though the path was treacherous
and filled with mirrors

I Go To Seek A Great Perhaps, as That Is What I Was After Too

The days crack like porcelain
under the heel of my wanting.
I am a spine of restless birds,
feathers slick with salt and early light—
my mouth tasting the metal
of doors I have not opened.

They ask me why.
Why walk without a destination?
Why carry a compass
if you don’t believe in north?

I tell them—
the road does not need an ending
to be

Great Swing

I swung a magazine in a speeding blaze,
and killed five houseflies in three days.
My statistics are good, and for my money,
I'm better than Shohei Ohtunny.

To Be Great

You ask me how to become great?
     Allow me a moment to extrapolate.
Eliminate the things in your life that are fake.
     What remains, your authentic self, 
Will guide you to be yourself,
      Which will reveal that you are great.

Rick The Brick

There was a player on our team named Rick
He hit third and was really a great stick
     When on base, he made a strange face
      He thought he could steal any base
Another out, he was slow as a brick

The Power of Great Art

When in the presence of great art 
I feel pathetically diminished
whereas I hoped it might impart
some little power of its greatness
into my ever diminishing existence, 
so that I walk away quite famished –
or worse, vanquished!

The Great Collapse

children dying in the global south
we cannot drink oil and gas
coral reefs are dying in the ocean
we cannot eat coal and live
species are facing extinction
he keeps filling his vaults while 
children starve from hunger
and diseases spreading like wildfire

this poet finds it preposterous
why should i be afraid of the one in wrong?
to say out loud their

DAILY GRATITUDE GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER

As we await our first great-granddaughter…
speaking now as a great-grandmother and great-granddad
we are grateful to see opening up
another section of our heart…
we never knew we had.

FAITH IN GOD WHOSE GIFTS TO US ARE GREAT

July 25 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Ecclesiastes 5-8 
 
Key Verse –  Ecclesiastes 5:19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

FAITH IN

Is America Great Yet

Everything this person say, think and do revolves around money. There was a saying that “Money is the root of all evil.” I beg to differ. Money is not the root, the love of money is.

The need and greed to be that obsessed displays someone who is possessed.
The need to control it all, to want

My Version of Great is Thy Faithfulness

"Great Is Thy Faithfulness"
Scripture: Lamentations 3:22-23
Lyrics: Thomas Obediah Chisholm (1866-1960)
Music: William Marion Runyan (1870-1957)
Copyright status is Public Domain


Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father;
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not;
As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.

Refrain:
     Great is Thy faithfulness!
 

That's Why Alexander was GREAT

       The King of Greece went on a blind date
       The lady thought he wasn’t so great

           So, he went back to his horse
         

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