Individuals speak of justice
As if it lived in every room,
As if fairness sat beside every
Judge,
As if every voice
Arrived carrying equal weight.
Yet I watched doors open
For some,
While others stood knocking
With bleeding knuckles.
Some got patience.
Others got presumption.
Some got hearings
Others got headlines.
Some were questioned.
Others were concluded.
Justice isn't Justice
When it's rationed.
Rights aren't rights
When they're guarded.
So I ask,
From observation,
Not bitterness:
If we're equal under the law,
Why does fairness
Seem to know our names
Before it knows the facts?
" Due Process For Who?"
"My things as you."
People as Friends and kettles?
"My things as you."
The witness deprived
Absorbent in deny
How in interchange
Are we spoken
Misleading waste
Papers as snakes
Only in cuisines
Last, hander of things
Gone in time
Decade of take
Sales of ink
And all town
How to announce
Tone?
And all are tow'n
Being towed in the time
Time of all Involved as microcosm In discussion from?
Fearing reprimand of ink as letters ?
Allowing incorrect Consistent sing
the blind justices repeal?
Confound surrender?
Your not printing the article
Your afraid of reading
And the "free" cost!
Remains are extensive
The times grow small inside of earths journals
My sistas
A good woman once prevailed
Yet as her eyes sight the abandonment vessel
Reluctant wrath hatred vision
Prometheus googles
Declare upon the abomination
This place the unaffected
Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human.
-Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
In shadows womb, where hopes may fade,
The road is coarse, the nights are long.
Yet through the hearings, hearts are made,
In shadows womb, where hopes may fade.
Each tear a touch, each fear a blade,
But still we rise, we’re still grown strong.
In shadows womb, where hopes may fade,
The road is coarse, the nights are long.
The confirmation hearings are lowbrow theatre.
Wolf packs of C actors and bitter stone-throwers.
Getting off by degrading, disgracing, and humiliating.
Transparency and truth are a pale afterthought.
Do let your children watch the theatre, though....
Explain that this is how not to treat another human being.
Then take them to a playground.
Leave your cell phone behind.
Let them teach you the art of playing all over again.
Lindsey is Olde English for “Linden Tree by the brook”,
A tree universal, celebrated in many cultures being namely,
Doctor Tree, of Health, Feminine Arts, nook,
Of soothing calm, Light, Truth, an amulet tree,
Its deep shade is a knowing look,
Friends see another, marriages be happy,
For Heart shaped leaves do hook!
A Linden was at village centers,
Parks, Hospitals, court hearings,
Lining many noble’s garden shoulders,
Litigant conciliations endearing,
Testimony credible, curing opponent smolders,
Body ailments, “Quarts of Hurts” rearings,
Colds, skin blotches, spasms not enduring!
Volcanoes of bees, honey exquisite,
Perfume fragrance, edible leaves,
Salad makings requisite,
White or yellow tiny petal cleaves,
Linden shade hosts visits,
Motherly care, compassion sheaveings,
Fidelity, fraternity, matrimony, humble wits,
We need more Lindseys less poet leavings,
Lindens increase peace & alertness,
Be a Lert, we need more Lerts!
Insurrection hearings are here
Over 20 million viewers
Hoping indictments will appear
For all of the evil-doers.
Government coup
What can we do?
Waiting for action for a year
Riots, liars, MAGA spewers.
Give them their due, and shed not a tear;
Prosecute all the wrongdoers.
Jail him post-haste
Trump, piece of waste.
Jun 13, 2022
Posie Poetry Contest, sponsored by Emilie Pinet
Remembering Dreams
David J Walker
Here the breathings
In deep wood
Here the hearings
If I could
Remember meanings
Bad or good
Visions often
Misunderstood
I dream of you
My dear
I dream I feel
You near
I dream I hear
Your breathings
I dream I know
The pleadings
Of your heart
*I am only stating facts I observed at hearings and from witnesses and my opinion. If you comment with info that is opposing, I will leave it there if not insulting, but may not answer, only because it is not my intension to debate or argue the issue. I am only exercising freedom of speech. If you don’t like it, please ignore…thank you!
Dead people voted
More votes than legal voters
Votes flipped per internet
Truth was in the win
Trucks of ballots dumped at night
Cheating while sleeping and more
Call me a whiner
Try to call me a liar
Witness lives were threatened
Watch Lindell’s 90
Full evidence is revealed
Justice must not be ignored
Heidi Sands
7/6/21
If there was no election fraud:
Then why so much determination to stop discussion about it?
If it is one big lie, are they calling all the Americans who testified liars?
Those who testified after signing sworn affidavits?
Even with those being brave enough to do so with death threats?
If it is so much of a lie, then why aren’t they in jail?
For that is the consequence for lying after signing the affidavit
They are not to blame for their testimony restricted to state legislatures,
Instead of being allowed into the courts, where it should be presented
Why didn’t the main stream media cover these hearings in detail?
To me, it doesn’t matter what side you are on or affiliated with
This is a federal election with proven evidence, numbers and facts,
Truly revealed in hours of testimony from credible witnesses
I would like to believe that anyone would want this fairly reviewed
It is shocking such serious matters are ignored and discounted
After all, it is our votes involved in the outcome, regardless of the result
To think that fairness in something like this goes ignored, is appalling
*We all have a right to ask these questions
Heidi Sands
2/4/21
My sins – both of commission and omission
do testify against me day and night.
But saving souls of sinners was His mission;
now sinners walk by faith and not by sight.
Lord, how am I to keep your gospel fresh?
Repeated hearings make it seem less real,
for I am inundated by the flesh
and all the vain distractions that appeal.
I strive to grasp this truth mysterious:
“God demonstrates his love for us in this –
While we were lost in sin, Christ died for us”
Though I had just betrayed him with a kiss.
New birth and life eternal are his gifts
As from the dead this hope my spirit lifts.
Written in 2016
Of course non of these words are true to my life, I have to say it’s just a fun write or else I would be flying my kite.
Have I ever told you that...
Your hair has a beautiful glossy shine
Well, it did once upon a long, long time
That your pearly teeth are whiter than white,
Pity that they have to come out at night.
I always saw you as my Adonis
Then gravity put a damper on it
I loved that our eyes always met so much
Now if I get a glance, I am in luck.
Have I ever told you that you sing well
My hearings long gone, so now I can't tell
That I loved the way round the room we'd dance
Till arthritis waved farewell to romance.
That you once made this old heart of mine soar
What once was magic, sadly is no more
But I wouldn't change anything that thou art
In my eyes you shine brighter than the stars.
*******
10th November 2020
HAVE I EVER TOLD YOU THAT...... Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: John Lawless
Oh to be eighteen again
Just for a week
No more morning pain
No more feeling weak
All the fun I could have
Party into the early hours
Play footy with the lads
Buy a sweetheart flowers
Oh to be sweet eighteen
Feeling fit as a butchers dog
It's ages since I was a teen
Grey hairs, I got a lot
wrinkles on my face
Liver spots on my hands
Struggling to stand straight
To be eighteen would be grand
I have my memories
Although they're faint
From in my teens
I was far from a saint
Sat in my comfy seat
Glasses on my nose
Hearings not so sweet
Face as red as a rose
Oh to be eighteen again
Only for a week
I could feel healthy again
Not mild and meek
~~~~Let's Go Oakland!~~~
Beat the Tampa Bay Rays!
50,000 fans heading your way to watch you play,
In this very exciting Wild Card Game.
There will be no hearings as to who won the game,
Nor, if Russia colluded to put you to shame!
That's what I like about sports, it is win or lose!!
And~honey! Three strikes and you're out....
There is no sour-puss losing,
The winning is clear and that is the end!
Champions know how to accept a win or a defeat.
Losers love the word, "cheat."
October 2, 2019
Mighty behind desk and beak,
teaching chemistry earrings.
Glass rims speak of test--
new eyes flame begins.
Some books peek with hearings,
some hide their giggle as best,
while others lean out to confess
the test they'd like to take.
Alternative dispute resolution, said he
Barristers speak like that usually
Conciliation the outcome, we seek
During our meet, with the Beak
Evidence we have, evidently
Fraud is thick in the air, it is true
Grounds of recompense we pursue
Hearings will proceed
Indemnity achieved
Judging the Judge, goes with YOU!
Limerick 11
Lawyer/Barrister
Sponsored by Joseph May
10/1/2019
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