People have opinions about everything
It's our inalienable right I guess
To believe what we believe without outside influences
To discover with our very own eyes and heart
It's much more likely these facts will be retained
More than reading them in some ancient old manuscript
Living, investigating and researching the facts for ourselves
We learn by living through all of life's experiences
The good stuff, the bad stuff, the happy stuff, the sad stuff
But the moments that makes our hearts skip a beat
Are the most joyous moments as we walk through life
Watching the sun rise every morning
We never fail to be amazed by mother nature
Life is still the greatest mystery
How? Why? What does it all mean?
We don't need to know the answer to all of life's mysteries
We just need to enjoy them while we're here
And try our best to leave with the knowledge
We lived life to the fullest!
Categories:
inalienable, angst,
Form: Free verse
Americans~ today is the National Day of Prayer!
Our vast , great country is Judaeo -Christian,
That means, indeed we have a special mission.
To be responsible for oursevelves and others.
To pray and keep all our inalienable rights.
To honor God humbly, with soulful might.
So,be grateful for whatever you are blessed with,
Set aside a very special time to honor this land.
This is a call for unity, join our hearts and hands!
5/4/2023
Categories:
inalienable, america, god, graduate, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Conversations are mostly friendly
Vacate my mind
Inhale passing clouds
Avoid taxes and the police
Trouble with me is ~
The envelope arrives like a meteor
Foreign, inalienable & free
Fatal attractions devour my obsessions
Raw honey is good for you
Accelerator gets stuck to the floor
Flies buzzing everywhere
Newscasts parrot the script...
"The innocent man was pushed
on to the tracks
Heroes jumped in to save him
more news at 10"
1/9/23
12:47am
Categories:
inalienable, angst, brother,
Form: Free verse
I
its funny how words contain stories
call them by the synonym, mysteries
SLAVE also has an antidote: SALVE
where SALE of humans rendered some HALVES
of what Nature's God had given ("inalienable rights")
I wrote before: SAVIOUR, spelled so,
has within its letters: 'OUR VISA' to Heaven
Kids have often said DOG and GOD are close
Or "I" am in the middle of a PiG (I am not!)
Just the Letter "i" is in the midst of letters P, i, G
So, as you awake or prepare for work, lunch, snack, or sleep
I suggest a combo of games help redirect, change our focus
From the issues of the day (We had no piped water for 10 days, and)
In sunny South Africa, LOADSHEDDING means power is rationed
So we have six hours a day of cold food and overworked diesel generators
In a digital nation, where banks do not offer much cash: phone
Or internet banking, the order of the day - and no one told my Government!
Remember then, SHALOM SHALOM - as you think of home
Whether on earth or heaven, we need lessons on keeping sane and sad-free
Categories:
inalienable, africa, betrayal, bible, community,
Form: Didactic
To hold a liberal viewpoint is a good thing
For we liberals believe in our inalienable rights,
Rights to “the pursuit of happiness” we bring.
Freedom with responsibility, a good feeling,
Opportunity with civility is worthy of its fights
To hold a liberal viewpoint is a good thing.
For America, her flag, her anthem we sing
Proudly supporting her fundamental might,
Rights to “the pursuit of happiness” we bring.
We will not buckle to an insurrectionist wing,
In our belief in liberty for all, we delight,
To hold a liberal viewpoint is a good thing.
When our government is threatened, we sting
And for our freedom of speech, we will fight
Rights to “the pursuit of happiness” we bring.
Our commitments are more than a passing fling
We keep our proven institutional values in sight,
To hold a liberal viewpoint is a good thing
Rights to “the pursuit of happiness” we bring.
Written July 12, 2022
Categories:
inalienable, america, perspective, political, social,
Form: Villanelle
"The seeds of freedom cannot flourish in flames of fire"
the poet
I look with ominous concern on this independence day;
The ruling class, donned in the clothing of a sheep,
While a compliant population still remains asleep;
Our rights and liberties propelled into decay.
A society, ‘progressive’, erodes morality with fantasy and lies;
Lies construed as hope and change
With a nefarious agenda to rearrange
An ideology that threatens our freedoms in covert disguise.
“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is fading away;
mandates without truth in science
holds us hostage in compliance;
our inalienable rights, born to us, a fray.
It took a revolution for freedoms to be achieved,
freedoms being quelled into a memory of old
The tenants of our constitution have been divisively sold,
To a diabolical agenda that will not yield, until our freedoms are bereaved.
Categories:
inalienable, america, conflict, corruption, political,
Form: Quatrain
"The Secret Place"
Inside
the secret place
we sleep it wakes
pushing nightmares away
poems it breathes
into burning flames
walking in
and
out the gate
torching black hearts
each one a post mark
to light the long way
Inside
the secret place
we sleep it wakes
breathing words between
our lips, it kisses kindness
injects its absolute strength
opening minds to love
in our dreams,
we drink it all in
inalienable words,
we hear it
speak
when it is time
we will need it
when we wake
but do not sleep
and what we were
becomes forgotten dream
Inside
the secret place
we sleep it wakes
waiting for that day
when we will meet
at the gate
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
Categories:
inalienable, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
There is good in the heart of Man;
that can quickly morph into evil
when envy feeds His insatiable greed;
we'll conspire, coerce, and bully to get what we want.
Death is an effective threat,
and war is its fulfillment;
we revel in the dominance and brutality.
So much so that we proclaim it "Man's finest hour,"
celebrating a potent mix of blood and fear.
Politics and the color of our skin separates
those that we view as them from us,
We're right; they're wrong; that is how it is.
We instinctively hate what we fear;
but what we fear isn't always straightforward
and some may be hesitant to kill,
but if push turns to shove, they'll bend to peer pressure,
and invent a reason.
Everyone has the inalienable right to exist;
yet Man's indisputable, innate aggression
leads one to question,
how God and the Devil coexist.
Man has a pension for committing atrocities,
unphased by faith or moral ethics.
Categories:
inalienable, angst, anxiety, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The word
has inalienable
right of manifestation...
But it's up to us to embody it
with sound and the voice !
Categories:
inalienable, allegory, allusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
I'm a lover not a fighter,
I'm a fighter not a fool.
I won't surrender inalienable rights,
To Washington's Marxist tools.
I'm a lover not a fighter,
I'm a fighter not a fool.
I won't abide the liar's,
In the main stream media pool.
I'm a lover not a fighter,
I'm a fighter not a fool.
I know that God in Heaven,
Will ultimately rule.
Categories:
inalienable, america, bible, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
There are two famous politicians who hold the stage,
they should be in this year New York's Halloween Parade
to attract huge crowds: they are stuttering Biden and hysterical Harris;
these two have shaped the theatrical perception of two charade clowns!
One is hideously scary, the other is theatrically funny,
America has become a battlefield, a nobody's land:
there's no impenetrable wall to protect this country;
no regard for police, no gun control to stop the blood!
It's a bad time for them to engage in a fierce battle,
this rampant pandemic doesn't discriminate;
who chooses to get the vaccine shot is saved,
who refuses it is someone to be alienated,
going home without a check and feeling miserable,
shouting their inalienable rights that aren't sacred
anymore; alas, they won't transform their fate!
Oh, turn off Fox News: it makes this house rattle!
Categories:
inalienable, anger, character, conflict, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Let me be passionately calm,
but fiercely resolved.
That the United States
will not fall!
Let the God of Abraham,
hold this nation together.
As our true leaders are berated,
and small fools dance about
in Sambista feathers?
Where wrong is right, and
criminality now is cool?
You cannot simply transform
patriots into tribal fools!
And, tragically, to see you try
and wreck the Constitution?
Our inalienable rights are contained
therein, thus for that, there is no
forgiveness nor restitution!
Where are the brave American poets,
I implore of thee?
Who will stand for all our freedoms
at the price of popularity?
2/10/2021
~ 4 ~
Categories:
inalienable, america, courage, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Couplet
With its own refreshing taste…
Any life from it severed, an unarguable waste,
Now seemingly abstract, soon fiercely concrete:
A pair of good shoes for all feet!
Before me solidly sketches a wing,
The palpable symbol of this inalienable thing
That one from Africa can lift
To places farther by the widest shift.
From one freedom is promptly taken away
After senselessly toying with The Law:
Persons by inviting offences led astray
And now to head for some prison door.
Freedom’s foremost friend is the loosest Tongue
Always graphically able to portray a scandal:
A sponsorship of exhaled air from the lungs,
Neatly picturing the scandals of Vandal…
Freedom’s forever sworn enemy is a curfew
Maximum scanty prisons imitating Nephew.
Categories:
inalienable, freedom, hope, joy,
Form: Rhyme
What we think
with feeling...that which
we articulate – even if
heard by one ear alone –
reaches the multitudes,
having been written on the
invisible as well…
We are far taller, wider, deeper
than any measure would indicate;
far more dense, our dark sides
as vast as our lights – we travel
not only the tops
but bottoms of an
inside/outside universe,
where the real crosses with the
dream; ticks and tacks of civilizations
confounded with inalienable gods –
a board-game having trillions of players
and countless, irreconcilable stars….
For most men it is
up, down, inside
or out – the then
and now...but with
true freedom it is royally
the spoken way
and spoken how….
Categories:
inalienable, creation, humanity, introspection, science
Form: Free verse
There is a Guantanamo Bay like facility,
that has a bed with my name on it guaranteed,
along with 1 million natural born americans in and outside my country.
We are all on the government watch list and we are all indeed guilty,
of exercising our inalienable right to freedom of speech.
Somewhere along the way that became terrorist activity,
at least that's what The Patriot Act has led everyone to believe.
If the rest of my life is to be spent in such an environment
where enhanced interrogation is practiced like some sort of religion,
and where I'd be subject to any kind of horrid experimentation,
you better believe that I will kill myself at the first opportune moment.
Sometimes suicide is the only option,
and in such a scenario like the above warrants justification.
Categories:
inalienable, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
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