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Show Your Card

I was working for Jack Daymond, a farmer,
who farmed livestock, potatoes and vines.
I s’pose he had over two hundred cattle.
The spuds and the grapes grew in lines. 

Oh gawd! Jack had me slaving ‘til sunset,
keeping his farm spick and span.
Jack kept his eyes on the produce,
while I was his cleaning up man.

And that meant me days were all busy,
spraying and killing off weeds,
grubbing out hundreds of tussocks,
before the darn thing set its seeds.

Sometimes old Jack was a good bloke,
he’d jump in with a fine helping hand,
and we’d spend our day in the paddock,
destroying the weeds on his land.

We were digging out plenty of thistles,
in the north paddock up near the creek,
and we worked like a couple of Trojans
clearing what should have taken a week.

Then a voice loudly filled up the air.
And it was quite menacing too.
A bloke in a suit was striding to us, 
declaring his strong point of view.

“Mr. Daymond, I am here to warn you,
that I represent government’s need.
It appears that with government water,
that your quota you far did exceed.”

“I’m here to check your irrigation,
and make sure you’re not being unfair.”
Jack Daymond replied “Do what you must,
but don’t go in that paddock up there.”

The bloke in the suit became snaky,
standing over poor Jack with a leer,
“Don’t tell me where I can or can’t go,
See this card that I am holding here.”

“This card is a reminder to you,
I have authority over your land.
I am allowed to go wherever I wish,
have I made myself clear?  Do you understand?'

Jack looked down at the card in his hand,
and knew there’s no sense to rebound,
so Jack nodded politely and joined me,
grubbing thistles from out of the ground.

It appeared that Jack had been beaten,
and in silence he’s taking it hard,
between thistles he gazed to the paddock,
at the bloke who had shown him the card. 

But then a grin formed on his face,
we heard yelling like never before,
for the bloke in the suit he was sprinting,
and it’s something we cannot ignore.

Jack beat me on reaching the fence.
With the bloke in the suit in full flight,
and hot in pursuit was Jack’s Jersey bull,
with a look that was all sheer delight.

As the bloke in the suit got beside us,
with the bull behind him by a yard,
Old Jack cupped his hands and yelled out -
“Your card! Your card! Show him your card!”
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Music In the Dark -- Puccini

To tell the truth,
I was no fan of opera, in my youth...

When did it come...?   That turning point....?
I do not know, ........
            perhaps I grew, to understand...
            a wrenching tale his stories told
                                    can grab the heart... ...grip fast ...and hold!
Puccini came, from out of nowhere
It finally made more sense to me...in spite of those who scoff, and shake their heads
Alive once more....this man long dead
          has stirred my soul, ........and I was lead, into the clouds, where heaven lives!

I became a fan, ...and realized, such music lives within the blood
It rushes in, and floods my veins, just as it did to those so long ago
An aria... then a divine duet....Rodolpho and his sweet coquette
  connects me to a vine entwined, 
                           with those who listenend, long before my time.

Sitting in the dark tonight, I pause to think
 who would have dreamed
           how tears in the eyes, have formed a thousand rivers?
                 Long through the ages, still coiling with emotion
                   devotional artists, sing of such rapture
                          into the rafter's to countless reception...
A lover's kiss, the singing with prose
Skins turning cold....from the chill beauty holds
Tears to unfold,  hypnotic poses
A bliss such as this
    has left generations.... breathless 


As the curtain is closed........ I must compose myself


Old music that echoes, as it has for centuries
   bouncing off these walls....as I'm torn into two....
                 mingling with my heart, the old with the new

The rafter's of time, have absorbed one more time
Two tragic lovers, declaring in song
Throngs have been sung to.....hearts have been wrung
                       
I listen, I watch, as lovers fade from the light
                in poignant beauty,  drifting away...
                      ...........dying in the distance, ........
                             as will Mimi, 
                                 leaving her love behind....alone with a shattered heart
                                                  as death tears them apart
                                                               leaving my eyes brimming over
                                                                     with tears in the dark


_________________________________
 "Music By Puccini"
Form: Narrative

Him Too, Or the Drowning Femenist, Part Ii

...He flipped through the paper he’d bee given,
And saw the name ‘Ms. Karen Mallory,’
his mind reeled again, incredulous,
that was the girl he had saved by the sea!

Soon enough he was dragged into a court
and Ms. Mallory did loudly attest
that without consent he had kissed her,
and pawed like a pervert at her breasts!

His lawyer counter,”Consent can’t be given
when a person is hurt and unconscious,”
that nothing he did be called sexual,
and that a good soul could do nothing less.

Mallory’s activist lawyer shot back,
“Maybe she would have preferred a death
to knowing that she was violated,
forced to breath in a molestor’s breath.”

She prattled about body sanctity,
how even frantic times did no excuse men
from shamelessly groping defenseless girls
who were not able to give their consent.

Dylan rolled his eyes so many times
that he though they’d fall out of his head,
he’d known Feminazis could be extreme
but this pair was functionally brain-dead!

He expected most folks would see the truth
and recognize that he’d done a good deed,
nut one day a friend sent him a link
and told Dylan it was something to read.

He gaped as he read a professor’s rant,
filled with reasoning utterly absurd,
claiming that death did not justify ‘groping,’
never had he seen such nonsense words.

Then the many ‘minds’ on the internet
all chimed in with their digital voice,
half said that he was a would-be rapist
that unconscious girls could not avoid!

Then the media latched onto it,
made it their outrage-scandal of the week,
with people declaring ‘unconscious consent’
as a dark too of ‘The Patriarchy.’

And of course his boss feared the attention
so Dylan was quickly drummed out of his job,
for trying to step up and do the right thing
of a living he’d wrongly been robbed.

Inside the court they pointed to wild nights
to try to smear him with misogyny
regardless of the fact that his night life
had nothing to do with events on the beach!

In the end, at least, the jury chose right
and saw his actions for just what they were,
still the media called it travesty,
an ‘act of oppression’ against her.

As he walked out a reporter pressed close,
said,”Can you tell me what you learned inside?”
“Yes, next time you see a feminazi drown,
you’d be better off just letting her die.”
Form: Narrative

Premium Member War What Is It Good For

"War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing."  "There has never been a good war nor a bad peace."  Quotations which held true for two separate generations.  Nations declare war to increase their territorially expanse into other nations where it does not belong.  They caste their covetous and greedy eyes upon rich natural resources.  Why bother to trade with other countries?  

When aggressive nations can snatch and grab their ill gotten gains.  Trade routes and access to water ways. Nations were doing this before the beginning of recorded history. Before tribal groups organized themselves.  

Focusing our attention spans. Backwards into the first Old Testament Biblical book of the Bible, Genesis.  When Cain took a stone and killed his brother Abel, because he was jealous and filled with wrath.  And people have been killing each other and declaring war ever since.

Warfare only provides an aggressive no win solutions to preexisting premediated circumstances'.  Frequently spiraling rapidly out of the control of the waring nations.  Resulting in massive genocide! Famine! Pestilences! World wide epidemics'!  Why not read the last book of the New Testament Bible,  The book of Revelations for yourselves?  All warfare succeeds in accomplishing is "making the devil laugh."  And widowers, widows, and orphans travail! 

The Bible predicts the Psalm 83 middle eastern war.  The Gog and Magog war mentioned in the Old Testament Book of the Bible, The book of Ezekiel.  And finally the Battle of Armageddon mentioned in the book of Revelations.

The second coming of Jesus Christ to the earth, will occur at the sounding of the 7th trumpet.   He will be riding a white stallion, and will have an escort service.  The heavenly angels and the heavenly saints will be accompanying him.  Both the False Prophet and the False Christ will be cast alive into the Lake of Fire!  Satan, his fallen angels, demons and condemned mankind will be   
joining him one thousand years later!

The Holy Trinity, the heavenly angels and saints.  Both during the church age of trace and Tribulation saints will live to see. The one thousand year reign of Jesus Christ!  The tribulation saints only will be able to reproduce themselves.

Love in Christ Jesus!
Roxanne Lea Dubarry
Roxy Lea 1954
Roxy 1954/ October Country
January 30, 2020
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Ruling Leader

April 13 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 10-12

Key Verse –1Chronicles 11:2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY RULING LEADER
				
Lord God, You are my ruling Leader 
till I reach Your mountain-peak holiness 
Thank You for letting me follow You with Your imputed righteousness
And for healing my sin-battle sores and struggle wound-illness…
Help me flee to You always against worldly destructiveness.

Lord God, You are my ruling Leader 
ill I find Your will’s completion for my perfection 
Thank You for directing me to Your sovereign perfection
And for fastening my heart to Your counsel and instruction…
Help me inquire from You always for Your wise exhortation.

Lord God, You are my ruling Leader 
till I behold Your beauty’s glory face to face 
Thank You for bringing me toward Your feeding grace
And for anointing my steps to walk midst divine pace…
Help me dwell in You always while running well along spiritual race.

Lord God, You are my ruling Leader 
till I experience Your deliverance-victory 
Thank You for forbidding me to put my life in jeopardy’s misery
And for strengthening my faith in declaring Your Gospel story…
Help me honour You always as I attain triumph for Your glory.

Lord God, You are my ruling Leader 
till I come to Your commendation’s enclosure 
Thank You for arming me with Your truth of heavenly treasure
And for clothing my soul with Your pardon to withstand guilt’s pressure…
Help me abide in You always from wilderness’ leisure.

Lord God, You are my ruling Leader 
till I fulfill Your plan which is the best
Thank You for overflowing me with Your blessings despite crises’ pest
And for upholding my satisfaction in Your care nest midst worry-caused test…
Help me to stay with You always for my peaceable rest.

Lord God, You are my ruling Leader 
till I receive Your promised reward 
Thank You for advising me to march diligently forward
And for enabling my commitment to keep on, being Your kingdom-steward…
Help me praise You always with joy in my advancement onward.

April 13, 2023
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Whistling Dixie Signs

I recall similar signs and notices
of ironic appeal:

"We have a zero-tolerance policy against bullying"
ripped and torn,
and is that a dried yellow yolk stain?

"This is a NO GUNS neighborhood"
surrounded by a lot
vacant except for weeds
mulched in broken shards of glass.

ZERO CRIME AREA notices
as prolific as NO HUNTING signs
in SureWood Forest.

Me thinks
we protest
too much
to not raise questions
about the wisdom of declaring victory
and moving on,
rather than struggling through win/lose
toward win/win resilient climates of peace.

Perhaps the guns
and their bully keepers
can't read,
or don't choose to notice the toothless notice,
or don't have enough time
in their conflicted day
on their lose/lose way
to making liars
of our best win/win published intentions

Made by frustrated raw spot prey
on some other day
in some other room
they would not
could not
should not feel free to enter
listen
then speak transparently
of their/our own vulnerably exhausted sweet spots

Now worn into deeply entrenched
isolated anger
hate
fear
envy
mistrust
distrust
defensive fight and/or flee choices

Provoked by win/lose competitive environments
cultures
climates
experiences
not bully and gun and crime
and co-related raw spot free.

Universal compassion
is a worthy goal.
But declaring goals already achieved
does not help induce real world cooperative progress,
especially for those not in the room
to help write our negative injunctions.

Perhaps we would healthier
and more effectively begin
with our positive universal aspirations:

We invite Zero Intolerance
Learning to listen with active compassion.

This is a ProPeace place
Cooperatively held active safe space
for growing our ego/eco-managed win/win grace.

We multiculturally and inclusively love co-passion searches
rather than dispassioned hunts
and nihilistic degenerative desertions.

Healthy people
seldom step out in anger
while co-inviting ourselves to step into compassion
with coming peacefully home messages
rather than angry commands to go back
to alien lose/lose lands from which none of us
could ever hope to survive,
much less win/win thrive.

Signs against patriarchal colonizing offenses
do not give compassionate notice
we are for matriarchal creolizing offerings.

Premium Member The Triple Cast of English Football

Peppie was feeling cool  

Watching the sky blue  

Realizing he was on top  

Above good ole rival Klopp  

When Chelsea arrived  

To the beehive  

With intention  

For a conversation about the detention  

That should be mentioned  

Getting attention 

In the Daily Mail  

Telling the story how Chelsea was nailed  

“Our new fourth member  

Pulled something this first weekend in December  

Put a whammy  

Using the Western Hammy  

Trapping me in third  

Finding out nothing is insured,”  

Laughing Peppie continued enjoying feeding on the honey  

Thinking what happened ‘was ever so funny’  

“You wore yellow 

A Mellow  

Merchandising seller,”  

Peppie replied  

Knowing Chelsea tried  

“Well, you were in white  

For your bee buzzing fight 

That was a bore and never tight!”  

In another place  

Klopp was building his case  

Returning from battle  

Protecting his cattle  

Wolves on the attack  

Working like a pack  

Nil Nil to the end  

Following a goal scripted by an athletic pen  

Klopp was able to defend  

Success!!  

In the test  

Not feeling alone  

Having a civil tone  

Approaching the two  

Noting no one wearing blue  

Pondering something was starting to brew 

“First and third  

Haven’t you heard,”  

Peppie spoke the word  

“I did some checking  

No longer first instead second”  

Klopp said  

Impersonating a bridesmaid wanting to wed  

But due to debt  

Had to wear red  

Chelsea gave a look  

Like after reading a good chapter in a book  

“You are lucky to be in front of me   

You should be in spot number three,”  

She did shrug  

Still needing a hug  

“About this West Ham  

Who created the one-point jam?” 

They all started to wonder 

About the lunchtime blunder  

“Are these Hammers for real?  

Or just Londoners asking deal or no deal?” 

As the trio checked their list twice  

Being border protective and nice  

“Should we let them in? 

To our elite circle of win?”  

Chelsea started the rebuttal  

Noting they had this entertaining bubble  

Creating trouble  

On the table  

Winding around the English Premiere fable  

Where only one takes it all  

Declaring the champion playing futbol
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member That's Grace

When we open our hearts to each other we allow grace to enter. It is as simple as that. And suffering — events that break open the heart — can become the refiner's fire that leaves us fully open to the truth about love and compassion. — Kathleen A. Brehony in Ordinary Grace


When the sun rises across the hills, coloring dreams
In beautiful – that’s grace
When the rain falls gentle from the clouds,
Erasing the silence, whispering promises – that’s grace
When laughter shadows the darkest doubt,
Writing hope on the heart, - that’s grace
When poetry prays from starlit skies, lighting the moments
With tenderness, a smile, a second chance – that’s grace
When dusk is alive with fireflies, glistening in the night,
Dancing like autumn leaves or the dandelion seeds
Who waft over the memories – that’s grace
When rhythms of giggles fall from the ears blessed
By young children, those who play like tomorrow
Is a promise – that’s grace
When feelings stir up so much joy that silence
Feels like the sun washing away all the lonely ache,
-	That’s grace!

When the mist moves, unspoken, over the spirit
Rustling, gentling every breath – a prayer said,
Quivering among the pines and laurels – that is grace
When the rainbow soothes away every doubt,
A promise made – a promise kept – that’s grace
When the music of hope confirms the joy inside,
Singing encouragement to the soul – that is grace
When the truth is a place that remembers to believe,
Inside where the heart needs to see, to complete
Every need, there is only faith, belief – that is grace
When the sun stirs the spirit to a place of complete peace,
And every feeling within brings elation, appreciation
For the caress of the breeze, falling lovingly – that is grace
When the cerulean sky erases every uncertainty,
Declaring the heavens are a place for amity, dreams
Coming out, beneath the shadows, serenity – that’s grace

Heed the beautiful, the miracles, the wonders of a moment,
The heavenly, the spiritual, the blessed who will all agree
Tomorrow is not promised, but the hope of eternity – that is grace
Just  believe – believe and see, recognize the reality – that’s grace
Just believe, just believe… that is grace! It will forever be –
The greatest blessing God could give to you and me!

The Honorific

"The Honorific Bridge"
             :  by Suzanne Alexander 
 [neé  C]  Nicknamed missilverwood 
 
                           In worth unmeasured 
                       free wealth pursue,a sake 
                     worthwhile. In comfort wait ,a
                   trio clutch, orbt fate -obliviously 
              unaware, even on hint or cue.Patiently
            Await , unprepared the clutch trio só , 'ku',
           ån honourable strong heart that graciously... 
        welcomes, generously give: ã smile delightedful,
     declaring, a change in queue. To establish truthful
   principles fused, smelted  in current era. An aim surely?
 Symbiostic simplistic relations emits true unification shared 

cognated and capsulated by an identical,trio , on pollarded truth...obvious that this universal common goal harmonised produce ...  a universal wealth already in practice proved.... shared from a heart peaceful , not a lie , ensures,equivalent  
wealth for all . Not one controversial existent statement...
can decline such integrity in heart, mind and soul a morale, 

Hence, wakening thé worthy hive arcaded.To wax the new way , arcaded years ago. With perserverence ,persistence and hardwork progressed from hands , the few. A song new - new bibs,baby cots ,aligns the varietY shapes sailing the home of the trio clutch. On stage a half moon sepset playing the tune Not an arcadian plot, isolatated

 
      Honorific   arcaved   goals  pillars,  unified  by ultimus.
Through perserved  character  stealthfully obtained hidden  keyes reflecting some known truth to the guardians , bestowed and entrusted holders .
The  Pendulum Clock sets Time .A key safely secured 
form this ideal , not to steal not earned honor for power, 
Exclusion of two main honoured believes- the witnesses. Maybe on purpose, and most importantly forgotten  
                   Gods,promise when two sparrows sold for a 
                   penny not forgotten, 
                                       Faith Prevails.
                                God  Protector Presets 
                                Planned these Promises.
                                            Nothing 
                                               more 
                                     Truthful than this.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Free Will: Illusion Or Reality

Are we really free?
Free to chose to:
Go wherever we please? 
Do whatever we desire?
Be with whom we wish? 
Pick whichever thing we fancy?
Without coercion 
Without ever being obliged by an unseen force in 
A predetermined or predestined way?

How?  

How can we have free will to be wherever we
Wish to be
When:
Bound to earth we are with the 
Heavy chains of gravity
Obliged, incessantly to follow it 
And move
Around its circumference 
Around the sun  
Around the galaxy  
Around the universe, 
Having no chance ever to escape its
Deterministic laws?

Are we free?

Have we got a free will?
If yes, when did it start?
The day we were born or later on?
For the day we were born 
We knew nothing of:
What we were
Who we were 
What we wanted
What we needed 
What we desired 

Subject were we to our bodily organs and
Their functions
No control had we over:
Our heart
Our liver 
Our kidneys    
Our spleen
Our blood circulation
Our brain 
And had no idea of
How to defend ourselves against
Deceases 
How to produce blood
How to digest

We had not any control then and we have
No more control now as adults

How then are we free?

In what respect?

Is it because we choose A over B?
To be here or there?
To do this or that?

What if our choices are just the
Result of the working of nature in us?
The outcome of ideas and  tendencies, 
Implanted in our mind and soul by Man or 
Mother nature? 
 
Doesn’t our acceptance of free will seems
Like declaring:
The earth goes aroud the sun because 
Of its free will
Or  
A stone falls as a result of 
Its free will
Or 
A seed spouts because of its free will
Or
The salmon, after venturing for years in 
The ocean, returns to the river it came to life, 
To lay its eggs, out of free will?

Or is free will the result of 
Our Lord the creator and creator of the universe 
As they say?

If that is the case then we may ask:

Would the wisdom of our God entrust His creation to us?
To our free will to do as we please?

If the answer is yes, then 
What the result of such freedom would be on
The world God has created?  

Whatever the answer may be, the mystery
Will linger

For
 
We, know nothing for certain
Hence
We just believe!  


© Demetrios Trifiatis
  13 OCTOBER 2014

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