Long Delegates Poems

Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...

from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out 
eager and ready to be mortally wounded 
courtesy notorious big headed 
(and bigoted) infamous...

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I first ran across this term
Sacred Ecology
while reading Gregory Bateson
sharing a phylogenic
and holonic 
creolization
of ecosystemic language
with others speaking of and with integrity
as more primal and powerful
than competing WinLose psychic separations
of ecosystemic feelings-Right Sacred (0)Soul
and egocentric...

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Again Brother Paul said that “I didn’t owe them anything, but to do someone a good turn one day.”I shook his hand and thanked him for everything that he had done, He said “God be...

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I told him who I was and explained my predicament and asked would it be possible to use their phone to get help, he said”  unfortunately we do not have a telephone.”Strange I thought,...

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It doesn't surprise me that you have reached the age of 95.
In addition, you are in great shape, and you look fantastic.
I remember that your prayer was that you would not only
Grow to be very...

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OH! Those dangerous days are back again!
When Roman citizens had to choose
Caesar is lord instead of Jesus Christ
As the one true Lord God Almighty!
Even when they knew it was not true!
Some of those believers did...

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‘I wish for his head, on a silver platter’
Mother whispered to daughter
‘Go dance my love, grant me the golden trophy’

‘I love you, mother,’ confidently
She took to the grand floor
Made it her playfield, a heroin
They were...

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“O beautiful for spacious skies”
yet marred by all it’s leaders lies.
See it’s “amber waves of grain”
beneath them hidden is a stain

I pause  “For purple mountain majesties”
yet that’s not all that my heart sees
There “above...

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As the ceremony started 
A young  girl recited, " 
Receive my best greetings...
Welcome our dear delegates 
from bajhoba Kingdoms. 
             I am Ziyanda...

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America The Broken

“O beautiful for spacious skies”
yet marred by all it’s leaders lies.
See it’s “amber waves of grain”
beneath them hidden is a stain

I pause  “For purple mountain majesties”
yet that’s not all that my heart...

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No illegal search and seizure
Says amendment Number Four
Probable cause necessary
Before we break down your door.
The warrant spells out what they search,
Describing things they will seize.
So hide them where you know they won’t
Go to the judge,...

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Charcoal tar and gold brown tobacco
are both packed into a paper stick pressed
firm and trusting to the lips of a modern shaman
inhaling a cloud of harsh, strong, bold, and bitter barbs
that caress the tongue and...

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no one saw it coming they never do
the phone poles were giving off sparks
dogs began to howl birds flocked to the sky
A Plymouth hubcap of immense proportions
quivered and droned in the air over the capitol
television...

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Let's change India the way we need,
Let's make a Great India so that others praise our deeds;
Stop discrimination between the ruling and opponent one,
Time for us to have a new India born;
Our forefathers may not...

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Still waiting for the peace to establish,
The grudge for each other must finish;
67 years is not small period,
To see the 2 nations fighting weird;
Even the Germans made their wall fall,
And the Americans ended civil war;
Politics...

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Apocrypha phantoms
Hustle flung at your plugged ears
Wretched refuse numbed






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When asked what form of government the delegates at the Constitutional Convention had created, Benjamin Franklin famously responded with "A republic, if you can keep it," implying...

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Love isn't just a single word 
or feeling
Said to tickle an ear and 
leave you reeling

Nor is love abstract and 
void of care
But what one envisions and 
does all year

We convey our love by 
things...

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Bipolar
A yellowish day frolics with life, pleasantries errants the air, smiles
growing everywhere as man and beast are one with the leash, 
complacency occupies both time and space, the tenants,
of calmness and serenity moves in. That...

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Congressman and senators forewent 
   all manner of civility, fidelity and integrity wii
hull ding broadswords, derringers 
   and firearms as all hell broke loose as testimony
to the dire prognostication foretold 
...

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I'm Really Quite Confused
By Franklin Price
6/18/2016

I'm really quite confused about our politics today,
And of the selfish things they do and all the games they play
Super delegates are used to control the end result.
Voting districts rearranged;...

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I DON'T BELIEVE (PARODYING JOHN LENNON)


I do not believe
in gods,
I do not believe
in devils,
I do not believe
in scribs,
I do not believe
in prophets,
I do not believe
in speeche
I do not believe
in photos,
I do not believe
in believers,
I do...

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The Map

Hence, reacting to tyrannical rule in 1776,
Delegates from the thirteen colonies met;
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
To declare independence from Britannia.
Two years later, presentation and ratification,
Was signed enacting the ‘American Constitution,’
And the creation and formation to be...

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Watching  endless ocean stretched out before me.
My thinking is far away.
The yacht is rocking.
As each wave hurries back to shore
My thoughts wander.
What will I say?
I should be dressing.
They'll be watching.
My suit doesn't quite fit.
My...

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Only way I could figure out how to print out my Vestry
email letter. Jim Horn

Dear Friends,

Just a reminder of our upcoming meeting this coming Tuesday (Jan. 12th), 5:30 pm in Bliss Hall.

An agenda is shown...

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Life is not fair nor is liberty and justice unified 
So I will hope in He the God to whom I cry

When I think about this presidential election 
And we now have Donald Trump 
I...

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