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Just because we had an African, black, white, man elected?
but no one really wants to represent people feels like we got injustice;
Some people like it poor their minimum waged jobs;
Not many of them we can trust;
But no one really wants to represent people feel like we got injustice;
Who am I to judge you? Got no heaven nor hell for ya;
Not many of them we can trust;
You smile @ me, lie to my face;
Who am I to judge you? Got no heaven nor hell for you;
Just because we had an African, Black American, White, man elected?
While @ the same time singing " Amazing Grace"
Everybody wants to be President, Preeminent Presidential politics;
Just because we had one African, Black, White, man elected
Then you are not saved nor safe;
It's not about the bible but about the doctrine;
But no one really wants to represent the people they got injustice;
Not many of them we can trust;
No one wants to represent people feeling like no justice;
Who am I to judge you? Got no heaven or hell for you;
Some people like it rich their coffee;
You smile @ me, lie to my face;
Who am I to judge you? Got no heaven nor hell for you;
Just because we had an African, Black American White man elected;
While @ the same time singing "Amazing Grace"
Everybody wants to be President preeminent presidential politics;
So the rich corporations can get more, more, more...
Polite genocide what's wrong with a little prosperity;
Free genocide what's yours isn't yours;
What's your is mine and what mine is mine;
So the rich corporations can get more, more, more;
Free genocide what's yours isn't yours;
You smile @ me, lie to my face;
Who am I to judge you? Got no heaven nor heal for ya;
Just because we had an African, Black American White, man elected?
While @ the same time singing " Amazing Grace"
Anyone can wear a face, but not anyone can be President;
SEVEN THOUSAND ISLANDS
Some five hundred miles East of Vietnam
The Phillipines is a multi-island archipelago
Named in honour of King Phillip of Castile
It was Spain’s mid sixteenth century deal
But colonisation and ownership a farrago
Won by Spain but then lost to Uncle Sam
Conquered by Japan in Second World War
Won Back by US but became independent
Restoring a Filipino focus with some urgency
And fighting regular communist insurgency
In mid 60’s, Marcos was elected president
After economic growth, he changed the law
Since he escaped the country in disgrace
It’s been ups and downs in the economy
Marcos’ son, Bongbong, recently elected
By Covid, all has been severely affected
Yet few challenge the nation’s autonomy
And as for its future, just watch this space
Voting
By Franklin Price
6/30/2015
Voting is the best of ways
to say what's on your mind.
If you don't go to the polls,
what you have is what you find.
A government elected
not by majority,
but by the few who turned out,
sounds like a joke to me;
I can understand the reasons,
why the turnouts are so small,
with the choices we are given,
why go there to vote at all?
We must ask ourselves the questions:
Did I really do my part?
Did I help to choose who's running?
Did I contribute from the start?
Did I hammer up the posters?
Did I spread the word about my choice?
Did I tell anyone that matters?
Did I let them hear my voice?
Did I let the rich choose for me?
Did I put up a decent fight?
There's much more to it than voting,
can be a part, it is your right
Continue to be uninvolved.
Go to the polls or not.
Keep traveling, on the road we're on,
and what you see is what you got.
Following rules, we learned as kids,do you remember?
Do not take another's pencil, it is a sin, nor their precious toys
nor dimes to in your pockets, put in,
What allows us now, to steal with such giddy, sin-filled ploy?
Whether be it a car-jacking or a despicable looting done on camera
with grimacing, hideous joy?
Most of us are not thieves, and raise heck at plagiarists!
But things now escaped in adults as crooks as forgers or "fraud-sters anonymous."
The simple truth is that things taken, display a huge lack of integrity,
And simply fail, with their lack of character and bald- faced chicanery.
Play up front and honest is my call.
Pretend you made a home-run,when in fact, all you had was a foul ball?
Winners fulfill promises, losers on their faces will fall.
Cheating wins no games in life, that's a big loser's call.
1-5-2021
8am PST
Dedicated to Maria, my daughter, a woman of ethics and
elected to office legally. Thank you. It was a hard road but
you made a difference for the good~ in many!
Wow~ a woman of integrity. Without that, nothing works.
Love, Mom
When everything seems too dark
to live your day through doubts that linger,
invent a peace never imagined...
something you have dreamed of doing!
Calm waters never anticipate storms,
troubled waters do and shake your ark,
all the passion you put into it will be showing;
and whenever dangers are found:
your confidence will make you stronger!
Try to live in peace through chaotic times,
seek out a remote place and meditate,
get rid of all negative feelings
and prevent a possible loss;
you can find comfort in prayers,
you can find comfort in songs...
they will change your image!
When everything turns upside down,
don't be discouraged, thrive off!
Who hates, kills, and destroys scoffs
at compassion and inflicting pain he gains
that false pride of invincibility
that'll bring him down to his knees:
he'll realize the hurt he has caused others...
shouldn't he be punished for his cruelty?
Mankind will repeat the same mistakes,
regardless of the bloodshed on battlefields,
regardless of the cries, we hear daily;
a merciless leader will incite warriors to fight
for a cause, they believe seems right...
is it their solemn oath or unbreakable loyalty?
There have been moments if calmness
and being brief they don't promise stability;
unexpectedly, a tyrant will resurge and tear down
all that was built and with his slyness will deceive many
promising to bring relief only to aggravate tempers,
and amid suppression can one invent a peace never imagined?
The one elected will seize power and will govern for gain...
until his foolishness is such an excessive weight to be carried on
his shoulders: he'll lack the wisdom to finish what he promised!
We Are Not Afraid
Why should we be afraid?
If this were the case,
Then there would be no United States.
The founding fathers were not afraid
To face imprisonment or death;
General Washington led the Continental Army
To defeat British tyranny in America.
And if the Electoral College had not been constituted,
Abraham Lincoln would not have been elected.
And if President Lincoln had been afraid
Of the plantation owners, sympathizers,
And the Supreme Court justices,
Black Americans would still be enslaved.
And so, when bullied for political belief,
Remember FDR’s inaugural speech
To the nation during the Great Depression:
“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”
Stand up and say, “We are not afraid!”
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Notes:
1) George Washington(1732–1799) : 1st President of the United States (1789 to 1797)—no political party.
2) Abraham Lincoln(1809–1865) : 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865)—Republican Party.
3) Franklin D. Roosevelt(1882–1945) : 32nd President of the United States (1933 to 1945)—Democratic Party.
4) Sept. 17, 1787: The “Constitution of the United States of America” was adopted and signed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
5) March 6, 1857: ‘Dred Scott Decision, aka Dred Scott v. Sandford’ (United States Supreme Court): ruling 7–2 in favor of Sandford. In the opinion authorized by Chief Justice Roger Taney stated that ‘Persons of African descent cannot be, nor were ever intended to be, citizens under the U.S. Constitution…’ i.e., Black people were not and never could be American citizens and therefore not protected under the Constitution.
6) November 6, 1860: Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected POTUS with 40% of the popular vote but won the majority of the electoral college with 180 electoral votes out of 303. One hundred and fifty-two electoral votes were needed to win.
7) The Great Depression (1929–1939): The Great Depression was a period of severe economic hardship, affecting the industrialized Western world.
A Poem for POTUS Trump
By Franklin Price
10/15/2017
This is a poem for POTUS Trump.
It's not a Whitehouse leak.
If you want to make us great again,
You should think before you speak.
As the leader of this country,
Somone's always after you,
The media, the democrats,
And most in your party too.
Congress doesn't care for you
They know you'll make them work,
To do the job, for which elected,
And stop the graft, which is their perk.
You're not the normal president
Ass kissing's not your style
Diplomacy's not kissing ass
You should try it for awhile
If what you think sounds foolish
In the the creases of your brain
Have advisors punch your ticket
Before you climb aboard the train
Before leaving every whistle stop
Top off the water and the wood
Check that the track is functional
And the engine's running good
Don't be the foolish engineer
That takes the curves too fast
For the US. is the train you drive
If you wreck, it may not last
Don't let yourself be de-railed
By the swamp around the train
Drive with care, the train you've chosen
And make our nation great again
The echo of a view
Nature is not democratic and doesn’t to the call
for liberal equality that means the rule of the majority
kills the unwanted by massive droughts to stop weeds
being in charge, a landscape of roses is but weeds
strangulating healthy edible plants.
Capitalism
Communism
Nationalism
Socialism
Are residues of the twenty’s century, with big political parties
Are on the wane, politics, as we know, is local, hence decisions
Should reflect this.
We favour a structure of humanity in considerations
The ruler must not lead us into the wilderness of unlimited growth
The end result is an elected dictatorship.
We need an alternative, do away with “left” and “right.”
A schism leading us to new wars; not be afraid to sensor states
That brutally suppresses people, not them.
Political Personalities
By Franklin Price
4/13/2016
Political personalities
Are oh so far from real
At least when I observe them
I think that is the deal
Whatever it takes to get the seat
Everything that's old and new
Would not be in the running
If they were not willing to
Their opponent is a liar
He's just a low class crook
All the bad things he has done
Would fill more than a book
They are quite the opposite
Have always been the best
Walked on water when it's there
Did not sink like all the rest
Never cheated never lied
Walked the straight and narrow way
Took no money for anything
So there's no one there to pay
Say when they're elected
They'll do everything for you
And when that does not happen
Say there was nothing they could do
The establishment would not help them
They tried their very best
The fault is never with them
It's the fault of all the rest
Remember next time they're running
And nothing has been done
Don't blame them that it happened
For they were not the one
Something happened that was both unexpected but great.
By some miracle, I've been elected President of the United States.
I got 535 electoral votes and Romney got three.
Obama didn't even get one and he's pissed at me.
I had no idea that I'd win on that large of a scale.
This is the biggest landslide since Reagan beat Mondale.
I'm very surprised but happy that this came about.
Obama and Romney are plotting revenge, there is no doubt.
I ran as an Independent and my victory is what many will resent.
But for the next four years, I promise that I'll be a great President.
(This is a fictional poem.)