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Premium Member How Dad Learned To Play

Dad was a great piano player
Grandpa Luther was a great man
He burned his wife’s Bible 
In 1942, when Colorado farmers
Decided all Germans and Japanese
Threatened them
My grandmother 
Got another Bible 
English version 
She didn’t have to hide
Governor Ralph Lawrence Carr
Was a great man, too
The only one who stood for
The rights of Japanese
–Americans– just like he
Said, “if you harm them
You must harm me.”
Thanks to Governor Ralph
Ito
My grandpa’s neighbor 
Remained free 
When his haystack was burned
He would not accept charity
So grandpa accepted his trade
Ito’s piano for grandpa’s hay
And that's how Dad
Learned to play


Henry McCarty

Henry McCarty (1859 – 1881)
a.k.a, Kid Antrim – ca. 1876
a.k.a., William H. Bonney – ca. 1877

Of Irish ancestry
New York-born
orphaned at 15
from his family shorn
repeatedly asking '¿Quién es?'
around midnight 14th July 1881
entering Maxwell's bedroom
their mutual friend but Billy without a gun
in Fort Sumner where by Pat Garrett
(1850 - 1908)
take my word I kid you not
age 21 sadly Henry the outlaw
in the chest was badly shot
for reputedly killing nine men
but for the posted bounty of $500
it took the Sheriff 369 days to collect
the reward promised by Governor Wallace
(1827 – 1905)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Teddy Bear

The Teddy Bear was invented in honor,
Of Teddy Roosevelt.
Because he wouldn't shoot a tied up bear,
Or even harm it's pelt.

If you wonder how this came about,
The story goes like this;
He was on a hunting party,
With the governor of Onward, Miss.

Others were able to score their bears,
But Teddy not a one.
An aide went out and captured one,
And said, "Sir get your gun."

I've captured you a little bear,
And tied him to a tree.
He said, "I can't shoot a tied up bear!
Now you go set him free!"

The news went out both far and wide,
How Ted wouldn't shoot a helpless bear.
Some laughed but one shop owner said,
"Now there's a man who cares."

He and his wife made candy and toys,
And they made a cute stuffed bear.
They got his permission to use his name,
And called it The Teddy Bear.
© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Together Till We Part

Cells work is play
to resiliently thrive
only in organic systems.

Individual yolked cells
each with her own ego-governor
survive healthy together
and divide tragically apart

More like symbiotic regenerations
of surfing cantilevers
than degenerations
outside predations
storming waves
of colonizing cancers.

Transgendering 
transubstantiating
transitions can be both

Too hard on ego yolks
and too soft for ecobodies
become some One boundaried else
while too soon severing 
into not yet Zero

Sacrificed for tomorrow's
unconditional regard
in-between
One secular EgoZone
and not yet Zero sacred
systemic EarthTribe soul

Remembering past memories
mindful of mind-cell fullness
side by side solidarity
re-imaging severed 
individual unrealistic cells

Crests of history's
great transitioning wave
from individual hot burning stars
to seas of cold 
dead
dry dust

Awaiting warmer wetter rust
for light and power
to co-arise 
more resilient religious lust

Inside crusts
of ego loving centers
and their living eco-kin
becoming back and forth,
together and apart
again

Enlightenment
and death,
empowering internal concerns
losing out to expatriating cancers

Co-invested
ego risks of past 
colonizing power
and eco loss of future 
creolizing opportunities

Individuating 
systems for regeneration
and recycling seasons 
of winter's new annual privation

Spring therapy
and autumnal trauma,
health
and pathology

Unconditional regard
and conditioned 
hardening cells
of frozen disregard

For innocent Othered cells 
whose work is also play
to resiliently thrive

Only in organic systems
unconditionally regarding
this enlightened
empowering day

Swings of Yang bright light
mesmerizing Yin's eternal 
sabbath sway.

Premium Member Jesus On Trial Part Ii

 
Judas Iscariot would later feel great pity.
The sad state Jesus was in he was able to see.
The thirty pieces of silver received as a fee,
would be thrown in the temple, considered “blood money‘.
This made it illegal to hold in the treasury.
Judas would then hang himself from a branch on a tree.
The money would be used to purchase a potter’s field.
All this was as the prophet Jeremiah revealed.
.
Governor Pontius Pilate would later see Jesus.
This Roman would hear all the charges from Caiaphas.
“Are you really King of the Jews?” was Pilate’s question.
“It’s as you say” Jesus said in reciprocation.
All further questioning resulted in reticence.
Pilate would wonder why Jesus maintained his silence.
The Roman governor would view this as a strange thing.
Pilate said, “I can’t sentence him.  He has done nothing!”
A normal custom done during the Passover Feast,
would be a choice of two prisoners to be released.
Among one of the selections that would be Jesus,
there was a convicted murderer named Barabbas.
Pilate asked the crowd which one they were willing to take.
Barabbas was the overwhelming choice they would make.
After Jesus was flogged, Pilate would say to the crowd:
“What shall I do with Jesus?”  He would ask them quite loud.
When asked this question, nearly all of the crowd replied:
“You should take Jesus away, and have him crucified”
To spare the life of Jesus is what Pilate had tried.
However, they all reiterated what they cried.
“Crucify him” was what the people shouted to say.
A time later, Roman soldiers took Jesus away.
Form: Rhyme


Diamond Toes

When life seems empty
And there’s no place to go
Unlike most artists I became Salvador Dali
 My Life daily tasks as a poet
It’s allow my spirit to go from high to low


 With my blessed hands and my tired feet 
  a hard working peasant woman with diamond toes
  I set the countdown each passing day while I slave away.

Those Infectious bole place in high positions,
 Governor of all the Nurses
Using their authorities to weaken the spirits of the peasant
And the down trodden souls who line your corridors both day and night

 however, this  burden that seem too heavy to bear now....(bibilical
God will lifts away on the wing of prayers.

Premium Member Thirty-Eight Caliber Candy

The border is broken and ignored.
Mixed in with desperate angels are snakes-demons-gangsters.
The latest game of Chinese checkers
(the fentanyl plague) has taken the place of the Wuhan rage...
Body bags are filling with our young, their silky dreams-undone-undone.
 
A parade float governor belches. 
No more cash bail for the violent.
Claiming (from behind his wall) this will make citizens safer. 
Prisons are being emptied into once peaceful places.
Lori Lightfoot waves her dog-eared race card again.
The sheep will always vote the same-the -same.
As black brains are being sprayed with .38 caliber candy.

Even Afghanistan is a more peaceful place
than the Un-United States.

Soros hornets, along with the ghosts of Mao and Marx
are stinging Lady Liberty to death.

Assembly Member Irwin Slaves

Now This!

Individual Housing Units – Thousand Oaks
Individual housing units provide scattered site permanent supporting housing to individuals throughout the city of Thousand Oaks. These units are integrated with existing housing and

Stepup.org auctioneers of slaves in Ventura County 

Unincorporated districts outward from Camarillo assembly of value will not rent slave to governor without extortion.


Assembly Member Irwin 
Are you ready to submit the report on earnings 
To Congress?

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Premium Member The Hurricane Was Harvey

The Hurricane was Harvey
By Franklin Price
8/31/2017

The hurricane was Harvey, what an unassuming name
Left the western Yucatan. across the Gulf he came
Building up his power to a category four
Slammed into the Texas coast with wind, and rain, and more
Coming into Rockport with winds one thirty some
Evacuate or hunker down, to damage he has come
He leveled many buildings, and shut the power down
He sent his rains to Houston, to sit there and to pound
Houston, a large city, fourth largest in the land
Rained so hard, in hours, was no dry place to stand
Rained a record fifty inches, that's the Roman numeral L
Overflowed the bayous, made life a living hell
Few had evacuated, of six million people plus
Would have been impossible, a traffic jamming fuss
Bumper to bumper everywhere with auto, truck and bus
Would even make the best of us, wring our hands and cuss
The water rose, it did not stop, covered roads from fork to fork
More area than the cities of Chicago and New York
No one quite expected Harvey to sit and pour
Until the first floors flooded and headed for the second floor
Water, many places, flowing fast and overhead
Rescue workers needed or thousands would be dead
Boats and trucks and copters came to do the work
Reminiscent of the rescue, of the soldiers, at Dunkirk 
The heroes came from everywhere, left their families and friends
To risk their lives for others, and the rescuing begins
Hour after hour, from rooftops, trees  and cars 
Stranded ones were rescued by strangers from afar
The Cajun Navy from Louisian, the governor called the guard
Florida sent their Fish and Game, rescuing long and hard
Soon more than thirty thousand were brought to drier land
Rescuers so exhausted that they could hardly stand
Still they kept on going on  helping all of those in need
And took them to the shelters where they could sleep and feed
Some died in the effort, not all in need were found
Some rescuers gave their all, and no longer are around
This is what life is all about,  the way that it should fall
We should respond to others'  needs, for the better good of all
Think about your fellow man, in all you do and say,
Don't be the Harvey victim, be the rescuer today.
Form: Couplet

A Document printing job updates?

The simplification of a traffic jam
In an office
Finish print job
And release document to document owner
Mail fraud in possession of access
Whom accessed file of document owner wrong
Is in hearing
No hearing of printer job
No crime in owning document 

Homekey fraud 
Interpreted in California as economy 

Unemployed printers?

City does and does not operate hotels
Business transacts in appropriation of funds 
and ink press powers
In time observation 
Of collection is willing

Thank you again for sharing your feedback and helping us shape California's future.
Sincerely,
Governor Gavin Newsom

Obstructing journalism 
Very literal

The homeless point at and time move

Down generation gymnastic snatch skills
Front lines of tinder relocate shift reward visuals 
Out the house dodge 
Grades good bye byes

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