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Premium Member 'One Bad Night' ain't All it Was

   How dare you try to shrug it off, Joe 
     as 'one bad night' 
   when you didn’t deliver...
     
   ...Just like you didn’t deliver on Afghanistan, or
      on picking a competent VP, or
      on ending COVID school lockdowns, or
      on reigning in reckless government spending, or
      on combating skyrocketing inflation, or
      on maintaining order at our southern border, or
      on giving Ukraine what it needed to stop Putin, or
      on keeping the pressure on Hamas instead of on Israel, or
      on telling the truth about Hunter’s laptop, or
      on supporting women’s sports for biological women only
      on fighting unprecedented urban crime and disorder, or
      on so much more

   Your failure to deliver on debate night
      once more reflects your utter lack of insight
      demonstrates why you have absolutely no right
         to continue to make a mockery of us
           in this, America’s darkest night

   Joe! Give up your maddeningly selfish fight
     for the Presidency ~ you’re too far gone to see the light


Premium Member Galactic Rendezvous

This is not A.I. 

Up there in the darken sky  

Where astronauts fly  

Accomplishing a heavenly ride  

Pictures they took  

Perfect for the global Instagram scrapbook  

Allowing everyone a peek 

Admiring the skyrocketing pecking cheek  

Isn’t that sweet?  

Reflecting upon the spaceship heat  

Duet rekindling a romance  

And dance  

Expressing galactic vows  

Circulating the day end bow 

Performing a musical tune  

Artemis waltzes around the illuminating moon 

Ready to depart  

Softening the international diplomatic heart   

Exclaiming ‘gee’  

Both stating ‘do you love me’  

Heading home and everybody will see  

Sporting Saturn rings  

Showing off souvenir bling 

Fore who completed a mission  

Proving someone’s scientific vision  

Life does exist throughout the stars  

And we are proud to know who they are
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Bull of Wall Street

The Bull (El Toro) of Wall Street

With nostrils flaring and snorting hot air,
El Toro charges into the stock market,
Where capitalist investors
Feud with socialist harbingers
Who take money from wealth creators
To distribute to others for political power.

El Toro barrels down, “With grit in my eyes,
I follow my nose.
Move!
By the prick of my horns
And to the beat of my hooves on the pavement,
Move.”

Optimistically, the bull advances,
Undaunted by tangents and challenges.
Build of prime with nerves of steel,
Wisely headstrong, it tackles its opponents
And sends the market skyrocketing,
And predictably, people rush in for profit.

Di Modica thought well when he threw the bull down
(Made of bronze!) on Wall Street in front of the NYSE
Out of gratitude and respect for helping him,
A penniless immigrant from Italy,
Who saw “Black Monday” as an opportunity
For the headstrong to survive the calamity.
                            ***

Note:
   Arturo Di Modica (1941–2021) arrived in the U.S.A. as a penniless immigrant from Italy in 1970. He felt indebted to America for his financial success, and to show his appreciation, he sculpted the “Charging Bull” bronze statue and dropped it off illegally in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street in New York City, New York.
   Di Modica was inspired by the market crash on October 19, 1987, known as “Black Monday.” Arturo Di Modica believed that the free market would pull America through troubled times.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Kansas Pride

We saw fields of yellow ten miles before we arrived, but the fields got brighter as we pulled into the farmer's lane.  The flowers were nodding at us. They appeared to be giving the sun her energy; she was brighter here than anywhere else. A sense of peacefulness surrounded us as we pulled up next to the fence where the happy sunflowers stretched their faces to greet us. No better Kansas pride than this if you ask this Kansan. 


                                     field of blossoms
                               skyrocketing sunflowers
                                 showing kansas pride
Form: Haibun

Premium Member Societal Issues and Perilous Times

Societal Issues & Perilous Times
By: Miracle Man
5/20/2021

Today, we are living in a world of chaos,
where many are engrossed in driving wedges.
Anyone who is different is fair game and racist.
Social justice, woke, and Cancel Culture is the narrative. 

It’s like living in an old class B western movie.
Gun sales are skyrocketing, and many conceal carry.
 We destroy past things and modify what we teach, 
in an attempt to change History by polluting young minds.

Too many have the victim mentality seeking something free,
and demand compensation for wrongs that happened years ago. 
Count your blessings and pray for our elected leaders
for truly we may be living in the last days.
Tom

2 Timothy 3:1-13 King James Version
3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.


Cost of Zionism

The whole world
is being sacrificed
by Israel and America
in the war of choice on Iran.

Why should Israel
decide the future
of the world?

Israel has become
a burden
on the conscience
of the world.

Israel has become
the narcissist
of the world.

Today,
the world is in pain
because of Israel.

To Israel,
genocide is called
self-defense.

Land theft
is called going home.

And those
who speak against genocide
are called antisemitic.

The world is moving
into recession
because of war
and instability.

Fuel prices
are skyrocketing.

Food prices
grow higher every day.

And the poor
suffer the most.

Israel has become
a calamity
to humanity.

Its appetite
for evil
has become greater
than its desire
to do good.

But Israel,
tell me this—

After the war,
who will you become
when much of the world
looks upon you
with hatred?

For power alone
cannot protect
the soul
of a nation.

2018 World Cup

Oh to be in England on a Summers Day
Said Shakespeare 
I think ?

I must confess 
I can't ever remember an Indian Summer
As Sun kissed as this 

The garden grass has turned crisp brown
The tree's are shedding
And the flowers are wilting in the bathing heat
And i have had to double my hayfever medication 
To placate the skyrocketing pollen rates

But you will never hear me complain 
For me this is pure bliss
Reminds me of the pleasure of one's first kiss

My ailments seem cured 
My eyes are alive to new possibility 
I am at 1 with the mid-day sun gods
On the celestial equinox 

Oh to be in England on a summers day 
To witness a red rose
Dressed up in the afterglow
Dancing for pleasure 

Sat out in the garden
Drink of choice in hand
Waiting for dusk to land
I can not think of anywhere else I would rather be

The World Cup is on T.V
And England are through to the 2nd round
With 1 game to spare
Dare to dream

If this summer is anything to go by
Stranger things have happened
Like the Moon landings 
If it can be sunny for this long in rainy dour England

Then let us all make hey while the sun shines 
And maybe just maybe
You never know

This may be our time shine
And we could finally put to bed
The memory of 1966
3 Lion's on our Shirt 

Come on England 
Oh to be in England on a World Cup Summers Day

Premium Member Cosmic Adventure

Cosmic Adventure

There, upon the launchpad, the countdown proceeds
as bolts explode, and the umbilical apparatus releases,
and massive amounts of energy bursts from engine ignition
to create propulsion thrust and lift-off reaction

for the vehicle’s escape from Earth’s gravitational attraction
in sequential stages, skyrocketing into the orbital trajectory
of slingshot phenomenon to the universe of cosmic adventure,
likened to explorers in olden days piercing the unknown aperture.

Through the porthole, astronauts marvel at the spectacular scenery
as they watch their country on the blue planet disappear gradually.
Emotionally restrained, the astronauts resume their mission,
methodically pushing buttons and recording observations

in a four-dimensional continuum relativity experience,
limited in scope by the laws of scientific ingenuity.
Form: Verse

Today's World

Illusion©

Every once in a while laying in bed
My mind wanders 
To places I have never been before

Time, events and places 
Previously unknown 
Appear in the mirror of my mind

It is though I can touch them
The experiences are so real
The smells, sights and sounds vivid

I can hear a pin drop
In the forest of my mind
Which suddenly has clarity

No longer filled with doubt
Or worry nor angst
Confidence is the order of the day

My popularity skyrocketing 
Work immensely gratifying
Relationships rock solid

And therein lies the illusion
For in the empty shell of my life
None of these exist

Andreas Simic©

Premium Member You Set Me On Fire

You set me on fire
Sizzling, blazing, devouring fire
Hot licking flames
Infernally hot
Temperatures skyrocketing
Scorching flares
Shooting out of your body
Searing into mine
One more moment
And I’ll cease to exist
The heat excruciating
Flames spread across my body
A wildfire from within
Combusting again and again and again….

With nothing left to consume
The fire starts to die out
Slowly, imperceptibly
I feel some coolness
A little here and a little there
As the fire recedes
Leaving smoldering embers
In its wake
I take a deep breath
Amazed that I’m still alive

In the warmth of your nearness
I open my eyes
And look up at your face
Only to see
An eternal flame 
Still burning in your eyes!

Eileen Manassian Ghali

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