Long Sponsoring Poems

I'd like to apply for a permit
for a protest march
on the Washington Mall.

Lovely idea.
But, we're only issuing Mall permits
for Song and Dance Events.

I think this might be a violation of my Rights
to Free Speech.

I see...

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Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out a small national magazine....

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In regards, to the birds and the bees
Depends on who’s watching, what he sees
There are some women, impossible to please
Wise men are wary, to be with one of these

See beneath all that glitter, her cool...

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I found this on a You Tube Christian podcast:  An elderly woman, when she was 66
years old, became critically sick for two years and was abandoned by all but not by
our God!  Friends...

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It was in a socially and economically difficult situation that the musical cultures of Jews, Moors and mainly Gypsies began to merge into what would become the basic form of flamenco. The Flemish songs reflect...

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According to CBN news Red China is sponsoring local Latin American Marxist Communist dictators in that region. Their local domestic Communist leaders resemble our Bernie Sanders. How are they taking over countries? 

The same method...

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Certain school boards in some states are facing angry parents. Those parents are angry with the radical left wing progressive lies to their own children. There are parents in Virginia pulling their students out of...

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Just say no and stop the liberal progressive socialist agenda dividing our country, or any other country! Simply based on the CRT (Critical Race Theory)!

It will further divide the divided states of America based upon...

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How do you define love?
I mean what is it really,

How can I feel so much love for so many 
people here that I barely know 
...because I do.

You have all been so kind and accepting of me.

Many...

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Slipping gently towards entropy,
Ownership with an apostrophe.
Braid the loose frays of sanity
Till something true finally answers me.

Troops are marching over many lands,
Tagged cornflower blue--a worldwide brand.
Don't speak out or you will be banned,
Towers implode just...

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For years when my wife was sponsoring forensic groups
Tasked me with "judging" high school oral presentations,
[The most difficult thing I was called upon to do]
Each youngster gave it their best and all were very good
Rules...

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*NOTE:  Jack and I wonder how many of you have heard of the Zona Shue case – 
an American murder victim who had revenge in Virginia in the late 1800s.
Zona was killed by her...

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Wisdom came from the East, not the west. Who will give the West a cup of wisdom, maybe the East?
The West had a great opportunity to change the world and make it a better place,...

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This is entirely a fiction poem, just an example for the contest I am sponsoring

I can write the saddest of all poems tonight
Just like everyday it was quite an ordinay night
The moon was shining and...

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Birth?  I do not recall the time or place.
The first thing  I recall remembering  -
Mom was having a home permanent done
and I was banished outside to the yard.
I'm Ruth, I learned rejection...

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                       Wispy, you stop it, stop being so cute, 
   ...

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Press release from the LEGO FOUNDATION:
The LEGO Foundation assist children  with autism to build confidence by sponsoring centers to show children how to increase self esteem by exercising their creativity with LEGO. Children have...

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A SOUPER FRIEND

I searched the Soup, but failed to find 
Just one friend that I call mine
I'm in a tizzy now, you see
'Cause many of you are friends to me

There's Hinshaw, Cunningham, Silent One
Winged Warrior,...

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POET and  POETESS


        Eve Roper : The Poetess
        Super duper to impress
        me,...

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To lose your sight at any age
Such bad luck, such misfortune
Feeling your life has come to an end
When all you need is a loyal friend

You feel like a prisoner within your own frame
Unable to venture...

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Chorus of ecstatic themes, lyrical refrain of dreams, life is a song,
Of valued relationships, earnest friendships, that long to belong,
Of courtships, love, and passion; igniting romantic flame of heart,
Of memories nostalgic, sensuous mellifluous melodies impart.

A...

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Once, there burned a fire deep within my heart
but that was long ago, before love was torn apart
Scribed were pages of sonnets, romance at its best
I shelved the albums by virtue of my own behest
because...

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I think we have an advantage to, “Diamond in the rough”
Because sweetheart you and I have been through some stuff

We were just like, “Bonnie & Clyde” both of us on the run
Running fast, kicking ass,...

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21st January 2013 at the US capitol
Was the day men saw their idol.
He stood, brisk and spry,
And his order, no man could defy.
Africans and Caucasians stood in awe
For Obama was indeed a man of all.

Across...

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Pray for our America 
Land of the Free and
Our Home of our brave
Right this day today!
Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia!

Pray for all of your other
Nations throughout our
Entire rest of the world
Please grant all of them
All of their...

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