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Premium Member Dissident

She knows
To well
Her country

Irina Ratushinskaya

Its people
He sprouts
The truth

Mohammed  Abbou

They don’t want to hear it
Amongst these people

Riad Al-turk

As they do
What evil does

Shirin Ebad

Tape her mouth
Plug her ears
Freedom of mind
Is hers

Hina Jilani

He’s mad
She’s crazy

Liu Xiaobo

See what they made us do
As we had to
Lock him up
Beat her
Assassinate them

Gao Zhisheng

For our safety
So we can continue
Our human rights abuses
Without exposure

Sima Semar

To speak 
To think a thousand words
Of lement

Arnold Tsunga

Of lose
Of value
Of respect
Basic human rights
Really

Zainah Anwar

For women
And child

Olara Otunnu

It is all
So clear
To them
Is what
They have in common

Yoani Sanchez

Communion
As with
Percussion
Prison
Endless torture

Francisco Soberon

Starvation
But no 
Salvation

Julian Assange

Is it worth it?
It is to him
And her
And them
For there 
People
For us
Really


Doubt Also Fear

Doubts are really Fear
When I think a lot I become susceptible to everyone
So to cure such ideas comes a time of your life that you can realize
Each style, each movement, and most of all each ideas are simplicity
Everyone loves things easy and most of all less time
For the moment that t I think it is all over
Thinking about things becomes more so as Doubts
And doubts leads to fear
Like this I come upon a valley full of different creatures
As I have doubts I fear all these creatures
Slithering, growling, howling, and snapping 
It is more so fear is the other side’s point of views 
I come to a stop in the that moment thinking
What is more afraid me or the other creatures in the valley?
When I come upon a break a river flows so wide, yet I see
All different creatures drinking at the same time
I see one common purpose of life is to keep alive
No matter what, through rough times, through starvation
Or even to just briefly set aside meaningless arguments to just take a drink
Fear is just a state that many ideas flow into the mind
That makes the mind is less focus about the reality
Love is everywhere not just inside because, it is within everyone
That is why it is everywhere
I do think, because a teacher only thinks for the better not less nor greater
Because teachers are not to instill doubts, they instill knowledge and wisdom
These interesting concept is always push aside because faith is lost
My eyes are open to all fear and doubts and never is closed if so I am not human
My teaching is my poetry sadness of all stories; I come around to say words
Words of life, clear everything, and put aside judgment, and tell you and me
That safe thoughts are empty thoughts and it can get filled but just to remember
Poor it out once in while
Like fear and doubts is the same way
To everyone who knows such values can be in grace within self

MONEY

Money is the mover, it makes us do things that can make us all shiver. 
Money is like a power, it makes us glow with desire. 
Money is like a culture, it has the power to move mountains and cause great things of oppression. 
Money has taken all the free stuff, and turned it into a way to control us. 
Money has turned our forests into cities, taking all the clean air and making us sick with lack of green cleaning natural living. 
Money has a way, it has the power to make us all be afraid. 
Money has taken most of the free growing apple trees and other trees, and made us pay for things that God gave us for free. 
Money was only suppose to be for trading, not for oppression or for causing starvation. 
So, plant the free growing food, make our spaces green with clean air, let the babies be born and stop all the killing, love, live, grow and pray, let the natural world heal and live life with love and care. 
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member OF FOOD AND WARRING: A TANKA QUINTET

OF FOOD AND WARRING
(A TANKA QUIENTET)

Juxtaposed bombs fall…
Food’s down, starvation rising…
Death…collateral…
Thus, war’s new reaping of death:
Food uprooted and destroyed:-

Food’s an enemy,
Seeking to eat, deadly:
Starvation killing:-
Thus, be war’s new strategy:
Piled skin covered skeletons:-

Ironically, 
All this is merely Breaking News!
War’s politicking:
Pontificating power;
Not nourishing peace and love:-

May these fruitful thoughts 
Excite your hunger for peace
And its divine love:-
Not living in peace is bad. 
Not seeking to is much worse:-

Let’s not be sorry,
Rather, in our awareness,
Let’s get rid of war:-
Where there’s no peace, wherever,
There can’t be peace anywhere:-
Form: Tanka

Premium Member My Wish and Prayer

 
I turn off the news of Russian war on Ukraine,
my heart is broken at the scenes that I see;
and I am tried of hearing the politicians fighting, 
attacking and insulting each other and doing little.
I need to go for a long walk down the street,
but all around me is chaos and horrible scenes !

In my neighborhood there are a lot of homeless,
people tattered and battered begging for coins;
I often wonder how did they get to this place,
There are homeless animals too, cats and dogs,
wandering, looking for food and some kind of love  !

Oh, I wish these homeless people could be helped,
these homeless animals could find forever homes;
I see elderly people struggling to walk pushing carts,
why do they have no one to help them do groceries.
Oh, I wish some organization would get organized, 
to help the elderly do their chores and shopping ! 

When I get home I light a candle and kneel down,
weeping, I ask the Lord Almighty, oh God why;
why the wars, why the hate, why the starvation,
why do we have to get old and feeble, why, why.
The candle flickers, child, I have no control over 
the chaos of your earth, and I weep with you !

_________________________
June 07, 2022


Poetry/Verse/My Wish and Prayer
Copyright Protected, ID 06-1463-242-07
All Rights Reserved, 2022, Constance La France


Written for the Standard contest, If Only My Wish Would Come True
sponsor, Anoucheka Gangabissoon, Judged 06/23/2022


First Place
Form: Verse


Premium Member Live and Let Live

Some people say that God's a myth,
They don't believe He's there.
Others say that if He is ,
Then He just doesn't care.

They look at all the suffering,
Throughout the world around us.
Sickness, pain, starvation, war,
It fills them with disgust,

To think that there are those of us,
Who love Him and believe,
That The Almighty Father God,
Won't leave us here bereaved.

They want to blame it all on Him,
Though they don't think He's there;
But if He does not exist,
Why do they rail and swear?

Why hate someone who isn't there,
Who does not exist?
Why waste their time and energy,
And rave and shake their fists,

Just because we love our God,
Who is a God of love;
A God who is not filled with hate,
Who doesn't push and shove.

Other people worship gods,
That they must serve in fear.
Gods who threaten certain death,
For those who fail to clear,

The hurdles set before them,
By their arduous task master;
But people think them cool because,
They're different from The Master;

He who created all things good,
Surrounded us with beauty,
And gave us total freedom
To choose to do our duty.

If my God does not exist,
I've not wasted your time.
Don't take away my freedom,
By making it a crime,

To love my God as you love yours,
For we all serve a master.
I serve a God who loves me back,
Gives peace amid disaster.

I do not have to serve Him,
In fear and trembling,
And I'm here to tell you,
Such love is humbling.

You don't believe because you can't,
Or you just don't want to.
You have your rights and I have mine,
I won't lose Him just for you.

                                          Judy Ball


Let's not elect a President to the White  House that will make religious freedom a crime.


For Frank H.'s Contest "What I Believe Is Worth Fighting For"
© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Beyond the Niceties of Christmas

The facts                                                remain
Poverty                    greed                      remain
War                         power                      remain
Struggle                   death                      remain
Starvation                famine                     remain
Fire                         devastation               remain
Flood                       catastrophe               remain
Rape                        loss of innocence       remain
Murder                     loss of life
Christmas                 rebirth
Beyond Christmas     Hope,renewed, for Peace on Earth.



I wrote this some time ago
Form: Narrative

This August 26th 2018 Rendition Part I

This August 26th , 2018 rendition 
regarding previous literary endeavor
Wick End Up Date, Snippet Sans... 
...The Deadly Scourge   
...One Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder

(Never abating infiltrating 
writing material e'en superceding 
the death of John McCain, where
Munster monster rears gnashing 

undermining marriage with ambivalence.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia 
nadir of onset schizoid behavior,
which agonizingly slow suicide 
self starvation maelstrom within 

psyche of self prepubescent lad
(particularly devastating  
immediate family members)
emaciation pitted existential 

ghastly revulsion unseen,
wuthering heights wrung death 
knell annihilating fragile entity 
christened Matthew Scott Harris 

obvious preemtory imprimatur 
yieldeing covalent bond to die starkly 
horrified kith and kin helpless  
Zorro slashed signature profound 

perilous depressive psychological gouge. 
Now at about two plus score years 
attaining centenarian rank perfect 20/20 
hindsight supreme advantage swift under 

currents alluded drowning, when das 
scribe juiced started  to nibble puberty, 
whence devastating emotional crisis 
tripped, trilled, and tricked chronological 

clock theorizing numerous educated 
guesses within mindful middle progeny, 
and sole son (of Boyce and late Harriet Harris), 
why I willfully hurtled flesh at light speed
 
down abyss toward death. Literal and 
physical lightness manifested within 
nooks and crannies prior to full blown 
symptoms to eliminate sustenance 

drawing curtain on brief residence be
fore high noon of life. Metamorphosis 
from boyhood into man found solace 
attempting to keep at bay natural cycle,
 
which trans formation grieved me
pining nostalgic childhood’s end 
(one fraught with romanticism) 
vengefully interpreted attempt to halt 
deadly tracks intervention of mother, 
whose nursing experience helped fend  
passive attempt promulgated silent...

Victory of Life

If you are a bold person, then believe in solving the strife,
If heaven exists , bring it down to the earth in real life.
Sorrow exists temporarily, oppression also ends in a few days,
This gloomy day will pass like the clearing of the sky as the sun smiles. 

If heaven exists , bring it down to the earth in real life,
You have received a new boon in the form of new life.
This gloomy day will pass like the clearing of the sky as the sun smiles. 
Your achievements are now searching for new milestones.

You have received a new boon in the form of new life,
This outcast sky came riding in the chariot of flashes, in your life.
Your achievements are now searching for new milestones,
You come,we will step forward in inaccessible ways .

This outcast sky came riding in the chariot of flashes, in your life,
If volcanoes are developed deep inside the earth crust, in real life.
You come,we will step forward in inaccessible ways,
Then starvation can't go on under a fake freedom of trust, for infinite days.

If volcanoes are developed deep inside the earth crust, in real life.
We will surmount a mountain of problems,we will step forward in our stride,
Then starvation can't go on under a fake freedom of trust, for infinite days.
Removing the problem of starvation,we will control our minds.
© Mukut Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Pantoum

A Lakota Mother's Prayer

‘Wana Hin Gle’ the Lakota call me,
‘Wana Hin Gle’ my given name

‘He Who Happens Now,’ the drum beat has found me,
reaching into this moment beyond glory and fame

As ‘Wana Hin Gle,’ my spirit has wandered,
as ‘Wana Hin Gle,’ my ancestors call

The questions dissolve, as The Great Mystery beckons,
the campfire eternal, the chanting enthralls

“‘Wana Hin Gle,”’ my Mother calls proudly,
“Your horse is now waiting, your shield fixed with bone

“Off into the prairie you must ride in the twilight,
the People will dance until their son returns home

“’Wana Hin Gle,’ you must now happen quickly,
the buffalo ravaged, starvation cries loud

“Your eyes to look upon the great Wakan Tanka,
whose absence has shamed us, who once were so proud

“As the great Tasunka Witko who traveled before you,
you must call for your horse to come out of the lake

“Great Mother River and Great Mountain Father,
to your will they entrust what The People forsake

“Your spirit must suffer, the babies still cry,
the cold through the tent flaps, all future in blight

“The hawk comes to guide you, as you pass through the darkness,
the drums of your fathers beat into the night

“You will ride to the top of the ‘Pass Of The Bears,’
ask the Grizzly, our brother, where the demon still hides

“Where it lives, you must kill it, for this time and always,
before it steals our last dream, keeping spirits alive

“The White Horse will take you from the lake to the                                       mountain,
and the stallion will sprout wings with its hooves fiery hot

“You will trample this demon and burn him before you,
the smoke will then signal of what he is not

“‘Wana Hin Gle,’” my son; the time is for going,
your journey awaits, past-futures on hold

“The Medicine Woman is locked deep inside you,
your People die waiting—the young and the old”

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: February, 2011) 
From My Novel: “Searching For Crazy Horse”
Form: Rhyme

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