Long Two cents' worth Poems

So here's my big insight.
My two cents worth,
which will remain worth only a penny
unless it somehow aligns with your penny
for thoughts and shared feelings.

What if we put our human nature genie 
back in Earth's home-nature...

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Another day
Another mass shooting
?Another incident
of domestic terrorism
?another gun man
killing people
because just because?
The NRA ?And their stooges?
Come out?
Flood the airways
With their noxious
Poisonous weasel words
?The NRA says
Mass shootings? 
Are like the weather
?You can’t control them
You can’t predict...

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her name is not even mentioned in the Holy Scriptures
but the widowed woman who gave two mites left a lasting picture
when no one mentions their name most people get put out
but who cares about a...

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Trump Administration Advances Plan to Relax Gun-Export Rules found Poem

The Trump administration 
Sought to relax export rules for American small arms,
 including semiautomatic rifles, handguns, and sniper rifles.

Because the NRA said 
the solution to gun...

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You've seen them.  Those little trays on the store counter with pennies in them and often a sign saying “Take a penny, leave a penny”.  On occasion, I have dropped pennies in them,...

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The NRA has decided
?That the best solution to global problem?
Of rampant violence and crime everywhere
Is for the rest of the world?
To become like the U.S.
?Where anyone can buy a gun

?As an armed society 
is a...

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He'd wake up sorta rough around the edges
then he’d pull in his teeth from out of the glass
Yawn then rub his eyes with the back of his hands 
scratch his belly for a while and...

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Mr. President?
You are wrong once again?
You said that the tragic events 
in Texas?,Ohio, Virgina Beach
And Las Vegas 
were not “gun situations”

?But rather were mental health problems
And that in Texas
 if there had been no gun...

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Guns?guns kill people?
guns do kill people
it is not mental illness?
it is not video games
?it is not a million other things


it is simply this
?a gun is a weapon?
a weapon designed to kill people?
that is what guns...

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Defined By Idioms

Naked truth, bent nails
dead men tell no tales
bad Apple, broken mirrors
burnt out light bulbs, crocodile tears
spilt milk, goose chase
two cents worth, rat race
rotten egg, bad to the bone
eagle eye, no place like home.
bat...

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the President’s chief of staff?
said the other day?

it was absurd
?to suggest that the president’s words?
had anything to do
?with recent mass shootings

yet is it absurd?
to see the lengths
?to which the President’s supporters?
will twist and turn?

spinning away?
the...

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These are my scars
And I know they haven't gotten me far
But it's complicated
And this is who I am to be

They say everything happens for a reason
Well I have two cents worth a dime
To say nothing...

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Dear Speaker Ryan

I want to tell you something
?The dead don’t want your prayers
?The dead don’t care
 that you pray for them?
They are dead after all

And you and your so-called Christians
?Are to blame?
You refuse to do...

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Dream on

Be it white rabbit holes of wonderlands
Or black holes  of never-here flounder lands ,
Dreaming on and on
Vaunted  webs they  spawn
In  this ‘ uni-verse’ that ever expands*.

Expanding like vapor, fluff and...

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Miscellaneous 2
By Tom

All About Answers
When I ask the right question to the wrong person
I’m usually answered with a stare.

Take Note
The longer your question, the shorter my answer becomes.

Correct Answers
I believe all my answers to be...

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Stupid fool look at yourself what has your knowledge gained!
No forward motion or healthy growth,
Just some poor intellect pouring out of a grumpy man.
What perseverance do you follow upon your stagnated road?
Or do you push...

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Lest I be guilty of grossest negligence
I feel like I must put in my own two cents
As I watch and evaluate strong evidence
We owe a debt of gratitude to Mike Pence.

I know, I know, he’s...

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Quid pro quo                                ...

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You who have just now graduated
   with advice have been duly saturated
Nevertheless, here's my two cents worth
   for how to survive on this Earth...

Give and give more; you'll get back and...

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 sijo with notes 

Although , everyone knew what was needed was a “quarter;” 
yet all we asked for was a dime,* it would have helped us move on.
My rich bro gave me his two...

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