Appears So Much Strain
Sometimes appears so much strain,
And find it hard to fight off the pain;
According to wife's latest directive,
Wants me to become more selective.
Did dispose of things into the potty;
Wanted coffee served with Biscotti;
If she sat for one more short spell,
Hell would have many things to tell.
Seemed to start becoming unnerved;
Wanted coffee immediately served,
And put coffee in cup just so much;
Cool creamer could also add a touch.
Beautiful day was ready to begin again;
Rug beneath her had been wearing thin;
From coffee cup she took one last sip,
Then did slip on rug and over would flip.
Rascism Wore A Big Scab
Use that to write a poem with.
Jim Horn
Oh, and Martin Luther King Day
Doctor Martin Luther King Junior
a black man from Atlanta, Georgia.
An activist and visionary
he spoke against racial injustice.
This Nobel Prize-winning man of peace
preached tolerance and non-violence.
Challenging bigotries and hatred
he marched against discrimination.
He struck a match against ignorance,
lighting liberty's torch for freedom.
And boldly opposed segregation,
standing up to white America.
His public-speaking abilities
both enraged his foes and won him friends.
And government bigots denounced him
as a dangerous agitator.
A pacifist, he shared his dream of
whites and blacks united in friendship.
Unshackled from the past, free at last,
"thank The Lord All Mighty, free at last."
His light refused to be extinguished
when James Earl Ray shot him in Memphis.
And now his life is celebrated
each year, on Martin Luther King day.
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11/14/2017
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