Physicists teach and talk
Physicians heal and walk
Physiologists exercise and specialize
Psychiatrists dramatize and immortalize
Psychologists observe and internalize
Therapists diagnose and mobilize
Radiologists scan and rock
Pharmacologists and Toxicologists mix and match drugs and block
Paleontologists, Neurologists, Meteorologists, Politicians, Philanthropists, Philatelists and the rest apply PHYSICS too... patch, flock and jock!
Soul Full Medgar Evers
Justice fiery
The need to rise
Walk the unthinkable Earth
No Justice No Peace to emphasize
Voting Rights Act taken away
Jim Crow laws come back won’t be a give away
Civil Rights stance
The Supreme Court didn’t get it right
The country is now in a plight uptight
My Soul cannot rest
My Spirit will contest
It’s time for all minorities to wake up and come together
The nation was built on principles for “We the People”
Forefathers laid it out plain and simple
Voice of America, we can’t sit back and let our voting rights be taken
away
It is not ok
We can’t take it light
We need to fight
Mobilize in numbers
Together strong
Break the barriers that bind
Loud voices intertwine
Voting Rights Act made history
Turned into a diminished light into darkness
More than fact
Democracy track
All it’s worth that should be
I am the Ghost of Medgar Wiley Evers
My voice in fight
We will not continue to be uptight
Enough is enough
Fight, Fight and Fight
We shall overcome
Victory in our grasp.
H HUMANITY
U UNITY
M MOBILIZE
A ACTION
N NOBLE
R REMINDER
I INSIGHT
G GLORIFY
H HISTORY
T TEACH
S SOLVENCY
i come to mobilize my thoughts
with pen in hand
i wait for inspiration
and it seldoms disappoints
it's time well spent
i leave renewed
and happy at my core
AP: 2nd place 2025
Ingredients of Character
Does envy in disguise exist there?
Boastfulness? Pride?
Do they sell the innocent for silver
And the needy for a pair of sandals?
Ingredients o Character
The proud and ungrateful who denied
The oppressed justice.
Lovers of pleasure and self, the swift
will not escape one's overpowering
Anyone will not mobilize their strength
And encouragement will bear the same
Attitude and mind towards each other.
Ingredients of Character
Disobedience: do they not know how
To do what's right?
Ingredients of Character
One's growth of one's expectations, beliefs,
Persistence, affection, and love will be tried
And tested.
Ingredients of Character
The long and tortuous road that
You travelled which brought you here
Explains the position you are at
And influences your hopes and fears.
Sometimes you travelled in circles,
Sometimes you followed straight paths,
Sometimes you went in a semicircle
Before returning to life’s long path.
But whatever has happened to you,
Remember that you affected your fate
When you decided your dreams could never come true;
Then started living the life you hate.
So, maybe it is time for you to decide
To break free from fate’s whirlpool and stop
Being the person you yourself deride
Knowing in your soul that you are not.
It may not be too late for you to be
The person that you should have been.
Maybe now is the time for you to free
The ghosts of your dreams trapped within.
So, mobilize creativity that you’ve neglected,
And plan your life forward from here.
Because life is too precious to be wasted,
And time has become too dear.
Where did all the dandelions go?
Sometimes it isn't clear with these human fellows
Situations can be grey, not only black and yellow
We need them now, don't they know?
People seem to despise these little weeds
I happen to think they are pretty killer
It's tricky business though, to avoid the tiller
If they only knew, Oh Honey! this bee's got needs!
It really stings when they spray them down
Even though we strive to stay alive in our hive
It's spring and not all the flowers have arrived
So buzz off humans, this is our town
With our Queen in command, we rise!
Special unit, Nectar Collector Sector
You won't find us with your best insect prospector
When we mobilize upward to the skies
So we hover at antenna and prepare to fly
Calling all swarms, fall in and migrate
We're heading out, YOU attempt to pollinate
Bee warned humans, can't say we didn't try
People don’t want to listen when I speak of struggle and pain
But these are apart of nature like the wind, the sun, and rain
Choose your doors and turn the key
Accept what comes your way so humbly
Develop your ears to hone in on the rumble
When the earth breaks underfoot, trust you won’t crumble
Stand your ground and focus your eyes
Shift your weight to mobilize
Your body is a temple, your mind a god
Some would say that this sounds odd
And how so? I would answer. you have power within
Power so great that you just might win
To fight like you’re dying and there’s no other way
Condition your mind and body to bend and obey
Strike with precision and right to the heart
For your memory in the world to never depart
In annals of history this has happened many times
Against masses men in power have done many crimes
Sufferers lament over it as they struggle every day
If they unite and fight better future before them lay
Huge population against few men in power
Common man can easily beat they have greater manpower
Next time don't just sit and blame
A revolution of masses set aflame
Modern means of telecom are at your feet
Take up leadership, you can achieve great feat
Fight against wrong for the good of all
If you mobilize masses, on your feet victory will fall.
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First position in Brain strand competition
Let’s have a group hug
Inside this home
Inside this family
Inside these all encompassing walls
Let’s have a group sing
And a group meal
Let’s call it family hour
Lets pray for the world outside these walls too
Let’s remember the us in let’s
Let us support each other in this trying time
Let us remember to uplift and mobilize each other
Let us open our hearts
Even if we cannot open our homes
Let’s stay sequestered so we can stay safe
But let us never forget we are never alone
We are all in safe hands
On the imaginary side of my brain, there's a picture of a copper coin. One side of this coin is about nothing, does nothing, and will never become anything more than it already is. Even if in a mobilized state, it will invariably remain in a straight line. Let's call it 'tails'. The 'tails' side will remain in a nothing state. It will never change in value nor usefulness. The other side of this coin is about something. Let's call it 'heads'. It will activate or mobilize only if some foreign force interacts with it. Moreover, the 'heads' side has the capability of being spent for something in exchange, increasing in value, or being utilized for various purposes, simply because it can interact and become sensitive to other entities. By definition, both sides would be 'inertia'. Perhaps you and I have met both types of people. That is, 'heads' people(the changeable) and 'tails' people(the unchangeable).
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Americans today are quite polarized
All we do is complain and criticize
The rhetoric ramping ever upward, uncivilized
The ranting and the raving has us desensitized
We sorely need something to mobilize us
An event to overwhelm and mesmerize us
E.T., please come back to Earth and hypnotize us
Leave us not to our own devices...
We're born keyless.
Then given plastic keys to play with.
We earn our first key of responsibility.
To mobilize-to enter things.
To cage things-to abuse things.
Like a warden with a cluster of keys
letting the good out- keeping the bad ones in
or is it the other way around?
A steady stream of keys.
Like a bird-every key sings
,, especially the skeleton key.
Only a few keys are able to keep your secrets.
Eventually there is a chorus of keys
Most of mine(secrets) are silver or gold
Some are dirty, some are clean.
Only one of them is king
but none of them are green
We often lose them
Then a mad search commences,
Like a red-eyed druggie rooting for a quick fix,
We smile in relief when we find them,
Hugging them as if they were our children.
Keys grow old, become battered and bent
Some wriggle off the ring.
Every year we have fewer keys.
Keys are a lot like friends,
What a relief it must be to be keyless again.
Wisping winds whisk whispered whimsies willows’ way.
By the pond, we ponder potent possibilities posed by pollinated passions.
As we divine dallying delights depicting developing days,
Moonbeams mobilize to mob us on the mossy mound.
Monster clouds roam with fiery open jaws
Memories of past freeze momentary pause
Storming tides advance with fiery rainfall
Followed by sounds of a shattering landfall.
Spirits resolve as gusty winds blow roof top
Families will soon rise to clean up and mop
Determined as ever to mobilize and survive
Hoping to keep remnants of memories alive.
Leaving behind the dread of storm unbidden
Lifting up each time such grief has stricken
Moving swiftly hoping for a construction loan
Dredging through an atrocious disaster zone.
Such repetitious blows becoming annual thing
Calling for prayers, God's heavenly blessing
Flying high with spirits on the Angel's wings
For the love and hope they continually bring.
Having heard cries of compassionate calls
Resounding like the magnificent Angel Falls
With unbroken resolve our nation stands tall
Shattered lives rebuild hearing the protocol.
September 13, 2017
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