I am grateful for the words on Thomas Paine…
whose words, like me, are a little old and time-worn…
but convey every parents’ dream from the time our children are born.
It is a dream we parents have…a dream that will never cease:
‘I prefer peace.
But if trouble must come let it come in my time
So that my children can live in peace.’
Quote by Thomas Paine
“ I prefer peace! But if trouble must come, let it come
in my time, so that my children, can live in peace.”
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It really is up to us, to vote with a very clear mind.
To vote to stop free speech is anything but kind!
To force a nation, to take unsafe vaccinations?
In our Republic, is purely, such mindless ruination.
Every legal citizen has a blessed right to vote.
Sneaking over borders, an illegal is no antidote.
America is a Republic not just a mere democracy.
And, yes, you can become rich, this is no aristocracy!
With guaranteed rights, we don’t live in anarchy
It is up to you to prevent any evil slaveogracy.
Caring citizens do vote to put another in office..
Wrong choices are their fault~so be very cautious!
Every voter should take their own moral inventory!
Before casting excuses, and creating zany stories.
A sad scenario, if you boast that you don’t vote at all.
Don’t you know, you are contributing to the USA’s downfall?
@Panagiota Romios
8/25/2024
Some of our finest literary writing
Is found in rebuttal and debate
Especially when it is logical, reasoned,
Well-written, or cogently spoken
Like writings of Madison and Paine
And speeches of Lincoln and Douglas
Too often, these days, anger prevails
Striking as if with a sharp cutlass
What, I wonder, is to be the gain?
Taking a position for a token …
To gain notice for a season …
I have especially noticed of late
That debate seems more like fighting.
written January 20, 2022
[poem is composed using my reverse
rhyme scheme abcdef/g/fedcba
Independence
In search of freedom, many braved the high seas,
Needing to flee the chains of their home countries.
Desiring a fresh start in a far-off land;
Educating their children to understand.
Plymouth, Jamestown, Hampton, and other such sites;
Enduring hardships, attacks, and other fights.
Now viewing self-rule, like Paine, as Common Sense;
Declaring to England their independence.
Early clashes at Lexington and Concord;
Not shrinking from gunfights or edge of a sword.
Claiming patriots’ victory at Yorktown;
Earning a U.S. republic, not a crown.
The nature of our spiral nebulae or Milky Way,
is the size of our universe from where we stay.
Believing that our nebulae is relatively small,
Astronomer Curtis declared a far bigger call.
Billions of galaxies much larger and distant,
the scale of the universe, 1921 relevant.
Island universes in the trillions,
supernovas outshine galaxies in brilliance.
Another great debate by Huxley at that time,
upholding the biblical creation in us to refine.
To him self affirming the preference to be an ape,
giving Darwin’s theory the wishing shape.
In letters of war between Burke and Thomas Paine,
the debate in differences of conservatism,
and the misleading perception of progressivism.
After 2021 in lockdown giving nature a break,
wildlife’s resources in reviving stake.
The new debate now in consideration geographic,
3 working days and nights, 4 days no traffic.
Zero hours at sunrise, 12 at dawn lights mean,
nature hours including month thirteen.
The ultimate provider in absolute respect,
labor camp for restoring wasteland to correct.
Human independence and it’s grow of sacrifice,
the caring things of nature love that satisfies.
The pain of Paine
Is that a man serves a nation
So that freedom may be obtained
That a man opposes his mother
So that the colony may be free
That what is right is not wrong
And the wrong of the leaders not right
That one opposes his friend
To release the colony
That one dies
And is buried as if one was unknown
As if one was no hero
Who would attend the burial of Paine
When his values drove his ill-willed friends
Made his enemies unite
Paine your pain is great
You now lie peaceful
With no pen
With no sword
Set to rotten
It may have hurt you to know
That you were treated as green boots
No pageantry
No military display
No civic procession
Paine your pain is great
Crooner Bruner loved his schooner 'Billie'
He took a short holiday in Chile
He went to Torres del Paine
Crooned across the terrain
And Came back home with a robust chilli
Thomas Paine - an
Englishman
Maybe the best
American
Long and well before
all the fat folks
who live there now
Spoke of national
institutions
of churches whether
jewish christian or
muslim or other
nonsense
Schemes seeming to
him be no more than
human inventions,
set up to terrify
and enslave mankind
to monopolize for
power
I long to see Guanacos
Leap and fly
Over verdant grasses
And hills on high;
Watch small Chulengos
Nurtured by their side
Learn to leap their way
Fills the heart with pride.
Patagonian mountains
Is their home,
A place where these wild
Creatures love to roam.
Torres del Paine looks down
Where they graze,
Snowcapped in winter
And sure to amaze,
Lends picturesque beauty
To the wild herds.
To capture this vision,
There are no words.
I long to see Guanacos
leap and fly
Over verdant grasses
And hills on high.
Thomas Paine
United States a Founding Father
Born in Norfolk an honest English man
Me proud to be part of a true Ameri can
No summer soldier or sunshine patriot
Spoke what he thought treasure no idiot
Tyranny like hell is not so easily conquered
harder the glorious conflict amour armoured
Still being inspiration in the army of freedom
his memory surely no not just my poor poem
Lover of freedom bringing common sense
the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph
Hater of all the established churches
Lover of the native Indian Iroquois
But no Christian burial for him
No Christian church would receive his body for burial
The most prolific animal in our Kingdom is the Red Herring.
You don't need to be a "Sherlock Holmes" to figure that out
A Red Herring is a deliberate attempt to divert attention..................."look over there"
Please help control the Red Herring population today.....You can do your part
by opening up your eyes, and exposing the lies.
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
[Thomas Paine ]
It is not that I love you less
When first my lines of heavenly Joyes
made mention
through regions farr divided
see with what simplicity
see! With what constant motion
Philosophers have measured mountains
Man, dreame no more of curious mysteries
Oh wearisome condition of humanity !
Oh might Nothing ! Unto thee
O Joyes ! Infinite sweetness! With what flowers
Must I then see, with what busie heart
Heare mee, O God!
Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares
Busie old fool , unruly sunne
Absent from thee I languish still
O sweet and bitter monuments of paine
Out upon it , I have lov'd
Sweet day , so cool , so calm , so bright
where do these voices stray
like to the falling of a starre
Poet and Saint ! To thee alone are given
A ward , and still in bonds, one day
All my past life is mine no more
How vainly men themselves amaze
dazel'd thus with height of place
Here lies wise and valiant dust.
Sad Girl .
Her Momma dont care ,
Her daddys dad ,
Dont you feel the paine ?
Of course you dont .
You just dont get it ,
She walks down the street ,
No soul or color in her ,
Her skin is pale .
Everybody walks past her ,
Like she aint even there .
Tho so many tears rushed down her face ,
Nobody cares ,
Nobody looks at her .
She has no friends ,
No family to rely On .
But that doest matter right ?
Cause shes poor ?
Cause she stands out ?
Her only dream is for ONE friend .
Nobody wants her tho .
But she doesnt Mind it .
She knows well that someone will like her .
FOR HER .
Sad Girl .
I don't know how, but one day I'll be great.
It is the one thing I know, its called fate.
If you just wait and see,
I'll change the course of history.
I'll change it with my own philosophy.
What I speak is true, not mythology.
I have the power to do this, just as you do.
The difference is, in the hardest of times, I'll still pursue.
I'm not going to stop the next world war,
and I'm not going to find the next great cure.
I will bring the world closer with my writing.
So that one day we'll be closer to uniting.
Following Thomas Paine, Malcolm X and Alexander the Great's crusade.
I will conquer the globe with the steps they laid.
I will let everyone know the price that had to be paid.
I will unite this world in a peace, because I am a renegade.
Now you can watch me from the distance,
or help me fight against the resistance.
All you do is when you see bigotry or inequality, rise above.
Just turn away and promote one thing, its easy, its called one-love.
Thomas Paine wrote it.
Don't settle for having it.
Enhance your sense, read!
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