music pollution
neighbors outside party
my dogs are howling now
natural protestors minus signs
Brave protestors
those high school kids
Fists held high, risking absolutely zero
They walk out of school ~ Big heroes
Oh, yes, they’re against ICE
Mom and Dad are too
Regurgitating exactly what they’re fed at home
They’ve nothing to fear, not even fear alone
No riots today in my small town
No protestors or police around
Everywhere I look, peace and quiet
On Main Street, three dogs lie down
Town’s not for sale ~ you cityfolk can’t buy it
In this country
Politicians line their pockets from back-door deals
Sports figures kneel with raised fist, and protest our flag
Hollywood celebrities exclaim they will leave our country
Silicon Valley tramples on free-speech norms
Corporate elites rig systems to transfer wealth
and live more royally than kings of yore, while
Children hunger
for food
for love
for protection from abuse
Where are the marchers,
the protesters with cardboard placards
funded by big money,
Declaring that these,
the youngest of us
have a right to a life?
That simply being born
is not enough?
Where are those God-fearing pickets?
The ‘Big Lie Technique’ is back
designed to throw gullible masses off track
Hamasniks scream: “End the Israeli occupation”
though 2005 was the year of Israel’s Gaza abdication
Gazans shout, “Israelis are starving us alive”
ignoring the 500,000 tons of food Israel’s supplied
'Experts' tout, “Israel's murdered 9,500 Arab women in the war”
though fewer than 5,000 have died if you’re keeping score
Never a word about what caused Israel to fight
about Hamas' hostage-taking, baby-burning
about simple wrong from right
And their chests puffed up with antisemitic pride
Protestors world-over now cry
“Death to the Jews”
"Gaza genocide"
From the grave, Hitler and Stalin grin and salute
their ‘Big Lie Technique’ once dormant, newly revived
Hittin’ the ‘open road’ was all the fashion
Became America’s passion
Decimated by endless repairs – 'under construction'
not to mention protestors’ abduction
Shouting and screaming
about events far away
Protestors shut down
the Golden Gate Highway
An important trial had to be canceled
business-as-usual victimized, ransomed
to the vain yells of the progressive nation
which won't affect one iota
Hamas' devastation
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato
Politicians keep lying
Hate keeps breeding
Jets keep firing
Babies keep dying
Mothers keep crying
Homes keep tumbling
Hope keeps crumbling
Time keeps ticking
Injustice keeps screaming
Funerals keep delaying
Peacemakers keep meeting
Media keeps shocking
Propaganda keeps faking
Tanks keep bombing
Earth keeps shaking
Fear keeps spreading
Soldiers keep fighting
Widows keep weeping
Sorrows keep growing
Babies keep dying
Mothers keep crying
Tears keep flowing
Hunger keeps increasing
Journalists keep reporting
Poets keep writing
Music keeps playing
Teachers keep teaching
Clergymen keep praying
Preachers keep preaching
Protestors keep protesting
Faith keeps searching
Peace keeps fading
Ignorance keeps showing
Missiles keep shooting
Humanity keeps bleeding
World keeps sleeping
Babies keep dying
Mothers keep crying
evening news
in every land
shadows of war~
even the songbirds
have dissappeared.
***
protestors ~
in the garbage
photos of the lost,
prayers
rising to heaven.
***
unheard
the cries of children
and old men
beneath the sounds
of weapon fire.
***
the blood
of innocence
paints floorboards,
no passover
for the lambs.
***
tattoos of evil
find evil again
cycles repeat,
the question:
why?
We are the African soldiers,
The soldiers of Jesus Christ.
We are preaching the word of God to win our battle.
Heavenly Father clothed us with His weapon,
Which is
His positive word.
Holy Ghost clothed us with the powers
So that people can know Jesus Christ.
Our enemies use lies to destroy us;
They sing bad songs to insult us.
They are hypocrites,
Selfish fishermen fished in the furnace,
And vomited electric - fish.
Sunrise and sunset,
They are in the streets shouting:
“Shoot soldiers, and shoot officers in the offices “
They try to ruin our reputation with the fire and
We are the fire fighters who fight in fireplaces.
They are very stubborn,
Barbarians,
And blinds who had been blinded by bandits.
They forget that we are protectors
Who protect protestors.
Hypocrite hunters who hunt a hippopotamus on the huts.
Goodness is like the fire to them and
Badness is their cold drinks.
Jealous is their daily uniforms
And peace is like poison to them.
We are your true soldiers God,
Trained to teach different people.
Put to shame our enemies;
We are the powerful soldiers of Jesus Christ.
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
Mussabwa Chris
In Memory of Ashli Babbitt
Your name, to many, it matters not!
Killed in the Capitol like a piece of rot.
Against a wall, you……just standing.
Capitol Police shot you, with Pelosi’s branding.
What a great plan by the conspiratorial Left!
Allow peaceful people to come in~ then.take away,
Their very last earthly, warm breath.
This woman of course, was in no way a Socialist.
A Retired Air Force woman, you destroyed,definitelly
was no terrorist!
What a game plan: “Let’s give the protestors, Trump hats,
An unethical, deplorarable move, designed by Swamp rats.
Hundreds of good Americans in the hole since that day.?
Tienneman Square in our Capitol, how tragic, that day!
1/19/2023
Purple-haired teens of large girth,
courageously saving the earth,
are staging big pours
in grocery stores;
they're milking for all that it’s worth!
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/animal-rebellion-protestors-pour-milk-across-uk-shop-floors-including-harrods-an/
Dick and Jane go to college
to learn how to read and to write
'Cos they didn't in high school
where they studied, on You-Tube, the rights
of violent protestors, sexual predators, 'n gender-bathroom rules
~ not to mention supporting 'Healthy Hemp' businesses too
Funny how
Eco-warrior's , marchers and so
called peaceful protestors
Love nothing more than when
one of their marches descends
Into fighting mindless thuggery and
random violence
So they can then be viewed being
dragged away battered black and blue
Crying foul whilst shouting slogans
out loud with such emotive slurs
As Fascist , Sexiest , Racist and Nazi
By any means necessary at all so long
as it tugs at one's heartstrings
Because if they so believe the cause to
be just then they can justify the means
to the ends
And if they have to bend or don't play
by the official rule's of engagement
then so be it
To me that time and energy would
be far better spent both educating and
imparting knowledge
Via rational engagement , conscience
and considerate debate
That creating conflict and just another
thing to fight about
Build a border wall
So terror can’t get in.
Bury your heads in sand
Against terrorists within.
Massacres at concerts,
Massacres in schools,
Massacres in churches,
Who are all the fools?
Where are the protestors,
Where the loud outcry?
Where are those elected
To keep us safe, and why?
Money from the NRA
Is needed more than lives
Party solid, arm-in arm,
Backed by oft-told lies.
There are automatic rifles -
Of guns there is a host -
AR-15s and others
To kill and maim the most.
Let them sell in gun shows,
Where restrictions are benign.
Never mind their history,
Ignore the warning signs.
Just let every citizen
Be armed up to the chin
So we can have more massacres
From terrorists within.
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