The Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed in 1923 and passed through the House of Representatives in 1971 and the Senate in 1972. However, it took until 2020 for 38 of the 50 states to ratify it. On January 17th, 2025 then president Joe Biden declared that the ERA had met the requirements for certification to the Constitution. Today, it still has not been certified and not all 50 states have yet to ratify it.
it takes a long time
for Ents to say anything
governments need more
Minds stratify in webbed design
In lone life’s strata snares align
Psychic slide patterns ratify
In webbed design minds stratify
Within mind’s wares dark secrets hide
Patterns ratify psychic slide
Deep silence cold mind never shares
Dark secrets hide within mind’s wares
I’m a captive within my fold
Mind never shares deep silence cold
In shell I can’t be adaptive
Within my fold I’m a captive
It’s always me when I excel
I can’t be adaptive in shell
In the pursuit of ecstasy
When I excel it’s always me
Who am I to know that I love you whom am I to show that I love you it's all because the father knows that I love you so I love you that's who I am who you are to me
Who am I to walk away I am in drench I stand still I false or not I am here to stay I stand I shall not walk away I embrace the father's arms and innate
Spiritual soul passion resume speak for I ratify the father's purpose his mission in a heart posture so I rely I stand before you speak life unto you for you you are alive as I
Holy Blessed Beloved reverence
11/30/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2023
What is the secret to the good life?
Filled with things that most satisfy
Free of unnecessary worry and strife
And replete with things that gratify
I’m not sure I have a single answer
That would fit everyone’s situations
But I highly recommend adventure,
Enhanced by taking good vacations!
Nothing so elevates one’s life stations
[Increasing understanding of a culture]
Like visiting a faraway exotic nation
Watching the gyrations of a dancer
Can help the inquiring mind to ratify
The inestimable value of individual life
For the muddled, biased mind, to clarify
What the secret is to the good life.
written April 8, 2022
[Verso-Rhyme]
I don't ratify this fake party,
I intend to rid it of failure
to the glory...
I don't approve immobility
of our friendly relationships...
I wish warm beds,
and fire in love...
I don't appreciate life
painted in pictures on the walls,
Desire to paint the story of life...
It's not enough for me to contemplate
beauty sparse...nature dead !
I wish to expose the total beauty
which exists in everything... !
2. Title : Sofiya
Lovely, lovely so cute oh! 'Racemose'
Pinky lips, almondsized eyes even mock to rose.
In your vocal have a sweetness as 'Raffia'
You're only my dream girl oh! Sofia.
You're my heart's Reindeer,
I'm ready to die if you say dear.
The memories of passing time ever Reflex,
To be a relationship there isn't need of sex.
I want ever to place side by side you.
Sans you my life like the land sansdew.
God also ratify to our love,
I hope our relationship ever will be as same as dove.
You intertwine your vitality with your hands,
Your spirit is not determined by destiny,
Esprit is a lanky voyage
Vitality is too short
Be sure there are no griefs,
Be sure to ratify missteps,
Be sure to endorse downfalls
I'm wandering along the aisle,
Full of boulders and gravel,
Full of obstructions
Full of up-downs,
I discover fantasies with my orifices,
I attempt to execute my pursuits along the path,
Vigor is too short
It's okay to weep
It's okay to fear
Glimpse into yourself,
There are clues to your dilemmas,
Life is speculative
Quell possession in yore,
I'm scrambling ahead in my existence,
Residing every eternity,
Carving new remembrances
I desire upon my shining star in the sky,
One day, to be one of the stars to glimmer in midnight
-Aira
A BETTER TOMORROW
A summit of world leaders have agreed
Upon a plan for everlasting peace.
And all, without exception, signed a deed,
To ratify an international law.
So now, to narrow the racial divide,
There’s a new marriage law to put things right.
All partners must be from the other side.
Jew tied to Arab, black to marry white
All the religions must merge into one,
Accepting there’s just one God up above.
There will never be a need for a gun
In a world devoted to peace and love
We can dream of life devoid of sorrow.
Could there be a much better tomorrow?
19th September 2020
A Better Tomorrow Poetry Contest
Sponsor - John Hamilton
The day’s activity is in stress’ cabinet, let dusk give us some revival
citizens of night life are so ready to give a good time
floods of music, muscled men protecting the different arenas
stopped at the border of one which seem to attract fun’s immigrants
a bold and majestic entrance showcases my suave
flashing goddesses in human form fall for the charm
reserved to mild drinking, knowingly attracts a watching bint
chatting, laughing and more wine, time speeds up its wheels
stepping in the main department to kill worry’s threats
lips licking, angle-eyed contacts and dancing fingers on the cup’s lid
the signals are clear for us to advance to the main show
at home and both so drunk, what’s next, we need not ratify
this private dance floor is less in activities and lesser sanity
she falls to bed so openly for me to freely browse
two must tangle for such satisfaction to produce its oil
the pleasure would be ill-gotten, so I do same without touching her.
As I ever seek shelter
Engaging in the fundamental of your malevolence
Yet ever always seeking ever present
Spell bounding an astounding Heaven's Bliss
My true self my consciousness
So I ratify in clouded mindedness
Ever sober in my thoughts
For I lie down and die
Instantaneously I Cry
Upon opening up my eyes as my soul Spirit leaves my body
I'm going home
In a twinkling of an eye
I fly
9/26/19
James Edward Lee Sr 2919
In the shadow of this tree,
Judas mapped his misery,
But saw no finger-post, save one:
A beckoning oblivion.
So up he climbed, with labored breath,
To where he could devise his death.
The twisted tree, by time distressed,
Would ratify his wretchedness,
And let him fall — his loss complete,
The seamless sky his winding sheet.
(The Kyoto Protocol, an international
treaty signed in December 1997, commits
member states to reduce their carbon
dioxide emissions. The United States is
the only First World nation not to ratify
the treaty.)
Spend it, squander, swill down, swallow,
waste it, wassail, welter, wallow.
There's no "I" in America.
(Well, maybe one.)
Billow, burn up, bloat and burgeon,
Don't stint (see stomach-stapling surgeon).
There's no "me" in America.
(Well, maybe one.)
Blow up. Bulge. Indulge your senses.
Guzzle, grab, gorge - don't heed no fences.
There's no "crime" in America,
no restraints, no consequences.
(Well, maybe one.)
Im disgusted to my sickest illness of judgemental, criticizer that plot my situation's that mode everything i sculpt and cannot stay nuetural in the there zones point fingers to blame yourself in a decision thats not made right to there satisfaction which may not be granauteed which there's a false situation that dont make since or just still like and paraplegics. But as i move to be grounded to move forward as i play in an formation of since ability to maintain my process and knowing my faults of my doings but to prejudge my conception of my life ratification but to ratify all the madness that happened upon me overall as i careless what people may solidify or cruel intention on my inflictions that cant chance what i say nor what i think but people love to critics in critical standpoints that doesn't have a point or appointed judgement to as i judge and bang the gavel to maintain my decision in how i may direct my action thats scene's in a movie that i direct and co- write so vivid in my views...
Many endorse my name as
The sun God,Apollo.
I would like to be savior as him
but not terrible to approach.
Some ratify my name as
Crimson Red
I please everyone with my charm as Rose
but not jab as spike.
I profound ocean
but seems pacific.
Nevertheless many hurdles
I am smiley.
Nevertheless many with similar name
I am unique.
Nevertheless many pains
I am elixir to others.
Unanimously people of my room credit me
I am Aruna-smiley,unique and elixir
We see
We fall
We don’t think
We might
But we don’t decide
It’s hard for perspective
To conquer feelings
Something wrong or something right
His eyes or her eyes
Her eyes might be his eyes
And his hers
Does it matter?
Two people can
Be more than their anatomies
More than being what the world sees
Two people can be perfection
Can feel perfection, can make perfection
With just being
Because love in its truest form
Is more than a physical emotion
But never superficial
Between two who maybe identical
Or not, different or not
No matter where they are, who they are
Sometimes though unconventional
Who are we to judge
To ratify that it might be
Acceptable?
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