Varnished Tech Titans
Tattered totems tarnished
Viral tribal bible spiral
Tainted talismans taunted
Cash cows flaunted
Gerontocracy trumps democracy
Theocracy stumps hypocrisy
Autocracy dumps diplomacy
Haunted schism prism
Vaunted Fat Cats
Enigma?…just
Dogma & Stigma
Tit for Tats
Martian Martial law
Doff your hats
To techno-*wats
And petro-*rats
Deplore or Encore?
Poor Planet in flux
All about the bucks
Ersatz Fat Cats
Well More is More!
The overpouring raindrops, the incessant rain outside was telling me continuously,
She was a story to nay sayer
and he was a theme park to symbolic haifa.
Baha'i temple and a raincoat.
People get soaked there.
With theocracy, bureaucracy, faithfulness, faithlessness, midlife crisis and many more like all these.
We and the downpouring sounds outside, are a drawback, still
That heavenly sky is still a striker hand of an indoor game!
CHRIST, when the time came, set his face toward Jerusalem
REPORTS from those who hated him did not detour his mission
ONLY finishing his assigned task was the thing that mattered
STARTING a new religion or creating a theocracy was not his plan
STOPPING the Roman Government in its tracks was not his purpose
RIGHTEOUSNESS would be established by his cruel death on the cross.
OPENED doors to eternal life swung wide to all who would believe.
ANCIENT questions about who God is were now answered at Calvary's cross.
DECISIONS by individual choice were clearer than arbitrary selections.
011924PS
I Pledge allegiance to the flag;
Not unto the Kingdom;
Not unto the Theocracy;
Not unto the Dictatorship;
But of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA.
Unto the REPUBLIC for which it stands;
ONE Nation, not two or more;
INDIVISIBLE, not split or torn apart;
UNDER God, not alongside, not above, not with, not without.
With liberty and justice;
not for most, not for some, not for a few;
But for ALL.
062223PS
Generally, 247 years is a long time;
but not so many years for a nation.
What is more intriguing about time
relative to you is the timeline of
your Constitution and your Ideals.
As I understand it, a Democratic
Republic, where the people rule through
representative government was indeed a
rarity 247 years ago. However, you, America,
achieved this feat.
For nearly two and half centuries, you, America,
have remained free from rulership by kings and
queens, dictators, and religion. One of the most
unique characteristics of your way of life is your
ability to be highly influenced by God and the
Bible while yet refusing to be a Theocracy.
Happy Birthday, America. May you ever remain
the land of the free and home of the brave.
One of your grateful and proud citizens.
Sitruc. 061123PS
Mediocracy
Along the simple path we plod
Bureaucracy
With a maze of obstacles to trod
Autocracy
Also trying to dodge the hit squads
Theocracy
Steering clear, of banned lesser gods
Plutocracy
Ride on through, wielding big fat wads
Democracy
A minefield of all above, behind the facade
04/12/23
In a democracy, the leader aligns himself with the people
In a theocracy, the leader aligns himself with God
In a bureaucracy, the people fall in line behind the leader
In an autocracy, the people are peas in a pod
Tears on Mother Liberty
Plutocracy the society they created through the Trump towers, now they regret it Like Iraq having no democracy.
Theocracy seems Like the answer for now, for evil has ruined what was once a great nation, Living all hopeless and faithless.
God bless America!
Down your tools, raise your fists and continue the dream of Martin Luther King bring shame to the fiend debilitating our society.
No more shooting, instead put the blame on Putin and realize BLACKLIVESMATTER.
We can't kill each other or else the assassination of John. F. Kennedy is not an abomination, recreation these kids seizing on opiates therefore we need purple rain through the Prince of peace.
The circus in the White House like Clinton, soldier on like Hilary and let the heart of Obama infect us all with Love for one another whether you black, white, Latino or whatever we are America!
Iran ousted the Shah's tyranny,
backing a Muslim theocracy.
And hate crushed any hope of freedom,
for fear, demonized democracy.
Now, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
touts faith with a political twist.
An old popinjay stuck in the past,
he rules the land with an iron fist.
Don't accept religious slavery,
shout "Allah O Akbar!" from your roof.
And never forget those who were killed;
executed for crimes without proof.
Moussavi wants to be President,
stoking rage in the youth of Iran.
Neda's death is his rallying cry,
calling for the rights of every man.
Marchers, led by courageous women,
helped turn a trickle into a flood.
And history will remember them
as martyrs, willing to spill their blood.
(Quatrain)
7/10/2018
The head, a divine messenger for human leadership
Holy scriptures with direct instructions stay as the constitution
Eradication of mixed opinions to keep the sheep completely homogeneous
Official orientation of any kind is void of different beliefs
Creed established and adhered to irrespective of the human right stand
Religion, the command, staff, seal and national identity
Administration under the lordship of some proclaimed unseen forces
Creating a political system tantamount to totalitarianism
Yielding to semi-molded exposure or even close mindedness of its citizens.
INDEPENDENCE
I have observed that America is a Democratic Republic with high values on the INDIVIDUAL
We are 50 States, some of whose economies rival other countries; yet we are one NATION.
Yes, we have fought each other in a bloody war; yet we are one and shall not be DIVIDED.
As a nation, we set our goals and aim for the heights, flying and soaring like the EAGLE.
We are not about “He, the President or He the Potentate”, but all about “We The PEOPLE".
Our nation is not perfect, but at its core, “We Believe That All Men Are Created EQUAL".
We are blessed and prosperous; and as a people, we pause to give thanks every NOVEMBER.
So often, similarities make great people; but the strength of America is its DIFFERENCES.
Some of our rights are granted through government; there are others that are God ENDOWED.
We have One President, 100 Senators, 435 Representatives, and Supreme Court Justices are NINE.
Our country is a Republic and not a Theocracy; but most of our founding fathers believed in a CREATOR.
It has been said that America is great because we are good; may our goodness long ENDURE.
Cj07/19/2015
Awaken in the midst of a war
Shaken by the catastrophe
Forsaken by the Lord
Sometimes it saddens me because we catch these bad dreams
These fractured philosophies
We are practicing immodesty
Judging demographies, is this autonomy, or a theocracy?
Tracking the rainbows path
Reached the pot of gold
And realized it was empty
This whole journey for what?
Sometimes it just gets me
We are trapped in the flesh
A head full of bad memories
A heart that's been over-stretched
A soul that has been immortalized, you could easily forget, a credit line of
neglect and disrespect
A spirit that has been tormented and drug through the woods
And left to die silently, no one can hear his cries, no one could see his
good
No one understands him the way they should,
He has these wings on his back and he wishes he could
Extend them and wrap around the universe,
And preserve this jewel
No accounting for
taste
What you dislike
and called a waste
is what I like
You call
cheese,honey
I called it bitter pill
You prefer a monkey
while chimp makes
me chill
You like worshipping
sun
I love worshipping
God
It really fun
you called mine odd
I lived in tradition
You lived in
modernity
But in addition
I lived in christianity
You urged me to
study biology
I urged you to learn
Shakespeare
You want me to live
by astrology
Let poetry be your
spear
You prefer winter
that is your choice
Mine is summer
when I'll rejoice
When you lay on
your bunk,
you hear the
music,rock
but I listen to punk
who should be given
a sock?
You love a black lady
with long dark hair
I love a white baby
to be my heir
You desire
democracy
as system of your
government
I desire theocracy
it had the best
management
Let us be a union
Let there be chaste
Let's tolerate each
one's opinion
for no accounting
for taste
The moment of my start ,
the destruction of thy art,
hearing the songs of theocracy ,
the songs for saving thee .
The intonation of deadly scream ,
heard across the vast stream ,
lest none had to stop me ,
for me to stop to see thy majestic beauty.
I heard the words of my master ,
who plans well for thy disaster ,
who creates the scenery well as common ,
serving a wide from the times of Romans .
He sends me often here ,
for punishing the big malevolence ,
but I never saw the wonders - for thy fear ,
for thy deep oceans help my tolerance .
I wish could I give thee a chance ,
to see the world with a second glance ,
nevertheless the order remains order after all ,
keep waiting for me to hear the next call .
Sitting upon these fringes of change an odd precept
Perhaps a bit bizarre their maxims ironic while viewed
Aneath an infants classroom desk while, his sirens wailed
Gazing into this magical glass; holding both, a future as past
Despotic her age of Aquarius ? Phantoms wielding blades
Making way apropos past time's horizontal doors; vertigo altars
Lifting yesteryears fetus high unto tomorrow's sacrilegious rubicon skies....
Wiping the dust from their babies knees; pledging allegiance while hallucinating
Amid some carcasses carcinogens chemical compound, reactions ? Suigeneris
Inversion's irruptive talisman's clan less, love's holy grail; epochtic charms rattling cans
Skeletal bones prevalent hands ? Theocracy, his kingfish in a morbid light; enter, her sandman.
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