Tag: politics
group name: politicalpoets
|
May 19, 2007 02:09 AM EDT --
I saw my father cry one time
salt tears on both his cheeks.
I had never seen him weep before . . . more
|
|
March 03, 2006 12:34 PM EST --
There's an elephant in the kitchen
We pretend he isn't there
He cries about the basement,
says a rattlesnake lives down there
Wanted, dead or alive, he cries
that snake really must go
The . . . more
|
|
November 28, 2006 07:03 PM EST --
Mr. President, I think you owe us an apology
For one day, long ago, you declared "Victory!"
Now that idea is ancient history,
especially if you happen to be Iraqi!
Victory for us and . . . more
|
|
February 07, 2007 10:49 AM EST --
This is a song I wrote - more of a poem I guess... trying to understand it all.
"Fare thee well, Mother" he exclaimed
The tormenting memory of her son's last words . . . more
|
|
January 30, 2007 12:17 PM EST --
Riddle of Articulation, Starting gun - you fire
My brittle heart is broken; from this battle, I retire
Lying down to rest, my weary feathered pen of ink
Too tired now to struggle, too numb to even think . . . more
|
|
December 01, 2006 02:58 PM EST --
The swearing in of a president
is usually an solemn and noble event.
Today Mexicans set a bold new precedent.
As the right wing president elect arrived in his car
his supporters were finishing . . . more
|
|
February 08, 2008 02:28 PM EST --
as we bag up our own groceries
and fill our cars with gas
a few old hands remember
a kinder, gentler past
when your company got in trouble
if that company went bust
the pension you worked . . . more
|
|
August 09, 2008 06:02 AM EDT --
(Born all of a sudden during this sleepless night...)
The only words I know in Georgian
Are: "Kamardjoba, Genatsvale!" -
What is intended to mean -
"Greetings, my dear friend!" . . . more
|
|
December 01, 2007 11:03 AM EST --
Because honestly, it's an old argument. In an article by Mario on why Hillary is unelectable, we got into trying to determine what it is that makes women despise Hillary so much. The men that chimed . . . more
|
|
June 30, 2007 09:07 AM EDT --
Who argued that Germans will never assimilate or learn English?
a. Arnold Schwarzenegger
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Carl Marx
d. David Livingston
e. Ernest Hemingway
.
more
|
|
June 06, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The US Constitution gives Americans free speech.
Does that imply that we can freely exercise the power of dissent?
Yes, in some cases it does -- in other cases, maybe not.
Try going to a presidential . . . more
|
|
August 15, 2007 05:17 PM EDT --
I just read this again, and I find myself in agreement with what I said, but I wonder why I bothered to say it. some of the comments ask the same question, and some of them are blunt. That's . . . more
|
|
July 03, 2007 01:41 PM EDT --
This morning (Wednesday 3 July 2007) Arizona's legislature overwhelmingly passed bill HB2779, which applies very stiff penalties to employers who knowingly or intentionally hire undocumented workers. . . . more
|
|
June 01, 2008 10:46 AM EDT --
Over the past several months, starting with the opening gavel of the 110th Congress, there has been an awesome amount of negative political spin about Democrats accomplishing nothing. They ha e . . . more
|
|
May 07, 2007 02:11 AM EDT --
http://www.claremoreprogress.com/homepage/local_story_271172642.html?start:int=15
I post this, in the hope that someone can Help me find a text of the Speech and other material by Federal Judge . . . more
|
|
July 27, 2007 12:56 AM EDT --
It goes beyond logic -- their logic is faulty, twisted, angry, even wickedly vicious. Lou Barletta, Mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania is one of them. He is at the forefront of local governments trying to . . . more
|
|
December 05, 2007 12:51 PM EST --
Many Americans are worried that Bush administration is planning to take military action against Iran. For some time now the administration has been working to portray Iran as a country on a mission to . . . more
|
|
August 21, 2007 10:59 PM EDT --
Hulking beyond the edge of vision,
Restive, yet still.
Power restrained awaiting mission
held back by will.
Strong, silent, invincible, immortal
wrapped tightly coiled.
Weapon. unused, prepared to battle. . . . more
|
|
August 05, 2007 03:59 PM EDT --
If, and when the US finally puts health insurance into the hands of a government agency instead of a gang of Bean Counting Insurance Companies, the ECI will actually drop. Some surveys of Employment . . . more
|
|
June 07, 2007 03:45 PM EDT --
The air is full of political lies
and also full of fireflies
this autumn night, and as I brood
I'm moved to healthful gratitude:
for bugs I thank a godless nature,
for lies, a godly legislature.
My . . . more
|
|
|
|
