Sheer Poetry

Our commander-in-chief can do whatever he wants at the White house. “Poetry night” is perfectly acceptable.

Oh, never our fault
Look, the buck stops over there
Blame the Democrats

My. What stunning talent we have here in the Republican Party. Real renaissance men, they are. But I agree the listening tour thing wasn’t titled right. Just look at the tea party crowds to get the gist of political discontent out there, and embrace it. Lead it. Give them some place to go. Give them a direction, an operational plan. Alot of Democrats are also starting to get queasy about having voted for Obama, as he rolls out one extremist policy idea after another.
Cantor and Huckabee would do well to unite on those issues where they have common ground, beginning with national security. All factions of the GOP can agree that the assault on America’s national security since January is dangerous and reckless. Go from there.
Kemp, Reagan and Falwell worked together on the same team. No reason why today’s leaders can’t do the same. They could start with decrying the methodical chipping away of morale in the intelligence and military communities since Obama took office.
Releasing prisoners they put their all into capturing, releasing classified memos and photos that will make their lives more dangerous, the devastating budget cuts that the military alone is bearing for the entire government ( 55% of all budget cuts are taken from the military), and the stoking of fear about PTSD-ridden soldiers as crazed threats to society, all contribute.
Put the unceremonious departure of McKiernan on top of it, and the GOP has an issue they can all rally around. As we speak, CNN is in the process of smearing the soldier involved in the shooting in Iraq to forward the “narrative” of the crazed soldier, to validate the DHS memo and justify discrimination against them. This will help the administration cut down the military’s strength and overall status in our society.
Every survey on our most trusted institutions puts the military at the top, and the media at the bottom, so I guess you could call it media revenge. It’s fitting that these measures take place on the Democrats’ watch.
Cantor and Pence need to bone up on the most urgent mistakes Obama is making — those having to do with security and defense.

kidneys failing
scare force one sailing
love in the air this spring
mccrystal for mckiernan
strike evil down no fearin
for the land we love, I sing

Let’s order those nasty terrorist detainees to attend poetry enlightenment classes as part of our new terrorist-to-welfare program.

I think that it is important for Europe to understand that even though I’m now president and George Bush is no longer president, al-Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be okay.

Eye of newt’s party
Hart of Elk
A Caterpillar
The plan(e)t Saturn
Into the legal pot, the cauldron,
A witches brew
Stirred with pitchforks

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue; Thanks to Potus and Congress too; small businesses are dying faster than the spread of Swine Flu

Are we talking about culture and sophistication in the White House, itself? What a novel idea! The White House has been devoid of intelligence and creativity for so long. It just doesn’t fit in with the Republican philosophy…

Obama will give a stunning performance titled, “Fiddling While Rome Burns.”

END DAYS
I remember black fists of storm clouds
throbbing across golden fields,
trellises of lightning
jagged the rumbling horizon like an
Etch-A-Sketch of fire.
I remember the scorched white church,
steeple tempting the storm like
the brazen scepter of a defiant pharaoh.
In those days I could almost divine
vibrations trembling underground.
In the crisp tense air I could imagine
hot-charged atoms swirling like
tornadoes of fireflies.
The signs were everywhere. Frenzies
of butterflies, honeybees swarming mad.
The calmest ponds restive, agitated.
Cicadas burred loud day and night
Orange penumbras haloed October moons.
There was no precise moment
when the alarm rattled,
no realignment of constellations or control pattern on the TV.
Was it the season prairie
fires choked the sun,
the month our hometown
newspaper went south and
our favorite pancake
house shut its doors?
I watched witch winds
kick up murky ghosts.
I heard cattle mourn their dying calves.
I smelled the stench of ozone and cordite and burning steel,
from where, it is hard to say.
It was just there.
When it all became dark, and cold,
bare stiletto branches
cut the inkblot sky,
big moon a dirty pearl.
~ Craig Shaffer

Hate fuels both sides.
Where is common decency?
What has happened to America?

How about an Barack Obama poem, published in 1981:
UNDERGROUND
Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.

They waited
Slowly became elementary school teachers
Slowly they became middle school teachers
Slowly they filled the high schools and the colleges and universities as teachers, lecturers and professors
Slowly they filled the law schools and graduate programs
At first it went slowly
And then it went quickly
The far left socialists and anarchists
Filled the schools
Filled the minds of the new youth and held on to the what was left of the old hippies’ minds
They focused on permissiveness and blurring morality
“The crumbling difference between wrong and right”
And then they changed America
Changed the desire to be a free individual
To the desire to be free from personal responsibility
At first it went slowly
And then it went quickly

Rose are red
violet blue
I voted for Bush
Obama too.

Why are you here, forsaken, faded
Down in the dust of the Roman street?
You, the flower of all the poets,
Trampled under the hurrying feet.
Ah, this pitiless scheme of Nature,
With so much beauty and so much waste!
You who come of the race of roses
Done to death by the crowd’s hot haste!
Was it some princess dropped you lightly
Over the balcony up above?
Or did some peasant bring you Romewards,
A little tribute of rural love?
For these days of carnival folly
You have forsaken your garden home;
You have come from the great green country,
A rose to die in the streets of Rome.

Michelle Obama is so very, very unattractive. She needs to put on some clothes.

DaveM, I think you win the “first trashing of BUsh in an unrelated post” prize for this thread, even though you did not use his name. Why do I keep reading posts in which people insist that Republicans think in lock-step, have no ideas about how to fix america’s problems, and are living in the past, when there are so many examples that prove that there are Democrats around here suffering from those same shortcomings. What purpose does your denigration of the past occupant of the WH serve, Dave? What has George Bush to do with this poetry reading?

Mindku
Lapdog media
Utopian happy talk
Left’s 40-year plan

Harkens back to Open Mic Nite at the old coffee shop.. I’m waxing sentimental. I am getting that warm and fuzzy feeling again.

I would write a Haiku.. if I knew how..

Some say – Humor and satire? – a 2008 New Yorker cover
Some say – Humor and satire? – “wish you kidney failure”
Some say – One attack, could’ve been two
Some say – Doesn’t matter – it’s about what they knew
Meanwhile the news is breaking
California speaks the truth as it relates to her
Trump has a 21st Century card and plays it
It’s – a complicated world – after all
It’s – a complicated world – after all

Woh Jamaica is beautiful poetry

Here’s to you and here’s to me
May we never disagree
But if we do,
The hell with you
Here’s to ME!