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Today, I decided to try my hand at fun poetry.
Poetry about what is on my mind.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at, to let people know we are alive, ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
 31 comments
on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 10:01 PM PDT
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Lion Kings
At first, in the animal kingdom of the land
Rules were few –
Individuals solved problems on their own,
But as life became busier and more complicated
And interactions between species ...
by Paul Frea
3 comments
on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 08:35 AM PDT
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I’ve made some mistakes over the course of my life Perhaps seven, or possibly eight. Although lamentable, they weren’t preventable Yet they’ve been used against me by those in the Deep State. Unlike me, you’ve likely made lots of mistakes (And some of...
by nondairyschemer
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 08:59 AM PDT
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With apologies [and a smile] to Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. With thanks and blessings to Flowergirl77, who inspired this as a comment to her Pootie diary back on March 2, and to fromberkeleytocville, who uploaded the wonderful lede pic [could be my...
by Gaelsdottir
68 comments
on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 07:30 AM PDT
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___________________________ “When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings ___________________________ Welcome to Morning Open...
by officebss
90 comments
on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 03:16 AM PDT
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What Are Outward Forms?
Isaac Bickerstaff (1735?-1812?)
What are outward forms and shows
To an honest heart compared?
by strawbale
41 comments
on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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___________________________ “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its...
by officebss
96 comments
on Mon Apr 08, 2024 at 03:16 AM PDT
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______________________________________ “For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and�alarming consequences, that can�invite ...
by officebss
56 comments
on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 03:16 AM PDT
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Little Things Marion Strobel (1895-1967) Little things I’ll give to you— Till your fingers learn to press �
by strawbale
36 comments
on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
with 48 Recommends
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I wrote this last Sunday…hope you like it PATRIOT’S CHALLENGE (A Sonnet for Today) . Now, there’s currently a battle being waged, The opposing forces are entirely engaged; Each ...
by WarrenPease
5 comments
on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 04:30 PM PDT
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Get to work, spread the word, and support Angela Alsobrooks in the Democratic primary for Maryland’s open seat in the U.S. Senate.� The primary is May 14, 2024. Commentary by Black Kos Editor, ...
by Black Kos
164 comments
on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 02:00 PM PDT
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This is a poem I have been working on for a while……...I am mostly a lurker here but I finally got the courage to makea profile and am excited to share!! It’s hard to believe sometimes Sometimes:..sometimes…sometimes……. That t*ump can breath the same...
by meowmeowmeow
4 comments
on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 11:24 AM PDT
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______________________________________ “Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are...
by officebss
88 comments
on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 03:16 AM PDT
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The Giant Cactus of Arizona
Harriet Monroe (1860-1936)
The cactus in the desert stands �
� �Like time’s inviolate sentinel, �
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by strawbale
34 comments
on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
with 44 Recommends
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The Road Goes Ever On
JRR Tolkien (1892-1973)
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree
By caves where never sun has shone,
by strawbale
26 comments
on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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______________________________________ “Few people have to watch their country die. I have had that dubious privilege, and I can tell you that it comes not as a rebel shout but as a sly whisper. ...
by officebss
65 comments
on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 03:16 AM PDT
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In the last couple of weeks I’ve read several posts and articles that have lamented the passing of the “blogosphere”, the “enshittification” of social media and the decay of “the internet of ideas”. It seemed the opportune moment to start a blog....
by Mickquinas
6 comments
on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 10:53 AM PDT
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Come, Let Us Be Friends
Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (1875-1963)
Come, let us be friends, you and I, �
by strawbale
28 comments
on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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from Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
On a little piece of wood
Mr. Spikky Sparrow stood.
Mrs. Sparrow sate close by,
A-making of an insect pie,
by strawbale
53 comments
on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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The following adult nursery rhyme was written by my non-techie friend T. Harriett “Honey” Paine. She says you can copy & Share it but, please, be ethical. Give her due credit by keeping her name on it. Thanks ~ Trumpty Dumpty — A meta-political nursery...
by mlmonterey
2 comments
on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 05:41 PM PDT
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