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Message 1201516 - Posted: 1 Mar 2012, 23:02:51 UTC

The State of the Union, today:


Choose Up Sides

What side are you on?
There's no middle-ground.
Our Congress is ready--
constituents found.

What side are you on?
No time to decide.
The people who think,
we cannot abide.

Election-time comes,
for hand-helds, alone.
Conventional methods,
we cannot condone.

What side are you on?
It's winner-take-all.

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Message 1201600 - Posted: 2 Mar 2012, 5:51:03 UTC - in response to Message 1201516.  
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The State of the Union, today:


Choose Up Sides

What side are you on?
There's no middle-ground.
Our Congress is ready--
constituents found.

What side are you on?
No time to decide.
The people who think,
we cannot abide.

Election-time comes,
for hand-helds, alone.
Conventional methods,
we cannot condone.

What side are you on?
It's winner-take-all.

* * *

jm
1 March 2012



The Marble Thinker (by me)

Truth -
permeates our existence.
Falsehood -
hinders our persistence.
What will you offer up
in resistance?
Will you swallow it
hook, line & sinker?
Prime-time,
boob-tube
marble thinker.

What they're trying to sell ya -
It's called
propaganda.
Truth rearranged,
money's exchanged.
Truth become lies, bought.
Never given a 2nd thought.

We -
are watching from the fence.
Watching
them fight for the defense.
Just takes a few thousand dollars,
for them to put a spin on the evidence.
Will we swallow it
hook, line & sinker?
Prime-time
boob-tube
marble thinker.

What they're trying to tell ya -
could it be
they have an agenda?
It's all perception.
If there are 2 sides to every story,
is there no such thing as deception?
Artful depiction -
leaving only 1 choice for the jury ...
Not enough evidence for conviction.

Truth -
"It's all relative" isn't what Daddy said.
Falsehood -
is what we keep getting fed.
I will offer up
a fight until I'm dead.
No, I won't swallow it -
hook, line & sinker.
I define the fine line
between an open mind & a marble thinker.

So awkward and out of place -
I see
you're charmed by my smiling face.
Put me on the stand -
raise my right hand.
Of course, you believe me.
"He couldn't be lying, could he?"

The Marble Thinker on ReverbNation.
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Message 1201994 - Posted: 3 Mar 2012, 5:45:43 UTC

This one is dedicated to Uli --


Form 1040


Wages, and salaries, and tips, e-t-c,
Taxable Interest, Attach Schedule B.
Capital Gain equals zero, as does Royalties.
Numbers have their places, with Soc. Security.

A few hours spent, placing numerals on lines.
The squares are appealing, my efforts, define.
All troubles soon pale, as Requiremets, remind.
But, faster I go, the Refund, so to find.

Total Tax is revealed -- more Exemptions, to take?
Oh, my, Total Payments, not enough did I make.
Good grief -- no math errors, to correct the mistake.
On the amount I will owe -- a penalty, my fate?

Consolation, this year, for Yours Truly, to deem:
Ninety-nine percent, average; one percent, are so mean!

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Message 1202160 - Posted: 3 Mar 2012, 19:04:21 UTC

Thank you Jim
Pluto will always be a planet to me.

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Message 1202173 - Posted: 3 Mar 2012, 20:04:11 UTC - in response to Message 1202160.  


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Message 1205720 - Posted: 14 Mar 2012, 9:54:15 UTC

the dice are cast
the horizon is dark
but mine is the end of the rainbow
the dawn is near
but the night is still velvet
I fear no darkness
and the stars shine on our path

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I'm not the Pope. I don't speak Ex Cathedra!
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Message 1206233 - Posted: 15 Mar 2012, 19:13:49 UTC

Lovely LadyL.

I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)
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Message 1208470 - Posted: 21 Mar 2012, 15:57:29 UTC - in response to Message 1205720.  

the dice are cast
the horizon is dark
but mine is the end of the rainbow
the dawn is near
but the night is still velvet
I fear no darkness
and the stars shine on our path

LadyL (2012)


Well said, LadyL!

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Message 1212806 - Posted: 1 Apr 2012, 14:06:22 UTC

"The Year Of The Nine"

looking at people
i once used to know
they used to know me
i just let it all go
i couldn't hang on to
whatever i lost
just passing the days
counting the cost

some may have wondered
where have i been?
i used to be here a lot back then
i remember the days
i remember the times
then i lost my way in the year of the nine

i had a dream
guess i had quite a few
but the dream was obscured
so it's long overdue
what's left of my voice
still wants to sing
but time passed me by
i don't sing anything

some may have wondered
where have i been?
i used to be here a lot back then
i remember the days
i remember the times
then i lost my way in the year of the nine

my greatest weakness
is my greatest strength
i don't know how to give up
when the quittin' bell rings
i still see the world
in the back of my heart
just like it was then
just a pure as the start

some may have wondered
where have i been?
i used to be here a lot back then
i remember the days
i remember the times
then i lost my way in the year of the nine

(2011 db michel)

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Message 1213452 - Posted: 3 Apr 2012, 2:27:07 UTC
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Gravitas


A ball of thread, high density --
connected to eternity.
The music's eerie harmonies --
a humbled, awed, humanity.

No rush to give equations, grand --
nor ask of secrets, out of hand.
Decisions made, from every land --
to justify, the pains of man.

Communication, tailor-made --
for novice life, on profound stage.
Its message, sure, for all to gauge --
a test, to merit turn of page.

A transformation realized.
A maturation, finalized.

* * *

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2 April 2012
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Message 1213907 - Posted: 4 Apr 2012, 12:49:57 UTC

Well done, Jim...Well done!

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Message 1215458 - Posted: 8 Apr 2012, 2:13:09 UTC
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"Far From Now"

i'll be back
i don't know how
some distant daylight
far from now
i'll come rustling
through your door
just like the way
i did before
night may hinder
cool and dark
the emptiness
that ending's start
not one word
i hate goodbyes
the false affection
lonely lies
words were there
for you to choose
nothing ventured
then you lose
i'll remember
what i gained
what i lost
remains the same
gone away
and left behind
temporary sun won't shine
so as i wander
from your door
remember what
i said before
i'll be knocking
long and loud
some distant daylight
far from now

(2012 db michel)


Another rhyming exercise...

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Message 1215539 - Posted: 8 Apr 2012, 7:58:24 UTC


Great one.



With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.
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Message 1216491 - Posted: 10 Apr 2012, 5:01:57 UTC
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Form 1040, Revisited


The real 1040, put to bed --
with Uncle owing me, instead.
I had a hunch it'd end, this way --
you don't make much, not much to pay.

But, biting pencil does not end --
until Mass. State's Form 1, I send.
The Health Care Info. starts it off --
plus, Senior Circuit Breaker stuff.

If all goes well, I'll tip a beer --
and chalk up, yet, another year.
No Turbo-Tax, to tax my mind --
just paper forms, and pencil, fine.

And, now, it's up to Uncle Sam --
to spred our money, o'er the land.

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Message 1216686 - Posted: 11 Apr 2012, 1:57:09 UTC

Thank you Jim.

Off topic
Are there any other tax pros out there?

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Message 1216710 - Posted: 11 Apr 2012, 4:11:25 UTC - in response to Message 1216686.  
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I haven't seen any yet, Uli. ;o)

Now, if only I could get the State of Mass. to allow
voluntary deductions, life would be a bit easier (There are,
I believe, approx. 18 other states which don't, as well.).
So, it's the estimation route for Mass., as well.

Will assume that it's a little easier for Calif. citizens to pay
state taxes, than for us, here.
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Message 1216711 - Posted: 11 Apr 2012, 4:15:03 UTC

PM me. Advice is free.
Now if I could just come up with a diddle.
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Message 1221257 - Posted: 21 Apr 2012, 16:05:51 UTC

Although I don't run, either competitively, or non-competitively,
a friend of mine used to, in his younger years. Some of his friends
ran in the last Boston Marathon, and he dedicated this poem, to them.


His words: "I adapted his poem shown below for the runners in my club
who did the marathon last Monday in that blistering heat.

The framework for the poem came (was stolen) from Shakespeare's Henry Vth.
It is about the English & French battle at Agincourt."

-- Paul Mancuso, author


Kindly consider this a dedication to all of you who, also, run.

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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds sweat with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so determined
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in New England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
But hold their bodies from that heat from Hell
So they may run on another day

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Message 1225993 - Posted: 2 May 2012, 2:46:04 UTC

The Bass


A line was cast;
withdrawn, was seen
a bass, attached.

When, yet, reviewed --
the quest, revealed,
was always there.

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Message 1225996 - Posted: 2 May 2012, 3:00:55 UTC
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Both in my top ten....

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.

(Walt Whitman / 1865)



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"Doxology"

God fills my being to the brim
with floods of His immensity.
I drown within a drop of Him
whose sea-bed is infinity.

The Father's will is everywhere
for chart and chance His precept keep.
There are no beaches to His care
nor cliffs to pluck from His deep.

The Son is never far away from me
for presence is what love compels.
Divinely and incarnately
He draws me where His mercy dwells.

And lo, myself am the abode
of Love, the third of the Triune,
the primal surge and sweep of God
and my eternal claimant soon!

Praise to the Father and the Son
and to the Spirit! May I be,
O Water, Wave and Tide in One,
Thine animate doxology.

(From Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers)
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