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The "Runaway American Dream" [(final) Part V]
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The "Runaway American Dream" [(final) Part V] |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! 
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The “Runaway American Dream” [(final) Part V] I am lost!... Where is my homeland?... Where has America gone?!... This place that was once perhaps the last ‘best hope’ of man, the grandest ‘experiment’ in participatory ‘democracy’ in the history of the world... by Washington, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, and the rest... all the Paines and counter-Paines, who relished and required intelligent and informed discourse and debate on all such issues as: war, freedom, justice, moral integrity and those basal ‘inalienable’ rights... (the ‘free marketplace’ of reason, clarity, and truth!) When and how have we become instead a mindless, thoughtless ‘mediocracy’, ruled by shallow, arrogant and ‘self-referential’ men, given to catastrophically poor decisions... (often executed in isolation by the exercise of raw power) made, justified, and excused on the basis of ‘spin-doctored’ falsehoods; money-manipulated public 'opinions' and the 'manufacture of consent', often for the sole benefit of ‘special interests’; (masked beneath the daily drone of serial ‘media obsessions’!) what ‘final refuge’ shall I seek in this ever-darkling wasteland... as this “poet’s” mind, heart, soul, and pen...inevitably run dry?... I am lost! [This message has been edited by secondhanddreampoet (05-30-2007 06:36 PM).] |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
"what ‘final refuge’ shall I seek in this ever-darkling wasteland..." Perhaps, the question we each ask at day's end for which we have no ultimate answer. I went outside tonight and asked the moon an almost identical question. |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
beautiful poem again. a rare political one. enjoyed. |
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ArtSolstice Member
since 2007-03-18
Posts 498 |
Your changes are good ones, making a strong conclusion stronger. Now I'd like to take the entire quartet with this finale and read them all through as a group. |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
secondhanddreampoet "lost" you are not alone. |
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Mr»ÄlleÿÇät Member
since 2001-06-02
Posts 190 |
A gr8 piece, with questions we all should be asking! "(I suppose) at times "incurable Romanticism"" Those who share the vision of what this country was founded on, are romantics. |
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Robert Jordan Member
since 2007-02-07
Posts 392Philadelphia Pa USA |
Secondhanddreampoet, Hang in there Babe, things are subject to change around here. They always do you know. Felix has his eyes on the White House in 2028. Bobby |
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