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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia 
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Regurgitated truths surface as this nation gathers to honor the past by watching cars speed on a racetrack and serving barbequed hot dogs and hamburgers. I find myself apologizing to the past for what has become a fashionably ignored fact: Truth is stranger than Fiction. This was a once-meaningful phrase passed down like so much flotsam and jetsom, while society’s conscience-fabric tears apart at the seams lie-by-lie from megalithic corporate/governmental seam-rippers, wherein Lies= Truth. But no one really cares until the price of gas puts the skids on the holiday traffic death toll. At the rate we are evolving, global peaceful co-existence will never happen because we prefer fantasies and lies over the fundamental truth; we humans are ONE living dynamic spirit-force, not individual stars and stripes flapping in some Universal breeze. Happy Memorial Day. |
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Robert E. Jordan Member Rara Avis
since 2008-01-25
Posts 8541Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Midnitesun, This is a well written piece of truth--very good poem. Bobby |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Hi Midnitesun, I give you my support, this is a courageaous and lucid poem... thanks to you yann |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Wowee! Let it never be said that Kacy lacks the courage of her convictions EVER! - Owl |
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Richy Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 3050 |
Kacy you're wonderful, you know that! I just wanted you to know that. Rich |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Bobby, Yann, and Diana, Richy THANK YOU for reading and commenting. |
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ArtSolstice Member
since 2007-03-18
Posts 498 |
WOW, Midnitesun! I'm not only impressed with how well you say it all, but... you can write this well at 7:30 in the morning? Wow. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
LOL, your comment gave me chuckle, ArtSolstice. I was wide awake at 6AM (!&*$) had a cup of Yuban in my hand, so this piece just about wrote itself. Thanks for reading! |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
You go girl! I couldn't have said it better though I certainly do think it. Ida |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Thank you Ida, for understanding. |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
an 'important' write! sadly...somewhere along the way, the "Runaway American Dream" has devolved into a corporate mediocracy and embraced a destructive modis operandi based on a deeply flawed set of fundamental equations such as: ‘big’ = better time = money change = progress ends justify all means… truth is ‘plastic’ (and disposable) and...I NEVER expected (in my life time) that people would be dying for reasons even far less defensible than those behind Nam...(in the wake of a magnificently exploited mix of half- and non-truths; etc.) On the day of ‘memorials and remembrances’… I would wish that folks might recall (and mourn?) what, fundamentally, my ancestors ‘America’ once was… the all-time greatest ('revolutionary') ‘experiment’ in participatory representative democracy of history (and, quite possibly, the ‘last best hope’ of mankind)… applause for this penning! [This message has been edited by secondhanddreampoet (05-25-2008 11:03 PM).] |
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