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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2016-07-16 05:08 PM

Used to be when we'd disagree
We would compromise you and me.
If I disagree now you attack
You'd like to have me on the rack.

Whatever happened to taking time
To give and take, not thinking it’s a crime
To have different views, you and I
We're both just ordinary guys.

With wild rhetoric truth is hard to find
And you'll go your way, and I'll go mine
I say, you say, and I'm right you're wrong
It's the same old lackluster song.

People are buying guns and ammo
The government's stopping its flow
Liberals, conservatives have beliefs
Why give each other so much grief.

Take time, listen to each other
You could be talking to your brother
Eye to eye we may never see
But by listening we may find the key.

These days we just try to outshout
Again rhetoric leaves so much doubt
And its so loud we can't hear a word
Its really pitiful and absurd.

Let's go back to the honest debates
If not I have great fear for our fate
If we can't take time to listen soon
It won't be long before its high noon.

©May 24, 2016 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2016-07-16 06:36 PM

Well said! Too much us versus them in our mind sets. Too much rage under the surface.
~L

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2016-07-16 06:38 PM

Thank you Lori, appreciate your thoughts.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

jjote
Senior Member

since 2002-12-25

Posts 1088
Ontario, Canada

3 posted 2016-07-16 10:31 PM

I like the flow, rhythm and rhyming lines. Form aside, there's much truth to learn here. We need a voice to shout all this to the world

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2016-07-16 10:35 PM

Oh jjote, I of course couldn't agree more. We need a strong voice to bring this message and other messages similiar to this one to the world. Thank you for your kind thouhts.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Ari Squire
Member
Posts 488
In The Phallus Lane

5 posted 2016-07-17 01:29 AM

Hi Jerry. I saw this as not only the heart of your poetry, but some good 'down-home' wisdom that would be prudent for all to follow:

quote:
"Eye to eye we may never see
But by listening we may find the key"

Truer words were never spoken. Wonderful poetry that just plain makes sense. Well done.

Loving Linny Jean is poetry.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2016-07-17 09:00 AM

Thanks Ari. It is always good to see you and thanks again for you nice comment. I just love this . . . "Loving Linny Jean is poetry."

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Ari Squire
Member
Posts 488
In The Phallus Lane

7 posted 2016-07-17 11:59 AM

Thanks so much Jerry...really.

Loving Linny Jean is poetry.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

8 posted 2016-07-17 12:08 PM

It is special, Ari!

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

9 posted 2016-07-18 04:23 PM

Yep, it's all of us. Doing that which evolution has primed us to do. Post-industrial societies will inevitably self-destruct. Goodnight all. We once had allotments, and children who played without fear. x

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

10 posted 2016-07-19 01:32 PM

The last verse says it all. I think we are almost at that point of "High Noon"

Nice write, Jerry!

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

11 posted 2016-07-19 01:38 PM

Appreciate your serious comment(s) on this poem, JL. I so dread what is coming to America, but don't believe there is anyway to stop it.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

12 posted 2016-07-19 01:40 PM

You are sadly so right, Redstart, about children who played without fear. I was one of those.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

DaysofView
Member

since 2014-04-01

Posts 433
Just A Slice Of The Pie

13 posted 2016-07-19 05:57 PM

It's all kinda scary and I wish we could all get along but I don't think we ever will. If everyone was like you Jerrypat and spent more time writing they would be too busy to do anything mean.

If I were more than I am, I'd see things differently instead of the same all the time.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

14 posted 2016-07-19 06:22 PM

Thank you, DV, appreciate you most kind words . .

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

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