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Mistletoe Angel

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Portland, Oregon

0 posted 2002-09-06 10:56 PM

(Inspired by a Chicago Tribune political cartoon depicting how many have denied others of using the flag to show patriotism but exploit those people for their own commerical and business gains, which is a sad fact that saddens me everyday!

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Courtesy of the Red, White, And The Bleached Blues
By: Noah Eaton
9/6/02

And they tell you
You are denied to use the flag
And they infer to you
You can't hang it right there
And they reply hastily
"We are just doing our job!"

Yet I see these hypocrites everywhere
Exploiting the flag for their own commerical gain
On campaign billboards
And used car outlets
And firearm shop windows
Ladies and gentleman, here's Exhibit A
Let's run a prognosis
Before this diagnosis becomes an osmosis
As I'm buried in excerpts of John Webster
Trying to call the Robin Redbreast and the Wren
Protecting them from this ravenous wolves
Who usurp the blue into blues

Stir-fried and deep-woked
Firmaments of truth in polyester sauteed like chop suey
Aten like osso buco
Looks like they've uncovered the wanton wonton
But keep devouring it like ospreys
Before they even realize it...

Objection...
Objection...
Place the flag upon that flagpole
Where it belongs
Upon the Aerie of Liberty
Where everyone can look up
Not down
Where the sunlight can't reflect the colors
Where the wind can't reason
And where every young child
Can smile at its sight
Without having to be ashamed of its desecration

Hey George Washington, what do you think of the flag now?
Ah, hey George Washington, what do you think of the flag now?

So quit suppressing the origin of these colors
And sell them to all our children...
To those who trust in God
And not behind closed doors and blinds

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

[This message has been edited by Mistletoe Angel (09-06-2002 11:00 PM).]

Krishankins

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since 2002-06-23

Posts 972
Texas

1 posted 2002-09-06 10:59 PM

I'm with you 100% on this one, Noah!!!!!
Wonderful display of true patriotism!!

Hey dog, did you see the size of that chicken!?

rebekah33
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2 posted 2002-09-06 11:13 PM

Hey!

Remember me?! Yeah, I know I fell off the face of the earth but I'm not able to post on my home computer grrrr! Anyway I'm so glad to be back and to get to read your wonderful words again! You truely put the passion in poetry! And I love that chinese food metaphor thing you got going on!
-R

"So stop and love and dance and live and laugh until you cry" Edwin McCain

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

3 posted 2002-09-06 11:26 PM

Right on Noah!! You tell em'!! Very well written. Enjoyed reading this. Chris

Life is not measured by breaths you take, but by moments that take your breath away.

Auguste

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By the sea

4 posted 2002-09-06 11:28 PM

Noah, this is wonderful, my friend.

My own flag is being stirred by a sea breeze, as we speak. Not to mention the one on my boat, also.

Midnitesun

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Gaia

5 posted 2002-09-07 12:16 PM

While I didn't see the cartoon you referred to, let me thank you for your protest poem.
To each his own style, when it comes to displaying their feelings about this country.
Isn't that what freedom is all about?

Madame Chipmunk
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Michigan

6 posted 2002-09-07 12:30 PM

I love this display of patriotism Noah...
You did it so well, and so powerfully...

~ hugs for liberty abd this great nation of ours

Lyra

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

NewEnglandlazurlu
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since 2002-01-04

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A Mountain Paradise

7 posted 2002-09-07 08:10 AM

YOU GO NOAH!!!

Great thoughts and I agree with you all the way on this one.

Hugs, Marti

Every now and then take a good look at something not made
with hands -- a mountain, a star, the power of the ocean.
There will come to you wisdom,

Sunshine

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8 posted 2002-09-07 08:24 AM

Noah, this is absolutely one of your best, and you, my young Sir, should stand up very proud, and I would hope [and pray] that you send this to your paper...and inundate the radio stations with this very very proper gift of your heart!

Earth Angel
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Realms of Light

9 posted 2002-09-07 02:26 PM

Read Sunshine's reply again! Good advice!

Very well-written social commentary.

Love, Light & Laughter
Linda

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

10 posted 2002-09-07 02:31 PM

Bravo Noah!! Very very well said!
Stand proud young man!
~Hugs & Cheers, your sidekick~

~ Time has cast a spell on you
So you won't ever forget me ~

Kellie_Cantrell
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New York

11 posted 2002-09-07 03:02 PM

I like it

Paul Wilson

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United States

12 posted 2002-09-09 12:03 PM

Noah...You are so right on target with this wonderful poem. We must all be proud of the red,white & blue...Paul

the_loner_23
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Jacksonville, Florida, USA

13 posted 2002-09-09 12:04 PM

I love it.

Cold hands means a warm heart

Aimster
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Posts 4297
Charlotte, NC

14 posted 2002-09-09 02:10 AM

Noah,

I am also with you a 100% on this!!
You write of your patriotism very well
and make me smile this evening! thank
you for such a powerful and beautiful
write.

take care.
love ya.
amy

"if irish eyes are smiling...they are probably up to something" :)

Tammy Blessing
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since 2002-08-26

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PA

15 posted 2002-09-09 03:08 PM

I'm with you on this too Noah!! Excellent expression of true patriotism!! I agree about sending this one out to your local paper. Tell them to put it next to a prominent picture of the red, white and blue!!
Tammy

JamesMichael
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16 posted 2002-09-10 05:31 AM

Well written Noah...James

Singing Sparrow
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17 posted 2002-09-11 12:03 PM

god bless America and her children!

SS

A. L. Becker
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San Francisco, California

18 posted 2002-09-11 01:14 PM

wow, noah, really really quite good. made me think.
Annika:-

"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'
Let us go and make our visit."
-Eliot

geenabee
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since 2002-09-10

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NC--USA

19 posted 2002-09-11 01:59 PM

Noah Noah!! You express so well the ridiculousness of what it means to be a consumer in our capitalist society!

How can a people so blessed by God deny him in the Pledge? How can a people so lucky to be free deny the representation of that freedom because of silly "PC" amorphisms?

I hope that the child growing inside me learns, from people like you, the true values that George Washington and his contemporaries were trying to develop when they planned our nation.

Thanks so much!!
Regina

Ceinwyn
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VA

20 posted 2002-09-11 02:01 PM

OMG Noah, Amazing stuff! I like this..I truly believe it's one of your best! No doubt...woah...

Love,
Kristen

WhileIWasGone
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21 posted 2002-09-11 02:31 PM

Very nice....enjoyed much.

DeaDiAmore

Chrissypooh
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since 2002-02-19

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Canada

22 posted 2002-09-11 02:53 PM

thank you for sharing this with us

ShadowRider
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USA

23 posted 2002-09-11 10:49 PM

in the test of time
our sincerity will
either Pass or Fail
and the salute of the flag
should always be our Teacher.

o quit suppressing the origin of these colors
And sell them to all our children...
To those who trust in God
And not behind closed doors and blinds

was just an incredibly poignant stanza, Noah.
You are dead-on right
with this dead-on write.

Many thankx for saying what needed to be said
always your friend,
jeff

TradingSpaces19
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since 2002-08-31

Posts 134
Arvada, Colorado

24 posted 2002-09-11 11:11 PM

Noah,

This is a great poem and you wrote it so well, keep up the good work. And everyone and myself thinks it is very good, you should take sunshine's advice. Thank you for sharing this great poem with everyone.

Andrea

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