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two hearts purple one part gin (with a wink to Kacy)
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two hearts purple one part gin (with a wink to Kacy) |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738
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"The greatest show on earth" it read a banner painted splashed across golden with a black inset: "The better yet to see you with?" So I wondered what that meant. I scratched my noggin pondering the eyes that dotted "tees" converse blue ice neckties (just for me?) mental notes of purity with ball-peen hint of 'vote-for-me' as the ole red, white, & blue, glitter fell from up above with silver in the mix: "spool two," a soothing voice blew: "camera one" deep "take cue" (a hinting of) some urgency before the "zoooooooom" the voice assured the crew-- mmm hmm. "beautiful!" "Now--camera two..." as the band began to play let-the-love-rain-down-on-me and I'll be damned that can't be right Wait, I laughed, that can't be right-- The WHO? I gagged. The Kid's Alright oh-is-nothing-sacred-moan "this is all too smooth" I'm old so "smack me damn and kiss my throat before the knife of subsidy drags me to my shaking knees behind elections martinized as I pull a trigger twice-- why not just say yes to both since thirds will not...result...one...loaf..." "Kiss me! I'm about to vote!" (I wish a camera would take note) "I'm sorry folks it seems that we have lost the (temporarily,) so stay with us (abacus-ness) while we add the totals that we think should mighta been." I think I should confess--amend. (I have lost some faith m'friends.) Let me put a token in, pressing spin again... I get two-hearts-purple-one-part-gin ("The sky is falling!" cried the hen.) The rooster sold insurances, as I dug deep into my purse' wishing for another coin humming "obla-di" (the verse) la la hoping life goes on... * * * and that's it folks, my one, my only, damned if you do and damned SHAME if y'don't poem for the election year!  |
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~K~ Member
since 2004-07-27
Posts 148 |
This is WAY to good to just be about the stupid election. What a ride. I loved it completely. |
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GG Member Elite
since 2002-12-03
Posts 3532Lost in thought |
Ahh I wish I was older... I want to vote! Oh well, at least I can still read good poetry  Always, Alyssa Poems are made by fools like me, |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
holding my sides here, in laughter but WITH you, not at  yep, if you do 'n if you don't maybe the end result is the same? that's OK, I'll vote again anyway, hoping to the very end we are overdue for a change hugging you, sister Serenity as I dance 'round the fires  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Kace? Check your e mail. and as a sort of explanation to you all, I'd fallen asleep watching the convention, and my husband woke me from a lucid weird dream blaring the Who. So if the poem seems spacey, it's cause it was. (and I just added the voices of the camera crew for artistic effect) My life is ludicrous. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Actually, for those who read you, your life can be luscious, as opposed to ludicrous. Who else [well, maybe Kacy] takes the sublime to new highs? You can wink at Kacy, the fact is...it is voices such as YOURS that we need, as is Kacy's, who tell folk, GO VOTE!!! Too many sit on their behinds letting the world/nation/government/station take care of itself...but that is NOT what our beginnings were all about. I VOTE. And everyone who reads you, and Kacy, should, too. I don't care if I'm on the opposite or same side as you...I will NOT ask your politics, nor your religion. I will LISTEN if you care to share, but I will NOT impose MY way upon yours. THAT is what WE, US, is all about. GREAT  for this, m'friend. I'm so very glad KACY inspired this. |
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kayjay Member Elite
since 2002-06-24
Posts 2015Oregon |
I feel you aptly capture the stuff that give pols rapture We're so confused by rhetoric It's really hard to give a heck But 'tis our right to ballot So hope no foul gets call out Well said, despite your demurring comments to Kacy! KJ Through rubble and trouble and dark of night |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
gee whiz, Kari. You didn't snort some of that glitterstuff, didja? But I tease. Normally I'm game for a discussion of politics, but not this time. So yes, I'm just telling everybody to take their opinions to the booth this year. (and boy do you sound like me up there--talking to my son and his anti-america buddies--chuckle, mom got a bit a vehement too, saying, that's EXACTLY why you need to be involved!) sheesh. I keep meeting people who are so much like me, it has me questioning my Dad's "leave" activities while he was in the Navy. (Grin..could be...my life is ludicrous.)  Hugs, you.  and thank you KJ--the political stuff embarrasses me, as you can tell. And this was mild too, I can really get carried away, so thanks for the reassurance. |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
great inspiration for other poems and for Karilea's discourse... enjoyed all *s M |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
and a quick hug and thank you for my mo! and now, I'm going to have a rare moment of enjoying something on television. (I LOVE HBO'S "Six Feet Under") grin. Thought I'd give 'em a plug... :waving: Later, good poet people! |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I CAN get carried away, as well as anyone else...although I try to choose to keep my mouth shut, because I often find my foot in it...and yet? I would like to make my vote count. As for the glitterati...NOPE...never did, y'know, as P.S. is my sister... You see, I'm from the very OLD school of training that one doesn't talk about politics, religion, or sex in open groups. [Gee, where better to discuss them?] Although I will bow to the reasoning behind this, I still try to refrain from openly heated discussions which much too often lead to argumentative debate [and which is more suited, as we all know, in our discussion area] still, from a poetic stance, this poem ROCKS. For either side. THAT, m'dear, is why I'm so proud of you! |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
And...sigh...I don't take HBO...but wishing I did... |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
serenity Thanks for this...and the reminder that life goes on...but that we can't expect it to go on very well without some legs pumping the wheels in some sort of rhythm. Maybe life is just someones idea of a reality series. You are such and interesting soul, ya know?...and also, you make me smile...I need that badly! Thanks!  |
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Duncan Member Ascendant
since 2001-08-07
Posts 5455 |
I've often suspected you and Kacy were the same person... Watch you vote? Sure, I'll take an 8 X 10 glossy.  (I owe you mail...soon) |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
"smack me damn and kiss my throat before the knife of subsidy drags me to my shaking knees behind elections martinized as I pull a trigger twice-- why not just say yes to both since thirds will not...result...one...loaf..." Your cynicism is tremendously well displayed here, Karen. I feel the same way and with all the talking heads and misinformation, it just makes me sick. I'm taken back to a poem icebox posted a week or so ago about the dying of a nation. We have to do what we can and voting is most important on a local level....so many times things get slipped right by us on the ballot. I think I am going to write in Obama...but then, again, with all that new-fangled electronic voting....how do you write in anybody??? lol Great poem, Karen!  |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Duncan! LOL. what an honor! we are poetry sisters, my dear brother but she is the brave one |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Actually Kacy and Karen kind of remind me of Siamese twins, joined sometimes at the brain  Well, this will certainly be an interesting election that is for sure. I know who I would pick myself, and I also think George Bush was being supported in the heat of the moment, and now suffers from the actions he did that were sanctioned, no? Ah, what do I know. Great poem lady Serenity. |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
Hey Karen, you make me want to go vote! Only you can do what you do the way you do it gal! |
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Masked Intruder
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Senior Member
since 1999-05-23
Posts 1231Near golden sunsets |
Sunshine, you can vote for me... just tell them I forgot. I trust your judgement. K, lovely little trip. And, this... is why I always forget. |
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Kaoru
since 2003-06-07
Posts 3892where the wild flowers grow |
I love it, dahhling |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
one quick curtsey and hopefully I sleep. Thanks all for making me feel more at ease 'bout this one--I don't generally do the political stuff but found my sis Kacy downright inspiring! Special hugs to m'lady! (and thanks for the reassuring e mail about the homeschool thing, too, yer a doll!) |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I never quite know where I'll be going when I open one your poems... but I know every step will be worthwhile. *S* You remind me of a saying I live by: "VOTE! Preserve your right to complain!" *G* |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
this is a treasure....from the US Treasury dept. for the people and by the people...what a fun way to evoke and relay messages....ok, I'm passing the baton to anyone else who would like to comment, while parroting all the above, this certainly does indeed ROCK! Enjoyed! |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Kewl! I like it when things are handled with just the right degree of wacky, and this would be a mighty good example of that! ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
You know, m'Lady, I always seem to see other things in your writing and of course, this isnt spacey to me at all . . . as a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens mann . . its all the same (bleeping) day mann . . . *grin* yeah, I'm voting too . . . blah |
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