'inalienable rights' and other myths!

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Open Poetry #39

'inalienable rights' and other myths!

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2006-11-07 06:36 PM

      ‘Bicentennial’ Fantasies
  (in a constitutional wilderness)

       1776-1976    1787-1987

   [to my ancestor, John Adams....
    for all who have been given
    no reason to ‘celebrate’!.....
    a philalethist speaks on (alleged)
   'inalienable rights’ and other
    such lovely myths!]

Grey clouds
orange and purple skies
sharp black mountains
dancing silently
to winter’s tune
mock my soul’s desolation
with litanies to the dead....
Still ‘living’....
In this land of broken dreams
where should be ‘America’!.....

I am unspoken feelings
blowing down the dirty streets
nihilistic bones.....
lying on a beach
bleached....dry and bare
by the winds....
of moral and economic tyranny
where should be ‘Freedom’!......

As I likely lose.....
that ‘minimal confidence’ in self,
and those of my ‘kind’....
which some call ‘SANITY’!

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

1 posted 2006-11-07 07:01 PM

A very powerful write Bruce!
Love the colours and use of vivid imagery.
Well done indeed.
Hugs~Nancy

No spring, nor summer beauty
hath such grace...
As I have seen in one autumnal face.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2006-11-07 09:32 PM

Sheesh. Field notes come in handy.
I'm not sure if it is true since I haven't a complete geneology chart, but was always told on mother's side (Thornton) I am related to good ol Dr. Matthew Thornton, a signer of that rusty old document I wave at anyone when they forget they have rights when it may only be because they don't exercise them.
And I am sometimes the jokester, the devil's advocate.

Drauntz
Member Elite

since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

3 posted 2007-05-17 07:06 PM

another good one. very beautiful verses. indeed.

enjoyed.

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